Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between January and April
By Matt Pole
Published 31st Dec 2022, 08:00 BST
It has been another busy year for judges, juries and magistrates across Sussex.
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.
5. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between January and April
Alex Austin, 52, of Grand Parade in Brighton, was arrested after he persistently harassed a woman who worked in Age UK in London Road. On November 29, 2021 at 11.45am, Austin submitted a shopworker to a torrent of racial abuse, loitered around the store and intimidated her by staring through the window. The victim was able to take a clear picture, which was later used to identify him. Austin then returned at 1.50pm and continued to racially abuse and threaten the store worker. On January 7, Austin was arrested for being in breach of a court order and further arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment. At Lewes Crown Court on January 14, Austin was jailed for 12 weeks and given a 12-month restraining order prohibiting him from entering the London Road store. Photo: Sussex Police
6. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between January and April
Shah Osmani, 27, was jailed for 20 weeks ordered to pay a £128 victim surcharge for perverting the court of justice after lying about two speeding offences in Brighton. was detected driving over the 30mph speed limit in Marine Parade, Brighton, twice in the early hours of August 7, 2020. He was driving an Audi, which was his company car given to him by the company he worked for at the time. When a Notice of Intended Prosecution was sent to the company, they nominated Osmani and a further notice of prosecution was then sent to him. He responded by nominating an innocent person in an attempt to avoid prosecution. Investigating officers checked Osmani’s changing accounts of who was behind the wheel on the night in question. He first provided false addresses of the person who he claimed was responsible. Then he used the person’s former driving licence and created false insurance documents in a bid to avoid paying any penalty and to add credence to his explanation to the police as to who was driving at the time Photo: Jon Rigby
7. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between January and April
Police said that Carole Taylor, 35, of Seaside Road, Eastbourne was sentenced to a total of five years imprisonment at Brighton Crown Court on January 14, following a Sussex Police investigation. Police said she had been convicted in December after a six-day trial at Chichester Crown Court of two counts of sexual activity of a child, of meeting a child following sexual grooming, and sexual communication with a child. She will be a registered sex offender for life, police confirmed. Photo: Sussex Police
8. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between January and April
Police said Scott Mucklow, 29, of Denham Way, Camber, was sentenced to 13 years in jail at Brighton Crown Court on February 24 having previously been convicted of raping a teenage girl in 2009, and of three counts of raping another teenage girl several years later. Mucklow will be a registered sex offender for life. Police said he was found not guilty of an offence of coercive and controlling conduct against the second victim. Photo: Sussex Police