Every week, Bristol Live reports from the city's courts.
This reporting forms an important part of the UK's open justice system, that justice can be seen to be done.
Some of the key benefits of open justice include ensuring public confidence and respect in democracy and the administration of justice, as well as deterring people from committing crimes and thereby the details of those crimes becoming public knowledge.
Here are the cases we covered which saw criminals jailed from Monday, March 9 to Friday, March 13.
Anthony Doherty - 12 months
Fail to comply with Serious Crime Prevention Order
A secret phone possessed by a Henbury man might be for an affair but not crime, a court heard.
Police found Anthony Doherty with the Vsmart encrypted device when they visited his home in Blaisedell Road last month.
Bristol Crown Court was told Doherty was jailed for 16 years in 2011 for conspiracy to supply cocaine.
On his release in 2016 he was made the the subject of a Serious Crime Prevention Order which prohibited him having such a phone.
The married 52-year-old, who has been recalled to prison for the remaining eight years of his 16-year sentence, admitted breaching the order.
Judge Michael Cullum handed him a year's custody, to run from today. (March 11, 2020)
He told Doherty: "The inference is this device would be only used for the purposes of crime.
"No realistic alternative has been put before me."
The judge ordered that Doherty's £1,500 phone be forfieted.
You can read the full story here.
Craig Walters - extra 12 months
Assault
A Bristol man currently serving a four-and-a-half year jail term has been jailed for even longer for a frenzied attack on a prison officer.
Craig Walters spat in the prison officer’s face, struck him in the face several times and then bit him on the arm after he was ordered back to his cell for being aggressive and abusive.
The prison officer had to attend hospital as a result of the attack, and Walters has now been jailed for even longer for the attack.
Walters pleaded guilty last week to the assault, which took place at Erlestoke Prison, near Devizes in Wiltshire, on June 4, 2019.
The 37-year-old, whose last Bristol address was in Ashley Road, admitted assault by beating and was ordered to serve another 12 weeks on top of his original sentence, starting on the day he is due for release.
You can read the full story here.
