Criminals jailed in Norfolk in week starting January 29

Here are some of the criminals put behind bars in the week beginning January 29.

Dean Ward

Dean Ward (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)Dean Ward has been jailed after describing his depraved sexual fantasies online to an undercover police officer.

The 39-year-old told the officer how he was abusing his eight-year-old daughter, though the child did not actually exist.

He also talked about the abuse he "wanted to happen" to the child and to the undercover officer's six-year-old daughter, who also did not exist.

Ward, who has five previous convictions including sexual assault and making indecent images of children, was sentenced on Tuesday after admitting to arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.

He also admitted three breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) between May and June 2023.

Ward, of Barrett Road in Norwich, was handed a sentence of 13 years, made up of nine-and-a-half-years imprisonment and three-and-a-half years on licence.

He was also made the subject of a SHPO and put on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

Liam Tooke, Edward Hadley and Wesley Woodford

Liam Tooke (L) and Edward Hadley (R) have been jailed (Image: Norfolk Police)Edward Hadley, 27, of Mervyn King Close in Fakenham, Liam Tooke, 27, of Wensum Way in Fakenham, and Wesley Woodford, 28 and of no fixed address, were sentenced on Wednesday at Norwich Crown Court.

Officers raided Hadley's home in August and found the three men with bags of cocaine and ketamine.

The cocaine was estimated to have a value of £39,000 and was discovered alongside roughly £10,000 in cash, multiple mobile phones and a set of digital scales. 

All three men were arrested and charged with being involved in the supply of a class A drug and possession of criminal property. 

Hadley pleaded guilty to both charges and was also found to have breached his previous suspended sentence, and was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison. 

Tooke pleaded guilty to the supply of cocaine and was sentenced to three years and four months in prison. 

Woodford pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply a class A drug, namely ketamine, and was sentenced to nine months in prison. 

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Darren Bond

Darren Bond (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)Darren Bond sent naked pictures of himself to a 15-year-old girl and asked for "revealing photographs" of her in exchange. 

Bond, of Dorset Close in Great Yarmouth, also kissed the victim on one occasion even after she had told him she was just 15.

The 51-year-old appeared at Norwich Crown Court on Wednesday having admitted sexual communication with a child and an offence of sexual activity with a child.

He was jailed for 15 months, was given a SHPO for 10 years and put on the sex offenders register, also for 10 years. 

Jamie Pymm

Disqualified motorcyclist Jamie Pymm caused a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a mobility scooter user as he crossed the A149 at Heacham. 

The victim, a double amputee, required extensive treatment for injuries including a fractured hip following the crash near the entrance to the Lynn Road BP filling station on May 16 last year.

Pymm did not stop after the crash and appeared before Norwich Crown Court, sitting at King's Lynn, last week after having been convicted of five offences.

These included causing serious injury by careless driving, failing to stop, driving while disqualified, having no insurance and riding a bike unfit to be on the road.

Pymm, of Ingolside in Snettisham, had been convicted of dangerous driving in 1997 and 2010 and driving while disqualified in 2001 and 2004, the court was told.

He was jailed for eight months and disqualified from driving for three years and four months.