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UK October Court Round-Ups Put Child Rapists, Violent Offenders and Drug Gangs Behind Bars

Local round-ups highlight tough sentences for child sexual abuse, serious violence, organised drug crime.

Overview

  • Kieran Bond received six life sentences, with a minimum term of 16 years, for raping two children in Eastleigh, Hampshire.
  • Christopher Dwan was jailed for 16 years for filming himself raping a child during a series of offences against multiple girls, while Sajeenthira Dharmendra got nine years and six months for recording the sexual assault of a 17-year-old in Cambridgeshire.
  • Mark Moss was sentenced to 14 years for stabbing a man 13 times during a robbery at a Peterborough allotment.
  • Killer driver Leon Salt was jailed for 11 years for fatally striking a pedestrian with a stolen Mini Cooper and fleeing the scene in Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Courts also handed down multi-year terms in organised drug cases, including sentencing six people over an illegal steroid operation in Telford and jailing three men for a combined 19 years for a cocaine-mixing setup in Fenton, while Shropshire offender Darron Mason received 21 years after historic abuse surfaced following a vigilante sting.