Here we take a look at some of the criminals locked up during the first four months of 2025.
All of the information below comes from either Sussex Police or our reporters attending court in person.
33. Locked up in Sussex 2025: These are some of the criminals jailed between January and April
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced after targeting elderly vulnerable people in a £100,000 fraud. James Trodd, 30, of no fixed address, handed himself in following a Crimewatch appeal, after being wanted for more than two years. Trodd, also known as James Harland and Martin Ashbrook, facilitated the transfer of tens of thousands of pounds from victims’ bank accounts between September 2022 and August last year, when he was arrested. Operation Glasshouse saw police link frauds across Sussex and the south east of England and Trodd was charged with 17 counts of fraud by representation. After Trodd made contact with victims as a customer, tenant or through befriending, he used their bank accounts to obtain credit cards, made money transfers, pay for hire cars and opened accounts in their names, leaving some victims left in arrears and unable to pay their bills. He was jailed for six years and nine months at Lewes Crown Court on April 16, for what the judge described as the worse example of fraud he had seen. Photo: Sussex Police