Here are faces of 13 offenders handed prison sentences at Northampton Crown Court during October 2022.
They include a 90-year-old registered sex offender jailed for sexual assault on a female under 13; a thug who cut the neck of a shop worker who tried to stop him stealing booze from Corby Morrison’s supermarket; and a pair who broke into the home of a man they knew had died just days earlier…
![Stratford befriended a teenage girl on a gaming platform, sending explicit messages and asking for photos and videos before abusing her. The 36-year-old of Huddersfield — who also uses the name Summers was sentenced to seven years, eight months at Northampton Crown Court for three counts of sexual activity with a child and three of possessing indecent images.](https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjllMTI4ZGQxLTJhY2QtNDU0Ny1hMzEwLWI0NDE1Mjk2ZTg2ZTowNDIzYjgxZi03NDc4LTQxY2MtYWE1OS00ZGJmODAxY2ExNTY=.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
5. ANDREW STRATFORD
Stratford befriended a teenage girl on a gaming platform, sending explicit messages and asking for photos and videos before abusing her. The 36-year-old of Huddersfield — who also uses the name Summers was sentenced to seven years, eight months at Northampton Crown Court for three counts of sexual activity with a child and three of possessing indecent images. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
![Security staff caught the pair, both from Ireland, trying to sneak bags of cocaine into a Northampton nightclub in June. Zabka, aged 32, was sentenced to 28 months and 25-year-old Wierzchowska to a year after pleading guilty at Northampton Crown Court.](https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjRmOGZhMGE0LTEzYTUtNDVmNC1hYzYzLThlOGM3YjFiMTUyMjo0NThlMDlmZi0yNDNiLTRlYmItOTM1My0yY2Y1MmUzYjA4ZmY=.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
6. MARCIN ZABKA and ALEKSANDRA WIERZCHOWSKA
Security staff caught the pair, both from Ireland, trying to sneak bags of cocaine into a Northampton nightclub in June. Zabka, aged 32, was sentenced to 28 months and 25-year-old Wierzchowska to a year after pleading guilty at Northampton Crown Court. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
![The 43-year-old former drug addict, who turned to booze after being released from prison in 2021, had already stolen five bottles from Tesco in Corby before trying his luck in Morrisons — cutting the neck of a shopworker trying to stop him with a Stanley knife and threatening a security guard with an axe. He pleaded guilty and was jailed at Northampton Crown Court and told an indeterminate Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence in 2007 for violent shop robberies involving a gun and a machete, means he is unlikely to ever be released.
He is thought to be one of around 600 British prisoners who served a decade or more over their IPP original minimum tariff.
The 43-year-old had been released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years inside for a minimum three-year sentence imposed by Leicester Crown Court for the two robberies which netted him just £16 to feed his drug addiction.](https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjM1NzAzMzI0LTk3YjktNDJjYy05YjVlLWQzZWY1MmI0ZWMyNDpiMjA2MGE0NC02N2RmLTRmMjYtOGJkOS0wODI1ZGZlZjFkZWY=.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
7. BRIAN FOLEY
The 43-year-old former drug addict, who turned to booze after being released from prison in 2021, had already stolen five bottles from Tesco in Corby before trying his luck in Morrisons — cutting the neck of a shopworker trying to stop him with a Stanley knife and threatening a security guard with an axe. He pleaded guilty and was jailed at Northampton Crown Court and told an indeterminate Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence in 2007 for violent shop robberies involving a gun and a machete, means he is unlikely to ever be released. He is thought to be one of around 600 British prisoners who served a decade or more over their IPP original minimum tariff. The 43-year-old had been released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years inside for a minimum three-year sentence imposed by Leicester Crown Court for the two robberies which netted him just £16 to feed his drug addiction. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
![Drug dealer Brown was sentenced to five years, four months after a package from Jamaica containing cocaine worth up to £11,000 hidden in T-shirts was intercepted at East Midlands Airport in 2020. Police investigations revealed two similar packages had previous got through and raided Brown's home in St James' Northampton — finding weapons including knives and machetes, scales and mobile phones which linked the 35-year-old to heroin and cocaine dealing.](https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjZiMWM4MmUxLTljY2QtNDI0Ny1hNzY5LTU4ZWU5ZGNiZWNiMTpkMzczZTEyNS02N2YzLTRkYjYtYjliMi1mZGQxZGI3ZjlhZWU=.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
8. AUNDRAY BROWN
Drug dealer Brown was sentenced to five years, four months after a package from Jamaica containing cocaine worth up to £11,000 hidden in T-shirts was intercepted at East Midlands Airport in 2020. Police investigations revealed two similar packages had previous got through and raided Brown's home in St James' Northampton — finding weapons including knives and machetes, scales and mobile phones which linked the 35-year-old to heroin and cocaine dealing. Photo: Northamptonshire Police