Christmas 2021 wasn’t quite the same for this bunch of killers, rapists, child abusers, drug dealers, thugs and thieves.
Not this year, not next year... nor for many years to come.
All of them were jailed during the year just ending and received some of the heaviest sentences handed down by judges at Northampton and other crown courts.
All of them were jailed during the year just ending and received some of the heaviest sentences handed down by judges at Northampton and other crown courts.
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Drug baron STEPHEN HUNT, aged 60, led an organised crime gang smuggling heroin into the UK from his home in the Northamptonshire village of Great Oxendon. He was jailed for more than ten years earlier this month for detectives cracked plans to import more than 90 kilos of Class A narcotics a week.
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RICHIRO RIVIERE-FREDERICK started running two drugs lines in Northamptonshire aged just 18. Now 21, he started a nine-year stretch in January after police found 159 wraps of crack cocaine hidden in McDonald's packaging.
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MARTIN TWORT was jailed for 12 years earlier this month after being convicted of raping a woman at knifepoint near Northampton in 2012. The 31-year-old was convicted after detectives identified his DNA on routine swabs taken during a routine investigation in Norfolk.
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A judge labelled Northampton paedophile KEVIN CANNON "extremely dangerous" as he jailed him for more than 20 years in February after the 57-year-old was found guilty of child sex offences.