There were quite a few people who committed offences and were jailed for their crimes last month.

Here's just some of the criminals including thugs, perverts, rapists, robbers, money-launderers, drug dealers, thieves and killers who were locked up in June.

Russell Brazier

A violent thug who stabbed a man during a fight outside a Hungry Horse pub was jailed.

Russell Brazier plunged the blade into his victim’s back after they came to blows in the car park of the Weatsheaf in Swalecliffe, near Whitstable, on October 9 last year.

The 31-year-old then fled the scene, leaving his victim in a serious condition while others gave him first aid before he was flown to a London hospital for further treatment.

The “terrible” attack happened after Brazier entered the home of a woman he knew earlier that day and damaged items inside. The woman had locked herself in the bathroom at the time to protect herself.

Brazier formerly of Shelley Avenue, Canterbury, handed himself in at Canterbury Police Station two days later and was charged with burglary, criminal damage and causing grievous bodily harm and later admitted the offences. He was jailed for three years and nine months at Canterbury Crown Court.

After the sentencing, PC Matthew Burridge, investigating officer for East Kent CID, said: “This was a terrible assault and we could so easily have been dealing with a far more serious offence.

“Brazier had earlier that day put a woman in fear after he entered her home and damaged her property.

“I am pleased this violent man has been brought to justice and jailed, protecting the people of Canterbury and Whitstable from him in future.”

John Pattison

A convicted murderer was jailed for a second time after police discovered thousands of downloaded videos and images containing child sex abuse at his home.

John Pattison confessed to possessing a horde of illegal material following a search at his home address in Gabriel’s Hill, Maidstone.

Pattison, 65, stored the collection of harrowing material on several memory cards, which included the abuse of victims as young as six-months-old.

He was arrested in December 2022, after officers from Kent Police’s paedophile online investigation team carried out a search of his home and seized several electronic devices, along with the memory cards.

When the digital storage devices were forensically examined they were found to contain multiple files, including almost 1,000 videos and images in the most serious category and within 24 hours of his arrest, Pattison appeared before Medway Magistrates’ Court, where he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.

He had been the subject of a life licence following a murder conviction in 2001 and had been released from prison in 2019 after serving 18 years, but when the new offences came to light, his licence was revoked and he was recallled to prison.

Pattison was sentenced last month at Maidstone Crown Court to 16 months’ custody for the new offences and Judge Philip Statman told the court that any future release from prison would be a matter for the parole board. A Sexual Harm Prevention Order lasting 10 years was also imposed.

DC Carl Evans said after sentencing: “Pattison was downloading images and videos of child abuse almost on a daily basis and he described viewing these images as a drug that he was unable to control.”

Emmanuel Nkrumah-Buansi, Jacob Afolabi, Habib Kanu and Lee Garrard

Four men were jailed after a dad-to-be was stabbed and left for dead in a car park in Dartford.

The victim, Malikhi Ford, was found injured in Temple Hill Square, and the 22-year-old had suffered a cardiac arrest and despite the best efforts from medics, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident happened on April 2 last year when Emmanuel Nkrumah-Buansi and Jacob Afolabi arranged to meet Malikhi in a communal parking area, near Mallard Close and during their attempt to rob him, Nkrumah-Buansi stabbed the victim.

An investigation was carried out by police and both men were identified as being involved and arrested and further inquiries linked a third man, Lee Garrard, 31, to them through phone messages. He was also detained and further inquiries led police to believe Nkrumah-Buansi, 39, Afolabi, 27, and another man, Habib Kanu, 34, planned to rob Malikhi and others using information supplied by Garrard.

Detectives also proved Nkrumah-Buansi, Afolabi, along with Kanu had taken part in an earlier robbery in Dartford in March where the victim was left with wounds and Kanu was subsequently detained after the arrest of the other three and linked to the incident involving Malikhi and Afolabi and Nkrumah-Buansi were charged with murder and conspiracy to rob and causing grievous bodily harm with intent, along with Garrard and Kanu.

Nkrumah-Buansi, of Mayplace Road East, Bexleyheath and Afolabi, of Joyce Green Lane, Dartford both denied murder at Woolwich Crown Court, but in January this year, were both found guilty of manslaughter and all four were convicted of grievous bodily harm with intent.

Kanu, of Buckland Hill, Maidstone and Afolabi were also convicted of conspiracy to rob. Nkrumah-Buansi and Garrard, of Laburnum Avenue, Dartford had pleaded guilty to the same conspiracy charge at an earlier hearing.

Last month, Nkrumah-Buansi was jailed for 21 years, Afolabi, received 21 years and both will serve 14 years before being considered for parole. Kanu, 34, was sentenced to 14 years and Garrard, 31, received 11 years and eight months and Kanu will serve nine years and four months and Garrard almost eight years before they are eligible for parole.

Luke Barling

A “greedy” money-launderer who helped rip off 16 vulnerable people during the Covid-19 lockdown, including a 95-year-old and a recovering cancer patient, was jailed.

Luke Barling, 49, laundered around £350,000 of his victims cash through a series of bank accounts.

Prosecutor Viv Walters told Maidstone Crown Court how the frauds took place during the first coronavirus lockdown in March 2020 and the con’s targets were some of "the most vulnerable" individuals and that most of the victims thought they were making safe investments in ISAs and savings accounts.

She added: “One was a victim of rogue trading and others, who had been previous victims of fraud, were scammed into making payments to sell diamonds, shares or land they owned and it is not possible to say exactly to what extent the defendant profited from running these accounts.

The prosecutor said Barling, of Blenheim Road, Sittingbourne, set up a company in the name of LB Property Services and told victims his business would be involved in buying large land plots with derelict properties, before doing renovations and selling them on.

He boasted that his annual turnover would be £500,000, but the end of April 2020, the accounts were suspended by the bank and many of the victims were elderly including a 95-year-old man who has since died, an 89-year-old man was tricked into paying around £24,000, and a 65-year-old man who was recovering from cancer treatment lost more than £9,000.

The court heard how Barling has a long history of convictions for offences of dishonesty and had been jailed for four years and eight months in 2010 for attempted robbery, assault and fraud.

Barling admitted three charges of money-laundering last month and received a 33-month jail sentence.

John Richards

A violent binge-drinker who subjected his wife and daughter to a 15-year campaign of “revolting degradation”, was locked up.

John Richards, from Whitstable, terrorised his family with physical, verbal and psychological abuse.

The 48-year-old’s “tyrannical behaviour” included spitting and urinating on his partner and burning her face with hot food and during the abuse, Richards regularly consumed eight cans of lager a day, and mistreated his daughter her entire life.

Canterbury Crown Court heard that from the time his daughter was born he was abusive towards her, putting her down, threatening her, calling her names and keeping her isolated from her family and would tell her, her mother was lazy and useless, and the girl recalls one incident when he told her he would kill her mother by the time she was 18.

In addition to two counts of controlling and coercive behaviour, Richards was also convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm for burning his wife’s face with a hot burger bun when he held it to her face, before spitting in her hair.

In a pre-sentence report, Richards, of Downs Avenue, said he did not see himself as someone who has a bad temper or is negatively affected by alcohol, but he pleaded guilty to the offences before trial.

Last month, Judge Mark Weekes jailed him for a total of five years and six months.

Richards was also issued with a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting his wife and daughter or attending any address where they are residing or attending.

Sebastian Haggart

A heroin dealer was busted after he was pulled over for speeding.

Sebastian Haggart was stopped by patrols on Wednesday, May 10, when he was seen exceeding the 30mph speed limit in Pennington Road, Southborough.

His VW Tiago was stopped in London Road and when questioned, the 41-year-old, of Fernhurst Crescent, Tunbridge Wells, admitted there were drugs in a bag on the passenger seat.

Searches led to the seizure of 24 heroin deals and a mobile phone, and Haggart was then arrested and his home was searched and a 14-gram block of heroin was seized, along with digital scales.

Officers recovered a second mobile phone which Haggart had discarded near his car, and this was found to contain messages related to drug dealing.

The heroin seized was estimated to have a street value of £1,880.

Haggart was charged with possessing heroin with intent to supply, driving without a licence and driving without insurance and he admitted the offences last month and was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court for two years and three months in prison.

On his release, he will be disqualified from driving for 20 months.

To see the criminals locked up in May click here.

To read more of our in depth coverage of all of the major trials coming out of crown and magistrates' courts across the county, click here.

Simon Wightman

An armed robber who held terrified pharmacy staff at gunpoint was jailed for 12 years.

Simon Wightman walked into Cheadles Chemist in Seasalter, near Whitstable, and ordered employees to drop to the floor.

He then swiped prescription drugs before fleeing the scene in a silver VW Golf on the morning of December 5.

Officers attended and a witness gave a partial registration number of the vehicle and a police helicopter and armed officers scoured Herne Bay following the incident.

Quick searches identified a car owned by Wightman as a suspect vehicle and he was subsequently arrested and his home in St Paul's Crescent, Boughton-under-Blean and his place of work in Herne Bay were searched

At his home, officers found the stolen medication, clothes matching those he was wearing during the offence, a shortened shotgun, a 9mm pistol, and ammunition for that pistol.

Wightman was charged with robbery, possession of a prohibited weapon, possession of an altered firearm and possession of ammunition without authority.

The 52-year-old admitted possessing the prohibited weapon and ammunition, but denied the other charges, but last month following a trial at Canterbury Crown Court, he was found guilty of robbery, possession of an altered firearm, and possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit robbery.

Dalciran Ibrahim

A man who targeted a lone woman and sexually assaulted her was locked up.

Dalciran Ibrahim’s victim had left a fast-food restaurant in Gravesend town centre when she was approached by him.

She had never met him before and he briefly spoke to her on Sunday, September 25, 2022, before suddenly sexually assaulting her over her clothing.

The victim tried to walk away but Ibrahim pushed her against a shopfront, exposed himself and put his hands under her clothing and then made threats to harm the victim if she did not get into his car. He then took hold of her arm and forcibly walked her along the High Street.

At this point, three members of the public intervened and asked what was going on. Whilst Ibrahim was distracted, the victim managed to walk away, but he subsequently tracked her down.

When he tried to take hold of her again, the victim located the three men who had assisted her earlier and they took her to a police station to report the incident while Ibrahim got in his car and sat there until attending patrols were alerted to his location.

Following a short pursuit the 35-year-old was arrested and he was found to have been drunk. Ibrahim, of London Road, Swanscombe, was later charged and appeared at Woolwich Crown Court last month.

He was found guilty of false imprisonment, false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual offence and sexual assault and had previously pleaded guilty to driving whilst unfit through drink, disqualified driving and driving without insurance and was jailed last month for seven years and will be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 20 years.

John Fletcher

CCTV showed how a brazen thief waved at a supermarket security camera as he used a bank card stolen from someone’s gym locker.

Footage also shows John Fletcher slipping through turnstiles in order to enter changing rooms at facilities in Ashford.

The 50-year-old was jailed last month after spending more than £2,000 on the stolen cards.

It comes after police launched an investigation following a series of similar thefts from gyms in Ashford in January and February this year and a further offence was then found to have taken place at a facility in Eastbourne on Friday, February 10.

Officers studied CCTV from the gyms and saw Fletcher was squeezing through turnstiles to get in. On some occasions, accomplice Laura McGannan would distract staff while he did so.

More than £1,000 was stolen during the thefts and more than £2,000 was spent using banks cards which were taken and further CCTV shows Fletcher in shops when the cards were used – where at one point he even waves at the camera.

A car which officers linked to the offences was stopped near Tunbridge Wells on February 24 and both Fletcher and McGannan were arrested and Fletcher, from Bexhill-on-Sea, was charged with six counts of burglary and 10 counts of fraud.

He admitted all 16 counts and was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Canterbury Crown Court and McGannan, 35, of Main Road, Winchelsea, was given a six-month suspended sentence after admitting five counts of burglary, following her role assisting Fletcher.

Julian Warrick

A drug dealer who was part of a gang supplying large amounts of cocaine was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.

Julian Warrick was a member of an organised crime group that conspired to supply cocaine using encrypted mobile phones.

An investigation was started by Kent Police’s Serious Crime Directorate after officers gained access to the encrypted conversations.

On March 22, 2021, police went to Maplehurst Close, Dartford, where Warrick was sat in a parked car next to another vehicle occupied by a criminal associate.

Warrick, of Regent Square, Belvedere, was arrested and officers seized around £4,000 from his pockets and three mobile phones were recovered from inside his car, as well as an encrypted handset.

A hidden compartment operated by an electronic switch was also found inside his car, which was empty but a similar hiding place was found in his associate’s car, which contained seven bags of cocaine.

These bags weighed around seven ounces and had an estimated street value between £7,000 and £14,000.

More cocaine and cash were seized at two separate addresses in Erith, along with a money counting machine.

Warrick was charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine between March 17 and March 23, 2021, and possessing criminal property, namely the seized cash and admitted both offences at Maidstone Crown Court in October 2021 and last month returned to the court where the 53-year-old was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months.

Tyler Booth

A burglar was jailed after targeting a property in daylight.

Tyler Booth and his accomplice Jasmine Wilson went to a house in Chartway Street, Sutton Valence, and forced their way into a utility room while the occupant was away from home.

The pair stole a chainsaw, lawn mower, hedge trimmer and a quantity of fuel before walking away from the scene on June 8, 2022.

Upon returning home, the victim reported the break-in and investigators from the Kent Crime Squad examined CCTV in the area, identifying Booth and Wilson from footage near the scene.

The pair, both of no fixed address, were arrested on July 4, 2022, and charged with burglary.

Wilson pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court on November 11, and the 26-year-old was sentenced to a two-year community order and 140 hours unpaid work.

Booth, 25, also pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court and on Thursday, June 15, he was sentenced to a total of three years and four months over the burglary and for driving offences which happened in Devon last July.

Investigating officer, DC Billie-Louise Mills said: “These two criminals are opportunists who saw a chance to plunder someone else’s property while the residents were away and caused considerable damage gaining access to the premises and stole expensive tools that somebody else had worked hard to afford to purchase.”

Joe Tubb

A machete-wielding man who chased two people at two railway stations was jailed.

Joe Tubb, of Gillingham Road, Gillingham was first seen brandishing the weapon at Sheerness Railway Station while chasing the victim down the platform.

It happened during evening rush hour and the victim was able to escape by boarding a train. On the same evening, just after 11pm on October 31 last year, Tubb wielded the weapon again to threaten a man at Sittingbourne Railway Station.

The victim ran down the platform with Tubb chasing after him but was able to get away from Tubb who then fled the station but the 22-year-old was arrested a few hours later and charged with two counts of affray and two counts of possession of a bladed article in a public place.

He appeared at Maidstone Crown Court last month where he was locked up for three years.

Investigating officer, DC Daniel Bister of the Kent Crime Squad said: “This was a frightening incident for Tubb’s victims.

“The first affray happened during rush hour when the station was busy with commuters and seeing a man with a machete would have alarmed a lot of people.

“The level of injury Tubb may have inflicted if he had caught up with these victims is unthinkable, his sentence is deserved, and I hope it leads to some justice for the victims.”

Rakar Rahimi

A man killed his ‘friend’ by stabbing him and running him over with his car before attempting to flee the country.

Rakar Rahimi, 23, of no fixed abode, carried out the brutal attack on 22-year-old Bako Azad Sheikha before being arrested by Port of Dover Police as he tried to escape the UK.

An investigation was launched on September 12 after police were called to a street where witnesses reported seeing a man being thrown from the car and run over multiple times.

When officers arrived, Bako, 22, was found with stab wounds and multiple other injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident, which took place on Distillery Lane in Colchester, Essex, prompted a murder investigation by Essex and Kent Serious Crime Directorate.

Rahimi was identified as the main suspect in this investigation and officers found he had visited a barber shop in Ipswich where he had admitted to stabbing Bako and running him over.

Officers continued to review his movements and CCTV showed him taking multiple trains from Ipswich to London and towards Dover and detectives alerted Port of Dover Police and shortly after 11pm on 12 September, Rahimi was arrested on suspicion of murder and later charged with the offence.

Following the three week trial, he appeared in court last month where he was sentenced to life in prison, to serve a minimum of 24 years and 87 days.

Dimitraki Nika and Arlin Leka

A people-smuggling ring which exploited Kent’s borders to put Albanians to work in cannabis factories was smashed and the gang were locked up last month.

Dimitraki Nika and Arlin Leka’s gang hid the men in a void behind the driver’s bunk during numerous trips across the Channel into Dover.

The people - who paid up to £24,000 per crossing - were then farmed out to cannabis factories across the south east and Northamptonshire in 2020 and service stations on the M20 in Kent and the M25 were used as collection points, from where the Albanians were picked up and moved elsewhere.

A gang of seven men involved in the conspiracy were jailed for a total of 24 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court last month which saw Dimitraki Nika, 35, a Greek national who lived in Enfield, jailed for four years for travelling to the service areas and receiving the men, Arlin Leka, 29, an Albanian living in Southgate, pleaded guilty to his part in the conspiracy of arranging the passages into the UK and travelling to the service areas to receive the men.

He also admitted possession of criminal property, namely £13,000 cash and was jailed for six years and Doru-Emil Moldovan, 32, a Romanian national of an unknown address pleaded guilty to his part in the conspiracy as a lorry driver and he also admitted possession of criminal property, namely £9,980 cash and was locked up for 20 months.

Four other members of the gang were found guilty of conspiracy to facilitate breaching of UK immigration law after a six-week trial at the same court in May and jailed last month.

Kristian Agolli, 35 from Enfield, was found guilty of conspiracy for his part in receiving smuggled the man and was jailed for three years and three months, Aldis Cseplye, 33, of Hornsey, north London, was found guilty of conspiracy for his part in receiving smuggled men and was locked up for two years and nine months.

Sorin Holerca, 40, of High Street, Swanscombe, was found guilty of conspiracy for his part in co-ordinating transport and was jailed for four years and six months and Jozef Szekely, 33, a Romanian was found guilty of conspiracy for his part as a lorry driver and was jailed for two years.

John Hubbard

A paedophile was jailed after it was found he had a secret phone containing images of child sex abuse.

Last year John Hubbard, from Rochester, was convicted of possessing indecent images of children and has been subject to strict conditions on his behaviour after being sentenced.

This included restrictions around possession of mobile phones or computers and use of the internet, but on September 9, 2022, officers visited his home to check that he was complying with his sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

After initially denying he was in possession of any internet-based devices, he handed over a mobile phone and the 26-year-old was arrested and a search of the property recovered a further phone hidden under a duvet.

When the second phone was examined it was found to contain images of sexual abuse involving children and Hubbard had been sharing some of these with other people using two separate email accounts.

Hubbard, of Tupman Close, Rochester, was charged with four counts of breaching his SHPO, two counts of breaching notification requirements, two counts of making an indecent image of a child and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image.

He appeared Maidstone Crown Court last month where he admitted the offences.

He was jailed for two years and six months and will be subject to additional conditions included in a new 10-year SHPO.

Anthony Finnis

A paedophile who arranged to meet and rape a young boy and brought along a fancy dress costume of his favourite Marvel character was jailed.

Anthony Finnis, 36, drove from his home in Norfolk to Costa in Dartford to meet a man and his young son at the coffee shop in Prospect Place.

He had arranged the meeting through a social media app and he intended on abusing the boy, but instead, he was confronted by an undercover police officer.

Finnis, of Briton Way, Wymondham, Norfolk, who also came armed with a portable massage table and massage oils, thought he was meeting a 12-year-old boy after he'd been communicating with an undercover officer pretending to be the boy's father on Wickr app.

The Wickr instant messaging app allows users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, including photos, videos, and file attachments.

Before the meeting was arranged on September 30, Finnis had been talking to who he thought was the boy's father and had even sent indecent images to him of other children on more than one occasion.

He was arrested and was later charged with three offences and appeared in court on Monday, October 3, 2022, where he pleaded guilty to arranging the commission of a child sex offence and the possession and distribution of category A and B child abuse images.

He was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court last month and to eight years with a further four years on licence once he is released

Emmanuel Agbaje

A self-proclaimed “monster" who groomed young girls into having sex with him could be named by KentOnline after reporting restrictions were lifted.

Sick Emmanuel Agbaje preyed on the youngsters forcing them to supply him with nude photos and perform sex acts in public.

The twisted teen sent messages threatening to get them beaten up, have acid thrown at them, have them run over or drowned and Maidstone Crown Court was told his nine victims - who were all 16 or under - were attacked after he initially made contact online pretending to be a friend.

He would message them - often on Snapchat - forming relationships before trying to instigate sex with them, knowing some were under the age of consent and would then get them to send him nude photos.

He would claim he would then delete them, but instead he went on to create multiple online accounts and profiles to try and blackmail them - threatening to send the images to their friends, family and schools.

The 17-year-old, who admitted 30 sexual offences, including two rapes, and nine counts of blackmail, was sent to a Young Offenders' Institute for 12 years, followed by another four on licence.

He told the judge in a letter that he had been a "monster" but wanted to change and despite being under 18, the judge accepted KentOnline’s application to have him named in the public interest.

The incidents took place in various locations, including the Pentagon shopping centre and a Morrisons supermarket toilets, while other attacks took place at Darnley Place, Strood, Fort Amhurst, Chatham, and KFC in Strood.

Hinzague Hanson

A man who violently stabbed another in a town high street in a row over drugs was jailed for 10 years.

Hinzague Hanson was convicted of knifing a man in a street fight and for his involvement in a terrifying burglary in which a woman and her children were left fearing for their lives.

Hanson, of Zion Place, Gravesend, was initially arrested on July 18, 2021, as part of a police investigation into a serious assault which happened the previous day in Dartford High Street.

He had been in a fight with the victim, which was linked to drugs and a dispute involving associates of the man and Hanson grabbed the victim by his clothing and thrust what was reported to be a flick knife into his abdomen, leaving him with injuries which included damage to a kidney.

He fled the scene and following his arrest, the next day, claimed the victim had initially threatened him with the knife and Hanson insisted he then disarmed him and used the weapon in self-defence.

He was charged with unlawful wounding and pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court and at a separate crown court hearing, held in Essex, the 23-year-old also previously admitted his involvement in an aggravated burglary in Basildon.

This happened on July 6, 2021, when a group of men forced their way into a home while a woman and her children were inside, and Hanson was sentenced last month, to a 10 year sentence.

Two years were for the assault and eight for the burglary.

Ben McCormick

A rapist who subjected his victim to an “appalling ordeal” was jailed for eight years.

On December 28, 2021, officers were called to an address where they spoke to a victim who had suffered injuries to her face, neck and arms.

Ben McCormick, of Queen Anne Road, Maidstone, was arrested in connection with the incident and later charged with rape and causing actual bodily harm.

He pleaded guilty to both counts at Maidstone Crown Court and last month and 23-year-old was sentenced to eight years in prison.

He will have to serve two-thirds of his sentence before he can be considered for release and has been added to the sex offenders’ register for life.

DC Joanne Burt, of west Kent CID, said: “McCormick is a violent individual who put his victim through an appalling ordeal. He is undoubtedly a danger to women and Maidstone will be a safer place while he is behind bars.

“I would like to commend the victim who had the courage to report this man’s crimes to the police and then assist us to bring him to justice. I would urge anyone who has suffered sexual abuse or suspects someone they know is being mistreated to contact police as soon as possible.

“We will safeguard anyone at risk and work to bring offenders before the courts.”

Jack Bamford

A dangerous thug kidnapped his adoptive parents at knifepoint and trapped them in a car for the sake of £500.

Jack Bamford forced his way inside the terrified couple’s home in Folkestone and even threatened to kill their dog.

Canterbury Crown Court heard how two days later he then stabbed a taxi driver in Margate as he demanded the cabbie hand over all his money.

Bamford was jailed for 16 years, with a further four on licence and a judge deemed him a dangerous offender after the court heard the 22-year-old, of no fixed address, had ignored a recall to prison after breaching probation for separate offences, before he went armed to Peter and Anne Bamford’s home on March 21.

Wielding a six-inch blade, Bamford forced his way inside and demanded the cash and leveled threats against the couple and their pet dog and he pushed open the door with a knife in his hand and began saying “Get back, get back, I want £500,” the court was told.

The couple’s dog was going crazy and Bamford told the couple if they didn’t shut the dog up, he would kill it.

After Bamford’s adoptive parents failed to produce enough money, he forced them into a car and drove to a cashpoint and as they pulled up to a petrol station his adoptive dad got out to use the machine as Bamford threatened: “Don’t do anything stupid - I’ve got your wife.”

Two days later, Bamford – who has racked up 40 convictions since the age of 13 – stabbed a taxi driver as he sought to steal about £30, and he admitted grievous bodily harm, wounding with intent, three counts of robbery and two of kidnap before trial, a charge of affray will lie on file.