A former world snooker champion, a Household Cavalry soldier who plotted to rape a 10-month-old baby and a disgraced celebrity police officer were among the criminals jailed in the UK in September. Also locked up were a man who strangled his mother to death after stealing from her to fund his drug habit and a teenage asylum seeker who piloted a dinghy carrying 165 people across the English Channel.
High-profile cases
Graeme Dott, 49, the former world snooker champion, was sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of sexually abusing two primary school-age children. The High Court in Edinburgh heard he subjected a girl and a boy to multiple incidents of abuse, exposing himself, touching them inappropriately and kissing them. Judge Lord Harrower said his actions bore "the hallmarks of grooming" and that he had "robbed the complainers of a significant part of their childhood".
Graham Jarvis, 38, a Household Cavalry soldier, was jailed for 12 years for plotting to rape a young girl and a 10-month-old baby. He had struck a deal with a woman he met online to sexually abuse her children, but was actually chatting with an undercover police officer posing as the mother. Judge Adam Hiddleston told Jarvis: "This was not a case of fantasy on your part."
Other notable sentences
Ex-Cambridgeshire Constabulary police sergeant Paul Street, 41, was jailed for four years after asking for a female suspect's sex video. Street, who found fame in television crime shows on the BBC and Channel 4, was found guilty of two charges of misconduct in a public office following an Old Bailey trial.
Richard Clayton, 45, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years for strangling his mother to death after stealing from her to fund his drug habit. Judge Nigel Lickley KC described Clayton as "despicable", "callous" and "self-centred".
Chan Atak, 19, from South Sudan, was jailed for two years and three months for piloting an overcrowded, deflating 14-metre-long dinghy across the English Channel with 165 people on board. The court heard the boat's tubing had started to deflate and one of the two outboard engines was not functioning.
