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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Drug addict JAMIE MAGEE, aged 32, was found guilty of stealing £1,600 from a Corby trap house in an incident which ended with his pal Wes Brown dying. Magee, of Corby, was jailed for eight years after a five-day trial at Leicester Crown Court
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WILLIAM SMITH, aged 37, was jailed for nine years for his part in robbing a terrified Corby taxi driver at gunpoint two years ago. Smith's partner in crime, Shaun Alexander, is already serving a six years, nine months sentence after being jailed in November 2019.
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Police saluted the bravery of a young victim forced to give evidence against her attacker ALAN UPTON before he was found guilty at Northampton Crown Court earlier this month of sex assault . Upton, 33, was jailed for 15 years.
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Respectable businessman ALEX McCONNELL, aged 56, lived a champagne lifestyle while using his Corby garage as a cover for collecting drugs from Liverpool. He was jailed for ten years, eight months at Northampton Crown Court in April