Derbyshire Times news bulletin 9th July

Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley

Transcript

00:00Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.

00:03A man has been jailed after he sent sexually explicit images and messages to a young girl and asked to meet her for sex.

00:10Callum Palfreyman sent the message to the girl, who was aged 13 at the time, on Snapchat,

00:15setting them to auto-delete after being read in an attempt to cover his tracks.

00:19But the incident came to light when the girl told her mum about the messages and the matter was reported to Derbyshire Police.

00:25Palfreyman, of no fixed address, admitted charges of causing and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity

00:32and engaging in sexual communication with a child.

00:35The 30-year-old was handed a sentence of three years and nine months in respect of the first offence

00:39and nine months to run concurrently for the second offence.

00:42He was also jailed for ten months to be served consecutively for an unrelated matter,

00:47bringing his total sentence to four years and seven months.

00:50A Derbyshire MP is calling for action after yet another crash along a busy A-road between Chesterfield and Matlock,

00:59the scene of a spate of tragic road deaths in 2023.

01:03Louise Jones, who is MP for North East Derbyshire, issued a statement after another collision on the A632 between Chesterfield and Matlock.

01:10She said,

01:11The Ash River Community Action Group has been campaigning for improved safety measures on the road

01:34following four deaths in the last five months of 2023, including the tragic case of Angela Bayak, 59, and her son Stephen, 22,

01:42who were both killed by an overtaking driver.