Here we take a look at some of the criminals locked up during the final four months of 2021.
All of the information below comes from either Sussex Police or our reporters attending court in person.
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Lumture Spahiu was jailed after he was seen using a taxi to complete drug deals in Brighton. Spahiu was using a Brighton and Hove taxi as a passenger in the Bevendean area at 8.30pm on September 25. Spahiu, of no fixed address, appeared before Lewes Crown Court on November 10, and was sentenced to 22 months in prison. During the investigation it was also found that Spahiu is an immigration absconder, and he now faces deportation to Albania at the end of his sentence.
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Michael Wilkinson, 36, of Bexhill, was sentenced to a total of six years imprisonment at Hove Crown Court on 10 November, having admitted inciting and facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child under 13, making indecent images of children and possessing prohibited and extreme images. He paid to receive photos of sexual abuse of a child in the Philippines, each one posed as he required, is now starting a six-year prison sentence, following an investigation by Sussex Police detectives working with the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) and officers in the Philippines National Police. He will be a registered sex offender for life and was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) which severely restricts his access to children and digital devices for life, It also imposes a five-year travel restriction order on him from from the day of his release, which police can apply to renew every five years.
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Devon Locke, who seriously assaulted another man over an eight-year grudge, was found guilty of committing grievous bodily harm by a majority verdict at Portsmouth Crown Court on Thursday 11 November and sentenced to three years imprisonment. t follows an incident which occurred in Felpham on the evening of Friday 13 September, 2019. The victim, a local man now aged 52, was walking home along Flansham Lane when he was approached by Locke, whom he knew from several years back. The 26-year-old builder, of nearby Virginia Gardens, assaulted him, before accusing him of not apologising to his sister over an alleged prank that went wrong in 2013. He then further assaulted him, before the victim was able to continue his way home. However, before he safely returned, Locke again assaulted him, causing the victim to fall to the floor. Locke was arrested in connection with the matter and denied committing grievous bodily harm, but was found guilty following a trial.
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Craig Goodwin, who carried out an assault on a woman in a hotel bedroom at Gatwick, was imprisoned for a total of three years and three months. Goodwin was in breach of a restraining order preventing him from contacting the woman, but went to the hotel with her on September 25. It was about a month after his release from prison for assaulting the same victim. The 33-year-old became jealous when the victim spoke with other men in the bar at the hotel. In the early hours of September 26 he assaulted her, then when she tried to escape, he continued to assault her. The victim was left highly distressed and hotel staff called 999. Officers attending later found Goodwin hiding in the bushes outside the hotel. He claimed the victim’s injuries had been sustained when they bumped heads making a TikTok video. But officers from the West Sussex Safeguarding Investigations Unit (SIU) worked hard to bring charges against Goodwin, of Well Road, Pagham. The CPS charged him with assault occasioning actual bodily harm