Many people have simply loved the festivities of Christmas at house with our family members, however there have been a variety of villains in Kent who spent Yuletide season behind bars.
Here is simply among the killers, robbers, shoplifters, drug seller and perverts who had been locked up in December.
Ion Dragomir and Ionut Merchez
A pair of drug sellers began jail sentences after cocaine, £1,000 money and a pretend gun had been discovered inside a locked secure.
Officers pulled over a BMW again in March which they suspected for use within the provide of medication.
Driver Ion Dragomir was searched and located to be carrying two cellphones, 5 luggage of cocaine and £200 in money.
He was arrested however claimed to not know his house handle, which inquiries later found to be in Sheals Crescent in Maidstone.
Officers went to go looking the constructing and located Ionut Merchez inside, who stated all the things in the home belonged to him and officers discovered a locked secure which contained 150 grams of cocaine, round £1,000 in money and a pretend firearm.
Merchez was arrested and later charged with caring within the provide of cocaine whereas Dragomir was charged with possessing Class A medicine with intent to provide and driving with out a licence and insurance coverage.
Merchez and Dragomir, of Alexandra Road, Maidstone each pleaded responsible at Maidstone Crown Courtroom.
Merchez, 29, was jailed for 4 years and 4 months which included 12 months’ imprisonment for breaching a suspended sentence and Dragomir, 22, was sentenced to 2 years and 4 months.
Charles Donte-Lauder
A courageous lone girl informed a masked robber within the midst of a violent crime-wave to “**** off” earlier than wrestling him off her.
She was considered one of three of Charles Donte-Lauder’s victims when he focused individuals in Ashford.
As a part of his crime-spree, the 25-year-old robbed a person at knife-point – as a result of he wished to purchase a burger at McDonalds.
However the father-of-one, who lived within the city, was arrested shortly after revealing his identification on the fast-food chain’s CCTV.
Donte-Lauder was locked up for six years after showing at Canterbury Crown Courtroom final month.
Choose Rupert Lowe informed Donte-Lauder his robberies centred on individuals the thug “noticed as delicate touches, girls on their very own of a sure age whose purses you thought you could possibly simply steal.
“(One sufferer) informed you fairly rightly to f*** off,” the decide stated.
The court docket heard as she wrestled him away he kicked her within the leg after which fled empty-handed however the thief would snatch the purse of a lady believed to be in her 70s moments later, knocking her over.
Karl Brazier-Denning
A thief who admitted stealing from Tesco, Morrisons and Peacocks to fund his drug behavior was locked up.
Karl Brazier-Denning, 28, swiped virtually £250 value of things from six outlets within the Margate space between October 14 and November 23.
He appeared earlier than magistrates in Folkestone final month the place he pleaded responsible to 6 shoplifting offences.
The court docket additionally heard his heroin dependancy has price him his job, his house and his girlfriend.
He was on a suspended sentence when he carried out the offences after being given the suspended time period in March for related issues.
Brazier-Denning, who gave a care-of handle as Millmead Highway, Dane Valley, Margate, when he appeared at Folkestone Magistrates’ Courtroom, had managed to go away the shops with all the products he stole. He was recognized later through CCTV photos.
Magistrates determined to activate a part of his suspended sentence and jailed him for 160 days for breaching the sentence and he was additionally jailed for 60 days for all of the shoplifting offences so will serve 220 days in jail.
He was additionally ordered to pay £138.38p compensation to Tesco, £65 to Peacocks and £40 to Morrisons.
Dorjan Stafa
A person who tried to go away the nation with a considerable amount of money and pretend paperwork was given jail time.
Dorjan Stafa was arrested on the Channel Tunnel terminal close to Folkestone in Could 2019 after officers turned suspicious of his behaviour.
The Mercedes Stafa was driving was searched and police discovered round £8,800 in money, two new iPhones and identification paperwork within the names of different individuals.
The 36-year-old was unable to correctly account for the cash and an investigation discovered proof he was working for a gaggle who equipped pretend paperwork.
He was charged with and later admitted conspiring to facilitate a breach of UK immigration regulation.
Stafa of Ramsay Highway, Forest Gate in East London was jailed for 4 years and 7 months at Canterbury Crown Courtroom.
Det Con Alex Milward, Kent Police’s investigating officer, stated: “The cash and the paperwork seized from Stafa’s automotive would in any other case be helping prison networks within the UK and overseas.
“The vigilance of our group on the UK border is a part of our relentless work to disrupt these teams’ exercise and defend the general public.”
Kai Austen
A teenage drug seller rammed a police automotive whereas making an attempt to flee from officers, forcing an harmless passer-by to flee to security.
Kai Austen, from Tunbridge Wells, narrowly averted hitting a member of the general public when he was making an attempt to evade police in his white Vary Rover in December final yr.
The 19-year-old was wished in reference to a number of medicine provide offences within the city after DNA matched him to packages containing hashish and cocaine.
Nonetheless, after being arrested and bailed, he breached his bail situations and police had been on the look out for him and traced him to an space in Hastings Highway, Flimwell, Sussex, the place the incident occurred.
He managed to weave previous a few autos earlier than colliding with a police automotive and forcing a member of the general public to run to security, in complete, he precipitated injury to a few police autos.
Austen, of Summervale Highway, was ultimately detained after officers used batons to smash a automotive window and disable the engine.
He pleaded responsible at Maidstone Crown Courtroom to 2 counts of caring within the provide of medication, 4 expenses for possession with intent to provide medicine, harmful driving, three counts of assault on emergency employees, three counts of prison injury, and possessing a knife in a public place.
Austen was sentenced to a few years and 6 months’ in jail at a younger offender establishment.
Lisa Bowden
A pregnant girl was despatched to jail after driving her automotive at her sister in a rage – and her mum thanked the decide.
Cocaine-fuelled Lisa Bowden was concerned in a row with youthful sister Jade on December 14 final yr after a bust-up over a person.
The livid 33-year-old mum-of-two acquired into her automotive after telling her sibling “I’ll kill you” after which driving at her.
Maidstone Crown Courtroom heard how Jade was struck within the leg by the automotive – which had Lisa’s youngsters inside – earlier than being driving away.
Jade suffered a fracture and bruising after being catapulted over the bonnet and revealed later she feared she was going to die.
The incident was caught on CCTV and proven to Choose Oliver Saxby KC which confirmed she was virtually injured by one other passing automotive.
Bowden, of Wiltshire Shut, Stone, Dartford, who was 16 weeks pregnant on the time she was sentenced, had admitted expenses of illegal wounding, driving underneath the affect of cocaine and with out insurance coverage.
She was jailed for 18 months, however after being led away to start her sentence, a lady within the public gallery stood up and informed the decide: “I’m her mum and you probably did the fitting factor.”
To learn extra of our in depth protection of the entire main trials popping out of crown and magistrates’ courts throughout the county, click on right here.
To see who was locked up in October, click on right here.
Danny Brown
A medicine trafficker helped investigators uncover his personal organised crime group by sending an image of his canine that included his companion’s telephone quantity on its tag.
Danny Brown, from Bromley, was working with co-conspirator Stefan Baldauf on a plot to ship 448 kilos of MDMA value £45 million to Australia in a digger.
He despatched the image of his pet canine Bob to Baldauf on the encrypted communications platform EncroChat, utilizing the deal with “throwthedice”.
Nationwide Crime Company investigators had been capable of zoom in on the picture to see the telephone quantity and so they used it, amongst different ways, in an investigation to show Brown was a part of the conspiracy.
Brown, 55, and Baldauf, 62, additionally despatched unintentional selfies of themselves on Encrochat, which gave investigators further proof they had been concerned within the plan, which noticed the medicine hidden within the arm of an industrial digger and shipped to Australia.
In a single message, Brown despatched a photograph to his crime group of his tv which confirmed his reflection in it.
EncroChat ended up being taken down in 2020.
Brown, of Kings Corridor Highway in Bromley, and Baldauf had been convicted at Kingston Crown Courtroom of medication trafficking and final month, Brown was locked up for 26 years and Baldauf, of Midhurst Highway, in Ealing, for 28.
Anthony Chiri
A “sick” knife-wielding trucker repeatedly stabbed fellow drivers after a soccer match in a terrifying ordeal at a lorry park.
Frenzied Anthony Chiri charged at colleagues earlier than unleashing a horrifying flurry of violence on the Ashford Worldwide Truckstop in Sevington.
The 33-year-old had rowed with drivers he had fallen out with earlier than arming himself with the blade.
Chiri, a French nationwide, was jailed for 11-and-a-half years final month at Canterbury Crown Courtroom, the place particulars of the assault emerged.
The trucker arrived on the web site on Could 20 this yr earlier than confronting colleagues watching soccer inside a restaurant, the court docket heard.
Throughout a row, Chiri was knocked over, prompting him to put in wait underneath a trailer armed with a blade, and a few minute later he got here out and charged in direction of (one driver) and Geoffrey Telliez.
Mr Telliez reached into the cab of his lorry and grabbed a jack which he hoped to make use of to defend himself, however as he rotated Chiri stabbed him in the fitting shoulder with the knife after which within the arm, however Mr Telliez parried additional blows because the thug aimed the knife in direction of his abdomen and again, Mr Telliez then ran to safety for assist.
One other trucker, Elvis Flahaut, confronted Chiri, saying: “What are you doing to my mate? Are you sick?” and Chiri replied: “Would you like me to do the identical to you?”, earlier than swinging the jack into Mr Flahaut’s jaw, knocking him to the bottom.
Aturas Kurpis
A drunk and violent thug who stabbed a person to demise after an argument in a restaurant was jailed for all times and can serve no less than 21 years.
Aturas Kurpis was tracked down and arrested in Dartford after killing Paulius Karalius final yr.
Mr Karalius was visiting his girlfriend in east London, once they went out to a restaurant with associates.
Kurpis, 39, was additionally on the restaurant and commenced stealing the microphone from a singer and behaving badly earlier than he was informed to go away by Mr Karalius and his associates.
Minutes later Kurpis, of St Anne’s Row, Limehouse, rang the restaurant, requested to be on speaker telephone, earlier than threatening to stab Mr Karalius.
After arming himself with a kitchen knife from his close by flat he confronted Mr Karalius as he left his companion’s house and stabbed him as soon as within the chest. He underwent emergency coronary heart surgical procedure however died six days later.
Mr Karalius’ associates fought with Kurpis and took the kitchen knife off him. Kurpis then made his means again to his flat and known as police saying he had been assaulted, however was later arrested in Dartford and charged with homicide.
He was jailed for all times on the Outdated Bailey final month and should serve 21 years earlier than he is thought-about for launch.
Sherrie-Ann Hunt
A pregnant girl who dealt medicine and shoplifted to fund her heroin dependancy was jailed.
Sherrie-Ann Hunt, 41, of Folkestone, turned hooked on unlawful substances after being exploited by a former companion in her 20s.
She was locked up for 18 months final month after turning to petty crime to feed her behavior.
She focused Lidl, Wilko, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer in her house city, stealing meat joints, cosmetics, home goods and wonder merchandise to promote on the black market between February and September.
Showing at Canterbury Crown Courtroom, Hunt, who left the care system aged 17, handed the decide a notice describing her struggles all through her life.
Her most up-to-date criminality positioned her in breach of a suspended sentence order, handed down after she bought a wrap of cocaine to an undercover detective in 2019.
Prosecutor Oliver Kirk stated: “The defendant entered varied outlets, stole gadgets value within the area of £60 to £100, and left with out paying, all issues had been admitted on the earliest alternative.”
In the course of the listening to, she appeared trying “visibly wholesome” within the dock, having been held on remand at HMP Bronzefield for 2 months, whereas working to battle her dependancy issues.
David Fuller
A double killer who sexually abused the our bodies of greater than 100 girls and women in hospital mortuaries was sentenced for additional wicked acts.
David Fuller, 68, is already serving two complete life sentences for the murders of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in two separate assaults in Tunbridge Wells, in 1987.
However final month Fuller was additionally sentenced on the Outdated Bailey for additional expenses referring to sexual offences dedicated in a mortuary setting.
After being linked to the murders in 2020, police uncovered the systematic sexual abuse of the corpses of females aged between 9 and 100 on the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Pembury, the place he had labored since 1989.
An examination of Fuller’s pc exhausting drive at his house in Heathfield, East Sussex, revealed 818,051 photos and 504 movies of his abuse in addition to proof of his “persistent curiosity in rape, abuse and homicide of girls”.
Similtaneously pleading responsible to the murders, Fuller was given concurrent sentences totalling 12 years in respect of sexual offences in opposition to 78 deceased females at mortuaries in Tunbridge Wells Hospital and on the former Kent and Sussex Hospital.
Since then, a Kent and Essex Severe Crime Directorate investigation has offered proof of an extra 23 victims, making a complete of 101 deceased females abused in these mortuary settings, between 2005 and 2020.
He was sentenced to 4 extra years in jail after pleading responsible to sexually abusing the our bodies of 23 extra girls aged between 45 and 92 – 10 of whom have by no means been recognized.
Sinan Kizil
A drug seller was jailed after 58 luggage of cocaine value £2,280 had been seized from his resort room.
Sinan Kizil was stopped after police recognised his automotive whereas on patrol in Tunbridge Wells.
On January 4, officers in Mount Ephraim noticed a Mini decelerate and cease and because the constables had beforehand seen the automobile getting used throughout a suspected drug deal, they stopped to talk to the driving force, Kizil.
The 31-year-old claimed it was his first go to to the city and that he was looking for someplace to remain.
He was searched underneath the Misuse of Medication Act and officers discovered a bag containing cocaine from his pocket in addition to a door card from a close-by resort.
Kizil was arrested and, when the officers searched his room, 58 luggage of cocaine had been seized from a sock inside a suitcase.
The cocaine was estimated to have a road worth of £2,280 and Kizil, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was charged with possessing Class A medicine with intent to provide.
He pleaded responsible at Maidstone Crown Courtroom and final month and was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months.
Nitesh Bissendary
A “disgraceful” drug-driver who killed a father and his pregnant daughter earlier than fleeing the scene as his victims lay dying was jailed for 16 years.
Yoram Hirshfeld, 81, and Noga Sella, 37, died when Nitesh Bissendary’s automotive mounted a pavement and hit a family-of-five in Ramsgate in August.
Throughout his trial at Canterbury Crown Courtroom, Bissendary, 31, denied inflicting their deaths by harmful driving.
However final month jurors returned unanimous responsible verdicts after deliberating for 4 hours and eight minutes.
After the verdicts had been delivered, Bissendary might be seen sitting down within the dock, taking deep breaths.
He returned to the identical court docket for sentencing the following day, when he was handed the 16-year jail time period.
Choose Simon James informed him he had proven “restricted regret” following his “blatant disregard for others”.
Bissendary, of Highlands Glade in Manston, was discovered responsible of two counts of inflicting demise by harmful driving and two counts of inflicting severe damage by harmful driving.
Peter Norman
A thug threw his girlfriend’s pet throughout a room, tried to strangle her and knocked a double-amputee out of his wheelchair throughout a drunken rage.
Peter Norman, 36, was given an prolonged jail sentence of 56 months following the outburst of violence, which occurred as he was consuming in Queenborough, Sheppey.
Maidstone Crown Courtroom heard he and his girlfriend – who he had been with for 3 years regardless of a historical past of home abuse – had been at Steve Andrews’ house on October 25, consuming together with two others.
Ben Wild, prosecuting stated: “Norman turned more and more aggressive, at one level at Mr Andrews and was asking for £6,000.”
Norman’s girlfriend later went to sleep, however was woken up as Mr Andrews – who’s a double amputee – noticed the thug hit her eight-month-old pet.
The defendant – now of Guisborough in North Yorkshire, however previously from Queenborough – then known as Mr Andrews a cripple and a s*****c.
Norman started scuffling along with his girlfriend and hit her head in opposition to a radiator, which precipitated her to vomit and he additionally tried to strangle her and he or she was then thrown to the ground and Mr Andrews was then thrown out of his wheelchair.
Norman, who admitted deliberately strangulation, assault and inflicting pointless struggling to an animal, obtained an instantaneous 32-month jail sentence and can spend one other two years on licence when he’s launched.
Barney Buttifint
A dad-of-five making ready for the collapse of society by hoarding weapons and tinned meals underneath floorboards was locked up.
When police raided Barney Buttifint’s Dover house they unearthed an arsenal of knives, bow and arrows and 17 legally held weapons housed in a secret room.
A sawn-off shotgun, illegally held pistol chamber and illicit cache of bullets had been additionally discovered on the Lascelles Highway property in July.
Police had been satisfied the 36-year-old configured his house in preparation for a sustained gun combat with officers – full with vantage and choking factors.
In addition they painstakingly combed the house – plunged into darkness with a accomplice flag and rugs draped in home windows – for 2 days whereas trying to find booby traps.
Kent Police would quickly cost Buttifint for the unlawful weapons and bullets on the premise he was planning a shoot-out with officers – a considerable aggravating issue within the eyes of the regulation.
However a decide at Canterbury Crown Courtroom threw out the police’s allegations and located Buttifint had no plans for a siege and as an alternative discovered he was “one thing of a Prepper” – a part of a fringe neighborhood making ready for social dysfunction or pure catastrophe.
Handing down a five-year and 10-month sentence, Choose Mark Weekes informed Buttifint: “The explanation the regulation takes such a severe view is a firearm resembling that (the sawn-off shotgun) is a really harmful one. That kind of weapon is ceaselessly utilized by criminals.”
Harrison Langford
A pervert drove 100 miles to satisfy up and have intercourse with a schoolgirl after seducing her on-line, a court docket heard.
Paedophile Harrison Langford left his house in Milton Keynes to satisfy up with {the teenager} who he had groomed after assembly her through a chatroom.
The 28-year-old had booked a resort room in Maidstone for a intercourse session, which included spanking and choking his shy sufferer.
A decide heard how a buddy of the sufferer alerted her mother and father, and the intercourse fiend – who had secretly trawled chatrooms to search for youngsters – was arrested by police nonetheless mendacity on his resort mattress.
Choose Oliver Saxby KC stated: “One can solely think about the ideas going by way of the mom’s head as she tried in useless to make contact together with her daughter.
“Pushed by a warped sexual urge for food, which you had been able to controlling however selected to not, you inflicted each mum or dad’s worst nightmare, inflicting incalculable injury in your sufferer.”
Langford, of King Road, Milton Keynes who labored in advertising and marketing and had a live-in companion, was given an instantaneous five-year jail sentence and informed he should serve two-thirds earlier than he could be thought-about for parole.
Choose Saxby KC then added one other three years which he’ll serve on licence when he’s launched.
Billy Brazil
A joy-riding jewelry thief crashed right into a police automotive throughout a high-speed chase throughout varied cities after swiping gold value £11k.
The criminal satisfied jewellers handy over luxurious gadgets in Sittingbourne and Herne Bay, after claiming to be searching for his spouse.
Billy Brazil, 31, then fled the shops with jewels, forward of stealing and crashing his new girlfriend’s Renault Clio, throughout a separate stunt.
Brazil, of Sittingbourne, was jailed for 20 months at Canterbury Crown Courtroom final month, the place the prosecution laid out its case.
He tried on a £4k belcher chain in Battrum & Son in Sittingbourne Excessive Road in June, “seemed within the mirror then ran out of the shop,” prosecutor Harry Hewitt stated.
The store’s CCTV confirmed Brazil fleeing with the chain round his neck – he was arrested the identical day however quickly launched.
It could be longer than two months earlier than Brazil raised the stakes, when he set his sights on M & M Jewellers in Mortimer Road, Herne Bay.
He requested to view a 14 carat diamond cluster ring, value £7.5k, then requested the shopkeeper if he might attempt one other, however ran out of the store with the diamond ring, neither merchandise was ever recovered.
Sebastian Birzu
A bully was jailed after attacking his companion with a frying pan leaving her in a coma for six days.
Sebastian Birzu and the sufferer had been residing collectively in a flat in Heath Road in Dartford when he beat her with the cast-iron utensil.
He alerted a relative who got here to the flat together with ambulance crews and police claiming the lady had fallen and banged her head on a radiator.
The girl was taken to hospital with a number of cranium fractures after the assault on March 19.
The 23-year-old had left the scene by the point officers arrived however was arrested the following day at a property in Greenwich.
He was charged with inflicting grievous bodily hurt with intent and was remanded in custody.
Birzu appeared earlier than Woolwich Crown Courtroom final month the place he pleaded not responsible however was convicted following a trial and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
After sentencing, Det Insp Adam Marshall stated: “Birzu confessed his crimes to relations overseas however continued with lies to police that the sufferer was solely injured after falling and hitting her head on a radiator.”
Abdul Malik
A “frenzied” takeaway employee who tried murdering his terrified sufferer throughout a sexual encounter was jailed for 28 years.
Abdul Malik, 29, repeatedly stabbed and slit the screaming man’s throat after luring him contained in the bed room of his Dymchurch house.
Malik’s brave sufferer – who managed to flee the sustained knife assault – watched as his attacker was jailed at Canterbury Crown Courtroom final month.
A jury unanimously convicted Malik in October after listening to he silently inflicted 12 knife wounds, together with to the genitalia, on the night of January 11.
Choose Simon James informed Malik he was “remorseless” and his actions “frenzied, persistent and extended”.
“You produced an 18 centimetre bladed kitchen knife and with none warning or motive you slashed your sufferer’s throat, earlier than repeatedly slashing and stabbing his physique,” he added.
Beforehand, Malik’s sufferer gave jurors a blow-by-blow account of how he escaped the blood-soaked room.
After grabbing his coat containing his telephone and automotive keys, he ran previous Malik’s housemates gathered on the touchdown and fell down a flight of stairs, however managed to wrestle to his automobile and known as 999, earlier than he crashed into close by railings.
Thomas and George Mcraye
A safety officer – who tackled two brothers who had been consuming in a on line casino – was praised by a decide.
The sufferer confronted the 2 who had been ordered out of a on line casino in Week Road, Maidstone however refused.
Throughout a confrontation with Thomas and George Mcraye , the guard managed to land a punch and likewise evade two knife lunges.
Mr Tumana’s actions had been recommended by the decide who stated he had proven “appreciable bravery”.
Thomas, 38, and George, 34, of no mounted handle, had been every jailed for 3 years and 4 months after admitting making an attempt to trigger grievous bodily hurt.
Prosecutor John Conner informed Maidstone Crown Courtroom how the brothers had been each consuming alcohol “which is one thing that’s not speculated to occur.”
Maxim Rowan-Moy
A “disgusting predator” has been jailed after sexually assaulting a 15-year-old woman.
The assault occurred when each had been on a prepare to Rochester as Maxim Rowan-Moy tried to ply {the teenager} with alcohol.
On March 26 at 7.45pm the sufferer was sat ready for a prepare at Dover Priory station when she was approached by Rowan-Moy.
He requested the place she was travelling to earlier than they boarded a prepare collectively and sat subsequent to at least one one other.
On the prepare, he provided her a bottle of vodka to drink. He then moved nearer to her and sexually assaulted her, she then acquired up and tried to maneuver away from him as he adopted her down the carriage and sat subsequent to her once more.
He then continued to sexually assault her, violently making an attempt to drag her nearer to him and persistently touching her inappropriately, when the prepare arrived at Rochester, the police had been alerted and he was arrested.
The 32-year-old, of Eglinton Hill, Plumstead, appeared at Inside London Crown Courtroom in November the place he pleaded responsible to 4 counts of sexual assault, one rely of assault, and a public order offence for threatening behaviour.
Final month, Rowan-Moy was sentenced to 30 months and handed a five-year Sexual Hurt Prevention Order.
Ben Hanger
A person who tried to kidnap a schoolgirl was arrested after she screamed and ran away from him.
Ben Hanger focused the 11-year-old in Midway Highway in Sheerness in January 2021.
However when he grabbed her by the arm, she screamed and pulled herself free earlier than operating to her grandmother’s.
Now, the 31-year-old of St Agnes Gardens, Sheerness has been given a 15-year prolonged jail sentence for tried kidnap.
