The list below includes some of the offenders that were put behind bars by judges during February. The offenders names and a summary of what led to them appearing in the dock are as follows:
Group posed as police officers and kidnapped man
Ashley Beeden (top left), Leslie Richardson (top right), Nigel Moors (bottom left), Lewis Needham (bottom right) were jailed Leslie Richardson, also known as Leslie Ades, aged 53 and of Westcliff-on-Sea, Lewis James Needham, aged 29 and of Dorchester, and Nigel Geoffrey Moors, aged 51 and of Puddletown, were all sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court in late-January after being found guilty at an earlier trial of conspiracy to kidnap, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and blackmail.