Overview

• Reading Crown Court processed dozens of offenders in Berkshire, issuing sentences that ranged from weeks-long terms for burglary to multi-year prison time for drug dealing and violence.
• A 45-year-old Reading man received over 20 years after being convicted of multiple counts of rape, strangulation and related violent offences.
• In Cambridgeshire, Jonathon Austin was handed a life sentence with a 16-year minimum for murdering his former flatmate by strangulation.
• Reis Treby received six years and four months for stabbing a police officer with a kitchen knife during an attempted arrest in Cambridge.
• East Lancashire courts jailed Simon Richards for 17 years for child rape and indecent image offences and sentenced Natalie Rabie to 20 months for incitement, while Shropshire judges imposed suspended and fixed prison terms for indecent image possession and travel restriction breaches.