Christmas 2021 wasn’t quite the same for this bunch of killers, rapists, child abusers, drug dealers, thugs and thieves.
Not this year, not next year... nor for many years to come.
All of them were jailed during the year just ending and received some of the heaviest sentences handed down by judges at Northampton and other crown courts.
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BERNARD McDONAGH was 19 at the time of the brutal 2020 attack in Irchester and sentenced to eight years in a young offender institute. The other brother, CHARLIE, was jailed for nine years.
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ANDREW NICHOLLS, aged 46, was jailed for more than 17 years in October after being convicted in October of child sex offences.
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Paedophile JARED BASSETT, aged 38, was jailed last month for 20 years over a string of child sex assaults. Bassett, of Station Road, Cogenhoe, was sentenced by a judge at Mold Crown Court in North Wales earlier this month after a jury found him guilty.
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PATRICK LOFTUS left a man scarred for life after slashing his face and setting his Rottweiler dog on him in a fight in St Andrew's Road, Northampton. Police said Loftus had also robbed a local Tesco store at knifepoint just days earlier. The 39-year-old denied causing grievous bodily harm with intent but was found guilty in October and jailed for more than 11 years.