They include murderers given life sentences three days before Christmas as well as killer drivers, rapists, armed robbers, thieves, drug dealers and child sex offenders…
45. Brian Storey
Heroin trafficker Storey used a rented office in Northampton to smuggle 18kg of drugs into the UK. The 49-year-old was a gang’s conduit to a drug supplier in Spain with heroin being delivered to rented offices for fake companies. Four co-conspirators were sentenced in 2021 but Storey fled to Spain using a fraudulently obtained passport only to be arrested when he returned to Britain. We reported in July that he was sentenced to 12 years, seven months in prison. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
46. Daniel Larman, Kieran Okocha-Sleight
The two 21-year-old drug dealers from Birmingham were sentenced to a combined 43 years for murdering Northampton man Tommy Boom at Semilong Park in July 2024 following a two-week trial. We reported in May that Northampton Crown Court heard Larman turned on Boom with a large hunting knife after he had lured him and Okocha-Sleight into a ‘trap’ in an attempt to rob them. Larman was sentenced to 24 years and Okocha-Sleight to 21 years. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
47. Florin Bogatu
The 36-year-old was jailed for six years, nine months after admitting raping and assaulting a vulnerable woman in a Kettering town centre car park. We reported in March how Bogatu, of Trafalgar Road, was spotted by CCTV operators who alerted police who used video footage to build a timeline showing how he approached the woman, who he did not know, before following her and then leading her to the car park. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
48. Robert Gould
In March evil teacher Gould was jailed for 26 years for abusing 19 boys at a Rushden in the 1980s. The 74-year-old, of Wellingborough Road in the town, faced 29 charges including serious sexual abuse of 14 victims. Photo: Northamptonshire Police