These are the faces of 11 men and and one woman jailed at Northampton Crown Court whose stories this newspaper told during May 2023.
They include a 19-year-old mum sentenced to five years for manslaughter and child cruelty after her five-week-old son died, drug dealers who flooded local streets with cocaine and amphetamines from Liverpool, and a former police special constable who used chat apps to send explicit photos to someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy — but turned out to be an undercover detective…
5. SIX CORBY DRUG DEALERS
Corby sextet Arron Vidler, Connor Sherwood, Darryl Marshall Gilbert Stirling, David Madden and Stephen Davidson — all aged between 24 and 47 — were among nine men sentenced after police smashed a drugs gang supplying cocaine and amphetamine in Northamptonshire between 2019 and 2021.
The six got between four years, six months and six years, nine months for their part in delivering narcotics to the county from Liverpool.
A 10th man, 79-year-old Northampton man Malcolm Chapman, is still on the run and believed to have fled to the US. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. OLUWATOMISIN IJAGBEMI
Hard-up University student Ijagbemi, 21, was lured into drug dealing after being told he had to pay off a debt. The 21-year-old was sentenced to 28 months after being caught with cocaine and heroin worth around £500 in his boxer shorts during a police raid in Kettering.
Text messages on a seized phone referred to ‘brown and white’ which prosecutors said showed Ijagbemi was “clearly selling straight to street users.” Photo: Northamptonshire Police
7. PATRICK MUDDIMAN
The bungling Kettering robber was caught after leaving his driving licence behind as he fled from a Co-op store in Cambridgeshire in March this year. Muddiman, 38, punched a customer to get away after threatening staff and demanding cash, but dropped a black wallet outside the shop – which detectives used to identify him.
Muddiman, of Whiteford Drive, was sentenced to a total of nine years — including six behind bars — at Peterborough Crown Court. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
8. SALMAN UDDIN
Northampton dealer Uddin, aged 23, has been jailed for four years after a stop and search by plain-clothed police in Victoria Park uncovered drugs, cash and mobile phones. Photo: Northamptonshire Police