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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JAMIE ROBINSON, 32, hid a camera inside his former partner’s home to make secret recordings, turned up at her workplace and tracked her to a hotel where she was staying with a friend and booked himself into an adjacent room. Robinson, of Duston, was jailed for four years after admitting assault and stalking.
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Kettering paedophile JOHN GARDNER, 46, was given an extended 10-year jail sentence for child sex offences.
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Drug dealer AARON BENJAMIN LERIGO bit and punched two police officers as they tried to arrest him in Northampton town centre. The 32-year-old, of Long Buckby, was jailed for three years, nine months after searches found cocaine and more than £2,000 in cash in his car — plus 13 bags of coke ready to deal in his underwear.
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Rushden builder NICHOLAS JONES has been jailed for breaching a court order imposed in 2014 after he flashed at elderly women he was working for. Jones was banned from carrying out work bringing him into contact with people who are elderly or vulnerable, but he admitted doing so twice and was sentenced to 16 months.