How's 2022 been for you so far? Chances are it's an improvement on this bunch all put behind bars during the first 31 days of the year.
They include an 18-year-old found guilty of murder, a thug who brutally beat his partner, a stalker, sex offenders and a drug dealer caught with crack cocaine in a Northampton hotel room.
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Pensioner PETER BUTT had a stash of hidden phones, a laptop and secret online accounts in breach of a sexual harm prevention order. The 72-year-old from Northampton escaped jail after being convicted of possessing and distributing more than 400 indecent images of children last year — but started a 36-month stretch this week.
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Raunds paedophile AARON WATERFIELD, 23, pestered a 12-year-old girl into sharing naked pictures which he sent to her step-dad. He was jailed for 14 months.
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A thug who brutally beat his partner and threw her down the stairs was jailed for three years, nine months. HAYDEN WYKES. 27. was originally arrested in November 2020 but breached bail conditions by meeting the woman for dinner three months later — then attacked her.
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Wellingborough thug MATTHEW MORLEY assaulted 11 police officers and three locals, repeatedly spat at emergency workers, punched his girlfriend and her dad and charged at her brother with a knife after taking cocaine. The 25-year-old was jailed for 18 months.