If you missed the latest cases to be heard in court in Nottingham, here is a round-up of the defendants who went to prison in the first two weeks of July.
One involved a care home worker who was sent to jail over three separate assaults - two of which involved her own mother and a third on a dementia-suffering patient at a Sherwood Rise care home.
Another case, to be heard at Nottingham Crown Court, concerned a son who became 'dangerously obsessed' with Covid before a horrific hammer attack on family. He was jailed.
One criminal was jailed at Nottingham Magistrates' Court 48 hours after assaulting two women after stealing a car.
And an alcohol-dependant drug addict went to prison over having two knives in two separate incidents just days apart.
Read about their cases here:
Care home worker attacked dementia patient after drinking wine
Care home assistant Paula Bailey attacked a dementia-suffering patient after downing wine.
Nottingham Crown Court heard how both women have since died but their deaths are not linked to what the Long Eaton 49-year-old subjected them to.
She was jailed for 26 months.
Kat Shields, prosecuting, said all of the offences took place during the summer of last year.
She said at the time Bailey was working at Acacia Care Home, in Sherwood Rise, Sherwood, Nottingham.
Miss Shields said the first two assaults took place on her mother, while the second while she was at the care home looking after the victim in her room overnight.
Miss Shields said an investigation was launched and the police became involved.
She said both women have since died although not at a result of the attacks on them.
Bailey, of Clumber Street, previously pleaded guilty to three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of wilful neglect.
Son became 'dangerously obsessed' with Covid before horrific hammer attack on family
A mother came down the stairs at her Nottingham home to witness the horrific sight of her son standing over her injured husband clutching a lump hammer.
Vanetta Chattaway screamed at her son Joseph - who she told the court had become "dangerously obsessed" with Covid - to stop what he was doing.
But the 25-year-old Asperger's Syndrome-sufferer turned to her saying "you are as bad as him" before chasing her out of the house and attacking her with the same weapon.
His sentencing hearing at Nottingham Crown Court was told how the assault on her in the front garden of their Mapperley home was witnessed by shocked neighbours.
Joseph Chattaway then fled from the scene and went on the run for a week, walking from Nottingham to Staffordshire.
John Chattaway, his father, has suffered what the prosecution said were "potentially irreversible" brain injuries as a result of the shocking hammer attack by his son.
And in a long victim impact statement Mrs Chattaway told her son she loved him, saying she felt "let down by professionals" who she claimed have not helped his mental health deterioration.
Nadia Silver, prosecuting, said the defendant attacked his parents with a hammer at their home in Pilkington Road, Mapperley, on August 5 last year.
She said he was found on August 14 in Milford, near Stafford, on the edge of Cannock Chase.
Mrs Chattaway read a long victim impact system to the court in which she blamed a number of organisations for not supporting her son and her family.
In it she told how Joseph Chattaway had become obsessed with the pandemic to the point that he was buying gloves, masks, Hazmat-style suits, vitamin supplements and plug-in air purifiers.
Mrs Chattaway said: "Joe's Covid-obsession took an increasingly dangerous turn, rumours on the internet became his obsession.
Joseph Chattaway pleaded guilty to two counts of wounding with intent at a previous hearing at the same court.
Judge James Sampson's sentence was made up of 56 months custody plus and extended sentence up to eight years and eight months.
It means he will not be eligible to apply for parole until two-thirds of the way through the 56 months.
Drug addict pulled out knife after being refused bottle of gin in shop
An alcohol-dependant drug addict had to be Tasered by a police officer after refusing to hand over a knife.
Nottingham Crown Court was shown footage of officers calmly trying to get Mark Bird to give them the weapon after they were called to his flat in Woodthorpe.
In it, one of the officers politely asks the 48-year-old a number of times to let him have the blade.
But the body cam footage showed the defendant move forward and then being hit with the barbs of the electroshock stun gun.
And days later, he pulled out a different knife on a shopkeeper who refused to serve him as he was so drunk after having downed two bottles of gin.
Jailing him for eight months, Judge James Sampson said: "Despite the best efforts of the police to talk you into putting down the knife you did not.
Sinjin Bulbring, prosecuting, said the first offence happened at Bird's flat in Somersby Road at 5.20pm on April 8.
He said officers were called there amid reports the defendant had the weapon.
Bird pleaded guilty to possession of bladed articles.
He has 20 previous convictions for 48 offences.
Claire Moran, mitigating, said her client has had "an addiction to heroin, crack cocaine, mamba and alcohol for many years".
She said: "He accepts the dangers of carrying knives and is now on a full detox in prison."
Criminal jailed 48 hours after assaulting two women after stealing a car
A criminal who assaulted two women as he drove away in someone else’s car was jailed – less than 48 hours after the offence was committed.
The incident happened at around 10.30pm on Wednesday, June 30, in The Broadway, Mansfield, when a woman momentarily left her vehicle to make a delivery to her workplace.
As her back was turned Ross Layden, 36, climbed into the passenger seat and drove away, causing minor injuries to two witnesses who tried to stop him.
One had the car door slammed on her hand.
Witnesses immediately reported the theft at nearby Mansfield Police Station and details of the car were taken.
It was later tracked on automatic number plate recognition cameras at it made its way south out of town and was soon pulled over at around 11.10pm on the A610 near Codnor, Derbyshire.
Ross Layden, 36, of Elm Tree Avenue, Mansfield Woodhouse, was arrested at the scene.
He appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Friday, July 2, he pleaded guilty to two counts of assault, taking a vehicle without consent, driving while disqualified, and driving with no insurance. He was jailed for six months and ordered to pay compensation to his victims.
Cousins tampered with cash machines and stole thousands
Cousins who worked together to tamper with cash machines across Nottinghamshire have been jailed.
Marius Raducan stole over £23,000 by tampering with machines across the county, installing cash trapping devices inside cashpoints to prevent the machines dispensing customers’ cash.
He was linked to over 300 offences at various Tesco stores with many taking place at a Tesco Express branch in Hucknall Road in Carrington.
When customers walked away empty handed, he returned and forced open the cash shutter. He then used a hook to grab the internal belt and steal the cash that had become trapped within the machine.
Nottingham Crown Court heard he was linked with offences between November 2020 and March 2021.
The loss to Tesco Bank was calculated at £23,245 in stolen cash and £19,267.20 in engineer visits to fix the cash machines.
Police examined hours of CCTV footage and identified Raducan committing the offences all around Nottinghamshire and further afield.
Raducan was arrested when a warrant was executed at his home address on March 16.
During the search, bank cards that linked him to the offences were found in his wallet and a card trapping device was found in his car.
Prior to these thefts, Raducan worked with his cousin Ovidiu Raducanu on another cash machines scam.
The pair pocketed over £1,000 last September by tampering with a cash machine at TSB Bank in Eastwood.
They installed equipment that trapped bank cards and a hidden camera that filmed customers entering their pin numbers.
The cousins would later retrieve the bank cards and use the pin numbers to withdraw cash and make purchases at various stores.
Police worked closely with TSB Bank and enquiries led to officers tracking a black Volkswagen in connection with the investigation. A card trapping device and small camera were found inside the car when it was stopped by police and the two cousins were arrested.
At court, Marius Raducan, 26, of Roseta Road, New Basford, pleaded guilty to theft, conspiracy to commit fraud, possession of articles to commit fraud and possession of a controlled class B drug. He was jailed for two years at a sentencing hearing on July 12.
Meanwhile, Ovidiu Raducanu, 36, of Hazelwood Road, Radford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and possession of articles for use in fraud along with other offences outside of Nottinghamshire. He was jailed for four years and ten months after appearing at the Central Criminal Court in London on 17 June.
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