Here are the faces of 21 people with links to Northamptonshire who were among those jailed during July 2023. They include two men sentenced to life for murder in Northampton and Kettering, drug dealers and child sex offenders locked up for up to 20 years…
5. Renald Cela (left) and Praka Dionis
Cela and Dionis, both aged 22, were jailed for 20 months after admitting growing cannabis worth around £500,000 at a property in Northampton Road, Rushden. Officers discovered more than 500 cannabis plants and growing equipment during a raid on June 7. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. Ndricim Bulica
Albanian national Bulica was jailed after police found him with £3,560 of cocaine in his Desborough property just days after arriving in the UK from Italy.
Officers stopped Bulica, 35, driving a Ford Fiesta after witnessing what they believed to be a drug deal. A small bag of cocaine fell out of the car leading to a search which revealed 11 more bags of the drug. Further searches at his home uncovered 77 more deal bags.
Natalie Lake, in mitigation, told the court Bulica was forced into dealing to pay medical bills for himself and for his wife in Italy, who is undergoing an operation for cervical cancer. Bulica was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
7. Alfred Verri
Albanian national Verri, 21, arrived in the UK on the back of a lorry and was caught when police raided a property in Cowper Street, finding 70 cannabis plants growing in the cellar, lounge and bedrooms. Officers also seized 16 large bags of cannabis and three phones.
Daniel Green, in mitigation, told Northampton Crown Court Verri watered the plants and turned lights on and off to pay debts to those who smuggled him into the country. Verri pleaded guilty to producing Class B drugs and was sentenced to 20 months. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
8. Sebastian Wojcik
Police uncovered a string of child sex offences after the 30-year-old painter and decorator chatted online with an officer posing as someone sexually interested in children and set up a meeting at McDonald’s. Wojcik, of Gold Street, Northampton, did not show up but was arrested at his home address where officers seized phones containing sick images and videos of young children.
Wojcik pleaded guilty to four counts of engaging in sexual communication with who he believed to be children, one count of making indecent photographs of children and two counts of distributing indecent photographs of children and was sentenced to two years, one month in prison. Photo: Northamptonshire Police