These are some of the most serious, high profile and prolific offenders who were jailed in the seventh month of 2024.
All information comes directly from Sussex Police.
9. Locked up in Sussex: These are some of the criminals jailed in July 2024
A man from St Leonards who preyed on young girls using an online messaging app has been jailed. Anthony Everton, 35, contacted girls aged between 13 and 15 via Snapchat while posing to be a child himself. Exchanging phone numbers with the girls, he would then request they send him sexually explicit images before threatening to send those images to their families. Everton would call and text the victims to engage in sexual conversations. If they tried to stop speaking with him, he would make threats to kill them or burn their houses down. After receiving reports from parents who had intervened in the activity, police arrested Everton in April 2023. He was released on bail with strict conditions while enquiries, including analysis of his digital devices, continued. Despite Everton’s attempts to destroy his mobile phone when he was arrested, police found evidence of indecent images and videos on it, including a large number of explicit images of a girl that Everton had sent to her relatives via social media. In September 2023 while this investigation was ongoing, police began receiving multiple reports of a man masturbating in the front window of an address in St John’s Road, St Leonards. The man was in full view of the public and a nearby children’s playground. Police identified the address as that of Anthony Everton and he was further arrested. Everton was subsequently charged with 12 offences – one count of outraging public decency; seven counts of engaging in sexual communication with a child; and four counts relating to the possession and distribution of indecent images of children. He was found guilty at Brighton Crown Court on March 19, 2024. At Hove Crown Court on Friday, July 19, he was handed an 11-year sentence consisting of six years in prison and a further five years on extended licence. He was also issued with an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life. Photo: Sussex Police
10. Locked up in Sussex: These are some of the criminals jailed in July 2024
A drug dealer has been sentenced after admitting his latest offences in Brighton. Shy Ponsonby-Way, 19, was seen dealing drugs in central Brighton earlier this year. Officers from the Specialist Enforcement Unit arrested him after they carried out patrols to disrupt the supply of drugs. He was supplying class A drugs including crack cocaine and heroin. When arrested officers found him with 90 wraps concealed in his groin. Following an investigation by the Brighton Community Investigation Team, he was charged. At Lewes Crown Court on June 21 Ponsonby-Way was jailed for three years and four months. Ponsonby-Way, formerly of Surrenden Crescent, Brighton, admitted four counts of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply, two counts of possessing a knife or bladed article, two counts of assaulting emergency workers, and one count of possessing criminal property. The court heard how he assaulted a police officer in custody at Crowhurst Road in Brighton in October 2022, and assaulted a police officer in George Street, Brighton, on August 5 last year. In July last year he was found in possession of a knife in Trafalgar Street, Brighton. Then this year, officers from the Specialist Enforcement Unit were carrying out proactive patrols around St James’s Street on January 4. They observed Ponsonby-Way exchanging with a suspected drug user in an alleyway. He was then further observed completing another deal in an alleyway behind North Street. When stopped, the SEU officers found him in possession of a golf ball sized package containing 90 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin, a burner mobile phone, and cash. Then on March 11 this year he was stopped in Elms Avenue where he was again found with heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and in possession of a lock knife. Photo: Sussex Police
11. Locked up in Sussex: These are some of the criminals jailed in July 2024
Two men have been sentenced following a burglary in Crawley. Officers were called to a report of a break-in at Mo Lin restaurant on High Street at around 1am on May 22. Two men entered the restaurant and a number of items, bank cards and cash was stolen. Harvey Brackpool (pictured) and Jason O’Dwyer were identified on CCTV arrested on June 1 and June 17 respectively in connection with the incident and later charged with burglary. Brackpool, 22, of no fixed address appeared before Crawley Magistrates’ Court on June 3 where he admitted to the offence. He was sentenced to 42 weeks’ imprisonment when he appeared before Lewes Crown Court on July 15. O’Dwyer, 37, of Eastbourne Road, Halland, appeared before Crawley Magistrates’ Court on July 1 and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months. Photo: Sussex Police
12. Locked up in Sussex: These are some of the criminals jailed in July 2024
A man who raped and sexually assaulted a woman has been jailed for seven years. David Pacera, 42, of no fixed address, was convicted of four serious sexual offences after his victim was able to record the attack on her phone. On January 3, a woman reported she had been raped and sexually assaulted by Pacera at a property in Worthing. The victim, who has lifelong anonymity, was safeguarded and supported by specialist officers while an investigation was swiftly launched. Pacera was arrested later that day and subsequently charged with rape, attempted rape, digital penetration and sexual assault. During a five-day trial at Chichester Crown Court, an audio recording of the incident was played to the jury which included the victim saying ‘no’ multiple times. Pacera was found guilty on Friday, June 28 of all counts. Photo: Sussex Police