It won’t be a happy New Year for this bunch of killers, rapists, child abusers, drug dealers, thugs and thieves, nor will it be for many years to come. All were jailed during 2022 and received some of the heaviest sentences handed down by judges at Northampton and other crown courts.
5. JACEK SKALUBA
The Polish trucker had been boozing on a ferry and drunk wine in his cab before smashing his lorry head-on into a minivan on the wrong side of the A45 in Daventry last September, leaving three people seriously injured. Skaluba, aged 59, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in January. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. MATTHEW MATHER-FRANKS
Police identified Mather-Franks as ringleader of an online child abuse gang after finding messages on devices of a known Northampton paedophile. Mather-Franks, aged 37 and from Rushden, headed a group of between six and ten men who even kept a Google spreadsheet containing details of young girls taking part in live sex streams. Mather-Franks was jailed for eight years in February. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
7. SARDOU BAH and HAMZA HADDADI
Brutes Bah, aged 46, and 21-year-old Haddadi cornered a victim in a stairwell of a block of Kettering flats before stabbing him in the legs multiple times in a row over drugs. Bah was jailed for 11 years plus five years on licence in February and Haddadi for eight years, nine months plus five years on licence for robbery and GBH. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
8. SZYMON SIECZKIEWICZ
Police dragged the paedophile back to the UK to face child sex assault charges after the 38-year-old fled to Germany. Sieczkiewicz was found guilty of two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one count of assaulting a child by touching, in Northampton in 2019 and jailed for six years in February. Photo: Northamptonshire Police