From scammers to drug dealers, here are some of the criminals who were jailed in Norfolk in the week beginning July 22, 2024.
Rhys Redfern, 24
Rhys Redfern was jailed on Wednesday (Image: South East Regional Organised Crime Unit)
Rhys Redfern, of Buckenham Road in Attleborough, was first arrested in September 2023 on suspicion of arranging the commission of a child sex offence.
He was charged and given a suspended sentence in October 2023 which included a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).
Officers later gained access to Redfern's devices in and found indecent images of children.
In a search of his home in January, officers also found a USB stick containing instructions for how to obtain and produce indecent images of children.
Redfern appeared at Norwich Crown Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to six counts of making an indecent image of a child, three counts of distributing an indecent image of a child, one count of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and one count of possession of a paedophile manual.
He was jailed for three years.
Elliott Gunton, 24
Elliot Gunton was jailed for his part in a cryptocurrency scam (Image: East Anglia News Service)
Elliot Gunton, of Mounteney Close in Old Catton, was jailed for three and a half years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud outside the UK and money laundering.
He committed these crimes in 2018 and 2019 when he was aged 17 and 18.
Gunton and fellow hackers accessed the Coinbase accounts of more than 500 crypto users by directing them to a fake website.
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One person in the US lost more than $16,000.
Others lost amounts in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is not the first time Gunton has been sentenced.
He made international headlines aged 16 when he stole the personal data of TalkTalk customers in exchange for hundreds of thousands of pounds in cryptocurrency.
In 2019, he was jailed for 20 months and ordered to pay back £407,359 after hacking high-profile Instagram accounts.
Angelo Periera, 25, Samira Gomes, 22, and Marcia Fonseca, 28
Angelo Periera was jailed for three years (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)
Three Portugese nationals have been sentenced for their involvement in a drug gang in Great Yarmouth.
The group had used a rented property in King Street as a convenient cut-through to the neighbouring road, Dene Side.
Samira Gomes was jailed for 21 months and told she could be deported on release (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)
They appeared at Norwich Crown Court and admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
Periera was jailed for three years.
Gomes was jailed for 21 months and told she could be deported after her release.
Fonseca, who has been on remand for eight months, had a two year sentence suspended for 18 months.
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