Rapists, paedophiles, conmen and burglars were among the criminals in Lancashire who were jailed in July.
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7. Conner Lettherd
Lancashire Police’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Team received information that Conner Lettherd had downloaded an indecent image to a dropbox in August 2023. The 24-year-old, of no fixed abode, was subsequently arrested. It was also reported that Lettherd was sexually abusing and taking indecent images of two young children. Lettherd was specifically asked about the allegations during a police interview. He denied them. He later admitted sexually abusing and taking indecent images of the children. Lettherd was arrested on suspicion of and later charged with assaulting a child under 13 by touching. He was sentenced to four years and 11 months in prison. | Lancashire Police
8. Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan, from Preston, was jailed for five years and six months after being caught with a large quantity of heroin and cocaine. Officers stopped a car on Hawarden Road in Fishwick back on April 12. A large quantity of heroin and cocaine was subsequently discovered inside the vehicle. Over £50,000 was also found after a nearby address was searched. | Lancashire Police Photo: Lancashire Police
9. Peter Alan Barnes
In October 2022, a woman reported to the police that Peter Barnes, now 75, had sexually abused her as a child. Further women came forward to speak up about the sexual abuse they had suffered at his hands during the subsequent investigation and prosecution. Barnes was charged with 44 sexual offences, including four counts of rape against five children and two women. His youngest victim was aged between nine and eleven when he raped and sexually assaulted her. Barnes initially denied all of the offences but pleaded guilty to one count of indecent assault in July 2023. He was found guilty of the remaining 43 sexual offences following a trial in June 2024. | Lancashire Police Photo: Lancashire Police
10. Peter Hung
Peter Hung told police he couldn’t remember attacking his girlfriend. When he was quizzed by officers at the scene of the assault he confessed he had mental health issues and had no recollection of punching her three times. The 42-year-old university graduate was jailed for eight months after a judge was told it was the third time he had been accused of injuring the woman during their five-year on-off relationship. | National World
11. John Ryan
John Ryan was jailed for 20 years after raping and sexually abusing a young girl. Ryan, now 75, subjected his young victim to abuse over a number of years from when she was just six years old. Most of the offences were carried out in Blackpool. Ryan, formerly of Blackpool but originally from Tamworth in the West Midlands, denied offences of rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and cause/incite a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity but was found guilty after a trial. The total sentences handed down at Preston Court for all the offences for which he was convicted amounted to almost 70 years but will be served concurrently so he was jailed for 20 years. | Lancashire Police
12. Thomas Ingram
Thomas Ingram swindled a rail company out of more than £1K by dishonestly using a compensation scheme. Ingram, 38, of Cheltenham Road, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation. He was subsequently jailed for 16 months at Preston Crown Court on Monday, July 8. | British Transport Police