Jailed in Suffolk: Criminals jailed at Ipswich Crown Court

Etmont Karitsi

Etmont Karitsi was jailed for 16 months (Image: Suffolk police) Etmont Karitsi, a Greek national of no fixed abode, was stopped by police in Newmarket while driving a blue Renault Clio in July.

When the car was searched, police found two hollow vapes containing 12 small bags of cocaine.

Karitsi's phone was also seized which led officers to an address where more than £15,000 of cash and significant quantities of cocaine were found.

Karitsi gave no comment during police interviews but pleaded guilty to possession of class A drugs with intent to supply.

At Ipswich Crown Court, Recorder Jeremy Benson KC imposed a 16-month jail sentence, which was reduced from the three-year starting point because of the defendant’s age and prompt guilty plea.

Ionut Vasile

Ionut Vasile has been jailed for 24 months (Image: Suffolk police) Thirty-year-old Ionut Vasile of Khartoum Road, Ilford, was driving along Bury Road, Newmarket, on August 20 when he was detained by officers and taken to Newmarket police station for a strip-search, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Vasile was found with 14 wraps of cocaine were in small sealed bags, £250 cash and a mobile phone which contained messages giving details of the postcodes he had delivered drugs to over a three-week period.

He later admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine between August 2 and August 20 and possessing cocaine with intent to supply on August 20 despite initially saying the drugs were for personal use. 

The defence argued how Vasile, who had no previous convictions, had entered the UK legally and has two young children in Romania had become involved in delivering drugs because after finding himself with no money.

The 30-year-old was sentenced to 24 months at Ipswich Crown Court.

William Denham

William Denham was jailed for four and a half years (Image: Suffolk police) Judge Emma Peters described actions of 44-year-old William Denham as “horrific, depraved, sadistic and cruel” and motivated by sexual jealousy as he appeared at Ipswich Crown Court for sentencing.

The court heard how Denham, of St Andrew's Avenue, Colchester, had bombarded his partner, who had been on a night out with work colleagues, with messages and video calls threatening to kill her rabbits and burn her house down.

When she didn’t respond he sent her pictures of the dead rabbits he had killed and said: “You and your boyfriend are next", before sending a video of a burning curtain in their house. 

When the victim got home she tried to put out the fire with glass jug of water but Denham hit her over the head with it and repeatedly punched her in the head.

She then managed to flee from the house and hid behind a bush before going to a neighbour’s house.

William Denham was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, banned from contacting his ex-partner indefinitely and disqualified from owning any animals indefinitely.