Heroin addict 'now has two deaths on his conscience' after buying drugs for stepbrother
A HEROIN addict now has "two deaths on his conscience" after buying drugs for his stepbrother, who was later found dead.
He already had a manslaughter conviction following the death of a woman in 2002 after he injected her with drugs, a court heard.
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Peter Loche: Previously jailed for manslaughter after injecting woman who later died.
Peter Loche, 42, of Thesiger Street, Grimsby, admitted supplying heroin to Michael Littlewood on June 8.
Gordon Stables, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that an anonymous telephone call, believed to be from Bradley Herron, was received from a kiosk asking for an ambulance to go the home of Mr Littlewood because of a heroin overdose.
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Mr Littlewood, 38, of Albion House, Grimsby, was found to be dead but there was nothing suspicious about his death and there was no drug paraphernalia.
Loche later approached a police officer and told him that one of his stepbrother's neighbours had alerted him that Mr Littlewood was dead.
He had been expecting to see his stepbrother at 9am and went to investigate when he did not turn up.
He said that Mr Littlewood, an alcoholic, had given him some money and asked him to buy heroin for him. Loche admitted he had done so.
A post mortem revealed that the cause of Mr Littlewood's death was inhaling stomach contents, but other factors were heroin and alcohol abuse as well as heart disease.
Loche had a conviction for manslaughter, involving the death of a 40-year-old woman in July 2002.
He had helped make up a syringe of what they believed was heroin to inject into her arm.
She fell backwards and was unconscious for about two hours. Loche tried to rouse her without success.
He was jailed at York Crown Court for four years in January 2003.
Mitigating, Charlotte Baines said that, in the case of Mr Littlewood, Loche did not administer the drugs to his stepbrother but did arrange the supply of them.
He volunteered to the police what had happened.
"He has been blaming himself for what happened," said Miss Baines.
"He has to live with that for the rest of his life. Now he is having to deal with two deaths on his conscience.
"When one involves yourself with Class A drugs, that's the risk one takes."
Loche had reduced his own heroin use and was on methadone.
Recorder Taryn Turner told Loche that he, of all people, given his history and the fact that he had seen someone die because of heroin, should have known what the drug could do to someone.
"Drugs wreak havoc on people's lives," she said. "They destroy their personalities and they destroy their futures."
Loche was jailed for 15 months.
Comments
by clivespanner
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 1:15AM
“Daveyc77, your written English is atrocious, i think you may be telling porkies about your forces career as the NAMET tests you take in the services would undoubtedly have given you a level of education that far exceeds your comment.
P.S. I am a veteran of 8 years service and hold Australian citizenship. Why dont you lower your sights a bit, try Somalia or Sierra Leone maybe. (they're in Africa) you wont be going Down under.”
by clivespanner
Tuesday, January 01 2013, 1:09AM
“davendogs, i concur, lets make it legal and available, shoot as much as you can into your wretched filthy veins and help clear the country up. every single person in this country knows the risks they take with drugs, if thats your path, on you go. do not worry about the past, present or future just get on with your desperate, downward spiral into eventual oblivion. good riddance, your family may grieve, your friends may mourn but in the end they will be forced to confront the hard cold fact that you brought it all upon yourself and your demise can only be accounted for by your own selfish and foolish actions.”
by davendogs
Sunday, December 30 2012, 8:21PM
“Wonder what his christmas was like. Jacked up and a case o carling?”
by bob451
Sunday, December 30 2012, 1:17PM
“hang him”
by EWW01
Sunday, December 30 2012, 7:19AM
“daveyc77 -I doubt very much Australia will take someone who comes across a a quarter intelligent quarter wit.
Australia won't want you and I doubt the Armed Service you claim to serve/have served in don't.If you are the average calibre of Serviceman then god help us.”
by daveyc77
Saturday, December 29 2012, 10:49PM
“totally agree but how can we achieve this with our countries soft laws, its pathetic and unjust, look at the bloke who raped someone in india i bet he gets put to death, prizons r a sham n thers no deterent for f all, socioty has rotted and so has my will to live , ive served nearlly 4 yrs for queen n country for practicly peanuts, dam sight more less than these pig comunity support officers, im a peed of bloke who dnt like how this country had become over the years its a disgrace n im emmigrating to country with a backbone n som ball like austrailia!”
by outoftown
Friday, December 28 2012, 1:41AM
“we the public are so fed up with having druggies eveywhere, in this case the grimsby area,the police do nothing,so much for operation troop,which was supposed to crack down on druggies.the poor children who are born to heroin addicts are so neglected ,it is so awfull to see.we the public want severe action on the suppliers,ie the death penalty because they are killing are children”
by davidmantle
Friday, November 16 2012, 6:13PM
“Don`t mess about just shoot the b@st@rd. I will even pay for the lead out of my own hard earned wages.”
by smokebelch
Friday, November 16 2012, 4:24PM
“@davendogs
I like your thinking......ALOT”
by davendogs
Friday, November 16 2012, 2:43PM
“There is another way of looking at this. Where there was 3 heroin takers there's now only one. Leave him alone long enough maybe he can get rid of some more.”