EACH and every day, criminals cause misery across Colchester whether it be with violence, drug dealing or depraved sexual acts.

Here are the faces of the people police brought to justice in January who have received jail sentences.

Gazette:

A CAR thief who took or drove a fleet of stolen cars worth close to £100,000 in a summer-long crimewave has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Scott Warner was involved in the taking of everything from a high-end BMW to a Scout group minibus which had been borrowed for a family holiday.

The 31-year-old and his accomplices would often also steal number plates and place them on to the vehicles in a bid to avoid detection in North Essex and beyond.

Warner, of London Road, Clacton, admitted stealing cars worth £55,000 and handling stolen vehicles worth £42,500 along with a string of other dishonesty offences.

Judge David Pugh jailed him for a total of 55 months at Ipswich Crown Court calling his crimes “professional and sophisticated”.

Gazette:

AN armed robber who terrified a jewellery shop worker and tried to steal £30,000 worth of goods has been jailed for 32 months.

Jordan Henniker was one of two men who arrived outside Chimes in Trinity Street, Colchester, on a motorbike before heading inside wearing crash helmets and holding weapons.

The 20-year-old threatened the employee on duty with a tyre wrench telling him to lock the back door and if he moved then he would kill him.

His accomplice, Simon Jacobs, began smashing cabinets and the pair grabbed as much jewellery as they could.

Jacobs was detained by an off-duty detective while Henniker, of Norway Crescent, Dovercourt, got away.

But police linked him to the raid because of DNA he had left on his crash helmet.

He admitted robbery and possession of an offensive weapon.

Gazette:

A CYBER fraudster and drug dealer who flaunted his cash online has been jailed for five years.

Dan Aiyegbusi, who admitted never working a legitimate day in his life, worked with organised hackers in the UK and abroad to launder stolen money.

He was also found with dozens of rocks of crack cocaine in Colchester.

Aiyegbusi, 23, of Eastern Boulevard, Leicester, admitted five counts of money laundering, totalling £41,150 and possession with intent to supply class A and class B drugs.

  • A DAD who ignored a restraining order banning him from contacting his former partner was sent back to prison.

Jack Smith had only been out of jail for a few days when he sent a series of Facebook messages to the woman he was banned from talking to.

Smith, of Hordle Place, Dovercourt, sent a total of 15 messages over the course of a day in December.

Colchester Magistrates' Court heard he had already served jail sentences for assaulting the woman - who is the mother of his children - and for previously flouting the order banning him from talking to her.

He admitted breach of a restraining order and was jailed for 12 weeks.

  • POLICE officers caught a man red handed walking out of a block of flats he was banned from attended.

Lee Doggett was barred from contacting a woman who lived at the address in Colchester by a two-year restraining order.

But on a Sunday evening in August she heard a knocked at her door. She realised it was Doggett, of Eustace Road, Ipswich, when he looked through her spyhole and didn't answer.

He left, but returned just minutes later and knocked again.

Police attended and saw the 47-year-old coming out of the communal door.

He was already serving a suspended 18-week sentence, suspended for two years given to him in June for three counts of assaults on the victim.

Doggett admitted breaching a restraining order, breaching a suspended sentence and possession of cannabis at Ipswich Crown Court.

He was jailed for 44 weeks.

  • A BURGLAR has been jailed for three years after targeting three village homes in the space of a week.

Stephen Vincent, of Westwood Park, Great Bentley, admitted two offences of burglary and one offence of criminal damage after the crime spree in March last year.

Vincent, 46, used concrete used to smash a glass door panel at the rear of a house in The Street, Capel St Mary, on March 13 at 11.30am.

Two days later a home in Grange Lane, Kesgrave, in Suffolk, he stole a large amount of jewellery and commemorative coins were stolen.

Then just three days later on March 18 a home in Capel Road, Bentley, was burgled at around 2.45pm but Vincent ran off.