These are the faces of 16 county criminals who were jailed for serious offences across Northamptonshire and beyond, and whose often shocking stories this newspaper brought you during May 2025...
5. Davood Alekozai
Registered sex offender Alekozai, aged 25, was sentenced to 64 months after failing to comply with notification requirements imposed after he was convicted of three assaults on women while living in Corby — including one in The Range and one in Superdrug. The third was assaulted as she worked alone, close to Alekozai’s home which was then at Stone House Mews. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
6. John Malonda
Paedophile Malonda was sentenced to 26 months and put on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years after police discovered indecent images of children and animal pornography on his phone. The 34-year-old of Moorbridge Road, Moulton, admitted a string of charges including arranging or facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child, possession of extreme pornographic images and making an indecent photograph of a child. Photo: Northamptonshire Police
7. John Streeton
The 41-year old paedophile was jailed for nine years after admitting a series of online child sex offences. Streeton of Willow Lane, Stanion, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court after confessing he travelled to the city where he had arranged to meet a woman to abuse her children — but he had, in fact, been communicating with a police officer. Photo: North West Regional Organised Crime Unit
8. Michael Smith
Smith admitted slashing a man’s face with a butcher’s knife after a row on Corby’s Hazel Leys estate. The 45-year-old, of Llewellyn Walk in the town, pleaded guilty to assault causing grievous bodily harm and possession of cannabis and was sentenced to seven years, four months with a further three years on licence. Photo: Northamptonshire Police