A man who was high on cocaine when he drove into the back of a Renault and a pair who "violently assaulted" a man were among the criminals jailed in Norfolk last week.
Aaron Curtis
Aaron Curtis, 28, was high on cocaine when he drove his BMW into the back of a Renault Captur between King’s Lynn and Wisbech causing it to hit the central barrier, flip over and end upside down.
The driver of the Renault suffered serious injuries including a bleed on the brain and is still recovering and off work.
Curtis, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and drug driving.
He was jailed for two years and banned from driving for 23 months.
Gary Bowgen
Gary Bowgen, 56, was sitting on his sofa with £1,000 in his hands when police raided his home at Dalrymple Way in Norwich in August 2020.
Officers also discovered more than £8,000 and €455 in cash as well as a “wholesale” quantity of cocaine said to have a street value of over £11,000.
Norwich Crown Court heard he had claimed to have started to deal drugs after being unable to operate his takeaway burger van outside a Norwich pub due to the lockdown restrictions in the pandemic.
Bowgen pleaded guilty to possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply and possession of criminal property.
He was jailed for two years.
Lajos Reszegi
Lajos Reszegi, a heavy metal guitarist who played in a band called Ain't My Crime, was jailed for possessing thousands of “depraved and appalling” indecent images of children.
Norwich Crown Court was told that among almost 6,000 images were hundreds of the most serious category, involving children estimated to be aged as young as six months.
Reszegi, of Sawmill Court, off Penn Gove, Norwich, pleaded guilty to three charges of making indecent images including 947 deemed to be Category A.
He was handed a 12-month jail sentence.
Jordan Blizzard and Keaton Stavri
Jordan Blizzard, aged 30, of Rodney Road, Great Yarmouth, and Keaton Stavri, aged 20, of Chaucer Road, Great Yarmouth, were jailed after "violently assaulting" a man walking home from a night out in Norwich.
The victim was repeatedly punched and kicked in the head and body while walking through Tombland.
He managed to find a police officer after the attack and he was taken to hospital with serious injuries to his eyelid and socket.
Blizzard was sentenced to 10 months in prison while Stavri was handed eight months in jail.
Ty Edwards
Ty Edwards, 43, stole alcohol worth hundreds of pounds after visiting the food hall at Jarrolds on three separate occasions on June 6.
Norwich Magistrates’ Court was told at the time he had already been on police bail for an earlier theft of bottles of wine and chocolate from the nearby Tesco Express shop in London Street on May 28.
Edwards, of no fixed abode, but who gave a contact address in Thorpe St Andrew, pleaded guilty to four counts of shop theft - he was jailed for 12 weeks.
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