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A drunken binman has narrowly avoided jail after being thrown out of a sports bar and knocking one of the owners unconscious in the car park.
A former cabbie refused to do a swipe test when asked as he claimed he couldn’t put anything in his mouth as he suffers from irritable bowel syndrome.
Here are just some of the criminals including killers, paedophiles, robbers and violent offenders who committed crimes and were locked up this month.
A cocaine addict claimed in court he was attacked by his dealer with a dog chain in a row over drugs before offering to spar with him without “tools”.
An aggressive drunk has appeared in court after attacking police and staff at a pub and petrol station.
Police have revealed four people have now been arrested in connection with a “large scale” fight at a pub which saw three men suffer stab wounds.
A dog has been saved from destruction despite attacking a man and two women and a child while it was off-lead and out of control.
A motorist has appeared in court accused of killing a woman during an early morning crash on a motorway.
A man who rushed to help the victims of a crash has been jailed after police called to the scene discovered he was carrying a knife.
A thief concocted an elaborate ploy to steal his victim’s mobile phone and then harassed him for months afterwards.
The moment a dad-of-two kicked in the front door of his former partner’s home was caught on her doorbell camera.
A racist thug adopted a boxing stance and said “c'mon, c'mon” to an Aldi security guard escorting him from a store.
A thug bent a police officer’s fingers back and tried to headbutt him as he was being arrested at his home.
A dad-of-two caught with a knife in his Mercedes after he was spotted on CCTV taking cocaine has avoided prison.
A former beauty consultant who pocketed hundreds of pounds worth of goods in a shoplifting spree says it was “the biggest mistake of my life”.
A cyclist was left with life-changing injuries after being hit by a car that had mounted the pavement - but the driver has been spared jail.
Two men have appeared in the dock accused of murder after a man was stabbed to death in a “particularly violent” high street attack.
A prolific thief who admitted swiping booze from several shops on release from prison later denied one offence, insisting he was still in his cell.
A pervert who downloaded hundreds of indecent images of children was caught following an undercover police operation.
A prolific shoplifter went out stealing just days after being given a ban from going into stores with a bag.
