Overview
- Across April, Crown Courts issued lengthy terms for sexual offences, including 20 years for historic child rape in Coventry and 16 years for a serial rapist in Merseyside.
- An organised car-key burglary gang that stole nearly £3.5 million in luxury vehicles was jailed at Worcester Crown Court, with victims including elderly people and families.
- Mitchell Lee Rogers, who kidnapped a woman off a Bristol street, received 12 years in prison plus an eight-year extended licence after admitting offences with intent to commit a sexual offence.
- A former Avon and Somerset police officer, Michael Elmer, was jailed for 13 months for making and sharing child abuse images and for faking nude images of a colleague, and he was given a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
- Kirklees Magistrates’ Court reported heavy lists from shop thefts to drink and drug driving, and a benefits fraud case was sent to Leeds Crown Court for asset seizure under the Proceeds of Crime Act.