These are 23 faces of just a few of the criminals who spent Christmas locked up and behind bars and whose stories we bought you during December after they were convicted of committing crimes in Northamptonshire…
5. Philip Moore
Moore and Garfield Stone were jailed after a man and a woman were robbed and assaulted in a brutal late-night attack in Kettering town centre in May this year. Stone, of West Street, was sentenced to 15 weeks in prison in November and Moore, formerly of Nene Road, Burton Latimer, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment this month. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. Gevin Pasha
The 22-year-old was sentenced to 11 years for his part in a double kidnapping where two men were grabbed in a car park in Reading as part of a blackmail plot, driven to Northampton and held captive in a bedsit for five days before police found them at an address in Hunter Street in December 2021. One of the victims had injuries consistent with cigarette burns to his hands and reported being attacked with weapons and starved of food.
Pasha, of Gray Street, Northampton, was found guilty at Reading Crown Court of two counts of false imprisonment and one count each of conspiracy to blackmail, conspiracy to kidnap and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was sentenced alongside three others from London, Reading and East Sussex. Photo: Thames Valley Police
7. Scott Palmer
The 21-year-old, also known as Scott Tarry, was jailed after admitting child sexual offences, including rape. According to Northamptonshire Police, Palmer, previously of Gloucester Crescent, was charged after a child reported the historic abuse and sentenced to three years, four months. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
8. Sean Christopher Prosser
Drug dealer Prosser was jailed after a quick-thinking police officer who borrowed a bike to take him in Northampton’s Beckett’s Park. The 28-year-old, of no fixed abode, tried to flee after a member of the public reported a suspected drug deal in the town centre.
Prosser admitted two counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs, escaping from lawful custody, acquiring/using/possessing criminal property, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, and being concerned in the supply of heroin at Northampton Crown Court and was sentenced to three years, eight months in December. Photo: Northamptonshire Police