IN THE DOCK: The biggest Gloucestershire court stories this week – South Cotswolds Gazette

Here are the biggest court stories that have featured in the SNJ, Gazette Series or Wilts Glos Standard over the past few days.

An Olveston man has been jailed for his part in a plot to smuggle cocaine worth 500k into the UK.

Bertram Jack Fallon, 31, and Arron James Collins, 35, used encrypted messaging services to arrange the importation of five kilograms of cocaine - which Border Force officers seized at London Gateway Parcel Hub in January last year.

At Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday, Fallon, of Bramley Close, was jailed for six years and six months.

FULL STORY: Olveston man jailed for smuggling cocaine worth 500k in protein powder

A Cam man who has been convicted for the second time of downloading indecent images of children will spend the next 10 months behind bars.

Matthew Gardner, 31, of Manor Avenue, pleaded guilty to downloading indecent images in all three categories of seriousness - A, B and C - and breaching the terms of a sexual harm prevention order.

FULL STORY: Cam man jailed for downloading indecent images of children

A Stroud man has been convicted him of two offences of sexually assault.

The victim told a jury that she had obtained restraining orders to keep Jonathan Nash, of Allen Road, Paganhill, away from her but he continued to plague her life over a period of more than a year.

Nash was unanimously found guilty and was remanded in custody to await sentence next month.

FULL STORY: Stroud man plagued life of woman and sexually assaulted her twice

A bookkeeper defrauded an alternative medicine a company in Stroud out of 67,000

Edward Humphrey, 42, of Overbrook Road, Hardwicke, pleaded guilty to dishonestly abusing his position at In-Light Ltd, which provides alternative medicine courses, by making unauthorised bank transfers to Stroud Accounting Solutions Ltd.

He will be sentenced next month.

FULL STORY: Bookkeeper stole nearly 70k from homeopathy business in Stroud

A Royal Wootton Bassett man is said to have suffocated his girlfriend using a plastic bag in an alleged murder bid.

Appearing before Swindon Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning, Nicholas Bray, 23, of no fixed address, entered no pleas to an allegation of attempted murder.

He has also been charged with sending a social media message to a Wiltshire Police officer last November threatening to shoot and decapitate him.

District Judge Joanna Dickens remanded him into custody to appear before Bristol Crown Court for a pre-trial preparation hearing on February 15.

FULL STORY: Man, 23, in court charged with attempted murder of girlfriend

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