Summer will be spent behind bars for this bunch, including a violent thug, repeat sex offender, serial conman and drugs dealers who were all among those jailed at Northampton Crown Court during July.
5. JOHN RICHARDS
Richards, a registered sex offender from Northampton, is back in prison after being caught deleting messages on his phone sent to kids as young as 10 when police knocked on his door for a routine check. The 43-year-old was sentenced to three years at Northampton Crown Court for three attempted breaches of a sexual harm prevention order, two counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and one count of making an indecent photograph. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. ALAN FITZGERALD
The serial conman who persuades people to hand over cash deposits for building work and non-existent flats to rent is back in prison after adding five offences to his list of 50 previous crimes stretching back 40 YEARS. The 55-year-old was jailed for 28 months after admitting fraud in Irthlingborough, Wellingborough, Raunds, Rushden and Northampton during February and March. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
7. CARL ALAN RICHARDSON
Convicted drug dealer Richardson is back behind bars after police found heroin worth £900 and a mobile phone during a raid on a Northampton flat. The 51-year-old — who was sentenced to four years just weeks after being let out on licence part-way through a 29-month sentence — was one of five members of a notorious gang convicted earlier this year of operating a drugs line following Operation Eagle – a Northampton Neighbourhood Policing-led investigation into criminality in the St David’s area. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
8. PETER OWEN
The serial crook, 40, was sentenced to 15 months after stealing £20,000 of meat from a Wellingborough Road butchers shop a week before Christmas in 2020 — and cash from a charity box at Northampton General Hospital a couple of weeks later. Northampton Crown Court heard Owen had 43 previous convictions for 89 offences, including 47 thefts as well as crimes relating to drugs, breach of court orders and use of firearms Photo: Northamptonshire Police