This week ended with drug dealer Daniel Bickerton going to prison for more than five years for supplying crack cocaine and cocaine, and having a loaded shotgun in his Mansfield home. Nottingham Crown Court heard he had broadly boasted he was able to make "high-quality crack cocaine" and "the best in the area".
He even re-enacted a scene from the movie Taxi Driver, as he loaded and pointed a gun at his camera phone, and was recorded on film racking the slide of a pistol after he had been beaten up and warned that "people would pay the consequences".
His case was sentenced on Friday (February 3) after 40-year-old Bickerton of Prices Street, Mansfield, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possessing a shotgun and ammunition, and supplying cocaine and crack cocaine.
Other cases this week included two men - Albanian chef Klajdi Egra and friend Aurel Shima - of Tremayne Road, Bilborough, who went to jail on Wednesday (February 1) after a large amount of cannabis was found. Egra pleaded guilty to producing cannabis and possessing cannabis with intent to supply and went to prison for three-and-a-half years.
Shima was sentenced to 12 months for producing cannabis. Read the full story here
And defendant Michael Nxusani, 19, of Grassington Road, Nottingham, was given a custodial sentence of six years on Monday (January 31) after stabbing two men during a large street fight.
He was convicted last October of two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one offence of possession of a knife in a public place. Read the full story here
Offender Reece Swain was jailed after he swung a foot-long machete outside The Nags Head, Station Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
Swain, 31, of Kingsway, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article and was jailed for ten months. Read the full story here
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