Drug dealers, thieves, sex offenders, drink-drivers and a man who went on a month-long shoplifting spree have been jailed in Northamptonshire during February 2022.
These are some of criminals who operated in Northampton, Corby, Kettering and Rushden who were jailed by courts during February 2022.
This list is not exhaustive but a compilation of a handful of the most serious examples of criminality in our county where the long arm of the law caught up with offenders — in one case despite him fleeing all the way to Germany.
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Thief GAVIN APPLEYARD, 43, was jailed for two years, eight months after admitting burglary and stealing from a motor vehicle on Kettering’s Ise Lodge estate in January this year.
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Arsonist JEREMY KIRK PARCELL set his partner’s bedroom on fire while she was asleep following a row. The 41-year-old took a lighter to curtains of a bedroom in Wallbeck Close in September 2021 but a smoke alarm prevented any injuries. alerted went off with the fire quickly put out and no one getting injured. Parcell was jailed for four years with an extended licence of 18 months.
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Northampton drug dealer KALIQ ALLEN, aged 20, was jailed for six years, ten months for being a key player in a county lines operation worth nearly £60,000 targeting university students in the town, Nottingham and Watford
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Daventry paedophile JAMES OSBORNE was jailed for 16 years for two counts of raping a child. The 42-year-old, of The Pyghtles, pleaded not guilty and accused the child of lying, but was found guilty by a jury following a four-day trial at Bradford Crown Court.