Some of the criminals with Suffolk links who were sentenced in March, with incidents in Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich, Lowestoft, Haverhill and more
It was a busy month for the courts, with sentences handed out to people across the county.
While some were punished for more minor offences, others received long jail terms for the more serious crimes.
These are some of the people with Suffolk links who faced justice in March.
Man caused over £130,000 in criminal damage against former employer
For our first case, we find a man who inflicted more than £130,000 in criminal damage against his former employer over a period of several years.
Between March 2013 and May 2019, Adrian Ling and his accomplice committed more than 80 acts against Goldline Travel.
Ling, of Woodside in Brampton, near Beccles, was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court on March 1. He and co-defendant Daniel Garrison were convicted in November.
Across 83 incidents, which included pelting the firm’s taxis with air rifles, the pair caused at least £136,000 in damage.
Ling will spend eight years behind bars.
Man verbally abused and beat another person
Also in March, a Stowmarket man was jailed after a fight involving four people.
Scott Alderton, 20, of Hill Rise, pleaded guilty to charges of assault and threatening behaviour at Suffolk Magistrates’ Court in Ipswich on March 5.
This followed an incident in Finborough Road on February 26, which saw a man in his 20s assaulted.
He was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.
Teenagers jailed for life after murdering 18-year-old
The year-long case regarding the murder of an 18-year-old in Ipswich drew to a close in March.
Alfie Hammett and Joshua Howell, both 19, were jailed on March 11 following the stabbing of Raymond James Quigley, from Wymondham, in Westgate Street on January 17 last year.
They had been found guilty on January 26 after a trial which lasted more than five weeks.
The pair attacked James while he was with friends.
Hammett was jailed for 24 years while Howell was given 20 years.
Car thief caused great ‘distress and upheaval’
Also in the headlines in March was a man who stole a parked car from a driveway near Lowestoft.
Sullivan Lee, 22, of no fixed address, took a VW Golf from his victim’s home in Gisleham, in the early hours of June 3.
On the night of the theft Lee smashed a window in the building’s front porch, taking the house key and car keys.
The vehicle was tracked to Norfolk before being found in Great Barford, Bedfordshire. Swabs taken linked the car to Lee.
He was sentenced on March 13 and will spend 20 months behind bars.
Former personal care assistant tried to engage in sexual activity with a child
A man from Haverhill was among those put behind bars in March.
Chris Doyle, 55, formerly of Ladygate, was jailed for attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child.
He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
In addition to a 36 month sentence for two of the offences and 24 months for the other, to be served concurrently, Doyle was handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Man left cyclist with a broken cheek bone and jaw after an attack
March saw a 21-year-old jailed after he pushed a cyclist from his bike and assaulted him.
Michael Peacock, of Nowton, pushed his victim - a 53-year-old man - from his bike in Mill Road, Bury St Edmunds, on September 7, 2022.
The victim was initially treated at West Suffolk Hospital before being transferred to Addenbrooke’s Hospital for immediate surgery before follow-up surgery four months later.
Peacock appeared before Ipswich Crown Court on March 22.
He was sentenced to eight months in jail, suspended for 24 months, ordered to do 200 hours community service and pay £3,500 in compensation.
Father and son jailed after fatal crash
Also in March, a father and son from Suffolk were sentenced after a fatal crash in a Norfolk road.
Marcin Jablonski, 44, of Mutfordwood Lane, in Carlton Colville near Lowestoft, and his son Thomaz Urbaniak, 26, of All Saints Road, Newmarket, appeared before Norwich Crown Court on March 25.
This followed a collision on the A143 at Earsham in August.
Jablonski drove a stolen Land Rover Defender, which had previously failed to stop for officers, along the route before losing control and crashing into a Nissan Juke, killing the driver.
A urine sample showed he was more than twice above the legal drink drive limit.
Jablonski was jailed for 11 years and disqualified from driving for 13 years. His son was jailed for two years and banned from driving for two years.
Child sex offender given 14 years
Finally, we come to a 67-year-old child sex offender who was put behind bars in March.
Peter Williams Goodchild, of no fixed address but from the Bury St Edmunds area, admitted 12 charges of sexual assault of a child under 13.
These took place between 2013 and 2019 and concerned touching offences against three children.
He was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment on March 25.
