Here's faces just some of the thugs, sex offenders and callous criminals who all said goodbye to their freedom during April 2022.
They include a driver who staged 15 ‘crash for cash’ shunts in a massive insurance scam, a drug dealer who trafficked cocaine into the town from the Netherlands and a fiend who attempted to rape his victim after following her along Wellingborough Road.
All of them wound up in court, landing sentences ranging from 13 months to 11 years.
All of them wound up in court, landing sentences ranging from 13 months to 11 years.
5. MATT MELLOR
Mellor admitted following a woman along Wellingborough Road, Northampton, at 1.50am before dragging her to the ground and attempting to rape her at knifepoint. The woman managed to attract locals attention and Mellor — who is 6ft 10in — fled but was arrested the next day. The 40-year-old from Leicester has been remanded in custody until sentencing at Northampton Crown Court on June 10.
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6. THOMAS BREWS
Repeat child sex offender Brews was jailed for two years, two months after sharing video depicting Category A abuse. The 41-year-old from Northampton had a previous conviction for a similar offence eight years ago.
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7. FAISAL GULED
Guled was identified as the man behind a county lines gang selling cocaine trafficked from the Netherlands to Northampton after National Crime Agency detectives cracked an operation run by a convicted drug dealer from his prison cell. Guled, aged 34 — a Dutch national living in Camden, London, who worked for a supplier on the continent — was jailed for 11 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs at Wood Green Crown Court.
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