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This month, a number of people have been jailed in Bristol, including drug dealers and sexual abusers.
Here are the criminals who have been jailed in August.
Mark Smith
A black man racially abused a police officer, a court heard.
Mark Smith was arrested after being abusive to his mother, Bristol Crown Court was told.
When he was arrested he subjected officers to a tirade of abuse, using the n-word as well as branding one a "dirty, stinking, monkey".
Smith, 54, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to assault, using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour and common assault in May.
At the time he was the subject of a community order after being convicted of a string of racially aggravated offences in which he verbally abused people in Cabot Circus.
Bristol Crown Court heard he had 72 convictions for 202 offences.
Judge Michael Longman jailed him for 14 months.
He told Smith: "A police officer received the brunt of your foul behaviour and dreadful language."
Dwayne Elliott
A brain-damaged man who targeted women in Clifton has been jailed.
Dwayne Elliott groped his first victim outside a home in Charlotte Street in the early hours.
He then grabbed a second woman as she walked on Park Row.
Both were left "utterly terrified", Bristol Crown Court heard.
Elliott, 41, of Malago Road in Bedminster, pleaded guilty to sexual assault, committing actual bodily harm with intent to commit a sexual offence and possessing an offensive weapon.
Judge Julian Lambert jailed him for four years.
He said no secure hospital was available, so he had to use the "blunt force" of an ordinary criminal sentence.
He told Elliott: "The offences were against women who were utterly terrified by what you did.
"Your brain injury reduces your sentence somewhat."
Elliott was handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order, banning him from entering gardens, yards or drives without reasonable excuse.
He was also told to register as a sex offender indefinitely, and was made the subject of a seven-year restraining order banning him from going to Charlotte Street or Park Row.
Guilherme Galvao
A man striving to better himself who turned to drug dealing for quick money has been jailed.
Brazilian Guilherme Galvao aspired to train as an English teacher in his homeland, Bristol Crown Court heard.
When he couldn't finance his course he came to Bristol to be with his mum and did two jobs.
But after becoming exhausted he lost his work and agreed to supply drugs - and was caught.
The 21-year-old, of Hickory Lane in Almondsbury, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, and possessing with intent to supply MDMA (Ecstacy), cannabis and cannabis resin.
The Recorder of Bristol His Honour Judge Peter Blair QC jailed him for 32 months.
He told Galvao: "You were too proud to ask relatives for their help when struggling financially.
"You tried to earn money.
"This became too much of a temptation to find a quick route to money.
"This has a disastrous effect on people addicted to those dreadful drugs."
The judge banned Galvao from driving for three years and two months, pending an extended driving test.
Lauren Barker
A judge told a defendant who theatened to stab a shop manager: "You are a stroppy, violent young woman who feels like she can do what she wants."
Lauren Barker, 21, admitted threatening Sivasumbraniam Nagaratnam with a knife on March 12, 2018.
She also pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker by kicking PC Vincent Anthony on July 22 this year.
Judge William Hart jailed her for 13 months.
Edwin Walker
has been jailed for the rest of his life.
Edwin Walker admitted a raft of abuse charges on the girl, Bristol Crown Court heard.
The 86-year-old, of The Hawthorns, pleaded guilty to 17 indecent assault charges, some on a multiple count basis, and a single charge of buggery.
The Recorder of Bristol His Honour Judge Peter Blair QC jailed him for 17-and-a-half years, with five years extended licence.
The judge quoted extracts from the complainant's impact statement, in which she said of Walker: "I feel that he's a monster.
"He has ruined my life and he could have ruined others'.
"I need justice and I need closure."
The judge told the court: "It is the hope of this court that today will provide her with some degree of closure."
Lewis Jones
inside her Bristol home and grabbed her.
Lewis Jones spotted the 31-year-old in a store and pursued her, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Jones, who has a history of photographing women's bottoms for his sexual gratification, managed to get into her home behind her and dragged her into the dining room.
But the court heard when she kicked and screamed her dad came to the rescue and Jones fled.
Days later he turned up at the home with a wad of cash, fell to his knees and pleaded for the family not to got to the police.
Jones, 26, of St Bernard's Road in Shirehampton, pleaded guilty to trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence, as well as perverting the course of justice.
Judge Mark Horton handed him an extended sentence of seven-and-half years.
That comprises of a four-and-a-half year jail term, of which Jones must serve at least two-thirds, and an extended licence period of three years.
Jones was told to register as a sex offender indefinitely and was handed a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order designed to stop him re-offending.
He was also given a five-year restraining order banning him from all contact with his victim, and he was barred from working with children and vulnerable adults and told to pay a £170 victim surcharge.
Robert Harraway
so she could look her daughter in the eye.
Farmer Robert Harraway first abused the complainant when she was aged 15, Bristol Crown Court.
A jury found he had touched her inappropriately on multiple occastions.
Harraway, 72, of Ashwicke Road in Marshfield, denied wrongdoing.
But he was found guilty of ten indecent assaults after a trial in July.
The recorder Miss Rosaleen Collins jailed him for 24 months.
She told Harraway: "It had a significant effect on her emotionally, on relationships and her behaviour to others.
"It took her many years to come up with the courage to report the abuse.
"There was a trigger.
"She wanted to look her baby daughter in the eye and feel she had stood up for herself."
Harraway was told to register as a sex offender for ten years and was barred from working with children and vulnerable adults.
Jack Sage
A Bedminster teenager who repeatedly assaulted his partner has been sent to youth custody.
Jack Sage has a previous conviction for assaulting Chloe Sheehan.
But in July this year, in breach of a restraining order, he assaulted her twice more.
, common assault and breaching a restraining order.
Judge James Patrick sentenced him to 19 months in a Young Offender Institution.
He told Sage: "I have regard to your difficult background and difficulties regarding your mental health.
"But the reality is this was extremely ugly domestic violence against somebody who deserved better."
The judge handed Sage a five-year restraining order to have no contact whatsoever with Miss Sheehan.
Thomas Jenkins
Bristol's Big Brother winner Josie Gibson had her toes sucked by a female pal.
Little did either woman know that, shortly afterwards, .
Miss Gibson and pal Demi Hobbs were out celebrating New Year's Eve at the Taboo night club in Clifton Triangle.
But trouble flared after amateur boxer 'Tommy Gun' Jenkins shared their taxi to another club.
He says it was he who was first struck in an altercation that left both the TV personality and her friend hurt, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Jenkins, 31, of Cavan Walk in Knowle West, was to face trial but, on the day, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Miss Hobbs and assaulting Miss Gibson.
The recorder Mr Marcus Pilgerstorfer jailed him for 31 weeks.
He told the father-of-three: "You say they hit you, but self-defence does not give you a defence.
"You accept the force you used was excessive."
Christopher Carpenter
He was described by a colleague as "very much a do things by the book guy".
Yet for six years, while helping to build a Bristol branch of a multi-national company, Christopher Carpenter creamed off £530,000 to inject into his own business - which failed anyway.
And now the 40-year-old father-of-two, from Hardwicke in Gloucester, is starting a four-and-a-half jail term after admitting fraud.
The recorder Mr Casey told him: "It was a gross abuse of your position of trust."
Andrew Adamson
When Andrew Adamson walked into McColls in Lockleaze, with a knife, he told staff: "I've got nothing."
He then loaded his bag with groceries, told them to keep back, and left - thanking someone who held the door for him.
Adamson, 39, of Auden Mead in Horfield, pleaded guilty to robbery and threatening with a knife on June 17 last year.
Judge Euan Ambrose jailed him for three years and eight months.
He told Adamson: "The offences are borne out of a desperation to steal food from McColls to sell on to feed your (drug) habit."
Jody Coyle
A man with a gun asking for help at a health centre told staff: "If police turn up there will be shots fired."
Such was the concern at Coast Resource Centre in Weston-super-Mare that 12 staff locked themselves in the building.
Police called in spent two-and-a-half hours outside negotiating with Jody Coyle before he dropped the pistol.
The 41-year-old, of Hampton Hargate in Peterborough, denied wrongdoing but was convicted of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear on November 15 last year.
Judge Michael Longman jailed him for two years.
The weapon, a Walther CP88 CO2 powered air pistol categorized as a firearm due to its power, was forfeited for destruction.
Aimee Grady
A judge conceded that prison wouldn't help mum-of-two Aimee Grady.
But after breaching "chance after chance" it was she who forced his hand into sending her down.
Grady, 41, of Clayfield Road in Bristol, committed offences and was handed community orders in May and August last year.
But Bristol Crown Court heard she breached them by re-offending, stealing from shops and attacking a security guard.
Grady pleaded guilty to four thefts from shops and assault.
Judge James Patrick jailed her for two years and 11 months.
He told Grady: "You won't benefit from prison.
"You apologised for failing and I hear that apology.
"I hear you want structure.
"The court has bent over backwards to encourage you to rid yourself of addiction.
"I have no other option.
"You have demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to cooperate with community orders."
Densville Clarke and Jeffrey Virtue
Two men in their 20s have been jailed after carrying out a vicious revenge attacks using bicycle saddles on a man they wrongly believed to have assaulted them earlier in the night.
Densville Clarke, 24, and Jeffrey Virtue, 25, were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court having pleaded guilty to one count of Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) and one count of Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH).
The "shocking" assault on "completely innocent bystanders" happened in the early hours of June 10, 2017.
Clarke and Virtue walked passed a bus stop in Bristol city centre where Mr Reece Pellowe sat after a night out with friends.
The men mistook Mr Pellowe as one of a group of people who had attacked them while they were on a bus earlier in the evening.
Virtue and Clarke were sentenced to 15 months in prison for count one of ABH and 26 months for count two of GBH to run concurrently.
Mark Acklom
A serial fraudster has been jailed for five years and eight months for defrauding his ex-girlfriend out of nearly £300,000.
Mark Acklom, 45, duped Carolyn Woods into lending him her life savings by pretending they were in a "committed relationship" and promised to marry her despite still living with his wife.
Ms Woods, 61, told Bristol Crown Court that Acklom, who posed as a Swiss banker and MI6 agent, "destroyed" her life after he skipped the country and left her penniless, having used her money to fund a lavish lifestyle.
Hiwa Sabir
An uninsured driver who bought a car, downed half a bottle of whisky, found he couldn't see and smashed in into two parked cars.
Hiwa Sabir bought the VV Golf for £400 intending to sell it, Bristol Crown Court heard.
But, while on a suspended jail term he drove while drunk, crashed and walked off with the car keys and log book.
Police arrested him near the scene.
Sabir, 29, of Huddshill Road in St George , pleaded guilty to driving without a driving licence or insurance, driving with excess alcohol and failing to report an accident on May 18, 2019.
The court heard he was in breach of a a five-month jail term, suspended for two years in November 2017, for possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
Judge James Patrick jailed him for a total of five months.
Sabir was banned from drving, for 18 months, from his release from prison.
Sebastian Shaw
Police on mobile patrol were greeted with a bizarre sight on their rounds.
Sebastian Shaw was seen driving his car with the bonnet covering the windscreen.
Shaw had been involved in a hit and run in which the car was damaged, Bristol Crown Court heard.
It was just one of several offences which landed him with a jail term.
The 37-year-old, of Ashley Road in Montpelier , pleaded guilty to having a knife and driving without insurance or a licence on May 5 this year.
He also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, refusing to give a breath specimen, and two assaults on June 11.
Judge William Hart jailed him for 61 weeks.
He told Shaw: "Your life has been beset by difficulties.
"But appropriate punishment can only be achieved by immediate custody."
Shaw was banned from driving for 186 weeks and told to take an extended driving test.
Samuel Tiley
A motorist who had just been caught speeding smashed head-on into a car and caused the driver life-changing injuries.
Samuel Tiley was driving around twice the speed limit when he crashed his powerful Subaru Impreza into Jodie Wynne's Ford Fiesta, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Ms Wynne was left with four fractured ribs, severe bruising, her right foot broken in three places and broken leg bones.
It was just a week after Tiley was caught driving at 70mph through a 50mph limit.
Tiley, 24, of Longs Drive in Yate , pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving on Februry 6, 2018.
Judge James Patrick jailed him for 16 months.
He told Tiley: "You were driving very fast when you should not have been.
"There is a very high degree of harm in this case."
Tiley was banned from driving for four years and told to take an extended driving test.
Leighton Smith
A private landlord who tracked down and beat up previous tenants has been jailed.
Leighton Smith rented out his property in Novers Lane, Knowle , to Louis Bevan and Wendy Hibbs.
But Bristol Crown Court heard he accused them of drug dealing, removing items from the premises and changing the locks.
When they moved out he found his car had been vandalised with the word "W****r".
The court heard he and another man paid a call to their new address and he attacked them both, leaving Miss Hibbs with multiple facial fractures.
Smith, 40, an electrician and former pub landlord, pleaded guilty to wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the assaults on March 24.
Judge Euan Ambrose jailed him for 16 months.
He told Smith: "You lost control of yourself utterly.
"Both were very badly beaten."
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