Karim Ahmed harassed the woman, who The Argus is choosing not to name, in Brighton. This included sending emails to her family and friends, and emailing her YouTube videos with songs attached. The 55-year-old even sent work he needed printing to her printer. At Brighton Magistrates’ Court, he was given a four-year Stalking Protection Order. It bans Ahmed from any direct or indirect contact with the woman. Ahmed, formerly of Fairlight Place, Brighton, is banned from attending the woman’s address or going to a beach hut she uses. He was told not to carry out any surveillance of the woman, not to go to her workplace, and to only keep devices such as a computer, email address or phone in his own name.
Harry Bedford was drunk when he started punching and spitting at frontline staff during the pandemic”. The incident happened at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton at the height of the coronavirus lockdown. It came as the country recorded more than 1,000 people dying of the disease each day in January. He knocked a doctor to the floor while “heavily intoxicated”, police said at the time. Bedford appeared before Brighton Magistrates’ Court earlier this month where he admitted three counts of assaulting an emergency worker. He was given a six-month suspended prison sentence and was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.
Nathan Boughton targeted three Asda stores in Brighton and elsewhere in Sussex. The 33-year-old scaffolder, with an “appalling record of previous convictions” was back in court for his latest crimes. He was given a 12-week suspended prison sentence and ordered to clean up his act with six months of drugs rehabilitation treatment. Previously The Argus reported how Boughton had been a recovering drug addict after being a heroin user for ten years. During his latest offences he admitted the theft of £532 worth of goods from Asda at Hailsham in September last year. Brighton Magistrates’ Court court heard the “high value thefts” included stealing multiple items.