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Suffolk: Ipswich Crown Court results May 15 to 19 2023
Peter Nash
Peter Nash was jailed for life after he murdered his wife and 12-year-old daughter before stabbing himself 22 times.
During the three week trial, the court heard that the body of his wife was found under a quilt on the living room floor.
Police went to the couple’s home in Heath Estate, Great Waldingfield, on September 8 after Nash’s wife Jillu failed to turn up for work and their daughter Louise did not go to school.
When emergency services entered the house, they found Mrs Nash’s dead body on the floor in the living room and Louise’s body under a sheet in the bedroom.
Mrs Nash had been asphyxiated and appeared to have a T-shirt stuffed in her mouth.
Louise died from a stab wound to her abdomen.
Nash was found lying on the bed next to his daughter holding a knife and was repeatedly stabbing himself.
Giving evidence, he claimed he had “lawfully” killed his wife because of her behaviour and killed his daughter because he was worried about what would happen to her.
A jury took just over two hours to convict him last Friday.
At a hearing on Wednesday, Nash was given a 40-year life imprisonment jail term.
Freya Hoey
Freya Hoey was jailed for 30 months after she climbed through a bedroom window and threatened a man with a knife.
Hoey went to the premises in St Andrew’s Place in Melton with her 17-year-old friend who had earlier made threats to her former boyfriend who lived at the address.
Eleanor Sheeran, prosecuting, said the 17-year-old co-defendant’s former boyfriend wasn’t in the bedroom when she and Hoey climbed in through the window in November but his roommate was asleep in bed.
Hoey was holding a knife and said: “Don’t move or I’ll stab you” while her friend threatened to stab the roommate if he called the police.
Hoey, 19, of Back Hamlet, Ipswich, who had 100 previous convictions, admitted threatening with a knife in a private place, assault and breach of a suspended sentence at Ipswich Crown Court.
Glen Hibbard and Toni Baron
Glen Hibbard and Toni Baron were jailed for a combined 50 months after they attacked the owner of a caravan site with a knife.
Mark Berry was asleep in a caravan at the Sutton Heath caravan site near Woodbridge in the early hours of July 19, 2021 and woke up to find Glen Hibbard sitting astride him and stabbing his forehead with a knife.
Hibbard told Mr Berry he was going to cut his eye out while his girlfriend Toni Baron helped pin Mr Berry down on the bed, Ipswich Crown Court heard.
Baron bit Mr Berry on the leg above his knee and was described as “egging on” Hibbard.
At one stage, Hibbard got Mr Berry in a chokehold and the victim had pretended to be unconscious.
After the incident, Mr Berry was taken to hospital and was found to have suffered injuries including slash wounds to his forehead, a punctured lung and two broken ribs.
Baron, 24, of New London Court, Chelmsford, and Hibbard, 29, of St Andrew’s Place, Melton, denied wounding Mr Berry with intent to do him grievous bodily harm but admitted a less serious charge of inflicting grievous harm.
Hubbard was jailed for 30 months and Baron was jailed for 20 months.
