These are the faces of 13 men who were among those jailed at Northampton Crown Court in cases covered by this newspaper during April 2023.
They include a 21-year-old Londoner locked up over a midnight knife fight in Wellingborough Road, Northampton; a registered sex offender found with indecent images on a secret tablet found in a police raid on his Wellingborough home; a 19-year-old who admitted supplying crack cocaine in Kettering; and a domestic abuser nicknamed ‘Smirkles’ because he believed he was untouchable…
9. Nicholas Thomas
Teenager Thomas was sent to a young offender institute after being found with crack cocaine in Kettering and admitting supplying the Class A drug. The 19-year-old, of Ealing in West London, was arrested on January 5 this year, after he fled from officers from Northamptonshire Police’s Operation Revive team, who had asked him to stop in Meadow Road. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months detention for the possession with intent to supply of a Class A drug. He received a further 10 weeks to run concurrent for possession of cannabis. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
10. Sabir Ali
The 21-year-old from Enfield, North London, has been sentenced to a total of 36 months after engaging in a “frightening” midnight knife fight in Wellingborough Road, Northampton, in January 2022. He pleaded guilty to affray, two counts of possessing a bladed article in a public place and breaching a suspended sentence order. CCTV footage showed two masked men swiping at each other while terrified bystanders fled in fear as another man involved pulled out a machete.. Ali was identified after being arrested for assaulting a woman in February 2022. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
11. Philip John Leitch
Leitch has been jailed for damaging a beer tap in the Corby Candle — and been banned from the popular pub until March 2025. Magistrates sentenced the 34-year-old, of Dumble Close in the town, to 32 weeks after he also admitted assaulting two police officers after being arrested. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
12. Paul Duke
Duke was jailed for five months for assault on top of the four years, one month is he serving for a violent robbery in Limehurst Square, Duston. The 43-year-old and Ryan Pierre-Liverpool, 33, both of Peterborough, pleaded guilty to attacking a man at a house party in Northampton. Pierre-Liverpool was handed an eight-month sentence suspended for 21 months. Photo: Northamptonshire Police