Behind bars: Lincolnshire criminals locked up in June 2017

Drug dealers, child sex offenders, armed robbers… courts in Lincolnshire have this month jailed criminals for a host of serious offences.

Take a look at some of the Lincolnshire offenders convicted in June:

Alexandra Rust

Alexandra Rust has been jailed for two years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police

Alexandra Rust was jailed for two years after stealing more than £40,000 in just eight months from two vulnerable MS sufferers.

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Jamie, Connor and Ashton Upton

Left to right: Jamie, Connor and Ashton Upton have all been jailed

Three brothers were jailed after they burst into a house to carry out a revenge attack.

Jamie Upton also admitted possession of an offensive weapon and was jailed for two years.

Connor Upton and Ashton Upton were each sent to a young offenders’ institution for 20 months.

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Craig Pike

Craig Pike has been jailed for four years. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police

Craig Pike was jailed for four years after he admitted sexually touching girls as young as eight between 2007 and 2011 on around four occasions.

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Donatas Liumas, Arnaldas Cvetkovas, Jonas Dauginitis and Jake Louth

A drugs gang who imported mephedrone from China to sell on the streets of Boston were given jail sentences totalling 33 years.

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Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards

(L-R) Markham and Edwards

Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham were jailed for 17-and-a-half years each for the murders of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards in Spalding.

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Richard Willis

Richard Willis was a Sleaford Town councillor at the time of his arrest

Richard Willis, 51, was jailed for eight months for making and distributing indecent images of children.

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Neil Tolley, Ian Tolley and Giles Smith

L-R: Neil Tolley, Ian Tolley and Giles Smith have all been jailed for their part in a large-scale drugs operation

Neil Tolley, Ian Tolley, and Giles Smith, were jailed for a total of 14 years for their part in a large-scale drugs operation.

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Clinton Sentance

Clinton Sentance

Clinton Sentance was jailed for life after he carried out three knifepoint robberies during just 26 hours targeting his victims in their own homes and leaving them terrified.

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Vidmantas Svedarauskas

Vidmantas Svedarauskas has been jailed for the murder. Photo: Lincolnshire Police

Vidmantas Svedarauskas was jailed for life after he murdered his disabled neighbour following an incident in which his 61-year-old victim was savagely beaten.

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Laura Barzdaite

Laura Barzdaite has been jailed for stabbing her husband. Photo: Google Street View

Laura Barzdaite was jailed for two years after she chased her husband Gintaras Saulavicius down the stairs of their flat in West Row, Boston, and stabbed him in the back.

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Matthew Clarke

Matthew Derek Clarke has been jailed for 15 years. Photo: Lincolnshire Police

Matthew Derek Clarke was jailed for 15 years for a string of sexual offences against a girl under the age of 13.

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Liam Lytollis

Liam Lytollis has been jailed for three years and four months

Liam Lytollis was jailed for three years and four months after he carried out two attacks on innocent strangers.

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Nicky Ward

Nicky Ward

Nicky Ward, a convicted rapist who spent three days at large after walking out of an open prison, was sentenced to 16 weeks imprisonment.

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Romans Krilovs

Romans Krilovs has been jailed for nine years

Romans Krilovs, 41, was jailed for nine years after he caused the death of popular Spilsby greengrocer by drink driving.

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Stephen Tyndale, Monica Thomson, Imtiaz Khoda, Asif Habib and Abdul Naeem

Conspirators who defrauded public bodies, including a Lincolnshire NHS trust, out of over £12 million were given sentences of up to 10 years.

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Lloyd Peter Hook, Samuel James Tooke and Shane Kelk

L-R: Lloyd Peter Hook, Samuel James Tooke and Shane Kelk have all been jailed

Three men have been jailed for nearly 25 years between them for their part in a shooting at a house where a mother and her young child lived.

Lloyd Peter Hook was jailed for seven years and six months after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

Samuel James Tooke, 26, was jailed for 10 years and Shane Kelk, 23, was jailed for seven years and five months.

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Tracy Finney

Tracy Finney was jailed for five years

Heroin addict Tracy Finney, 37, was jailed for five years after she preyed on vulnerable and elderly people in Grantham.

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