HERE is a look back at court cases we have covered over the past month in October which saw defendants sentenced for offence committed in St Helens.
These included a pervert pensioner who stripped naked at his window when the school bus arrived near his home; a van driver ran over a police officer as he attempted to flee a drugs search and a care worker who failed to visit a vulnerable sick pensioner who died from Covid alone in squalid conditions.
Thomas Beattie
71-year-old former soldier Thomas Beattie stripped naked to stand in his window when the school bus dropped off girls outside his home.
Beattie, of Crow Lane West, Newton-le-Willows, was found guilty of exposure and causing a child aged 15 to look at an image of sexual activity.
He was sentenced at Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens Magistrates' Court to 20 weeks imprisonment suspended for 18 months and given a 20-week curfew and ordered to pay cost and sign on the Sex Offenders Register.
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Umar Anwar & Ahmmad Anwar
Van driver Umar Anwar, whose vehicle dragged a police officer along the road and ran him over as he attempted to flee a drugs search, was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court.
Two constables had approached the van on Hewitt Avenue, Eccleston on the evening of Tuesday, May 17 this year.
One of the officers suffered serious injuries.
Umar Anwar, 31, of Birkdale Road, Rochdale, was sentenced to 30 months.
Meanwhile, passenger Ahmmad Anwar, 27, of Deeplish Road, Rochdale, was sentenced for possession of cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply to four years in jail.
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Miyah James
A care worker who failed to visit a vulnerable sick pensioner who was found lying alone and dead from Covid in squalid conditions was sent to jail.
Miya James lied to her bosses on a work app claiming to have called round to her home on that day and the previous day and later admitted she had ”wanted to make sure she was paid.”
James, of Fell Grove, Moss Bank, a mother-of-one, pleaded guilty to wilful neglect.
She was jailed for eight months.
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