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…
29. Michael Stephen Lewis
The 64-year-old convicted sex offender from Northampton was jailed again after 115 indecent images of children – described by police as “abhorrent” – were found on his computer. Lewis, of Deal Street, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, possessing extreme pornographic images involving animals, possessing a prohibited image of a child, breaching his SHPO and failing to comply with notification requirements. We reported in January he was sentenced to seven years, ten months. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
30. Liam Harridance
We reported in September how prolific criminal Harridance was sentenced to five years, seven months after admitting dealing cocaine and heroin in Kettering. Police arrested the 25-year-old, of Welham Green, Hatfield, after CCTV operators spotted him operating in the town and stashing drugs next to a tree in June 2024. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
31. Hayley Best, Steven Buckley
The Northamptonshire couple were jailed after a jury decided they lied to police about how a child in their care suffered serious head injuries at Best’s home in Wymington, near Rushden, in September 2020. In January, we reported how Best, 37, of Headingley Road, Rushden was sentenced to five and a half years and 32-year-old Buckley, of Priory Road, Wellingborough, to seven years following a four-week trial at Luton Crown Court. Photo: Police
32. Mohammed Ali Sheikh
We reported in February how the 40-year-old had been jailed for nine years after a jury found him guilty of raping a woman twice in Northampton. Photo: Northamptonshire Police