Here we take a look at some of the criminals locked up during the first third of the year.
All of the information below comes from either Sussex Police or our reporters attending court in person.
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Danny Cobbold, 32, of no fixed address, was jailed for armed robbery after attacking a shop worker in Worthing with an imitation handgun. With his accomplice Dale Searle, also 32, Cobbold browsed Worthing News in Rowlands Road on the afternoon of December 3 before pulling out an imitation revolver and demanding cash. Shop workers handed over £400 from the till and one victim was led to the back and told to open the safe, which was empty. He was assaulted and hit over the head with the fake gun, causing a minor injury. Searle and Cobbold stole four bottles of vodka as they left. Both pleaded guilty to robbery and possession of an imitation firearm. On February 19, Searle was jailed for five years and Cobbold for five years and four months.
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Shaun Shirley, 59, of New Steine in Brighton, admitted burgling an 83-year-old woman in Canterbury Drive on January 17. He had been spotted by his victim in her front room at around 2pm, but he told her he was a home helper. Shirley engaged her in conversation and asked to look around the property, to which his victim agreed, before she became suspicious and asked him to leave. She noticed her purse was missing, containing cash and her bank cards. Shirley pleaded guilty to burglary and theft and, on February 17, was jailed for three years and four months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £156. He was described by police as a 'prolific offender', with 28 previous convictions for 84 offences including burglary, theft and fraud.
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Sixty-four-year-old Steven Arthur Perry, from Solihull in the West Midlands, was jailed for six years last month for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Bexhill. Perry, of Rothwell Drive, was seen following his victim in a vehicle in Gorselands, Bexhill, on the night of June 27 last year. She got into the vehicle, which drove away. Perry was tracked to an address in Withyham Road and his 14-year-old victim found at a separate property in East Sussex, with her family. Perry had spotted the 'vulnerable' victim and pretended he would help her, before sexually assaulting her and driving her home. On February 5, he was jailed for six years, with one to be served on extended licence, having been convicted of false imprisonment, kidnapping with intent to commit a sexual offence and sexual assault. He is also a sex offender for life, given an order restricting access to children and a ten-year restraining order against his victim and witnesses.
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Wayne Morris, 47, a bin man from Larch Close in Bognor Regis, was jailed for life after murdering his partner, Ruth Brown, 52. Morris bludgeoned Ruth to death with a plastic dinner tray on April 8 last year, with a postmordem finding she died from 'severe and repeated head injuries'. Parts of the tray were found in the kitchen and an outside bin. Morris moved Ruth's body upstairs, tried to clean up the kitchen and, on April 11, fled to the Isle of Wight to sleep in a tent. He was arrested by Hampshire Police the next day Morris had moved in with Ruth just a few days before the murder. He claimed not to remember the attack due to intoxication. At Brighton Magistrates' Court on February 18, Morris was sentenced to life in jail, to serve a minimum of 17 years.