POLICE and courts have been busy this year and many defendants have received a jail sentence.
From murder and manslaughter to burglary and drug offences, the courts have seen a lot of incidents which have result in imprisonment.
Here is a round-up of some of the criminals who received a jail sentence this year:
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January
- Ryan Rogers and Shaylun Wilson were jailed for four and five years respectively for a robbery at the University of Reading campus.
- Subhaan Nazir was jailed for three years for possession of Class A drugs.
- Dean Anderson was jailed for almost three years for possession of class A drugs valued at £363,000
- Jake Carter, Tilehurst, was jailed for almost three years for assault at a pub
February
- Luke Spencer, Reading, jailed for a year and a half for dangerous driving, he left the scene of an accident involved three cars in Reading.
- Jordan Musa, Earley, jailed for over six years for stabbing a man twice in Reading
- James Crockett, Slough, jailed for three years and nine months, after almost severing his neighbours foot in a land dispute near Slough.
March
- Dane Pretlove, Newbury, jailed for 21 months after strangling his partner despite her claims it was ‘consensual rough sex’.
- Mark Robinson, Reading, jailed for three and a half years for drug offences
- Christopher Hale, Reading, jailed for over 12 years as he was a former scout leader convicted of a string of historic sex offences against a boy.
- William Forbes, Hungerford, jailed for 27 months after two couples discovered their £750k homes are worthless after Forbes, the owner of a house building company, committed fraud.
- Kayden Williams, Tilehurst, was jailed for four and a half years after punching a 15-year-old girl in the face
- Ricky Harman, Maidenhead, jailed for almost two years for strangling his ex-partner, leading her to believe she was going to die.
- Bradley Holloway, Reading, raped a six-year-old girl when he was a teenager has been jailed for six years eighteen years later.
- Imran Beg, Reading, jailed for four years for domestic abuse
- George Dallarda, Reading, jailed for four years and eight months after police found £12,900 of drugs during a raid of a property
- Triston Box, Earley, was jailed for 20 months after being caught by uncover officers online after he revealed to them he had fantasies about young children.
- Nicolas Maze, Reading robbed a bakery takeaway service armed with a screwdriver has was jailed for more than two years.
- Lawrence Tozer, Reading, was jailed for over six years for causing the death of a 76-year-old Reading woman.
- Kirkpatrick Virgo, Reading, jailed for 21 years and 123 days the murder of a 24-year-old, Thomas Parker.
- Gufran Ahmed and Noor Fatima, both of Slough, jailed for nine years after a conspiracy to set fire to a cinema
- Rohil and Nabil Aslam, Slough, jail for almost five years and nine months respectively for assaulting several people on a night out.
- Ryan Hodge, Slough, jailed for almost two years for taking a knife into a Tummies restaurant
- Zohaib Rafiq, Slough, jailed for 16 months for dangerous driving
April
- Antonio Ana and Laurentiu Pirvu, Reading, jailed for nine months for stealing 10k worth of iPhones
- Michelle Townsend, Reading, jailed for 15 months for stabbing a man in the neck
- Richard Hiscock and Paul Hedley, Reading, jailed for two years for drug offences
- Riaz Miah and Hassan Al-Kubanji, Slough, jailed for 23 years for the murder of Rafaqit Kayani
- Omar Chaudry, Slough, jailed for 12 years for stabbing a dog walker
- Fariyaz Ahmed, Shayan Mir, Hammad Din, Daniel Marshal, and Tanwier Hussain, Slough, all jailed for varying times due to their involvement in an organised crime group
- Jason Porter, Slough, jailed for 33 months for selling drugs
- Amrik Bajwa, Slough, jailed for 12 weeks for an offensive TikTok
- Ashleigh Chesney, Slough, jailed for 16 months after travelling to Reading with a steak knife intending to slit her ex-girlfriend’s throat.
- Robert Frid, Bracknell, jailed for 36 years for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl
May
- Darren Brown, Newbury, jailed for 22 weeks for possessing a knuckle duster
- Nadine Jemmott, Southcote, jailed for 32 months for drug offences.
- Oliver Baker, Mapledurham, jailed for 40 months for intentional strangulation and assault
- Paul Smith, Berkshire, jailed for four years for supplying drugs and possessing criminal property.
- Pedro Moura and Haider Fernandes, Reading, jailed for four years for drug offences
- Adam Waite, Reading, jailed for four years for his involvement in the mugging of a man who was then kicked into a river
- Cameron Gruber, Reading, jailed for almost three years drug offences
- David Morgan, Reading, jailed for 13 years for plying a young boy with alcohol and raping him
- Benjamin Critchley, Reading, jailed for 26 month after being caught with £5600 worth of drugs, dangerous driving that caused a collision and trying to escape the scene in a taxi.
- Charlie Jewell, Reading, jailed for 18 months for assault and strangulation
- Ben Lyden, Reading, jailed for nine years assaulting a woman
- George Hall, Windsor, jailed for nine years for an historic sexual assault against a young girl
- Shaun Atkins, Woodley, jailed for eight years after stealing 600k from a bank
- Carl Button, Bracknell, for years for several counts of sexual assault after attacking a woman in her fifties during his time as a housing officer.
June
- Joshua Julia, Wokingham, jailed for four years for causing death of Deliveroo cyclist by dangerous driving
- Jake Skinner, Reading, jailed for 12 months for revenge porn
- Robin Cook, Reading, jailed for 10 years for raping and grooming a teen
- Fatjon Fata, West Berkshire, jailed for 49 months for drug offences
- Aaron Coaker, Reading, jailed for two years for burglary offences
- Darius Ellis, Reading, jailed for 36 months for punching a shopper and stealing his phone
- Fraser Banham, Kieron Evans, and Armani Robbins, jailed for different periods for the thefts and burglaries across Reading
- Adam Gerezgher, Reading jailed for three and a half years for sexually assaulting a teen
- Sabeur Trabelsi, Reading, jailed for six years for the manslaughter of Jason Page after punching him after he was caught shoplifting
- Yousef Zayadi, Nabeel Asghar, Adem Alpar, and Rinor Mehmetaj, Wokingham, jailed for different periods due to drug offences
- Kyle Hickey, Maidenhead, jailed for 12 years after robbing his friend's pub
- Timothy O'Reilley, Datchet, jailed for sexual activity with a child
- David Alder, Slough, jailed for over two years for paedophilic offences
- Kasra Esmaelie and Aziz Nasser, Slough, jailed for 13 years and 10 years for the kidnap and rape of a woman
- Barry Shrives, Bracknell, jailed for 20 months after intentionally strangling his partner and then his father
- Carl Dougles, Wokingham, jailed for half a decade for sexual offences
July
- John Gallagher, Reading, jailed for nine months for domestic assault
- Mohamed Hamza, Reading – jailed for four and half years after pulling a woman from the car by her neck, stealing the vehicle and crashing in it in Reading.
- Jackie Ilic, Maidenhead – jailed for 36 months for fraud against her elderly father
- Edgar Junior, Reading – jailed for 18 months after making inappropriate comments towards a female passenger before touching her thighs.
- Michael Tatham, Reading – jailed for 17 months after accessing the dark web
- Godwin Tsakadi, Reading – jailed for eight years for rape
- David Clark, Reading – jailed for over two years for attacking a woman and threatening to kill her
- Anthony Moore, Maidenhead, jailed for 18 weeks for possession of weapons
- Wayne Swaine, Reading, jailed for 26 weeks for assaulting a doorman
- Lewis Dearlove, Bracknell, jailed for two years for robbery
August
- Derek Sarfo, Reading, jailed for 24 months for drug offences
- Ryan Solly, Newbury – jailed for two years for burglary offences
- Armando Kaci, Reading – jailed for four years and six months for drug offences
- Ikramul Hoque, Reading – jailed for seven years for drug offences
- Troy Pieper, Craig Pieper, Dwaine Joseph, Jake Horwood, and Rhys Cunningham, Caversham, jailed for different periods for burglary
- Alan Walters, Tilehurst, jailed for 18 months threatening neighbour with a kitchen knife
- Sagar Gurung, Reading – jailed for eight years for sexual assault and attempted rape
- Abdul Khan, Reading, jailed for over eight years for the rape of teenager
- Dean Yates, Reading, jailed for 20 years for sexual offences against children
- David Stevens, Slough, jailed for six years and six months for dangerous driving, he fell asleep at the wheel
- Harry Bampton, Slough, jailed for five years for blackmail
- Ben Donnelly, Slough, jailed for eight years for stabbing his girlfriend's dad
- Johnathan Knight, Richard Loxston, and Robert McGeachie, Bracknell, jailed for different periods for sexual assault 'prank'
- Attila Dombi, Bracknell, jailed for 18 years for the rape of young girl
September
- Edward Price, Reading, jailed for seven years for historic sexual offences
- Waseem Khan, Reading, jailed for different periods for drug offences
October
- Andrew Brown, Theale, jailed for over two years for stalking offences
- Thomas Parker, Calcot – jailed for 14 months for dangerous driving and criminal damage
- Satwinder Singh, Berks and Bucks, jailed for 12 months after taking over 36 driving theory tests on behalf of other people as part of an ‘organised crime’ ring
- Martin Bodman and Alan Ludlow, Slough, jailed for different periods for a string of thefts
- Ryan Efey, Slough, jailed for one year and nine months for threatening person with a weapon
- Ahmad Hassan, Slough, jailed for four years for assisting a murderer in the death of Kyron Lee
- Andrzej Bojanowski, Slough, jailed for four years for burglary and two attempted burglaries in Slough
November
- Ionut Budar, Slough – jailed for almost three years for drug offences
- Grafton Vaughan, Reading – jailed after for seven years after a drugs raid
- Tajal Campbell, Reading – jailed for almost five years for drug offences
- Daniel Fidler, Berkshire – jailed for over two years for fraudulent activity
- Jamar Campbell, Reading – jailed for over two years drug offences
- Mohammed Islam, Slough, jailed for seven years for grievous bodily harm
- Dre Hayden, Bracknell, jailed for almost four years for stabbing a man in the face
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