A man who groomed and abducted a child, and a drug addict who robbed a man at an Ipswich hotel are among those jailed in Suffolk this week.
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith was jailed for 20 months after he robbed a man at an Ipswich hotel.
Thirty-four-year-old Daniel Smith was given a two year prison sentence suspended for two years at Ipswich Crown Court in February last year after he admitted an offence of robbery.
He was also ordered to do 180 hours unpaid work and given a 60-day rehabilitation activity requirement.
On Monday, Smith, of no fixed address, admitted breaching the terms of the suspended sentence in October and December last year.
The robbery offence related to an incident which took place at the Station Hotel in Burrell Road, Ipswich in August 2021 when a man was robbed of items including an iPad, an iPhone, cash and bank cards by Smith and an unidentified man.
Teodor Apavaloael
Teodor Apavaloael was jailed for 16 months after he attacked his flatmate with a bread knife causing a deep cut to his hand.
Apavaloael, 34, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on November 11 last year.
Teodor Apavaloael was upset when he was told he could no longer live at the flat in Woodbridge Road in Ipswich after losing his job.
He told the victim "I’ll show you who’s the boss" before lunging at him with the serrated knife, Ipswich Crown Court heard.
The victim grabbed the blade of the knife and suffered a deep cut to his hand which needed nine stitches.
Sentencing him, Judge Nicola Talbot-Hadley said that Apavaloael, who has been in custody for four months, would have to serve half of the 16-month jail term and would then face deportation to Romania.
Erion Hoxha
Erion Hoxha was jailed for 28 months after he became involved in the supply of drugs to repay a debt he owed to traffickers who brought him to the UK.
Hoxha was driving an uninsured Audi along Bramford Road in Ipswich last month when he was stopped by police and detained for a drug search, Ipswich Crown Court was told.
Hoxha told the officers they had got the wrong man and when he was physically restrained after refusing to be handcuffed he had assaulted a police officer, causing a cut to his hand and bruising.
Nineteen bags of cocaine, a Greek driving licence, a mobile phone and £285 cash were discovered during a search when he was stopped and when his accommodation was searched a further 19 bags of cocaine were found in a bedroom.
Hoxha, of Beech Road, Ipswich, admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply, possessing an identity document with improper intention, assaulting an emergency worker and possession of criminal property, namely £285 cash.
She said that when Hoxha's cash-in-hand work on a building site dried up he’d become involved in the supply of drugs to repay the Albanian traffickers who’d brought him to the UK.
Corey Anderson
Corey Anderson was jailed for six years and 10 months after he groomed a girl over a three year period and abducted her.
Anderson first met the victim online in 2018 and continued to communicate with her online until the summer of 2020 when he arranged to meet her.
She was aged 15 at the time.
He met the victim in Suffolk before taking her back to his home address in the West Midlands.
Police located Anderson and the victim in a vehicle after the teenager had been reported missing by her family who had raised concerns that she was with Anderson.
At a hearing in February, Anderson was found guilty by a jury of sexual activity with a child, meeting a child following a sexual grooming, sexual communication with a child and child abduction.
Brandon French
Brandon French was jailed for 36 months after he was caught with 15 wraps of heroin and 17 grams of cannabis at a train station.
French, 21, of St Mary's Road, Hastings, pleaded guilty to possession of heroin with intent to supply and possession of cannabis.
On January 23, plain-clothed officers from the British Transport Police were conducting an operation tackling county lines offending at Colchester railway station.
French walked through the station and pulled his hood over his face in an attempt to hide his identity.
The officers approached him and caught an "instant whiff" of cannabis coming from his person.
After a brief conversation, French was searched and officers discovered 15 wraps of heroin and 17 grams of cannabis.
He was also in possession of a 'burner-style' phone.
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