From a prolific rare bird egg thief to a woman who scammed £440,000 out of people in pubs - here are some of the criminals who were jailed and sentenced in Norfolk last week.
Alaina Pitcher
Alaina Pitcher, 39, was a prosecution witness in the trial of her former boyfriend Theodore Lynch over the killing of 63-year-old Leslie Smith at Norwich’s Suffolk Square in 2021.
Pitcher had told the jury she had been with Lynch in the flat at the time of the killing. Lynch later threatened to kill her.
However, within days of giving evidence in the witness box she was before Norwich Crown Court to be sentenced for multiple offences including stealing the phone of a woman who was calling 999 to get her help.
She was jailed for three years and three months.
Susan Goose
Susan Goose befriended her victims and convinced them to lend her vast amounts of money in pubs around Norwich.
She often told them a story about needing cash to pay legal fees in a civil case about an inheritance she was owed. However, the case did not exist and she never had any intention of paying the funds back.
Goose, who spent the cash on online gambling, was jailed for six years at Norwich Crown Court after pleading guilty to five counts of fraud by false representation.
Andrew Ryan
Andrew Ryan, 41, admitted to viewing sexual images of children as young as three following a police raid on his home.
Norwich Crown Court was told a tip-off by the National Crime Agency about file sharing of illegal material online had been passed to Norfolk officers leading to his arrest in March 2021.
He pleaded guilty to possessing seven category A images - the most serious - as well as nine category B and 16 category C between January and May 2021.
The court heard he had been found to still pose a “high risk” of serious harm to children despite engaging with sex offender management programmes.
Ryan was given an extended four-and-a-half year sentence to include 18 months in jail and three years on licence.
Thomas Bulmer
Thomas Bulmer, 31, was just a teenager himself when he started offending by inciting a boy under 13 - who cannot be named for legal reasons - to engage in sexual activity while in a field in Norfolk.
Following that offence in 2006 Bulmer went on to commit a total of 25 other offences.
The defendant, from Harleston Road, Langmere, near Diss was handed a 17-year extended sentence - made up of 11 years custody and six years on licence.
Daniel Lingham
Daniel Lingham, 71, had already served two prison sentences for illegal egg collecting - in 2005 and 2018 - when he was caught on a wildlife trap camera stealing two eggs from a nightjar nest at a wildlife reserve near Holt last year.
At his sentencing hearing at Norwich Magistrates Court on Friday, presiding magistrate Matthew Watts told Lingham he was "motivated by an obsessive desire" and the eggs were kept as "trophies for personal satisfaction".
Lingham was handed a sentence of 12 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months.
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