Those put behind bars also included a shoplifter who threatened to stab store staff, serial stalker, drug dealers, burglars and a rogue builder who emptied a 90-year-old’s bank account to pay for work that did not need doing …
5. Connor Tough
Serial stalker Tough is back behind bars after a string of offences against a local woman. The 24-year-old from Rushden was jailed for 36 weeks in September last year but returned to Northampton Crown Court just weeks after his sentencing over a new set of offences involving a second victim that took place over a period of three years, including at the same time he was stalking his other victim. Recorder Stuart Sprawson sentenced him to four years, two months. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. Devon Windross
The 36-year-old Corby shoplifter was sentenced to four years and given a 10-year restraining order after threatening to stab a female customer service assistant at the M&S Foodhall at Phoenix Parkway in April 2025. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
7. Michael Richards
Richards was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to three child sex offences including paying to watch children as young as 11 and 13 being abused. The 46-year-old, of Jubilee Crescent, Wellingborough, committed the offences between 2017 and 2022. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
8. Lee Edwards
Edwards, aged 29, of Greville Avenue, Northampton, was sentenced to three years, eight months in prison at Aylesbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin following an incident in Milton Keynes in May. Photo: Thames Valley Police