Jailed round up: Some of the Shropshire criminals locked up in recent weeks
August was a busy month for courts and crime fighters in Shropshire.
From serial thieves to arsonists, the courts have been teeming since we last looked back on July.
Notably, August saw the sentencing of "racist" Newport father-of-two Rory Allington-Mott, who was locked up for his role in the recent riots.
The 34-year-old had previous convictions for racially aggravated criminal damage after smashing windows with a hammer at The Lion Hotel - the Shrewsbury town centre hotel which was housing asylum seekers up until this summer.
The court heard that Allington-Mott travelled Merseyside to take part in the violence, and was captured throwing a wheelie bin at a police riot van and smashing what appeared to be a window frame over a police officer's head.
August also saw homeless man Jakub Krzysztof Kaczmarek locked up for 31 months after setting fire to a property in Wellington.
The 36-year old had been squatting in the £120,000 bungalow in Mill Bank when the council asked him to leave. The following day Kaczmarek returned to the property and set several fires that saw the property engulfed in flames.
Here are those, and some of the other cases the Shropshire Star has reported on over the month of August.
Man who repeatedly rammed a van into Oswestry pub entrance locked up for terrifying attack
Michael McGuire, from the Park Hall Caravan Site in Oswestry, was locked up for repeatedly ramming a van into the gates of the Boar's Head on January 7.
Judge Rachel Brand said the defendant "had completely lost control" as he sought to pursue a man following an earlier altercation.
McGuire was sentenced to 30 months detention and banned from driving for three years and eight months.
The judge also made him subject of a restraining order preventing him from entering Willow Street in Oswestry where the pub is based, or contacting its landlord.
Telford shoplifter jailed after stealing coffee, cheese and deodorant
Alex Bull, aged 38, targeted the Co-op at Milners Lane, Lawley Bank, Telford, five times in a spate of nine thefts between April and July this year.
He also stole from Tesco Express in Park Lane, Woodside on three occasions and Hill Top News in Ironbridge Road, Madeley once.
His haul, which also included milk and laundry detergent, was worth a combined £520.60.
Bull, of Smallwood, Sutton Hill, Telford, pleaded guilty at Kidderminster Magistrates Court to nine counts of theft.
Deputy District Judge James Hulse jailed Bull for six months and ordered him to pay £300 in compensation.
Robber threatened woman with knife, stole car and rammed through gates of RAF Cosford
Nikki Taylor was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison at Stafford Crown Court on August 2 after he admitted robbery, driving a motor vehicle dangerously, taking a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent and causing damage to property.
The 40-year-old, of Coalway Road in Wolverhampton, was also given a restraining order against the victim and ordered to take an extended driving re-test following the incident in September last year.
'Dangerous and predatory' paedophile locked up after being found guilty of sickening child sex offences
Nicholas Burgess, 52, of no fixed address but previously of New Street, Wem, was convicted of five counts of sexually assaulting a child – and one count of inciting a child into sexual activity. The charges all relate to offences in Shifnal.
Burgess was sentenced to seven years in prison for the abuse. He will also be made subject to a sexual harm prevention order.
Jail for prolific Telford thief who stole baby formula from Boots
Nicholas Smith, 37, of Park Lane in Madeley, has a lengthy record for stealing from shops, especially in the Telford area.
His latest offence, that happened at Boots in Bromsgrove, saw £126 worth of baby formula stolen.
Jail for man who attacked cops and committed serious assault at Shrewsbury pub
Kyle Moore, 23, attacked a man and two police officers at The Brooklands Hotel in Mill Road, Meole Brace on August 11.
Moore, of no fixed abode, pleaded at Kidderminster Magistrates Court to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker. He was jailed for 14 weeks.
Telford man jailed for attack on two people
Liam Payne, aged 36, attacked a man and a woman in Telford on August 6 this year, occasioning actual bodily harm to the man.
Payne, of Pauline Close, Ketley, Telford, pleaded guilty at Kidderminster Magistrates Court to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating.
Deputy District Judge Asif Munir jailed Payne for six months.
RAF veteran jailed for threats to kill shop workers the same day he walked free from court over lewd abuse of Greggs employee
Paul Cotton, aged 48, was causing chaos in Shifnal just hours after receiving a suspended jail term for yelling at a female Greggs worker, who was emptying the bins, to "show us your t*ts".
Cotton, who pleaded guilty to a charge of using insulting words to cause harassment, was sentenced at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court on July 16 to an eight-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months, as well as being ordered to pay £50 compensation to the Greggs worker.
However, the very same day he was sentenced, he headed to Shifnal to abuse more retail workers.
Cotton was sentenced to two years in prison.
Shropshire man travelled to Southport to throw bricks and bin at police in shocking riots
Father-of-two Rory Allington-Mott of High Street, Newport, travelled from Shropshire to launch bricks, a wheelie bin and a window frame at police officers in riots on Merseyside. He was jailed for three years and three months last month.
The 34-year-old has previous convictions for racially aggravated criminal damage after smashing windows with a hammer at The Lion Hotel - the Shrewsbury town centre hotel which was housing asylum seekers up until this summer.
Homeless man burnt down £120,000 council bungalow in 'revenge' attack for eviction
Jakub Krzysztof Kaczmarek, of no fixed abode, had been squatting in the £120,000 property in Mill Bank, Wellington in February this year when the council asked him to leave.
After his eviction on February 6, the 36-year-old returned to the property a day later and set several fires that saw the bungalow “engulfed in flames” and the garden “ablaze”, a court was told on Friday.
Following his arrest, small quantities of cocaine and cannabis were also found in Kaczmarek's possession. He pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger life as well as two drugs offences.
Kaczmarek was jailed for 31 months plus one day each for the drug charges – to run concurrently.
Jail for man who came to the UK 'in the back of a lorry' after being found looking after Telford cannabis grow
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard that Marin Hysa, 33, was discovered when police raided a property in Haybridge Avenue, in Hadley, on July 18.
Officers had arrived at the house at 7.37am and Hysa was seen running away from the rear of the home.
He was arrested and inside the house police found it had been converted to grow cannabis – with special lights and hydroponic equipment.
Hysa, who had pleaded guilty to one count of producing a class B drug, was jailed for a total of nine months.
Jail for man who started kitchen 'inferno' in friend's Telford flat during mental health crisis
John Webb, 57, of no fixed abode, was sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court after admitting charges of arson and possession of a bladed article.
Webb had been staying at a friend's top floor flat in St Georges on August 11 to 12 this year when he locked himself in the kitchen and blocked the door.
The fire service and the police were called, with the flat's owner describing the ensuing fire as "an inferno".
Recorder Millington said the fire had put two women in the flat at "serious risk of harm", and that a report prepared for the court said that Webb's mental health issues do not require hospital treatment.
Webb was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for the arson, with six months to be served concurrently for the possession of a bladed article.