The statistics show that a total of 5,206 crimes were reported to Lincolnshire Police in December, compared to 5,479 in March. Dean Simpson, 49, of Manor Drive, Halton Holegate, Spilsby, pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of Jenny Simpson on January 9 at a hearing earlier this year. He was later excluded from high school for selling drugs both in and out of school and had started at another PRU the day before Roberts was found dead. On Easter Monday, 1979, 60-year-old Gordon Snowden was discovered severely injured in the early hours of the morning.

It was around 2 o'clock in the morning, when the petrol pump attendant Mr Snowden, who was working at Sutton Bridge Motors, was found lying beside his kiosk with severe head injuries. Chris Cook, independent chair of the Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children's Partnership, which is conducting the joint review with the Safer Lincolnshire Partnership, said: "The overall purposes of such reviews are to prevent or reduce the likelihood of similar incidents of domestic abuse and homicide/harm to children, to improve service responses in these areas and to identify any improvements that should be made by persons in the area to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and victims of domestic abuse. Describing the moment as "traumatic" she added: "I told the lads in the yard to get out of the area and I went and got the police. At around 2am on April 17 1979, Gordon, who was a petrol pump attendant at Sutton Bridge Motors, was found with serious head injuries at the filling station. She was described privately by the sentencing judge as “the greatest criminal that ever lived” and was sentenced to to be hung in 1862 after being found guilty of one murder.A woman in her 30s sustained injuries consistent with a knife wound and was taken to hospital for treatment. The DNA that was discovered appears to belong to someone who does not appear on official records or databases, as they had likely not committed a crime before. Violent crime covers a broad range of offences, including but not limited to grievous bodily harm, common assault, murder and manslaughter. Lincolnshire Police have questioned more than 20,000 people in relation to the case, but to no avail. Speaking after the sentencing, Det Ch Insp Richard Myszczyszyn said the "utterly senseless" killing would be "remembered by officers and staff as one of the worst and saddest cases we have ever dealt with".

In September 1994, the mother-of-two was discovered by her 14-year-old daughter in the bathroom of their home in Longcliffe Road, Grantham. Superintendent Pat Coates and Inspector Colin Clarkson from Lincolnshire Police were amongst other authorities at the meeting answering questions from the community on safety in the town. He believed it to be an undetectable method of destruction and that if the bodies could not be found he would not be convicted of murder. This piece of work is on-going and we will release more information when this work concludes in the near future.Lincolnshire Police has confirmed that it has recorded 13 murders and eight attempted murders in Boston between January 2017 and December 2022. Haigh was known for using concentrated sulphuric acid to dispose of bodies after shooting them or battering them to death. Photograph: Lincolnshire police/PA Marcel Grzeszcz, who a court heard stabbed Roberts Buncis ‘in excess of 70 times’.