THOSE sentenced in November include a Boomtown drug dealer, a 18-year-old who stabbed a pensioner with a fish knife and a con artist who illegally opened 76 separate bank accounts.
Courts across the county have given out hefty prison sentences for all manner of crimes last month.
These are just some of the court cases our reporters have covered in November 2020.
Here are the criminals and their crimes:
George Eduard Costache
Jailed for four years
George Eduard Costache, of Winchester, sold caravans, tractors and heavy plant machinery - which did not exist - to sellers from across the globe.
The con artist stole more than £1.2m and illegally opened 76 separate bank accounts.
Winchester Crown Court heard that he got his victims to pay into bank accounts that had been opened using counterfeit European identification documents.
The 34-year-old pleaded guilty to committing fraud by false representation across Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey – all of which occurred between September 1, 2018 and July 3, 2020.
The court also heard that during a search of an address at which Costache resided, 23 counterfeit European identification documents and passports were located and linked these to the fraudulent activity.
Costache, of Sussex Street, was found guilty of four counts of fraud, one count of possession of articles for use in fraud and one count of money laundering.
He was handed a four-year custodial sentence for money laundering with four years concurrent for committing fraud and two years concurrent for possession of 23 counterfeit identification documents.
Kieren Clarke
Jailed for three years
Kieren Clarke had been drinking heavily with a friend when victim Roy Bradbeer, 60, heard shouting and vulgar language outside his home at around 10pm.
Mr Bradbeer left his house, in Battery Hill, Bishop’s Waltham, to tell the pair to move on, but was said to have felt threatened and punched the teenagers to the ground.
There was a scuffle and Clarke and his co-defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked the victim.
In sentencing, Mr Recorder J Waddington QC said: “A neighbour saw you both pull him to the ground and both of you were kicking him as Mr Bradbeer curled up into a ball.”
The 18-year-old, of May Tree Close, Badger Farm, took out a knife and stabbed Mr Bradbeer in the chest with a fish knife, just above his right nipple, which penetrated the chest and “nipped the lung”.
Clarke was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent following a trial at Salisbury Crown Court in September, where he claimed he did not mean to stab his victim in chest but in his arm.
During the trial the jury were played Clarke's phone call to police after the incident where he asked to be arrested. He later told officers the field that he had dumped the knife in.
Clarke previously pleaded guilty to being in possession of a bladed article during a hearing at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court.
Judge Waddington jailed Clarke for three years, sending him to a youth offenders institute.
Hushan Ali-Raj
Jailed for three years seven months
Hushan Ali-Raj, 31, was spotted by security staff in a closed off area reserved for crew at Boomtown Festival on August 12 last year.
Staff searched his “man bag” and found a variety of drugs including 43.56 grams of ketamine, 21 squares of LSD and four grams of MDMA. He also had diazepam, alprazolam, cannabis and another unnamed class A drug.
Winchester Crown Court heard that the drugs were worth £3,650 and Ali-Raj had £540 in cash on him.
Ali-Raj, of Eleanor Close, Tottenham, London, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply class A, B and C drugs during an earlier hearing at the same court.
In 2013 Ali-Raj was jailed for 32 months possessing class A drugs with intent to supply.
Jailing Ali-Raj for 45 months, Judge Susan Evans QC she said: “Once the drugs were inside a festival the price is about double the street value.
“You took them [the drugs] into the festival, got them through security knowing you would get a better price inside the festival.”
Gary Hunt
Jailed for 20 months
Gary Hunt 24, of Palm Road, Southampton was “heavily intoxicated” when he was ejected from the party in Raymond Road following a scuffle.
Prosecution barrister, Sam Barker, told how he left the scene only to return with a large piece of wood.
He then set about smashing an Audi belonging to the man whose home he had been “bundled out from”.
He went on to smash a bathroom window and the front door glass.
His “rampage” on August 29 this year left one of his victims unconscious and another with a facial injury.
He went on to smash a bathroom window and the front door glass.
He appeared at Southampton Crown Court and was charged with two counts of ABH, criminal damage and burglary to which he previously pleaded guilty.
Hunt who has previous convictions for GBH and battery was jailed for 20-months and will be released on licence.
Jesse Madgwick
Jailed for two years and two months
On July 27, 2018, the 22-year-old was stopped and searched in Southsea. A house search later revealed drug paraphernalia and a large sum of cash.
On September 30, 2018, Madgwick was stopped shortly after midnight on Market Way, Portsmouth, and found to have a large amount of cash, a large quantity of class A drugs and numerous phones.
On November 24 last year, two officers were assaulted by him. One officer was assaulted with a metal bar and bitten on the hand, receiving minor injuries, while the second received swelling and redness to her face.
This year, on February 8, Madgwick intervened while police were detaining a man at the scene of a domestic incident on London Road.
Madgwick pushed an office to the ground.
While under arrest for this incident, at around 8.20pm on the same day he kicked an officer to the stomach. Neither officer was seriously injured.
Appearing at Portsmouth Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to three counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker, one count of obstruction/resisting a constable, two counts of being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug, one count of being concerned in making an offer to supply a Class A drug, one count of supplying a Class B drug, and two counts of possessing criminal property.
Madgwick, of Lyndhurst Road, Copnor, was sentenced to two years and two months in prison.
Ebrahim Maroof
Jailed for four years and ten months
Ebrahim Maroof was caught in a car park in St Mary’s, Southampton, with an imitation firearm in his waistband.
The 20-year-old had a mix of heroin, crack cocaine and a small quantity of cannabis with a total street value of around £280 on February 15 last year.
Formerly of Oxford Avenue, Southampton, the low-level street dealer used the “realistic” weapon to “enforce and intimidate”.
He was previously found guilty by a jury on two counts of possession of class A drugs with intent to supply and for having an imitation firearm.
Defending, Tom Evans, argued his client is vulnerable and was homeless at the time the offences were committed having just turned 19-years-old.
Furthermore, he said Maroof might be at risk of radicalisation in prison and had in the past been sent away to an Islamic boarding school.
Maroof was jailed for four years and ten months. He will be released on licence after serving half of this.
Dilan Daley
Jailed for three years seven months
Dilan Daley was arrested on September 24 after officers from Hampshire Police and the Metropolitan Police carried out a county lines warrant at his address.
The 28-year-old was found to be in possession of a quantity of heroin and crack cocaine.
The court heard that Daley held a drugs line that he used to advertise the sale of drugs to residents in Southampton and would travel from London to Southampton to supply them.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
Daley, of Dynevor Road, Hackney, was been jailed for 45 months.
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