Lots of people who committed crimes were jailed this month and are now spending time behind bars.

Here are just some of the criminals including murderers, gun smugglers, paedophiles, thieves and violent offenders who committed crimes and were locked up in November.

Leonardo Velasquez-Valencia

A burglar who was denied entry to Canada after fleeing the UK and then detained at Heathrow airport was jailed after breaking into a Sevenoaks home.

Leonardo Velasquez-Valencia was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison at Maidstone Crown Court.

The 37-year-old, who attempted to flee the country to evade capture, pleaded guilty in August to 10 counts of burglary and this was related to incidents across seven counties – including Kent, Essex, London, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire.

Kent Police’s emergency call handlers received a report of a burglary at a property near St John’s Hill just before 7.30pm on Thursday, February 8.

Before officers arrived, the suspect left the scene on foot with various items such as jewellery, cash, a laptop and a handbag and detectives were able to identify Velasquez-Valencia as the perpetrator after a forensic examination of the property recovered some DNA.

Collaborative work with other forces further revealed he was responsible for several burglaries which occurred elsewhere in the country between February 1 and March 29.

To avoid police, Velasquez-Valencia flew to Canada on Tuesday, May 25 but was refused entry for having $6,700 Canadian and US dollars on him and no valid reason for carrying a large amount of cash.

He was arrested and remanded upon his return to the UK in connection with the burglaries.

Gaberiel Gibson

A “troubled” man who was allegedly bombed, shot and stabbed during the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, was jailed for a string of violent offences against his partner.

Gaberiel Gibson appeared at Maidstone Crown Court to be sentenced after he slammed his girlfriend’s head into a car window, put a nine-inch knife to her cheek, and strangled her.

The 47-year-old from Maidstone met the woman in 2022 and things were going well until he turned abusive in January last year when they began to “argue regularly”, the court heard.

Prosecutor Jemima Lovatt explained how in April last year the couple had rowed after she found out he had more than 45 aliases which he used while living around the UK and later that day she asked him to drive her to the petrol station.

However, while doing so, he pulled over and slammed her head into the passenger window, causing excruciating pain and black eyes and on another morning the same month, his partner was in bed when he ran in and climbed on top of her while brandishing a blade and thought he was going to kill her.

Gibson, who has 41 convictions for 74 offences, including two for battery and a previous domestic violence incident in 2014, apologised but his anger got the better of him again when his partner bought a £2,000 fridge and he punched it.

Later that year he also punched her in the ribs and put her in an arm lock so she couldn’t move for a minute and put his hand around her neck for around 30 seconds so she couldn’t breathe.

He was arrested and initially denied the offences, claiming his victim had injured herself, but was later charged with strangulation, criminal damage, assault causing ABH, and threatening someone with a knife. He admitted the offences and was jailed for 20 months.

William Cosier

A drink and drug-fuelled knifeman who brutally murdered a “devoted and generous” dad-of-three outside a village pub was jailed for life.

William Cosier will serve a minimum of 25 years before he can apply for parole for the fatal stabbing of Adam Pritchard, who was described as “the light” of his parents’ lives.

Cosier, known as Billy or Bill, was said to have been “off his head” shortly before the killing, having spent several hours drinking and snorting cocaine at The Queen’s Head in Boughton-under-Blean on March 13 this year.

That night, Mr Pritchard, from Faversham, had been warned in a series of WhatsApp chats with one-time friend Craig Brabon - who was with Cosier - that if he went to the venue he would “get hurt”, and at one point, Mr Brabon, who had previously fallen out with Mr Pritchard, said he would not be able to stop Cosier if he turned up.

But Canterbury Crown Court heard at this sentencing hearing earlier this month, the 35-year-old ignored the advice, saying he wanted a beer, only to be fatally stabbed within five minutes of his arrival after walking into the bar and exchanging punches with Cosier.

Mr Pritchard retreated back outside, but it was there, after goading Cosier into the street, that the violence escalated, with Mr Pritchard firing a BB gun multiple times and Cosier plunging a knife, which he had grabbed from the pub kitchen.

He then stabbed Mr Pritchard’s ribcage to a depth of almost 23cm, causing liver and lung damage and leading to his eventual collapse and ultimately death at the roadside.

Cosier, who has previous convictions for violence and in 2017 was jailed for illegally possessing a Beretta, 20-bore shotgun, had denied murder and manslaughter, claiming to have acted in self-defence, but the 34-year-old, of Well Lane, Fordwich, was found guilty of the murder at a trial in October.

Darren Finch

A fisherman was caught on CCTV crouching behind a car before attacking an old friend with a knife after warning him “I will come for you”.

Darren Finch and Peter Gull were pals who shared an interest in fishing before things turned sour between the pair, leading to a confrontation in Sheerness in February.

Finch, of Coronation Road in the same town, spotted Mr Gull walking down Richmond Street and was then seen on CCTV pulling his car over, getting out and crouching behind a vehicle and moments later the 50-year-old, who was wearing a red body warmer, leapt out and grabbed the victim before a short scuffle ensued.

Mr Gull managed to wriggle free and ran off, but was left with a small stab wound to his back from a knife and Finch was originally arrested on suspicion of attempted murder but pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to wounding.

He also admitted a charge of sending an electronic communication to Mr Gull with intent to cause distress or anxiety and Maidstone Crown Court, heard how Finch believed his old friend owed him money and messaged him on Facebook saying: “I’m gonna f***ing hurt you Peter. I will come for you.”

Judge Philip Statman sentenced Finch to 12 months in prison for the wounding offence and three months for the communication offence – both to run concurrently.

But having spent seven months and 24 days in custody already, the judge said he would likely be released within days.

A restraining order was put in place for Finch not to get in contact with his victim or the victim’s wife for five years.

Mahabeer Bahia

A drunk homeless man who followed a dog walker through a town centre late at night and tried to snatch her handbag before mugging her of her phone was jailed.

Mahabeer Bahia targeted the frightened woman in Gravesend in July this year.

At one stage she hid in a shop doorway and even called the police before a member of the public came to her aid, but unperturbed, the 30-year-old persisted with his menacing behaviour and once near the railway station, struck his victim in the face and neck as he grabbed her phone from her hand and fled.

But Bahia, who has numerous previous convictions including one for headbutting his mum, was arrested after he came back to return the mobile device.

He later admitted robbery and appeared at Maidstone Crown Court for sentencing where the judge, Recorder Clive Broe, indicated that prison was inevitable for someone who had not only caused psychological harm to his victim but continued to pose a risk to the public.

The court was told that Bahia, from Gravesend but of no fixed address, pleaded guilty but had no memory of the incident due to his intoxication.

Imposing a jail term of 20 months, the judge told the defendant: “A woman, your victim, was out walking her dog when you spoke to her and asked to speak in private and she made it clear she didn’t want to do so and you followed her and you watched her withdraw money from a cashpoint and you snatched at her bag.”

Bahia was also made subject to a two-year criminal behaviour order banning him from being drunk in public and from entering the pedestrianised area of Gravesend town centre between Milton Road and Bath Street.

Alwyn Tuttiett

A jilted dad stalked the mother of his young son with a barrage of "grossly offensive" texts, emails and calls, as well as reputation-damaging social media posts.

Alwyn Tuttiett caused serious alarm or distress to his victim over the course of eight months following their break-up.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the “obsessive “campaign against his former lover continued even after he had been arrested, warned to stop and released on police bail.

Prosecutor William McBarnet said the 47-year-old and the mum had been a couple for about 12 months when she ended the relationship in October last year due to his abusive behaviour towards her.

A number of Tuttiett's abusive communications were read to the court and in one he called his ex-girlfriend “a nasty, horrible b****”' and in another told her “Karma is going to catch up with you soon”.

The court also heard that the victim feared Tuttiett, from East Farleigh near Maidstone, would harm both her and their son, with the abuse continuing over the next few months.

Tuttiett, of Station Hill, also abused her on Facebook by leaving damaging comments about her on a photo and there were also a number of unwanted calls, including one in which he asked if she had spoken to police, as well as abusive texts, some highly sexual in nature.

He admitted stalking and was jailed for 15 months with Recorder Cairns Nelson KC saying his behaviour was aggravated by the fact some of the stalking took place in front of his child and while on bail and a five-year restraining order was issued to him which includes a exclusion zone covering much of East Farleigh, including where his boat is currently moored.

Michael Hughes

A sexual predator who got “a thrill” from preying on underage girls with explicit chats on Facebook messenger was jailed.

Michael Hughes encouraged his three victims to perform sexual acts on themselves, and to send him images of them doing so.

The 62-year-old also sent the girls photos of genitals, but unbeknown to the pervert, he was in fact communicating with online paedophile hunters who had set up fictitious ‘decoy’ profiles as part of a sting.

Following his arrest in June 2021, he candidly confessed to police that the conversations had given him a “sexual thrill”, but he also claimed that he had been simply giving “sex education” to one of the victims, and had asked another about “d**k pics” because he wanted to warn her about online dangers.

Hughes admitted multiple offences and appeared before Maidstone Crown Court which heard the offender, who was living in the Medway area at the time, groomed the three “girls”, purporting to be aged 11, 12 and 13, over a period of three months.

His explicit messages included instructions on how to masturbate, telling the 'girls' to “think of my c**k” and “think of me touching you”.

He pleaded guilty to a total of eight offences relating to attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.

Jailing Hughes for three years, Judge Gareth Branston told him custody was inevitable and said on his release, he would be subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years as well as indefinite sex offender notification requirements.

Lauchlan Pritchard

A thug who repeatedly struck two strangers with a heavy nitrous oxide canister in a late-night street attack was locked up.

A raging Lauchlan Pritchard lashed out after randomly accusing his victims of laughing at him as they sat outside a block of flats in Maidstone town centre.

One was knocked unconscious in the unprovoked assault while the other came under fire as he was chased into the road and having then walked away still brandishing the canister, Pritchard forced a frightened takeaway delivery driver to flee his car, enabling him to make his getaway before abandoning the Citroën damaged in a ditch on the A229.

The 25-year-old, who has a criminal record for violent offences dating back 12 years, was even sarcastic following his arrest when having been asked who was responsible for the relentless attack, which left one of the victims with a potentially life-threatening bleed to the brain, he smugly told police: “You're the detectives. You work it out.”

Once in court, he also tried to blame his “extreme” violence on his alcohol consumption, but as was pointed out to him as he was sentenced to more than six years behind bars, he had shown no signs of any profound intoxication as he “aimed and struck” multiple blows on his hapless victims.

The yob, of Pennine Road, Cheltenham, who has 19 previous convictions for 33 offences, including assaults, battery, possessing a bladed article, threatening behaviour and harassment, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, possessing an offensive weapon, aggravated vehicle taking and assault by beating.

Ruling that an extended sentence was needed to protect the public from any future risk, Judge Robert Lazarus handed him a sentence totalling eight years and four months and this comprises a jail term of five years and three months for the attacks, of which he must serve at least two-thirds before he can apply for parole.

Once released, he will then have two years added to any licence period.

Jack Nixon

A drunk man who killed his friend when he smashed his car into a wall had just minutes earlier proclaimed he was a “good driver” and would get his passengers “safely home”.

Jack Nixon was almost twice the legal alcohol limit, as well as over the limit for the breakdown product of cannabis, at the time of the fatal collision in Deal in the early hours of October 9, 2022.

Passengers Owen Tagg and Morgan Peay had earlier warned him to “watch out” and “sort it out” as he straddled lanes and drove on the wrong side of the road while giving the pair a lift from a night out in Canterbury, but the 27-year-old, who only held a provisional licence and also had traces of ketamine in his body, dismissed their warnings, even stopping to buy beer as they made their way home in his father's VW Polo.

Canterbury Crown Court heard he was so drunk it had taken him as many as seven attempts to negotiate the car park exit, knocking over and damaging the ticket machine in the process, but later at the crash scene, he denied he had been driving and callously remarked that he “didn't care about other people and just wanted to go to bed”.

Those “other people” also included his girlfriend Natalia Hubbard, who suffered fractures to her foot, and Mr Tagg’s childhood friend Mr Peay, who had to be airlifted to hospital with severe injuries including a perforated bowel and Mr Tagg, 21, who had recently become a father, moved house with his girlfriend and was due to start a new job just a day later, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nixon, who was 25 at the time of the incident, had been in custody since admitting charges of causing death by careless driving when over the limit, causing death when unlicensed, and two offences of causing serious injury by careless driving.

But on jailing him for nine-and-a-half years, Judge Mark Weekes also banned him from driving for 13 years and four months.

He also told Nixon he must serve two-thirds of his jail term before he is eligible for release.

Matthew Jenkins

A bus driver who groomed and sexually abused two young girls was jailed for 18 years.

One of Matthew Jenkins’ victims bravely told how she tried to take her own life and has been left with issues sleeping and eating because of his sick actions.

The 34-year-old, who admitted to having an interest in young girls, subjected both his victims to several sexual assaults over the course of six years.

He was also found to have 354 indecent images of children – including of one of the victims – on his electronic devices.

Jenkins, of St George’s Crescent, Gravesend, pleaded guilty to more than 20 charges in August, including sexual assault of a child under 13, sexual activity in front of a child and the rape of a child.

Other charges related to indecent images found on his phone following his arrest and he was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court earlier this month.

Jenkins was sentenced to 18 years in prison and ordered to serve an extended licence for eight years.

He was also handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which will remain in place until a further order and he cannot have contact with any children under the age of 16.

Riley Meadows and Andrew Brown

A drink and drug-fuelled dad slashed a man with a large machete as he and two others attempted to force their way into their victim’s flat.

Riley Meadows swiped the fearsome-looking blade at the man’s hand through a gap in the front door as one of his accomplices, Andrew Brown, wedged it open with his foot.

The terrifying raid at The Metropole in New Street, Dover, was captured on a neighbour's Ring doorbell, with the video later used to identify both men and played at Canterbury Crown Court and described as “uncomfortable viewing” which showed them arriving with a third, unidentified male who was also brandishing a smaller knife.

All three had their hoods up, with Meadows and the unknown accomplice wearing masks, gloves and dark clothing, but Brown was bare-legged in a pair of bright blue shorts and, despite claiming after his arrest that it was a case of mistaken identity, put himself firmly in the frame when he showed police a tattoo on his left ankle.

Meadows, 20, of Freemen's Way, Deal, and 32-year-old Brown, of Folkestone Road, Dover, later pleaded guilty to wounding with intent with offences of aggravated burglary and possessing an offensive weapon were left on the court file.

On passing sentence, Recorder Sarah Counsell locked Meadows up for two years and nine months and Brown for two-and-a-half years.

On hearing their custodial terms, Brown thanked the judge while Meadows smiled and gave a thumbs-up sign to his family in court.

Meadows was also told he would have to serve four months' consecutive for breaching his SSO, making a total of three years and one month.

Abbie Knight

A young woman embarked on “relentless” sexual exploitation of a vulnerable girl, filming intimate videos and exchanging thousands of explicit messages.

Abbie Knight not only encouraged the inappropriate contact knowing the victim's age and difficult personal circumstances but also became “quite controlling and jealous”.

Maidstone Crown Court heard that although it was accepted the 24-year-old had not targeted her victim in a predatory manner or had in any way threatened or forced her, she had taken advantage of the youngster's "fractured and isolated" lifestyle.

Videos of them kissing “intimately in the way partners would” and another of them lying in bed together were also created via the TikTok platform.

Knight, of Windmill Road, Gillingham, later pleaded guilty to four offences of sexual activity with a child and one of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Knight also requested photographs from the girl and would challenge her about what she was doing when they were not together and her deviant behaviour came to light when messages between them were discovered on the youngster's phone.

On jailing Knight for three years, Judge Julian Smith told her that what she had perceived as a “relationship” was what the law regarded as “sexual exploitation of a child”.

Knight was also made subject to a four-year restraining order and a 10-year sexual harm prevention order restricting contact with underage females and she must also sign on the sex offender register indefinitely and will be barred from working with children and vulnerable adults.

Andrew Bloomfield

A stalker who sent “disgusting” images of naked men to two women was jailed for more than four years.

Andrew Bloomfield from West Kingsdown targeted his victims over the span of nearly a decade.

In 2013, he started sending a woman he indirectly knew images of naked men, using sexually derogatory language and making lewd suggestions to her and he continued to send her similar material on social media using fake identities over several years, despite his victim objecting to the content.

Bloomfield targeted a second victim on social media platforms from 2016, sending her images of men’s genitals and offensive messages using around 80 false identities but the two women were acquaintances and discovered they had both been suffering the same ordeal.

Police were contacted and an investigation led to Bloomfield being arrested at his home on August 21, 2022 and his digital devices were seized and officers found evidence of his indecent behaviour towards the victims and also other women.

The 39-year-old, of Fawkham Road, was charged and pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to two counts of stalking and he was sentenced to four years and two months’ imprisonment.

He will be subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years that prohibits him from having a Facebook or Instagram account in a name other than his own.

He also has to comply with an indefinite restraining order.

Scott Chapman

The family of an “outstanding” young man who was killed when a teenager drove his motorbike on the wrong side of the road and crashed into him say his death was “like a nuclear bomb going off”.

Johb Treeby, 19, was described as the “brightest star in the sky” by his devastated mum Jill Good after the motorcyclist was sentenced earlier this month.

Appearing at Maidstone Crown Court, Scott Chapman, of Phoenix Road in Chatham, was jailed for riding an unsafe £5,000 Husqvarna TC250 off-road motorcycle directly into his victim in October 2021, on an industrial estate in Revenge Road, Lordswood.

Mr Treeby, who lived in Rochester with his family and previously went to school at King’s, Holcombe Grammar and Wouldham, suffered serious leg injuries and catastrophic blood loss at the scene of the crash and his mum rushed to the scene and spent some of her son’s last moments awake with him.

Mr Treeby, who has three brothers and a sister, was taken to hospital and declared brain dead two days later, but despite this, his heart was still pumping, with one doctor telling his distraught family he had “the heart of a lion”, but he died 12 days after the crash on November 3.

Chapman, who was 16 at the time of the crash but appeared in court as a 19-year-old was told by Judge Philip Statman that the law had changed since the offence took place but he would sentence him based on the sentencing powers at the time, which carried a maximum jail sentence of 14 years.

If the offence had taken place today, Chapman would have faced life imprisonment, but due to his age at the time and previous good character, he was locked up for three years and four months at a young offender’s institute.

He was also given a six-year and two-month driving disqualification.

Philip Goldson

A knifeman threatened to kill his neighbour in a violent and abusive confrontation over birthday party decorations.

An irate Philip Goldson had only been out of prison for less than two months and was living in Chatham when he overreacted to banging noises from the upstairs flat.

The 57-year-old, who had been released from a 12-year jail term for attacking a friend with a golf club, armed himself with the weapon, brandishing it on his doorstep at Marek Balog and the aggressive encounter then escalated and "exploded" when Mr Balog's father Jozef arrived on the scene, Maidstone Crown Court heard.

Footage filmed by another neighbour captured Goldson, of Coronation Road, once videoed racially abusing a woman in the company of her two children on a train, brandishing the knife as he ranted and swore.

Dressed in a vest and shorts, he shouted at the two frightened men: “You lot think I'm a w***er. F*** off! Call the old bill. Leave me alone you c***s! I'll kill the f***ing lot of you.“

When police arrived and went into his property, he still had the knife in his hand, but Goldson, who has 21 previous convictions for 39 offences including many for violence, later admitted making threats to kill Marek Balog and threatening him and his dad with a bladed article in a public place and he also admitted possessing cannabis which was found when police searched his home.

But on deciding Goldson was a “dangerous” offender, Recorder James Dawes KC said an extended sentence totalling five-and-a-half years was needed to protect the public from a significant risk of serious harm.

Jailing him for two-and-a-half years, with a further three years added to any licence period, the judge said he "only had himself to blame" for what happened and he was also given a six-year restraining order banning him from contacting the Balogs or going to any address where they may be living or present.

Jacob Bean

The devastated father of a 10-year-old girl groomed on Snapchat and WhatsApp by a paedophile posing as a teenage boy told a court he felt he had failed as a parent.

In a moving statement read out at the sentencing hearing of Chartham resident Jacob Bean, the dad described the damaging impact on his daughter of having been "exposed to one of the world's greatest evils."

He wrote: “As a father you never want anything bad to happen to your children. You do what you can to protect them and right now I feel like I have failed.

“My 10-year-old daughter has been exposed to one of the world’s greatest evils. We have lost our daughter, the way we knew her to be.

“She has been stripped of her innocence. She is angry and has tried to stab herself,” but added that although the conclusion of legal proceedings would not bring the family's suffering to an end, he vowed to “do my best to be there for my daughter and help her however I can”.

Canterbury Crown Court heard that Bean’s twisted behaviour with the girl included sending her child abuse videos and photos of his penis, as well as encouraging her to perform sex acts on herself and the 23-year-old also talked about rape, saying he would carry on even if told 'No' or to stop, and asked her to try to recruit her friends into watching him having sex and masturbating.

She later told police she had deleted some of their messages because she thought she would be in trouble and at the time, Bean, of Highland Road, was already under investigation for the grooming of three other underage girls - one said to be living in Germany - on Snapchat, as well as making indecent images.

He pleaded guilty to four offences of sexual communication with a child, four of making indecent images, two of attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act and causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in penetrative sexual activity and was jailed for a total of five-and-a-half years and will be subject to indefinite sex offender notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order upon his release.

To read more of our in depth coverage of all of the major trials coming out of crown and magistrates' courts across the county, click here.

To see who was locked up in October, click here.

Ashley Henry, Morgan Tinpeloo and Marvrick Elba

Knife-wielding masked raiders who subjected a family to “brutal and terrifying” violence, robbing them of £300 and three phones, were jailed for a total of more than 43 years.

Ashley Henry, Morgan Tinpeloo and Marvrick Elba terrorised their victims as they were settling down to a PlayStation game at their home in Swanscombe on November 2 last year.

CCTV had captured them arriving in Elba’s Vauxhall Vivaro work van - one used by him to deliver Amazon parcels - and then fleeing in the same vehicle with the rear number plate concealed and Henry and Tinpeloo seen “laughing and in high spirits”.

Maidstone Crown Court heard that just minutes earlier, they had subjected their victims to a “callous, cowardly and heinous” ordeal and one youngster in the house was pinned down by grammar school-educated Elba and had a knife held against their neck.

Other children were screaming and crying as the same blade was waved at them and held towards their mum, while Henry even threatened to slash the throat of a sleeping youngster and then, when their demands were not met, Henry repeatedly hit the father with a 10kg dumbbell, causing him multiple, life-threatening fractures to his skull, eye socket, cheekbone and jaw, as well as a brain injury from which he will never fully recover.

Tinpeloo, of Main Road, Longfield, Henry, of Crescent Wood Road, Sydenham, south east London, and Elba, of White Road, Chatham, later admitted three offences of robbery and Tinpeloo, 26, and Henry, 29, also pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent in relation to the attacks with the bottle and dumbbell.

But Elba, 29, and Henry had denied that their roles in the raid involved any knifepoint threats, and to the children in particular and a Newton hearing was staged and Judge Oliver Saxby KC ruled against the pair.

He then jailed Henry for 17 years, Tinpeloo for 14 years and nine months, and Elba for 11 years and nine months.

Steven Franklin

A “vile” rapist who subjected two children to more than three decades of abuse was jailed.

Steven Franklin of Montgomery Road, South Darenth, was sentenced to 26 years in prison during a sentencing hearing earlier this month.

It came after a jury unanimously found him guilty of 10 sexual offences, including five counts of rape.

The court heard how officers had launched an investigation into allegations Franklin had subjected a child to a sustained campaign of sexual abuse.

Through the investigation it was established there was a second victim who the offender had targeted in the 1970s.

Inquiries later revealed the child had suffered at the hands of Franklin for more than a decade.

In August 2023, the 71-year-old was charged with multiple sexual offences and ordered to appear before Woolwich Crown Court, but he pleaded not guilty to all counts.

But he was found guilty after a trial on November 14, and must serve at least two-thirds of his 26-year sentence before he can apply for parole.

Blake Everhurst

A jilted dad sent abusive and threatening messages to the mother of his children before urinating through her letterbox.

Blake Everhurst targeted his former partner's home in what a judge described as a “disgraceful and disgusting act of contempt and punishment”.

Not only were his children in the house at the time but the 31-year-old was also on police bail with conditions not to go to the Gravesend property or to contact the woman.

But Maidstone Crown Court heard that in June his year, she had suddenly heard the sound of running “water”, only to discover a “yellow liquid” flowing through her letterbox onto the hallway floor.

On looking out the window she then saw to her horror that it was a urinating Everhurst, but by the time police arrived, the mechanic had left.

But he returned in the early hours of the morning, marching into the house in an “aggressive and confrontational” manner, carrying a can of cider, but on this occasion, officers were at the house taking a statement from the victim.

On seeing them, Everhurst took off and, having smashed into a parked car to evade capture, ultimately led police on a “determined and aggressive” chase reaching speeds in excess of 80mph through residential streets all the way to Dartford and just a month earlier he had been banned from the road for drug-driving.

Everhurst, of Saltings Road, Snodland, who has 10 previous convictions for 15 offences, later pleaded guilty to harassment, threatening behaviour, criminal damage, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

He was jailed for a total of 70 weeks and will be subject to a three-year driving ban on his release, and was also given a five-year restraining order in respect of his former partner.

Rashko Kurtev

A takeaway worker who threw metal chairs at a dad-of-two causing him fatal head injuries was locked up.

Staff at the Seabells fish and chip shop in Station Road, Birchington got into an argument with Rodney Macleod before the assault.

But Rashko Kurtev hurled the chairs at the 46-year-old, the second of which struck him in the side of his head and this caused serious injuries and ultimately led to Mr Macleod’s death in hospital a month after the incident.

Kurtev, of Park Avenue, Birchington, admitted manslaughter at Canterbury Crown Court earlier this month and the 32-year-old was jailed for three years and nine months.

Witnesses to the incident on March 9 said Mr Macleod and staff from the restaurant had got into an argument on the afternoon of the assault and Kurtev, who worked at the business, came outside during the row and threw some of the victim's belongings at him before lobbing the furniture at him.

After being struck by the objects, Mr Macleod fell to the ground and emergency services were called and he was taken to a local hospital before being flown to a London hospital with serious injuries and Kurtev was arrested and later charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Officers further charged him with murder after Mr Macleod died in hospital on April 15 having never recovered from his injuries and a post-mortem examination listed his traumatic brain injury among the causes of his death.

However, the court accepted Kurtev’s guilty plea to manslaughter.

Steven Smith

A registered sex offender was jailed for a second time after looking at indecent images of children.

Steven Smith, from Sittingbourne, was convicted at Maidstone Crown Court in January 2022 for sexual communication with a child, causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity and making indecent photographs of children.

He received a prison sentence of two years and seven months and upon his release, he was subject to strict sex offender notification requirements along with a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

This included conditions that allowed police to have access to any device capable of storing images and to install monitoring software on his mobile phone and computer.

Smith was arrested again on May 13, after investigators identified he had accessed seven illegal images of children on his phone and his home was searched and several bank cards he had failed to log with the police were found.

This, along with his failure to register his use of several social media usernames with officers, were breaches of his court orders.

Smith, of Peregrine Drive, Sittingbourne, was charged and pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to making indecent images of a child and six breaches of the sex offender notification requirements.

The 44-year-old was sentenced to a year in prison and one his release he will be subject to a further SHPO indefinitely.

Gerard Dagnall

A gun smuggler renewed his passport specifically to travel abroad through a Kent port to collect eight revolvers in his car.

Gerard Dagnall was stopped at the Port of Dover after returning from buying the deadly weapons in Belgium – claiming he thought they were antiques.

The 33-year-old alleged he was going to give some to a friend and sell the others but was jailed.

Dagnall, who is unemployed, told National Crime Agency (NCA) officers he bought the firearms for €3,400 – more than £2,800 – from a business in Holmbeek, just north of Brussels.

But he claimed the company would not ship them because the guns would be stopped during border checks.

Despite this, he renewed his passport to travel abroad and tried to bring them into the UK on July 15.

Officers also discovered an illegal, 3D-printed firearm during a search of his home but it was not a fully working model.

Dagnall, of Scarisbrick Drive in Walton, Liverpool, admitted importing the original lethal purpose firearms and possessing the 3D-printed firearm and was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court and was locked up for eight years and three months.

Callum Maycock

A man who sexually assaulted a primary schoolgirl was arrested by police just 24 hours after committing the act in public.

Callum Maycock is now behind bars following the incident in Folkestone on June 27.

He had approached his victim near Foord Road and made inappropriate comments to her.

He also touched her inappropriately, prompting the girl to flee.

Officers patrolled the area the following day and spotted Maycock, who matched the description given by the victim, and he was arrested 24 hours after the offence took place.

The 21-year-old was charged with and later admitted sexual assault.

At Canterbury Crown Court he was sentenced to two years in prison, a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a 10-year restraining order.

After sentencing, DS David Hinwood said: “Protecting women and girls is an absolute priority for Kent Police and we will relentlessly pursue anyone who poses them harm.”

Joseph Mooney

A convicted sex offender who posed as a massage therapist was jailed after he molested four of his female clients.

Joseph Mooney was said to have “used his good looks and charm” and a fake qualification certificate to dupe the women into trusting him and allowing them into their homes after advertising his services on Facebook.

Maidstone Crown Court heard having invited his victims to “like” his profile page, he then messaged them offering treatments cheaply or for free and one was even encouraged to ask her friends to visit his “professional-looking” website and was then told she had “won” a massage, while another was greeted by Mooney arriving with a bottle of Prosecco he wanted to share.

As well as sexually assaulting his victims in their semi-clad, vulnerable state, the 44-year-old pervert would also position himself so they could feel he was aroused through his trousers against their head, arm, or hand and once finished, he would then ask them to fill in a customer satisfaction questionnaire, which they completed to bring their ordeals to an end.

It was following a report to police by one woman he had abused in December 2020 that he was arrested and the investigation which followed then revealed three earlier victims and, on his laptop, a copy of a genuine qualification certificate that he had used to create his false one and other documents found included one relating to a DBS check which did not include his previous convictions in 2007 for sending an indecent electronic communication and in 2009 for exposure.

Mooney, who is also known as Joseph Reed-Mooney, was also convicted last year for sexual offences committed on a child between 2011 and 2013, and for which he was handed a community order.

He was residing on the Isle of Sheppey but now has an address in Woodgrange Gardens, Enfield, Middlesex, and he pleaded guilty in January this year to four offences of sexual assault, all committed between October and December 2020, and one of possessing an article for use in fraud.

At his sentencing hearing earlier this month, Mooney who has 21 convictions recorded against him including offences of dishonesty and burglary, was jailed for three years and four months.

On his release, he will be subject to indefinite sex offender notification requirements and sexual harm prevention order.

Felix Boo

A young drug dealer who made tens of thousands of pounds attempted to hide his massive profits by pumping cash into plush Rolex watches and cryptocurrency.

“One man band” Felix Boo masterminded a huge operation buying and selling drugs online from a bedroom in his dad’s Whitstable home.

At the “click of a button”, the then-21-year-old procured commercial quantities of Class A and B drugs from as far away as America, then sold them via social media platform Telegram.

In a bid to evade the authorities, Boo spent tens of thousands on luxury watches and digital currency, and made large deposits into Monzo and Lloyds bank accounts.

But his hi-tech scheme was unearthed when, in May 2022, Border Force intercepted a parcel containing cannabis weighing 289 grams bound for his Clifton Road address.

Boo, now 24, was placed behind bars for three years during his sentencing hearing at Canterbury Crown Court.

He admitted at the magistrates’ court three counts of possession with intent to supply in respect of cannabis, cocaine and ketamine.

He also pleaded guilty to the import of cannabis, and concealing, disguising, converting, transferring, or removing criminal property, namely money.

Sean Royle

A convicted sex offender was jailed after using Snapchat to try and secretly groom a 13-year-old girl.

Sean Royle, from Maidstone, asked the victim to be his girlfriend and said he wanted to “kiss and hug her”.

Royle had previously received a suspended sentence in 2021, following convictions which included the possession of indecent images of children and the sentence included a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO), which contained strict measures and restrictions involving his access to the internet which meant he had to notify police of any devices he was using, such as phones and laptops.

They also included requirements for Royle to notify police of any change in circumstances, such as a new address where he may be living or if he had any contact with children, but in July last year, checks established Royle was in a relationship with a woman with young children and he had not disclosed this and was arrested.

An investigation found a phone number linked to him, which was being used secretly to access social media accounts and in September, Royle used a Snapchat profile to contact a child living outside of Kent and he established the victim was only 13 and after revealing he was almost three times her age told her he wanted to kiss and hug her.

Royle, of Claremont Road, Maidstone, asked her to be his girlfriend and sent a picture showing his face and naked upper torso which had a distinctive tattoo but the victim told her father who then contacted the police and he was arrested again in November 2023 when officers were able to locate and seize the phone he had been using.

When the device was analysed it was found to contain almost 200 illegal videos and images, many of which showed unknown children being sexually abused and the 37-year-old was charged with engaging in sexual communication with a child, failing to comply with notification requirements and repeated breaches of a sexual harm prevention order.

He was also charged with making indecent images of children and pleaded guilty and was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court to three years and eight months’ imprisonment and was also made the subject of a new 10-year SHPO.

Callum Jefferys

A man who threatened to cut a person’s throat just hours after being released from prison found himself back behind bars.

Callum Jefferys had been outside a property in Cranwell Road, Rusthall, where he punched a hole in a fence and shouted threats which suggested he may have had a knife.

The 28-year-old had just been released from prison following a sentence linked to assaults and abuse in the same area last year.

Police attended on August 15 and Jefferys was arrested, charged and remanded in custody.

He then appeared at Maidstone Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to making threats to kill as well as criminal damage.

This related to spitting and breaking a light in a police van and urinating on the floor of a custody cell and a further count of criminal damage, linked to the fence, was ordered by the court to lie on file.

Earlier this month a community order that had been in place when he left prison in August was revoked and Jefferys, of no fixed address, was sentenced to two years and three months’ imprisonment.

Upon his release, he will be subject to a restraining order which includes measures restricting areas he can enter in Rusthall.

Anthony Collins

A child abuse victim was praised for her courage and dignity as the 'dangerous' paedophile responsible started a lengthy jail term.

A judge told Anthony Collins that although his deviant behaviour had inevitably "wrecked" a period in the girl's life, it had not "broken her spirit".

Canterbury Crown Court heard how, having initially suffered in silence, she finally felt brave enough to report her attacker's depravity and it was this, said Judge Mark Weekes, that had forced the 55-year-old to "confront" what he had done and admit his guilt in the face of "overwhelming" evidence.

Applauding the victim, he told the sex offender: “You grossly violated her at a time in her life when she was vulnerable. She was left confused and probably frightened.

“She suffered in silence for months, doing her best to cope with the situation.....hating the abuse and feeling unable to speak out....You left her for broken.”

Collins, of The Acre, in Whitfield, Dover, pleaded guilty in May to 14 offences of sexual activity with a child, with sentencing adjourned for the preparation of reports and earlier this month he was jailed for seven-and-a-half years, of which he will have to serve at least two-thirds before the Parole Board can even consider whether it is safe to release him.

Under the extended sentence, once it is deemed safe to release Collins, he will have a further four-and-a-half years added to any licence period.

He will also be subject to indefinite sex offender notification requirements and barred from working with children and vulnerable adults.

Pamela Jardine

A woman who robbed a 90-year-old cancer survivor, slapped and racially abused a store security guard, and brawled with shop staff was jailed.

Drug addict Pamela Jardine committed a total of 11 offences in a two-day drink-and-drug-fuelled crime spree in Chatham town centre and a mini-mart in Gillingham.

A court heard in April this year that the mum-of-one targeted the frail pensioner, appearing to initially flirt with him as he was walking with the aid of a stick outside the Pentagon Shopping Centre and having first tugged at his coat sleeve with enough force to knock him off balance, she then tried to grip his hand and pull at his clothing while repeatedly walking in front of him.

Her victim broke free and went to a nearby taxi rank but she continued to pester him and, as he sat on steps, she stood over him and pushed him down and backwards and Maidstone Crown Court heard she riffled through his coat pocket and stole his £400 iPhone.

Jardine, who has 15 previous convictions for 35 offences, fled but was arrested outside Buzz Bingo and the 41-year-old tried to swallow four wraps of crack cocaine she had pulled out of her bra, where she had also stashed a small bag of cannabis.

Just minutes before robbing the pensioner, Jardine had been stopped by a security guard as she headed out of Boots with her arms full of cosmetics and refusing to pay as she tried to pick up some of her dropped loot, she then slapped him in the face, telling him "F***ing immigrants" before fleeing.

Months earlier, Jardine, formerly of Luton Road, Chatham, but homeless at the time, stole a packet of Dairy Lea Dunkers from the Best One convenience store in Gillingham and was confronted by staff where she punched one worker in the face and then picked up a metal display rack, smashing it against the door and cracking the glass pane and then unleashed her anger on a customer - an off-duty prison officer - by striking him in the face with her hand.

A passer-by, who had come to the aid of her intoxicated male friend after he had somehow ended up on the ground unconscious, also felt her wrath when she shoved him and having finally been arrested and taken to hospital she then abused people there, but later admitted robbery, shoplifting, racially aggravated assault, possessing class A and class B drugs, criminal damage, common assault, battery and assaulting an emergency worker and was jailed for three years.

Lewis Day and Daryl Brown

The "pure evil" attackers of a popular waiter who was ferociously stabbed and left for dead in a railway station alleyway were locked up for a total of 18 years.

Cold-hearted Lewis Day and Daryl Brown were said by a judge to have acted "like a pair of jackals" when they ruthlessly ambushed Modasher Hossain as he was making his way home at the end of an evening shift at the Gandhi Tandoori restaurant in Herne Bay.

The 56-year-old had only just alighted from a train at Whitstable when, following a trivial incident in which he threw a beer can, he was chased from the platform by his two assailants, but within seconds of running just a few metres into the adjacent alley, the married family man lay unconscious on the ground in a pool of blood, having suffered serious knife wounds for which Day and Brown, both with previous convictions for violence, later blamed each other.

At their 10-day trial earlier this year, Day, 26, from Ramsgate, claimed his co-accused had threatened to "f*** up' Mr Hossain - who neither man knew - before knocking him out cold and then viciously stabbing him as many as five times to his left thigh and buttock, with 33-year-old Brown, from Margate, telling jurors that although he had pursued Mr Hossain, he had left him unharmed.

He claimed he only found out there had been a stabbing when, once back at the station, Day pulled out a 20cm-long kitchen knife with blood on the tip and confessed, but it was the prosecution’s case that both men acted together in what is known as 'joint enterprise', and that each was liable for the acts committed by the other even if the role of one was simply to encourage or assist.

Day, of Hereson Road, was subsequently found guilty of wounding Mr Hossain with intent to cause grievous bodily harm while Brown, of Tomlin Drive, was convicted of the less serious offence of wounding and a charge of possessing an offensive weapon faced by Day alone was left on the court file.

Brown, who has 19 previous convictions for 27 offences, was jailed for three-and-a-half years and Day, who has eight previous convictions for 19 offences, including nine involving violence and weapons, was given an extended sentence of 14-and-a-half years and will have to serve at least two-thirds of the term before he can apply for parole, and will only be released once it is considered safe to do so and will then have an additional three-and-a-half years added to any licence period.

Day was also handed a consecutive 18-month jail term for two unrelated offences of possessing cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply last year and both men were also given indefinite restraining orders banning them from going to his former restaurant where one of his sons now works.

Jade Cosier and Erik Horvath

A man and woman were jailed after robbing their victim’s Fiat 500 and speeding down the motorway.

Jade Cosier took advantage of her victim, who she knew, and entered his home in Tower Hamlets, Dover, in April when the 28-year-old asked to borrow money and she and the man in his 60s went to a cashpoint to make a withdrawal.

When they returned, 24-year-old Erik Horvath and two 17-year-old boys - who can not be named for legal reasons - were at the property and it is believed they entered through a door Cosier left unlocked.

The group demanded his car keys and took off with them and his bank card in his Fiat 500 and the police were alerted to the theft and the vehicle was spotted by a patrol driving well over the speed limit London bound on the M2.

The car was boxed in and stopped before Horvath, Cosier, and the two teenagers were arrested.

Cosier, of Sunshine Corner Avenue, Aylesham, was charged with and admitted robbery and dangerous driving and was given a two-year and four-month sentence at Canterbury Crown Court on November 7.

Horvath, formerly of King Street, Dover, admitted robbery and was jailed for three years and four months.

One of the teens involved was previously given a Youth Rehabilitation Order for his role and the other will be sentenced at a later date.

Mark Miller

A woman routinely subjected to abuse at the hands of her boyfriend was chillingly warned she would be “hunted down” after she escaped his clutches.

The mum, who was from Herne Bay, had met Mark Miller online but throughout their two-year relationship, he resorted to behaviour a judge described as a “very bad example” of control and coercion.

This included making her a prisoner in the home they shared, forcing her to take drugs, installing cameras to monitor her movements and taking possession of her phone and bank cards, with any two-step authentication linked to his email address and number.

The 28-year-old also accompanied her to the bathroom when she needed the toilet or to shower, and would remove part of a lock mechanism on the bedroom door at night so she could not leave and if she did try to leave the house, he would physically stop her or bring her back, or threaten to harm himself, Canterbury Crown Court was told.

Even when he had been recalled to jail on an unrelated matter, he threatened her from behind bars into sending him money from her benefits and his repeated verbal abuse included calling her a 'prostitute' or 'w****' and accusing her of cheating on him and he also threatened to harm her family.

When she was eventually successful in packing a bag and fleeing, he caught up with her at Herne Bay train station, shouting abuse before assaulting her on the platform and having suspected he would in fact trace her whereabouts, it was to her horror that she then received photos from inside a car travelling on the motorway with road signs visible for Dover and Canterbury.

Miller, of Oldford Rise, Welshpool, Powys, pleaded guilty to offences of controlling and coercive behaviour between January 2022 and July this year, and assault by beating on July 17 this year.

Judge Simon Taylor jailed him for two years and handed him a 10-year restraining order.

Hughie Coyle

A driver jailed four years ago for leaving a grandfather brain-damaged and paralysed in a horror smash is now back behind bars after his victim died.

In an unusual case, Hughie Coyle has been prosecuted for a second time in relation to the same incident, but for a more serious offence.

The 26-year-old was just six days from being released from his prison sentence for causing serious injury by dangerous driving when the man he had ploughed into at the Medway Services on the M2 at Gillingham in 2019 died in July 2022.

When Coyle was jailed for just over four years in August 2020, his victim Ray Rennalls, then aged 60, was said by his family to have been "condemned" to a life of round-the-clock care.

Sadly, however, Mr Rennalls continued to deteriorate until he passed away, leading to the decision by the CPS in April this year to charge Coyle with causing death by dangerous driving.

Coyle, of Oak Lane, Upchurch, near Sittingbourne, subsequently pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court in October and returned on November 19 to once more learn his fate and in the intervening time, the maximum sentence for such an offence has increased from 14 years to life imprisonment.

But although the judge said he had “little sympathy” for Coyle's “predicament”, he was handed a prison term less than the one he received for the original offence.

Coyle, who has previous convictions for several driving offences dating back to when he was just 15, was jailed for two years and 10 months.