Perverts and prolific thieves: Some of the Shropshire criminals locked up in recent weeks
July was a busy month for courts and crime fighters in Shropshire.
From serial thieves and rapists to an internet troll, the courts have been teeming with trials of all magnitude since we last looked back on June.
Notably, July saw the sentencing of keyboard warrior David Brown, who trolled the mother and stepfather of Dylan Price after the young man was killed just before his 18th birthday.
Brown, who sent messages from a fake Facebook account claiming he had killed Dylan, was jailed for 15 months for his cruel crime.
Later in the month, serial shoplifter Narinder Kaur was jailed for 10 years after her nationwide "tsunami of dishonesty" and fraud against top high street retailers.
Kaur travelled all over the country - including Shrewsbury and Telford - to deceive retailers out of around £500k.
Here are those, and some of the other cases the Shropshire Star has reported on over the month of July.
Judge warns paedophile who abused children and had indecent images poses 'high risk' to children
Michael Cook, 24, was jailed at Shrewsbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to 12 sexual offences, which had taken place over a five-year period – some while he was already on police bail.
Judge Laura Hobson said she believed Cook met the description of a "dangerous offender", saying: "In my judgement there is a risk you will commit further offences against children."
The court heard Cook, from Harlescott, Shrewsbury, had admitted offences of physical abuse of a young child, possession of indecent images of children, and attempting to arrange a child sex offence.
Cook was jailed for a total of ten years, and told to serve 13 years on licence.
Serial Telford thief jailed yet again after stealing swords, laptop and money from college
A serial shoplifter was put behind bars yet again after stealing a charity box, swords and money from a college's till.
Shane Chick, aged 36, has already been to jail three times this year for thieving, and has continued in the same criminal vein over the last three months, including using threatening behaviour against a woman in Telford.
Magistrates jailed Chick for 18 days and ordered him to pay a total of £3,280.50 in compensation.
Jail for thieving pig farmer who stole trailer and rammed police in 'dangerous' chase
A thief who stole a trailer from a farm and tried to ram police on a "dangerous" chase through rural villages was put behind bars for a year.
Pig farmer John Pughe and an unidentified accomplice targeted Morris's Farm in Meifod, near Welshpool, stealing £5,000 worth of agricultural stock.
Pughe then raced on major A roads and through villages with sparks flying in his wake after police burst his tyres with a stinger.
Men who subjected schoolgirl to 'depraved night of sexual abuse'
Two men who targeted a teenage schoolgirl in a night of 'the most depraved and disgusting abuse' were jailed for nine years.
A court heard Stevan Marston had "developed a sexual obsession" with the teenager when he and Yasser Mahmood preyed upon her in Telford one evening in the spring of 2022.
The pair received sentences of nine and a half and nine years respectively at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of various offences at trial in May.
Telford sweetie thief jailed after shoplifting 24 times in four months
Nathan Crossley, aged 34, targeted Telford shops including Tesco Express 12 times, Co-op seven times, Sainsbury's four times and Spar in Broseley between March and June this year, stealing more than £2,000 worth of stock.
His most lucrative thefts included £284 worth of meat and confectionary from the Broseley shop on March 3 and five cases of Kinder Bueno chocolate bars worth £200 from the Co-op on May 23.
Magistrates jailed him for 34 weeks and ordered him to pay £2,286 in compensation for the items he stole.
Paedophile who raped and sexually assaulted girls gets lengthy jail term
Robert Norry was sentenced to nine years behind bars following a trial where he was convicted of nine counts - one of raping a girl under the age of 13 and several of sexual activity.
Norry, aged 36, had no previous convictions against his name but was found guilty after a five-day trial in June of the rape of a girl under 13, two sexual assaults of a girl under 13 by touching and six counts of sexual activity with a girl under 16.
The court heard how Norry sexually assaulted the two girls between December 2020 and February 2022.
'Cruel' internet troll finally faces justice for tormenting hit-and-run victim's family
"Cruel" keyboard warrior David Brown, aged 61, finally faced justice for trolling the terminally ill mother and stepfather of Dylan Price after the young man was killed just before his 18th birthday on the B4385 Brampton Road in Bishop’s Castle in September 2021.
Brown, who sent messages from a fake Facebook account claiming he had killed Dylan, first admitted two charges of sending false information, contrary to the Malicious Communications Act back in 2022.
He was jailed for 15 months and handed a restraining order, banning him from contacting Mr and Mrs Bristow for 10 years.
Company boss turned violent after being criticised for his Christmas party dancing
A company boss who attacked two men after being criticised for his drunken dancing at a staff Christmas party was jailed for four and a half years.
Shrewsbury Crown Court was told that Nicholas Thomas Williams has shown exemplary personal behaviour in the five and a half years after the two 'violent' assaults on December 6, 2018.
But Judge Peter Barrie, handed down a four-and-a-half-year sentence after the 49-year-old was found guilty of wounding with intent, two counts of affray, and of assault occasioning actual bodily harm by a jury on June 3, 2024.
Judge Barrie, sitting at court on Thursday said the attacks on two men at the Lion Quays resort, at Weston Rhyn, near Oswestry, were so serious that an immediate custodial sentence was justified.
Shrewsbury burglar beaten after breaking into family home and climbing on victim
Prolific criminal Simon Budd, aged 41, climbed into a family home and got on top of a sleeping dad in bed in Buttington Road, Shrewsbury.
But he got more than he bargained for, finding himself being thrown out of the front door and on the receiving end of a good hiding.
Judge Anthony Lowe jailed Budd for 31 months for the burglary and attacking the police officers.
Teenage rapists who targeted 'vulnerable' woman in Shropshire hotel
Harley King, aged 19 from Newcastle and and Ben Jennings, aged 20, from Cramlington, in Northumberland were just 17 and 18 respectively when they attacked the woman in 2022.
Following a trial in June, King was found guilty of three offences – two charges of raping a woman aged 16 and over and one charge of voyeurism or recording a private act. Jennings was convicted of two charges of rape of a woman aged 16 and over, and one sexual assault charge of a female aged 16.
The court had heard that the pair had attacked their “vulnerable” victim in a hotel when she was visiting Oswestry with a group of other young people.
Both were jailed for eight years and six months with the judge remarking that their "overall culpability was the same".
Local grime artist jailed for more than six years over drug offences
Demehl Thomas, 34, who is also known as a local grime artist by the name of 'Remtrex' was arrested in April 2019 following an investigation into the supply of drugs from Birmingham into Huddersfield.
Thomas, of Villa Court, Telford, was convicted after half a kilo of cocaine and over £14,000 of cash was recovered.
He was charged for conspiring to supply Class A drugs and was found guilty following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Jail for school-worker from Telford who had sex with autistic child
A Telford woman who was in a position of trust has been jailed for a string of sexual abuse against a boy who was under 16 years of age.
Acasia Welburn, who is now aged 26, of New Road in Telford, was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Welburn had pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
Woman who targeted Shropshire stores as she made £500k in 'industrial scale' fraud
A serial shoplifter who committed a nationwide "tsunami of dishonesty" and fraud against top high street retailers worth £500,000 was jailed for 10 years.
Narinder Kaur, 54, travelled all over the country - including Shrewsbury, Telford, Dudley, Smethwick and Kidderminster - to deceive retailers into refunding her for items she had stolen.
Gloucester Crown Court heard Kaur defrauded the likes of Boots, Debenhams, John Lewis, Monsoon, House of Fraser and TK Maxx more than a thousand times between July 2015 and February 2019.