Drug Dealer, Cage Fighter and Fraudulent Doctor Among Those Jailed Across Leicestershire
Courts across Leicestershire have sentenced a varied array of criminals in recent weeks, including a managing director who ran fraudulent medical exams for heavy goods and bus licence applicants, a violent robber with 72 previous offences, the ringleader of a seven-person class A drug gang, and a parish councillor who repeatedly stalked a woman in breach of a court order.
Andrew Eburne, 51, of Burbage, was jailed for four years after his company, Doctors on Wheels Ltd, provided sham medical examinations for HGV and bus driver applicants.
The exams were conducted by non-doctors in the backs of vans in laybys, sometimes lasting just minutes.
The fraud totalled an estimated ยฃ681,699 and included one applicant recorded as having 20/20 vision despite wearing a prosthetic eye.
James Jones, 36, a former cage fighter with a lengthy criminal history, was jailed for three years and two months after ambushing a man who had survived torture in Sri Lanka at a bus station, punching him 10 times and stealing his two mobile phones.
The attack was captured on CCTV.
Drug gang leader Obi Oko received seven years and four months for running crack cocaine and heroin county lines into Northampton and Loughborough.
Parish councillor Christopher Gray, 52, was jailed for 18 weeks and disqualified from his parish council seat after breaching a stalking restraining order by repeatedly turning up at a woman's home and bombarding her with letters.
Andrew Eburne, 51, of Burbage, was jailed for four years after his company, Doctors on Wheels Ltd, provided sham medical examinations for HGV and bus driver applicants.
The exams were conducted by non-doctors in the backs of vans in laybys, sometimes lasting just minutes.
The fraud totalled an estimated ยฃ681,699 and included one applicant recorded as having 20/20 vision despite wearing a prosthetic eye.
James Jones, 36, a former cage fighter with a lengthy criminal history, was jailed for three years and two months after ambushing a man who had survived torture in Sri Lanka at a bus station, punching him 10 times and stealing his two mobile phones.
The attack was captured on CCTV.
Drug gang leader Obi Oko received seven years and four months for running crack cocaine and heroin county lines into Northampton and Loughborough.
Parish councillor Christopher Gray, 52, was jailed for 18 weeks and disqualified from his parish council seat after breaching a stalking restraining order by repeatedly turning up at a woman's home and bombarding her with letters.