Those put behind bars also included a shoplifter who threatened to stab store staff, serial stalker, drug dealers, burglars and a rogue builder who emptied a 90-year-old’s bank account to pay for work that did not need doing …
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Faces of some of the jailed criminals whose stories this newspaper brought to you during August 2026. Photo: Police
2. Bishan Shiekh
The 41-year-old was sentenced to seven years in custody having been found guilty after a five-day trial of attempting to rape a vulnerable woman in Northampton. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
3. Ilias Hassan
The 23-year-old, of Bristle Street, Northampton, was sentenced to five years, three months after being convicted of raping a woman at a student flat in Sheffield city centre in in the early hours of May 8, 2023. Photo: South Yorks Police
4. Liam Pink
The 38-year-old was jailed for four years, four months for online child sex offences and breaching a sexual risk order. Pink, of Edmund Street, Kettering, was arrested following allegations by an online activist group that he had exchanged explicit messages with someone he believed to be a 12-year-old girl — but was actually a decoy. Photo: Northamptonshire Police