These are the faces of 13 county criminals who were jailed for serious offences across Northamptonshire and beyond, and whose often shocking stories this newspaper brought you during June 2025.
9. Mohamed Abdulkadir Farah
Police arrested Farah as he returned to the UK after fleeing to avoid drugs charges. The 29-year-old is the seventh member of a gang to be charged after detectives from the East Midlands Serious and Organised Crime squad cracked a network which supplied around 100kg of cannabis to Northampton, Buckinghamshire and Essex. He was sentenced to four years at Northampton Crown Court. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
10. Gaiel Landau
Police described the Northampton 24-year-old as the 'quartermaster' of a drugs gang sentenced to a combined total of 130 years at Nottingham Crown Court. Landau was given eight years, three months for conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine while defending their turf with knives and guns and recruiting kids to move and sell their drugs. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police
11. James 'Jimmy' Sheen
Sheen admitted masterminding stealing a £4.8 million golden toilet from Blenheim Palace has been jailed. The 40-year-old from Wellingborough was jailed for four years at Oxford Crown Court. Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the working 18-carat gold toilet hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019. Sheen is already serving a 17-year sentence for a string of thefts including £400,000-worth of tractors and high-value trophies from the National Horse Racing Museum in Newmarket. Photo: Thames Valley Police