Their offences include assaults, a stabbing, child sex offences, drug dealing and rape.
In one case a judge jailed a serial Chesterfield paedophile for over three years.
He had been snared online by two undercover police officers posing as girls aged 12 and 13 on Snapchat.
He had been snared online by two undercover police officers posing as girls aged 12 and 13 on Snapchat.
5. Rys Turner
Turner, 26, was jailed for six years for a rape that left his victim suffering anxiety and nightmares. His actions were uncovered after the woman came forward and told officers of the rape, after he assaulted her in March 2023. In a statement read out at court she said: “Sleeping is still a massive struggle, the nightmares put me right back in those traumatic moments, they feel so real I’m waking up in a panic.” Turner, of Littlemoor, Newbold, was jailed at Derby Crown Court. Photo: Derbyshire Police
6. Mitchell Whitaker
Whitaker, 34, was jailed for three years and four months after bringing “substantial” amounts of crack and heroin into Chesterfield. Mitchell Whitaker, 34, was caught with co-defendant Connal Porter, 33, with drugs and cash after police spotted the pair in a hire car in March 2020. Derby Crown Court heard both were involved in a “serious drug enterprise” called the Damo line, however Whitaker was “above Porter in the chain”. Whitaker’s defence barrister said his earnings from the drug dealing was “destined to pay his rent”, adding: “He was not living the high life. Photo: Derbyshire Police
7. Tom Brown
Chesterfield paedophile Brown, 34, was jailed for three years and eight months with an extended licence period of three years after he was snared online by two undercover police officers posing as girls aged 12 and 13 on Snapchat. The court heard he had four previous convictions for 17 sex offences between 2012 and 2018, including sexual activity with children, at the time. He was previously jailed for nearly four years and handed sexual harm prevention orders banning him from deleting his internet search history – which he breached during his latest offences. Judge Bennett told Brown a pre-sentence report concluded that prepubescent children were at "high risk of serious harm" from him. Photo: Derbyshire Times
8. Liam Rough
Rough, 35, was jailed for 22 months after he stabbed his pal in the chest with a peeler knife during a drunken Chesterfield party. The defendant swung for his friend with the six-inch blade after being “set-off” when a neighbour asked him to “keep the noise down”. Rough, of Barrow Street, Staveley, had “numerous” previous violence offences and was jailed in 2021 for robbery, Derby Crown Court heard. Photo: Derbyshire Police