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…
13. Ryuken Miyamoto-Masamune
The registered sex offender was found to be using an illicit tablet to store and view indecent images of children after police raided his Wellingborough home following a tip off.
Miyamoto-Masamune also had a stash of offensive weapons hidden — including eight samurai swords and a scythe — in a ‘private place’. The 33-year-old, who changed his name from Toby Lawrence in 2013. He was sentenced to a total of 18 months. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
14. Anthony Easton
The paedophile, 41, who used hidden cameras to film children was arrested after police traced shocking images on the internet to his home in Kettering. Easton, formerly of Northumberland Close, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of children and three offences of voyeurism in December 2022 and was sentenced to a total of 15 months in prison last month. Photo: Northamptonshire Police