The body of Richard Scatchard, a 70-year-old sex offender wanted by police in connection with the death of his partner, was found heavily decomposed inside a caravan in Somerset six months after he was last seen, an inquest …
The body of Richard Scatchard, a 70-year-old sex offender wanted in connection with the death of his partner, Kelly Faiers, was found “heavily decomposed” inside a caravan in Somerset, an inquest has heard. Scatchard had been …
A senior coroner in Somerset has expressed serious concerns regarding the police handling of a case involving the death of 61-year-old Kelly Faiers. Kelly was found dead in October 2023 at the home of Richard Scatchard, a …
A coroner has ruled that Kelly Faiers, 61, was unlawfully killed after being coerced by her partner, convicted sex offender Richard Scatchard, into taking a lethal overdose of sleeping tablets combined with alcohol. Ms. …
A coroner has ruled that Kelly Faiers, 61, was unlawfully killed after being coerced by her sex offender partner into taking a lethal overdose of sleeping tablets and alcohol. Ms. Faiers was discovered dead in October 2023 at …
An inquest has revealed that Avon and Somerset police officers sought to arrest Richard Scatchard, a registered sex offender with prior convictions for drugging and sexually assaulting women, after his partner was found dead …
In October 2023, Kelly Faiers, 61, was discovered dead at the home of Richard Scatchard, 70, in Minehead, Somerset. Scatchard, a registered sex offender with prior convictions for drugging and sexual assault, told officers …
Kelly Faiers, 61, was found dead at the home of her partner, Richard Scatchard, 70, in Minehead, Somerset, in October 2023. The cause was a fatal overdose of sleeping tablets combined with alcohol, the inquest at Somerset …
Stephen Hudd, 60, from Trowbridge, has been sentenced to 13 years and nine months in prison after admitting to nine counts of sexual abuse against a girl under the age of 13. Hudd appeared at Salisbury Crown Court two weeks …
A convicted sex offender from Somerset has been sentenced to prison after approaching two school girls with a sexually explicit question as they walked home. David Blackwood, 58, of Trinity Road in Combe Down, pleaded guilty …
A convicted sex offender from Somerset has been handed a 12-month prison sentence after approaching two school girls and asking a sexually explicit question as they walked home. David Blackwood, aged 58, from Trinity Road in …
Rhys Jones, 27, of Bridgwater, has been sentenced to three years’ immediate imprisonment at Taunton Crown Court on January 16 for serious online child safeguarding offences and multiple breaches of legal orders. Jones pleaded …
Kevin Dell, a 61-year-old former postman from Hawthorn Grove, Trowbridge, was sentenced at Swindon Crown Court on December 10 after pleading guilty to three counts of sexually assaulting children under the age of 13. Despite …
Andrew Cobb, a 54-year-old from Monmouth Street, Bridgwater, has been sentenced to six years and seven months in prison following a police sting that exposed his disturbing pattern of targeting vulnerable children online. …
The family of Kelly Faiers, 61, who was found dead at the home of convicted sex offender Richard Scatchard, have expressed deep disillusionment with the justice system following a damning report from the Independent Office …