Stock photo. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA A MAN who sent messages inciting a 10-year-old girl to sexually touch herself and send him pictures was in fact communicating with members of a paedophile hunter group. Gary Chitticks pleaded guilty to attempting to cause or incite a girl under the age of 13 to engage in a sexual activity of a non-penetrative nature. The 36-year-old thought he was talking to a child called Ruby , but she was in fact a decoy child. Chitticks also admitted attempting to communicate with decoy child Lauren , who was aged under 16, with the communication being intended to encourage her to communicate sexually.
Dorset criminals jailed in January: Emiljan Gjelaj, Viktor Lastovka, Thomas Harmer, Kevin Appleby, Robert Shapland-Hill, Neil Glover and Connor Beckett CRIMINALS jailed in January for Dorset offences include an armed rapist, a knife attacker and a drink driver who caused serious injuries to a police officer. The courts are continuing to operate and deal with cases, including jury trials, despite the current Covid locdown. The list below includes some of the offenders that were put behind bars by judges this month. Their combined sentences totalled 52 years and 10 months in jail although some of them could be released on licence part way through their terms of imprisonment.
He then became aggressive and punched them, which caused the glass to smash, police said. PC Russell Thomas, of Bournemouth Police, said the incident had left staff at the bookmakers feeling “very distressed”. Gjelaj, of Becher Road, Poole, was charged in relation to the incident. The 25-year-old appeared at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, January 21, having caught the attention of police the previous day. He admitted a charge of criminal damage, as well as offences of driving without insurance, while disqualified and without a licence when driving a blue Audi in the St Michael’s Road and Poole Road area of Bournemouth on Wednesday, January 20.
A VIOLENT robber who attacked the same woman twice has been jailed for three years. Viktor Lastovka, aged 35, of Commercial Road, Bournemouth, attacked the woman – who was known to him – twice in as many days. On the first occasion he threatened to kill her if she didn t comply with his demands. Officers investigating described the offences as nasty which left left the victim fearing for her safety . Police Constable Liam Moss, of Dorset Police s priority crime team, said: I would like to praise her (the victim) for having the strength to come forward and report the matter. “Thanks to her support we were able to ensure that Lastovka was brought before the court to face the consequences of his violent actions.”
1/1 A TEENAGER who was involved in the ram-raid burglary of an East Dorset newsagents has avoided a prison sentence. Jack Littlechild was part of a group of at least four burglars who targeted Ringwood Road Stores in Verwood. The break-in took place in the early hours of the morning on July 7, 2019. After the front doors had been “caved in”, the cigarette cabinet was ransacked, with around £420 of produce and till float money stolen. Prosecuting, Ellie Sheahan told a hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, January 22, that a neighbour heard a loud bang from across the street at around 3am.