May was another busy month for the Cambridgeshire courts
It’s almost half way through the year and it continues to be a busy time for Cambridgeshire courts. In May, there were more criminals put behind bars in Cambridgeshire for some sickening and heinous crimes.
Amongst those who were sent to jail include a man who stabbed another man over a car park dispute and another man who lured a 14-year-old boy to his home and sexually assaulted him. Here is a look at five criminals put behind bars in May.
Jameel Ali
A man approached Jameel Ali, 24, on New Year’s Eve in 2023 at a car park in Windmill Street, Peterborough. The man asked Ali to move his car forward so another vehicle could park on the street, but the two started to argue.
Ali headbutted the man and then stabbed him in the neck. The 24-year-old ran off and police were called.
The victim was found with a wound to his neck and later taken to hospital for treatment. Ali was arrested two days after the attack. Appearing at Cambridge Crown Court on May 15, he was sentenced to six years in prison.
Ben Sharpe
Ben Sharpe, 31, was visited by police at his home in Cambridge on January 31. He had previously been convicted of having indecent images of children in 2021.
Sharpe had to hand his phone over to police for officers to examine. The 31-year-old admitted to deleting some apps from the phone before he let officers into his home.
When officers examined the phone, they found 2,188 indecent images of children were stored on the device, as well as a cloud storage app.
At Peterborough Crown Court on May 21, he was sentenced to two years and six months in prison having pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching a SHPO, three counts of making indecent photographs of children and one count each of possessing a prohibited image of a child and possessing an extreme pornographic image.
He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.
Liam Ellis
Liam Ellis, 25, was spotted on CCTV acting aggressively in Cambridge city centre on February 20. At around 10.24pm, he was seen riding a electric bike in Sidney Street, when he blocked a van in the road and punched the wing mirror.
A minute later, he started to scream in the faces of people. At 10.27pm, he rode into King Street and fell of his bike, and was approached by a group of people outside a pub. He grabbed one of the men and held a knife to his neck, before pointing it at others in the group.
He was later arrested. On May 19 at Huntingdon Crown Court, he was sentenced to three years in prison.
Darren Moore
Darren Moore, 57, started to talk to a 14-year-old boy online in early 2024 and turned the conversation sexual. Moore sent explicit photos of himself, and also described sexual acts that he wanted to perform on the victim in person.
The 57-year-old convinced the victim to travel to his flat in Ely after school. The victim agreed and spent the evening at Moore’s flat, where he was sexually abused.
The teenager’s mum got worried when he didn’t return home. When he did return home, he told his parents what happened and the police were called.
Moore appeared at Peterborough Crown Court on May 21 and was jailed for 10 years after admitting to one count of inciting a boy aged 13-15 to engage in sexual activity, two counts of engaging in sexual activity with a boy aged 13-15, one count of grooming, and one count of engaging in sexual communication with a child.
Robert Clark
Robert Clark, 47, sexually assaulted a girl under 13 over a 12-month period between 2020 and 2021. The abuse came to light when the victim told her mum and it was reported to police.
Following a trial, Clark was found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child under 13 years old. He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison after appearing at Cambridge Crown Court on May 8.
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