Rogues’ gallery of jailed criminals from the South Tyneside area recently
Here are some of the latest criminals from the South Tyneside area to be locked up.
Unless otherwise stated, they are all from the South Tyneside are and are beginning sentences after their case was heard at Newcastle Crown Court.
1. Gavin Gray
Gray, 48, of Beach Road, South Shields, admitted six breaches of his sexual harm prevention order and one of failing to comply with notification requirements. He was sentenced to 22 months behind bars.
2. Peter Braithwaite
Braithwaite, 31, of Wilkinson Court Tower, Jarrow, admitted robbery and has been jailed for 40 months. He wore face paint to disguise himself as The Joker.
3. George Thompson
George Thompson often used hugs as an opportunity to grope women and girls over a period of more than 20 years. The now 76-year-old, of Harton Lane, South Shields, admitted 19 charges of sexual assault and indecent assault. At Newcastle Crown Court on Thursday, October 22, he was locked up for two years and eight months.
4. Connar King
Connar King, 33, of Carley Road, Sunderland, has been jailed for 16 months after attacking a victim who had been walking her dog in Boldon Colliery, South Tyneside.
5. Ton Nguyen
Ton Nguyen, from Vietnam, tried to conceal himself when police raided a property on Stanhope Road, South Shields, in May this year. Nguyen, 45, of no fixed address, who has no other convictions or cautions later admitted producing cannabis. Recorder Brian Whitehead jailed him for 19 weeks
6. Richard Hall
Hall, who is originally from Sunderland and currently of no fixed abode, appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court on Friday October 10 charged with two breaches of a CBO, as well as 16 counts of shoplifting, two counts of failure to comply with a Community Protection Notice, one count of common assault and one section five public order offence. He was sentenced to 40 weeks in prison.
7. Calvin White
White, 35, on the first day of his trial at Newcastle Crown Court in July, pleaded guilty to six offences: three counts of rape and three counts of assault by penetration. He was handed a nine-year prison sentence by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court and will spend the rest of his life on the Sex Offenders’ Register.