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Chard man accused of drink-driving denies he was driving car when...
A man accused of failing to comply with a breath test after being suspected of drink-driving claimed he was not the driver of the car at the time.Kurt Unsworth, 24, of Stringfellow Crescent in Chard,...
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Sherborne man pleads guilty to burglary and aggravated vehicle...
A Sherborne man will be sentenced later this year after pleading guilty to burglary and driving a stolen car over the drink drive limit.Robert Michael Davies, 25, of Coombe, Sherborne, appeared in...
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Yeovil teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti tells court 'I had nothing...
A 22-year-old teaching assistant who slept with a 15-year-old pupil from a Yeovil school said he was 'nervous and scared' when police originally arrested him on suspicion of grooming her.In his second...
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Young Churchill Academy girl 'did absolutely the right thing' say...
Police have said they are investigating a report of a young girl being approached by a man in a vehicle outside a Somerset school.The girl was approached by a man in a grey Ford outside Churchill...
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Yeovil man likely to jailed for six months after being found...
A Yeovil man who was arrested for a drugs offence then asked the police to go back to his car and fetch a bag containing his keys but forgot he also had a knife inside it.The officer found the lock...
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Yeovil teenager Dean Lock took knife to girlfriend's home after...
A Yeovil teenager drank six pints of cider and went to his former partner's home with a nine-inch knife - on the same day he was handed a restraining order banning him from going near her.The alarm was...
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Yeovil man said he was 'no good' at shoplifting when caught...
A court was told that a Yeovil man who was caught red-handed stealing a DVD box set didn't go shoplifting very often as he was "no good at it".Malcolm David Carter was desperate to buy back a guitar...
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Burnham-on-Sea Superdrug ram raid - police searching for three...
Police are hunting ram raiders who smashed into a high street store in Burnham-on-Sea and stole a large quantity of stock. The three men targeted the Superdrug store on Burnham-on-Sea's High Street for...
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Lidl pledges to stop suspicious fundraiser collecting outside...
A supermarket chain will be taking steps to make sure a 'charity' stall is never allowed outside its stores again.Warnings were posted on Facebook in September about a potentially bogus fundraiser...
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Yeovil teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti jailed for abduction and...
A teaching assistant from a Yeovil school who had sex with a teenage schoolgirl has been jailed for five years after a jury found him guilty of child abduction and two allegations of sexual activity...
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NSPCC hits out at teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti who sexually...
The effects of sexual abuse on a vulnerable Yeovil schoolgirl targeted by a "predatory" teaching assistant could last a lifetime, according to the NSPCC. Hamid Bhatti, 24, living at Sladen Street,...
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High speed M5 pursuit from Bristol to Burnham-On-Sea sees two...
Police hunted down a motorbike by land and air in a high speed pursuit on the M5 in the early hours.Police cars and a police helicopter followed the bike after it failed to stop in North Bristol at...
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Burglars robbed Nailsea Poundland, then threw CCTV evidence in...
Police believe burglars who stole cash from a shop in Nailsea also threw CCTV evidence of their crime into a pond.A large quantity of money was stolen from Poundland in Nailsea on September 25, and the...
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Taunton fuel theft: Man drives to petrol station, fills up and...
A man drove onto a petrol station forecourt in Taunton filled up his car and left without paying.The man drove his green Citroen on Tuesday (October 4) at around 7.30pm to the garage in...
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Daniel Poole of Street who raped and sexually abused a girl when...
A MAN who raped and sexually abused a girl when he was 14 will not go to jail.Daniel Poole of Torlon Grove, Street, is now 31 and was told going to prison for crimes he committed as a teen in 1999...
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Jailed: Man who brandished gun in Mudford Co-op car park row...
A 30-year-old who brandished a gun at two men after he was beeped at in a car-park was short-tempered because he had a hangover, Taunton Crown Court heard today.Hearing this, Judge David Ticehurst...
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Lisa Winn murder: Glastonbury mum's death inquiry ongoing
An official probe into the police's alleged failings to protect a mother who was murdered by her estranged husband in Glastonbury is still under way.Mum-of-five Lisa Winn was stabbed to death in...
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Mum of Yeovil teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti's schoolgirl lover...
The mother of Yeovil teaching assistant Hamid Bhatti's schoolgirl lover said that the past two years had been "like living a nightmare". 'Zayn Malik-lookalike' Bhatti embarked on a relationship with...
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Cheeki Rafiki yacht deaths: Stormforce company director charged...
A company director has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of four people on a yacht called the Cheeki Rafiki. In May 2014 the 40ft vessel was found with no signs of its crew...
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Brian Win from Bridgwater pleads not guilty to 30 sex charges
A Bridgwater man will face a trial in the New Year after denying over 30 sexual offences against a young girl.Brian Winn, 57, from Liberty Place, denied six charges of indecent activity with a child,...
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