Behind bars: Lincolnshire criminals locked up in July 2017

Child sex offenders, killers and armed robbers… courts in Lincolnshire have this month jailed criminals for a host of serious offences.

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

Anthony Hodgson

Anthony Hodgson

Anthony Hodgson was jailed for nine years after carrying out  a savage street attack leaving his victim with life-threatening brain injuries.

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Luke Atkinson

Luke Atkinson has been jailed. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police

Luke Atkinson, 29, was jailed for four years and eight months after grooming teenage girls from across the country.

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Sergejs Danilevics

Sergejs Danilevics was jailed for four years for five offences of burglary

Sergejs Danilevics was jailed for four years after stealing a number of items from homes in Boston.

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Alan Chandler

Alan Chandler, previously known as Mark Lamb, 46

Alan Chandler was jailed for seven years after he defrauded investors in his firm out of £3 million.

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William Wright

William Wright

William Andrew Wright, a former police officer, was jailed for life after sexually assaulting and raping a young boy.

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Nicola Dowell

Nicola Dowell has been jailed for six months

Nicola Dowell was jailed for six months after being caught trying to smuggle drugs into Lincoln Prison.

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James Morton

James Morton, 24, was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of the manslaughter of 16-year-old Lincolnshire girl Hannah Pearson.

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Bruno Nikolik

Bruno Nikolik. Photo: Lincolnshire Police

Bruno Nikolik was jailed for two years after he acted as a lookout during a high value theft at a Gainsborough jewellery shop.

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Jermaine Francis, Paul Cato, Jordan McGlann and Kwame Appah, Clifton Hunte, Dilem Ozbahadir, Joseph Newman and Jake Gaughan

Top row: left to right: Jermaine Francis, Paul Cato, Jordan McGlann and Kwame Appah. Bottom row: left to right: Clifton Hunte, Dilem Ozbahadir, Joseph Newman and Jake Gaughan

Jermaine Francis, Paul Cato, Jordan McGlann and Kwame Appah, Clifton Hunte, Dilem Ozbahadir, Joseph Newman and Jake Gaughan were given sentences totalling 40 years after being hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of cocaine and heroin into Grantham.

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Berkay Rakici and David George

Berkay Rakici and David George have both been jailed

Berkay Rakici and David George were jailed after they both acted as couriers bringing in drugs from London and Luton to Grantham.

Rakici, 24, was jailed for four-and-a-half years and George, 27, was jailed for three years.

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James Whiley

James Whiley, 50 was jailed for six years and eight months after he committed five burglaries in four nights in a Lincolnshire town.

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Jasmin Johnson

Jasmin Johnson has been jailed for three years

Jasmin Johnson, 23, was jailed for three years after she assaulted a police officer trying to arrest her for several other offences

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John Robert Thompson

John Robert Thompson

John Robert Thompson, 38, was jailed for 12 and a half years after assaulting and raping a woman in Lincoln.

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