From a violent Lottery cash gang and an axe-wielding jewellery thief to a brutal rapist, these are among the criminals who were jailed during April.

Violent raiders targeted Lottery organiser



Two violent masked raiders brutally attacked a man in his home and stole over £10,000 Lottery syndicate cash.

The gang had convictions for a total of 376 previous offences between them and left "blood everywhere" during the "terrifying attack" which looked like "something out of a horror film".

Bradwell and Charnock were each jailed for 12-and-a-half years. Dyball was locked up for five years and 10 months.

Axe-wielding raider grabbed jewellery


Ian Friskney, 40, of Tallert Way, Grimsby, admitted burglary and possessing an axe.

The axe-wielding jewellery thief targeted a shop for an audacious raid but a brave member of staff thwarted him by going outside and hitting him between the shoulders with a hammer.

The raider smashed the shop window with an axe before grabbing high-value jewellery worth about £15,000.

Friskney was jailed for four years.

Rapist attacked woman with meat tenderiser

Artjoms Petrovs laughed at police as they pulled him of the victim he had raped

Artjoms Petrovs, 33, of Brigg Road, Barton-upon-Humber, admitted oral rape, attempted rape, assault causing actual bodily harm and assault.

The brutal vodka-drinking bully pinned a woman against a wall, strangled her, attacked her with a metal meat tenderiser and raped her in a "terrifying, horrendous ordeal".

He later told police to go away, threatened to kill them and the victim, and started laughing.

Petrovs was jailed for eight years. 

Hard-up student caught on A180 with drugs

Dominic Burton turned to drug dealing to pay off his debts

Dominic Burton, 22, of Grimsby Road, Cleethorpes, admitted four offences of supplying drugs and four of possessing drugs with intent to supply.

The naive and hard-up university student turned to dealing and storing large amounts of drugs, including cocaine, Ecstasy and amphetamine, to pay off his debts.

He was stopped in a car on the A180 on the way back from Liverpool and large stashes of drugs worth a potential £6,756 were later found.

Burton was jailed for five years.

Sex offender made a girl pregnant

Sex offender Brian Lane has been jailed for another six years
Sex offender Brian Lane has been jailed for another six years

Brian Lane, 42, of Elsenham Road, Grimsby, admitted sexually assaulting a girl and breaching a sexual offences prevention order.

The serial sex offender had been jailed for 15 years after abusing four girls and making one of them pregnant but, after his release, targeted a young girl.

The girl who became pregnant later had an abortion after the "extremely serious sexual offending".

Lane was jailed for six years and three months.

Bully Tasered after attacking his mother

Alexander Campbell, 51, formerly of Churchill Way, Grimsby, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on his mother.

The heavy-drinking son viciously pushed his 75-year-old mother during a nasty confrontation and she fell, breaking her wrist and a finger.

He had swigged two bottles of vodka and police later had to Taser him after he became difficult while being arrested.

Campbell was jailed for nine months.

"Jekyll and Hyde" wife stabbed husband

Julia Harrison, 64, of Beretun Green, Barton-upon-Humber, admitted wounding her 67-year-old husband.

The quiet "Jekyll and Hyde" wife gambled away the cash for her husband's mobility scooter and suddenly stabbed him with a knife as he sat in a chair at their home.

He managed to wrestle the knife from her but she grabbed a second, longer knife from the kitchen and stabbed him again.

Harrison was jailed for 16 months.

Dealer was trying to pay off debts

Kieran Nicholls, 27, of Hanson Way, Grimsby, admitted possessing 60.6g of cocaine with intent to supply, offering to supply cannabis and possessing 16.1g of cannabis.

He was selling the very high purity and potentially lethal Class A drug to pay off debts and was also offering to supply cannabis.

Nicholls was jailed for three years and four months.

Burglar wanted cash to help poorly daughter

Grant Sharp was desperate to raise cash for his poorly daughter

Grant Sharp, 22, of Winchester Avenue, Grimsby, admitted burglary.

The father with a history of crime joined a gang of burglars to steal valuable bikes because he was desperate to raise cash for his poorly daughter's first birthday.

He had been given a "golden opportunity" to avoid prison previously but threw it away and carried on offending.

Sharp was jailed for two years and eight months.

Robber left woman feeling sorry for him

Russell Addison, jailed for three years.
Russell Addison, jailed for three years.

Russell Addison, 41, of Newport, Barton-upon-Humber, admitted two offences of robbery and another of possessing an offensive weapon

The whimpering masked robber cut such a sorry figure after targeting a 21-year-old woman in the street that she felt "sympathy, empathy and compassion" for him.

He apologised almost immediately after accosting her while armed with a metal bat, took his mask off and told her: "I'm really sorry for doing this to you."

Addison was jailed for three years.

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