From murderers to police officers plenty of criminals were locked up last month.

Some offenders got long sentences handed to them, especially the first one we feature who received two whole life sentences for killing two women in the 1980s and a concurrent 12 year-term for violating dead bodies in morgues.

But there were also bullies, drug smugglers, rapists, killers and police offices locked up last month.

David Fuller

Necrophiliac Fuller murdered two women in the 1980s and will die in prison.

The 67-year-old of Heathfield, was given two whole-life orders for the murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce at their Tunbridge Wells homes in 1987.

He also filmed himself having sex with at least 102 bodies and was also sentenced to 12 years for 51 counts of abusing dead bodies, which he will serve concurrently.

Judge Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb told Fuller: "You became a vulture picking your victims from among the dead within the hidden world of a hospital mortuary."

PC Deniz Jaffer and PC Jamie Lewis

Both officers who were employed by the Met Police were jailed after they took and shared pictures of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman who were killed in a park in Wembley.

After the officers' actions were revealed, the sisters’ mother Mina Smallman, from Ramsgate, called on the Met Police to “get the rot out once and for all”.

Jaffer, 47, from east London, and Lewis, 33, from Essex, pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office.

Both Jaffer and Lewis were each locked up for two years and nine months.

A tribunal also found the officers had committed gross misconduct and they were sacked.

Paul Marsh

Marsh was jailed for 11 years and branded a "monster" for killing his girlfriend's three-year-old child in a fit of rage after she refused to eat her lunch.

Residential home worker Marsh sat with his head bowed as the victim's tearful mother called him a coward.

Liking him to US mass killer Ted Bundy she said Marsh - "the monster who killed my child" - had refused to accept what he had done.

The 27-year-old had claimed he had found Jessica Dalgleish slumped behind the bannister near the stairs.

Jessica - who was a vulnerable child because of medical problems - was airlifted from Folkestone to King's College Hospital in London but died last Christmas Eve from her fatal brain injuries.

David Hucker

A former police firearms instructor was jailed for life after being convicted of murdering his daughter's partner with a 12-bore shotgun.

David Hucker, 69, blasted Robert Williamson twice with a 12-bore gun after the pair argued at his home in Dartford Road, Dartford, in May. He will serve a minimum of 26 years’ imprisonment after being locked up at Maidstone Crown Court.

The deadly incident at Hucker's daughter's home was recorded as the victim was making a 999 call - and played to the jury.

Hucker, 69, fired twice during a row over who was to live at the home which was owned by his daughter.

He had denied murdering Robert Williamson, who worked in construction and demolition during a row.

Oakley Ellis

London drug dealer Ellis was locked up after selling drugs in Medway and attacking a shop worker in Cliffe.

He was jailed for five years for an array of offences, including punching the shop worker and running off without paying for his items.

Police also identified that the 24-year-old from Erith was involved in the supply of Class A drugs to dealers in Gillingham. He was also jailed at Maidstone Crown Court for dealing offences committed in Hull.

Kye and Robbie Dunn

The perverted Dunn brothers were jailed after raping and sexually assaulting a vulnerable child in Dover.

Kye Dunn was 19 when he raped the child, who was in the early years of secondary school.

The victim was then sexually assaulted by Robbie Dunn, who was then 17.

Both pleaded guilty the offences and were sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court.

Kye Dunn had given the victim cannabis and alcohol before taking them back to his home.

Kye Dunn, now 23, pleaded guilty to rape following his arrest and was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years. Robbie Dunn, now 21, admitted sexual assault and received three-and-a-half years.

Aston Cocks and Michael Rowe

Cowardly thugs who broke a woman’s jaw - forcing her to eat through a straw for eight weeks - were also jailed at Canterbury Crown Court.

Cocks, 28, from Ramsgate, attacked a woman outside the York Arms in the town, in January 2020 and was also a drug dealer.

Michael Rowe, 26, from Margate then joined in the assault, before they casually walked away, leaving the victim bleeding heavily and Rowe also launched a rock at his victim as she tried getting up.

Cocks was handed a five-year-and-eight month sentence for drug dealing and the attack and Rowe was given four-years-eight months for the attack and dealing offences.

John Gould

18-year-old Gould stabbed a boy in the head in a "random act of violence" as the teenager went to buy a kebab.

The 14-year-old victim was walking along King Street in Ramsgate when Gould plunged the knife into his temple.

Armed with the blade, Gould, from Whitstable, rushed out of a property and delivered one “quick strike” to the boy’s head after he refused to engage in a fight.

His injuries would have been catastrophic if the three-and-half inch knife landed a fraction lower, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

Gould was sentenced to 18 months in a Young Offenders’ Institute.

Steven Scott

Scott, 46, was jailed for four years after admitting sexually abusing a child on the Isle of Sheppey.

He had been on trial at Maidstone Crown Court accused of raping the youngster, but was cleared of the rape charge.

Scott of Pudding Lane, Maidstone, carried out the attack on a vulnerable child and caused psychological harm to the youngster.

The court heard he also had a previous conviction for possessing child abuse images in 2010.

At the time of his sentencing, he was also placed on an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.

Sam Murphy and a 17-year-old boy

Two arsonists who put lives at risk when they torched a car parked outside its owner’s home in a revenge attack were also locked up.

Sam Murphy, 20, from Faversham, and his 17-year-old accomplice from Ashford, who can't be named because of his age, engulfed the BMW in flames after dowsing the interior with accelerant in July last year.

Both were handed a combined total of three-and-a-half-years in a young offenders institution at Canterbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered.

The 17-year-old, was also handed four months to run concurrently after pleading guilty to harassment with fear of violence after the pair attacked the car at the height of a campaign of harassment against a teenage girl who had recently ended a relationship with him.

Adam Fleming

An abuser subjected his girlfriend to such violence she suffered brain damage, loss of speech - and can no longer recognise her own daughter.

Adam Fleming, from Ramsgate, left his victim requiring around-the-clock care after medics found "every inch" of her face covered in bruises.

The 27-year-old was jailed for 14 years at Canterbury Crown Court.

The victim's daughter told how her mum was “normal and healthy” before meeting Fleming, but would later start noticing bruising around her face.

Her fears that Fleming was subjecting her to violence were confirmed after learning her mother had been rushed into intensive care earlier this year and days later, Fleming phoned a social worker claiming his partner fell over and suffered a seizure.

Fleming, must serve two-thirds of his sentence before being considered for release, then a further four on licence.

Ian Masterman

A former soldier who strangled and repeatedly punched his ex-partner while ripping out handfuls of her hair was also jailed.

Ian Masterman's victim lost consciousness in the devastating attack where, once police arrived, he tried thwarting attempts to assist her.

He repeatedly punched and throttled her until she lost consciousness at their address in Kennington, Ashford, on the night before Valentine's Day this year.

Prosecutors showed the court images of the blood-spattered room and the victim's swollen face following the "vigorous" and cowardly attack.

The 55-year-old from sobbed as the jury delivered its guilty verdict at Canterbury Crown Court before repeatedly crying out: "I didn't do it, it wasn't me, I'm innocent."

Judge Simon James called the attack "protracted and vigorous", as he handed down a two-year jail term.

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Hammad Al Shamari

A man who illegally ferried 25 people across the Channel on an inflatable boat was also jailed.

Hammad Al Shamari steered the overcrowded vessel from the French coast towards Dover under the cover of darkness on March 30.

It was intercepted by Border Force, and photos later identified the 36-year-old as the pilot.

The Kuwaiti Bidoon national was arrested and charged with assisting unlawful immigration into the UK, before being found guilty in November.

Following a hearing at Canterbury Crown Court in December, he has now been sentenced to two-years-and-six-months behind bars.

A High Court ruling later in the month found it was not illegal to seek to enter the UK and consequently four men jailed under similar circumstances to Al Shamari were freed.

Ion Cazac

A driver packed 32 kilos of cocaine into the fuel tank of his van and attempted to drive through Dover Eastern docks.

But he was stopped by Border Force officials who noticed that the vehicle had been fitted with a larger fuel tank than the factory original.

Ion Cazac, 40, was jailed for nine-years-and-nine-months at Canterbury Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to being involved in the importation of drugs.

The recovered drugs had a purity ranging from 61% to 80% and would have had an estimated street value of £2.5 million and when Cazac, who is originally from Romania was interviewed by National Crime Agency officers, he initially denied all knowledge of the drugs, but in court he changed his story and confessed.

George Paton

The third member of a gang which stole cars and vans during a burglary spree they boasted about on social media, was also jailed.

George Paton and his accomplices broke into homes across Folkestone, Hythe, Dymchurch, Lydd and Camber in September 2020 and stole car keys, bank cards and nine vehicles worth £68,000.

The 21-year-old, from Bromley, admitted conspiracy to burgle and conspiracy to steal and was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court to four-years-and-three-months in prison.

His sentence will be served concurrently to a nine-year sentence imposed on him for a robbery in which he threatened a taxi driver with a samurai sword.

Fellow conspirators Jayden Jones-McGilvray and Harrison Walker were also jailed at an earlier hearing.

Ervins Alksnis

A rapist was jailed after repeated assaults on young girls.

Predator Ervins Alksnis, from Maidstone, was handed an 18-year sentence for his “remorseless” crimes.

The 38-year-old was convicted unanimously following a week-and-a-half long trial at Canterbury Crown Court, after jurors heard how he overpowered two victims.

Alksnis would emotionally blackmail one girl into keeping the abuse a secret and once held a knife to his throat and threatened to kill himself if she went to police.

Both of his brave victims could be seen comforting each other throughout the hearing which told how the abuse destroyed both their lives.

Alksnis was convicted of three counts of rape, three counts of sexually assaulting a child under 13, four counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, assaulting a child under 13 and sexual activity with a child.

Hassan Sheekh

A drug dealer was jailed for four years after a police dog sniffed out 15 cocaine wraps.

Hassan Sheekh was stopped for a search in a Gillingham town centre car park after a patrol from the Medway Community Policing Team became suspicious of his movements.

As the officers searched him police dog Piper sniffed out 15 wraps of crack cocaine in the back of a Ford Fiesta, next to where Sheekh had been sitting.

Sheekh, 26, from East Ham, London, was found guilty of possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court.

The officers had previously received reports that the car was linked to drug dealing and turned their patrol car to pull the suspect vehicle over.

Liam Fontana

A man who helped smuggle four Albanian men into the UK was extradited to the Britain was also jailed last month.

British national Liam Fontana facilitated the hiring of a campervan to bring the men into British soil.

The 36-year old was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at Canterbury Crown Court.

On October 13, 2017, border force officers intercepted a British-registered motor home at the inbound Freight Lanes in Dover.

Four men were discovered during the search of the vehicle: two were found squeezed into a storage locker at the rear and two on the top bunk above the driver area.

Fontana was already serving a prison sentence in France from July 2019 for another crime when he was extradited.

Leo Hricko

A bully downed two bottles of brandy during birthday celebrations before breaking a man’s eye-socket in a brawl.

Leo Hricko, who “does not ordinarily drink”, fractured Craig Lashmar’s face in two places as a melee unfolded in Ramsgate.

The 23-year-old, of Margate, was last month jailed for four years at Canterbury Crown Court, following the assault in Harbour Parade in August 2019.

Hricko kicked his victim in the head after knocking him down with a series of punches to the face, prosecutors explained.

The attack happened at about 3am when Mr Lashmar was out in the Harbour Parade area of Ramsgate with four of his friends.

Hricko pleaded guilty earlier this year to causing wounding with intent, but was jailed in December.

Robert Jenner

A serial flasher who gained notoriety as "the naked carpenter" found himself back behind bars after falling foul of sexual offenders' register terms.

Maidstone Crown Court was told Robert Jenner, 47, previously of Snodland, also turned up at a police station to sign the register and began to remove his clothes, although this did not constitute a breach.

He admitted three breaches which took place within weeks of his release from a prison sentence imposed after he walked through Maidstone wearing see-through trousers.

The former soldier first made headlines in 2016 after doing up his house in Eccles in the nude, despite the protestations of outraged neighbours.

Since then he has been in and out of court for a series of exposure offences and Jenner was jailed for a year for the most recent exposure, malicious communications and breach of a criminal behaviour order and was once again made subject to seven-year order and a 10-year notification requirement.

Mark Lindow and Kurt Baker

A perverted former Kent police officer was given a 26-year extended jail sentence for exploiting a vulnerable teenager for sex.

Mark Lindow from Folkestone - known on social media as 'BritishBobby50' - was convicted of rape by a jury at Maidstone Crown Court in September and was told he still posed a danger to the public.

The 61-year-old was given a 21-year immediate jail term last month and the judge added a further five years which will be served on licence when he is released - which wont be for at least 14 years.

A second man, Kurt Baker, 39, from Gravesend, was also found guilty of three rapes on the same victim - as part of a twisted "quid pro quo" agreement between the two men. He received a jail sentence of 12 years.

Baker was identified after police made a public appeal after releasing pictures of his unique tattoo.

Judge Julian Smith told them: "These are grave offences. I watched this girl give evidence and it is evident she was profoundly vulnerable but along with others Lindow took part in her brutalisation and exploitation."

Hussein Alwari and Cosmo Budd

Two cocaine dealers also started their prison sentences just before Christmas after police raided a rented home in a leafy Kent village.

Officers searched a rental property in Bartley Mill, Lamberhurst, in November where they found cocaine with an estimated street value of between £6,000 to £8,000 and £1,385 in cash and a set of electronic scales.

Cosmo Budd, who was renting the property in a road which has an average house price of £2 million, was arrested along with Hussein Alwari.

The latter’s home address was also searched where a further quantity of cocaine, scales and £2,120 were seized.

Both admitted the drug charges against them and Alwari, 26, from Eastbourne,was jailed for eight-years-and-nine-months and Budd, 24, of from Burwash Weald, was jailed for three-years-and-nine-months.

David Kendrick

A man who sexually abused a young girl was also jailed last month.

David Kendrick, from Gravesend, gained access to the victim and then proceeded to make sexual advances on numerous occasions.

Kendrick was arrested on March 8 and charged with five counts of sexual assault on a child and three counts of making indecent images.

The 40-year-old, of Wrotham Road, was jailed for 38 months.

Investigating officer Kat Pudney said: “I would like to acknowledge the victim’s bravery for standing up and speaking up against her abuser.

“Kendrick is a dangerous predator who took advantage to facilitate access to his victim who he then proceeded to groom and abuse.

Luke Priestman

A man was locked up last month after attacking his victim with a glass in Maidstone, sending them to hospital.

Luke Priestman, 29, pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to inflicting grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.

In August last year, a man in his 40s was in Union Street when he saw a group of men walking towards him.

One of the group, Priestman, of Queen Anne Road, Maidstone, suddenly struck the victim with the glass, which smashed and caused a large cut to the victim’s left ear.

The 29-year-old received three years’ imprisonment which included the activation of a suspended sentence.

Billy Smith

A cocaine dealer who sent hundreds of bulk text messages a week advertising his wares has been jailed.

Billy Smith operated a criminal network covering spanning west Kent.

He is now starting a three-year sentence after police dismantled his supply chain by analysing vast quantities of mobile phone data.

Between May 6 and June 23, officers investigated suspicious activity linked to an unregistered pay-as-you-go SIM.

The phone was found to be sending more than 60 bulk text messages a day, advertising cocaine and cannabis to drug users.

Smith was identified as the suspect and on June 23 his home in Old Road, East Peckham, was raided and the 39-year-old was arrested.

Trevis Abiola and Javarni McPherson

Two county lines drug traffickers who "heartlessly" exploited teenage boys for financial gain were jailed for a combined total of 23 years.

Trevis Abiola, 23, and Javarni McPherson, 23, were stopped by police in a car travelling towards Canterbury after they were found to be running the 'Spencer Line' network that supplied heroin and crack cocaine between London and Kent.

Abiola, of St Mary Cray, Orpington, and McPherson, of Priory House, Peckham, were identified as the controllers of the Spencer Line.

Officers raided their homes and seized a large number of mobile phones and SIM cards, more than £4,000 in cash, Class A drugs and designer clothing.

The judge sentenced both men to prison terms - Abiola to serve 14 years and McPherson nine years - and commented that “county lines drug supply is a matter of national concern” and “the sentences the courts impose have to reflect that public concern.”

And for good measure, we thought we'd include these two who were also given longer sentences last month.

Alfie Spain and Freddie Hanratty

These two thugs who terrified a town by robbing three houses at knife-point had their sentences increased after Solicitor General Alex Chalk referred the case to the Court of Appeal.

Alfie Spain, 26, and Freddie Hanratty, 20, armed themselves with blades and travelled from London to the Isle of Sheppey where they targeted three homes.

In September both men, from Deptford, were jailed at Maidstone Crown Court of conspiracy to commit robbery and possessing knives.

Spain for six years and put Hanratty behind bars at a Young Offenders' Institute for four years.

However, last month a court agreed the original sentences were "unduly lenient" and increased Spain’s jail term to eight-years-and-three-months and Hanratty’s to six years.