A gang of people found with knives in an Ipswich park and a sex offender who drove to Suffolk to meet an 11 year-old boy were among those who were jailed in Suffolk this week.
Shakur O'Connor, Malakai Greeves-O'Connor, Braydon Byng and Tiago Dos Santos
An incident involving young people caught with knives in Ipswich saw six jailed for a total of 51 years.
Norwich Crown Court heard how six people admitted conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm following an incident in Westbourne Park in August last year.
Shakur O'Connor, 20 and of Packard Avenue, was jailed for nine years.
Greaves-O'Connor, 20 and of Highfield Road in Felixstowe, was jailed for nine years.
Byng, 19 and of Newnham Court in Ipswich, was jailed for eight years and six months.
Dos Santos, 19 and of Belle Vue Road in Ipswich, received a nine-year sentence for conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm and other offences.
Two 17 year-olds from Ipswich were also sentenced.
Ryan Latham
Ryan Latham was stopped by police in Yarmouth Road in Lowestoft in February 2021.
Ipswich Crown Court heard how he was found with 17g of cannabis and 4g of cocaine worth £800 hidden between his buttocks.
Latham, 32 and of no fixed address, admitted being concerned in the supply of drugs between January 16 and February 15 and February 24 and July 6 in 2020, possessing ketamine, and possessing two mobile phones in prison.
He has been jailed for 69 months.
Marcus Lucas
Marcus Lucas, 20 and of Sidegate Lane in Ipswich, was found guilty of a series of sex offences against children at a trial earlier this year.
Ipswich Crown Court heard how the 23 offences took place over a three-year period from 2017 to 2019.
His seven female victims were all teenagers at the time.
Lucas was given a six-and-a-half-year custodial sentence and must serve four years and four months of this in prison.
He also had to sign the sex offenders register for life.
David Murphy
Murphy, of Cavendish Street in Derby, was described as "an unrepentant child sex offender" when sentenced for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy.
Derby Crown Court heard how Murphy, 40, drove to Suffolk to meet the boy in a village where he took the victim to a wooded area and sexually assaulted him.
Murphy pleaded guilty to inciting a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity, meeting a boy under 16 following sexual grooming, four counts of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and three counts of failing to comply with sex offenders register notification requirements.
He was sentenced to six years and eight months in jail, extended by six years for dangerousness.
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