Here's the faces of a handful of Northamptonshire's biggest thugs, crooks and sex offenders all now detained at Her Majesty's pleasure after being sentenced during May.
They include jealous Radu Stavrache who beat his girlfriend in the street and then threatened to "send guys after her" if she didn't retract a statement she gave to police about the attack.
A judge at Northampton Crown Court jailed him jailed for 12 months for witness intimidation and common assault.
Andrew Shortland, 56, got four-and-a-half years after making a bogus claim for more than £8,000 in damages from the victim of a harassment case which saw him sent down in 2016
And drug dealer Brett James Franks 'cuckooed' a vulnerable man’s home to sell heroin and crack cocaine — and is now serving seven years.
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Dale Bates, 44, beat his “best friend” and left him for dead in his Northampton home in June 2020. Bates called 999 after finding Andrew Pomroy, 53, dead three days following a fight — which a post mortem showed left the victim which a smashed jaw, fractures to the throat and severe brain damage. Bates was jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of manslaughter.
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Owen Stewart was drunk and on drugs when he stabbed one man with a kitchen knife and punched another after finding his former girlfriend "in her nightdress" after letting himself into at a Northampton house. The 55-year-old — with previous for 69 offences including aggravated burglary and GBH — was jailed for five years plus an extended license of three years.
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Jealous Radu Stavrache beat his girlfriend in the street and then threatened to "send guys after her" if she didn't retract a statement she gave to police about the attack. Stavrache, 24, of Stockley Street, Northampton, was jailed for 12 months for witness intimidation and common assault.
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Simon Chapman, 55, denied an unprovoked assault in a Kettering pub in 2019 but was found guilty of GBH after a jury's five-hour deliberation. Chapman, of Burton Latimer, seven years and two months