These are the faces of 13 criminals who were jailed for serious offences across Northamptonshire and whose often shocking stories this newspaper brought to you during the month of December 2025…
1. Jailed in December 2025
Faces of some of the criminals locked up for crimes in Northamptonshire during December 2025 Photo: Police
2. Joshua Westwood
The heartless bully strangled his girlfriend until she believed she would die and stamped on the family’s 12-week-old kitten, called Taco, killing it. Westwood, aged 25, of Westminster Walk, Corby, was jailed for 30 months. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
3. Hamza Zaki Sharif
A judge sentenced Sharif and two 17-year-old boys to a combined total of 24 years for stabbing a teenager in a “senseless and horrific” attack in Fish Street, Northampton town centre in May 2025. A jury found the 23-year-old, of Simons Walk in the town, guilty of Section 18 grievous bodily harm following a six-day trial and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
4. Aiden Sutton
Sutton ignored magistrates’ warnings to stop shoplifting by going straight back out to target the same Kettering shops. The 32-year-old, of Highfield Crescent, was serving a suspended sentence when he stole from the same A14 service stations nine times and has now been sentenced to 99 weeks in prison. Photo: Northamptonshire Police