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UK Counties Report October Jailings: Life Terms and Long Sentences for Child Abuse, Drugs and Fatal Driving

Local round-ups confirm lengthy prison terms followed specialist investigations, with custody increasingly reserved for the gravest crimes due to pressure on jails.

Overview

  • Kieran Bond received six life sentences, with a minimum of 16 years, for raping two children in Eastleigh in 2018, Southampton Crown Court heard.
  • Christopher Dwan was jailed for 16 years after pleading guilty to 30 child sexual offences involving six identified victims, including filming himself raping a girl.
  • A SEROCU investigation led to four men being jailed for flooding Berkshire and other counties with nearly 300kg of cocaine, with Jimmy Stanley given a 12-year term.
  • Killer driver Leon Salt was sentenced to 11 years for knocking down and killing a 51-year-old man in Penkhull while driving a stolen Mini Cooper and fleeing the scene.
  • Shropshire offender Darron Mason was jailed for more than 20 years for historical sexual offences that emerged after a paedophile-hunter sting by the group Seek and Expose.