These are the 15 faces of a murderer, domestic abusers, drug dealers and a fraudster who were by judges at Northampton Crown Court during September 2023…
5. Ardit Shkodra, Emmanuel Marku, Dodi Lleshi, Jack Lovesy, Lee Carmichael
Shkodra (top, left) cannabis farms were discovered in Northampton.
According to police, the gang produced and supplied wholesale quantities of cannabis to other gangs in Northamptonshire, the West Midlands and London.
All the defendants were seen visiting Shkodra’s address in Baronson Gardens which was used as a ‘safe house’ to store goods. More drugs were found in Balfour Road, Bective Road, Reynard Way and Craven Street.
Among the others jailed for up to seven-and-a-half years were Marku (top, centre), aged 29, and 31-year-old Lleshi (top, right), both of Hardy Drive, Hardingstone; Lovesy (bottom, left), aged 38, of Bowden Road, St James and 42-year-old Carmichael (bottom, right) of Lingfield Walk, Corby, Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. William Michael Ronald Turner
A row over a social media conversation ended with a man needing emergency surgery on horrific facial injuries after a brutal beating. Northampton Crown Court heard how Corby thug William Michael Ronald Turner, 34, rowed with his girlfriend then turned on a pal who tried to intervene.
Turner, of Oakley Road, admitted assault by beating and grievous bodily harm, and sentenced to two years. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
7. Kyle Beirne
The Rushden drug dealer, aged 20, was caught with class A substances worth £2,000 in his underpants after a tip-off by locals.
Using the pretext of walking a dog he had been selling drugs from an alleyway. A stop and search found he had £1,522.10 in cash and two phones. A strip search in custody later found 25 packets of cocaine, 43 wraps of crack cocaine and 31 of heroin – with an estimated street value of around £2,000 – in his underpants.
Beirne, of Slaters Close, was sentenced to a total of 30 months in a young offenders’ institution. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
8. Salvatore Sortino
The Kettering 24-year-old was jailed after one of the most serious domestic abuse cases magistrates had ever seen.
Salvatore Sortino slapped his ex-partner and spat at her in a campaign of harassment that lasted for more than a year following the end of their relationship. He called and texted his victim more than 300 times a day, turned up at her home, her workplace and even her friend’s house to threaten her with violence.
Even after he was charged and remanded in custody he continued to harass her from prison.
Sortino was guilty of harassment with fear of violence encompassing three assaults, malicious communications and witness intimidation and sentenced to three years, five months at Northampton Crown Court. Photo: Northamptonshire Police