From sexual predators to drug dealers and domestic abusers, lots of people were convicted of crimes last month.

So here are the criminals jailed in the county in May.

Sol Philpott

The 23-year-old beat his partner unconscious with a marble chopping board and is back behind bars after sinking his teeth into his new girlfriend's face.

After being released from a previous sentence, Philpott, of Stonebridge Road, Canterbury, struck up a romance with Olivia Whitton.

During his birthday celebrations in Margate, September 2020, Philpott repeatedly bit Miss Whitton and elbowed her unconscious.

He was jailed for 20 months at the city's crown court for the “prolonged assault”, during which he “used his teeth as a weapon”.

Andrew Ainsworth

Ainsworth became the fourth gang member to be jailed for conspiring to supply more than £12 million of counterfeit banknotes.

The 61-year-old's imprisonment followed a lengthy investigation, which led to the single largest face-value seizure of fake currency in UK history following a raid at an industrial unit in Beckenham.

Three other members of the same criminal network were sentenced to a combined total of 22-and-a-half years in January 2021, having admitted to their involvement in the conspiracy.

Ainsworth, of Old Dartford Road, Farningham, was found guilty of conspiring to produce counterfeit currency and was sentenced to five-and-a-half years.

Joshua Hamilton

Bully Hamilton punished his lover by making her stand in the corner in her own home.

The 24-year-old also used his belt to whip the back of his victim's legs in what the judge branded "gratuitous degradation".

Before he was sentenced he tried to justify his behaviour, which included grabbing his victim by the throat and slamming her against a wall, by claiming he had been in a "toxic relationship".

Now, Hamilton, of Rankine Road, Tunbridge Wells, has been jailed for four years and given a 10-year ban not to contact his ex-lover "by any means".

Richard Barham

The 38-year-old drunken fire-starter left a terrified couple trapped inside their smoke-filled home after triggering a series of explosions during an arson spree, which he claims to have no recollection of.

Barham torched several cars in Canterbury in the early hours of one morning, causing more than £70,000 worth of damage.

The smoke from one blaze engulfed a nearby home, with those inside left fearing for their lives and describing the ordeal as “the stuff of nightmares”.

Barham, of Beckett Avenue, Canterbury, was also being investigated for his part in a sustained attack caught on CCTV at the time and was sentenced to eight years.

Daniel Farrier

Farrier, from Ramsgate, was arrested after officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) linked him to a package from overseas which had been intercepted in this country.

Border Force detected a parcel sent from China in November 2017 contained 107g of fentanyl at the Coventry International Postal hub - as little as 0.002g of fentanyl (within a typical 0.1g heroin deal) is potentially fatal.

Investigators were also able to link Farrier, 34, to the supply of Class A drug MDMA, as well as Class B and C drugs diazepam, alprazolem, steroids and cannabis resin.

He pleaded guilty to six offences and appeared at Canterbury Crown Court where he was jailed for three years.

Mark Dinnage

Between March and June 2020, Mark Dinnage used an encrypted mobile phone platform where he was known by the handle Modest Dragon to direct couriers purchasing and supplying cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis.

But the communication system was infiltrated by international enforcement agencies and incriminating details relating to organised criminals in the UK were passed to the National Crime Agency.

The 42-year-old was arrested on September 9 last year and was later charged with conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and conspiracy to supply Class B drugs.

Dinnage, of Lesley Place, Maidstone, pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court and was yesterday sentenced to 12 years.

Alfie Tullet, Alfie Boyles and Harry Boyles

Tullet, a van driver from East Malling, ran over and killed a 34-year-old man during a brawl in Chislehurst.

The 32-year-old, of Catlyn Close, admitted killing Frankie Bulbrook on July 24, 2020 and was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter.

Tullet also pleaded guilty to a charge of violent disorder and was separately sentenced to two years and nine months jail to run concurrently.

Two other men involved in the incident, Alfie Boyles, 22, and Harry Boyles, 25, both of Imperial Way, Chislehurst, were both found guilty of violent disorder and also sentenced to two years and nine months in jail.

Luke Gilleeney

33-year-old Gilleeney, of Grange Road, Gravesend, was charged with offences in January 2015 but failed to answer bail and went on the run to Marbella.

After being arrested for handling stolen cars, Gilleeny was sent to prison last month – seven years after he was first arrested.

The combined value of the three stolen vehicles was around £111,000.

After pleading guilty to three counts of handling stolen goods and failing to surrender, Gilleeney was sentenced to 38-and-a-half months custody.

Monsur Ali and Dilwar Hussain

Brothers Ali and Hussain got caught up in a fight over a faulty motorbike in Northfleet, which resulted in a 17-year-old being airlifted to hospital with a stab wound.

The brothers, both of Nelson Road, Northfleet, were stopped in a blue Vauxhall Astra in Old Road West, Gravesend around an hour later.

Eighteen-year-old Ali was sentenced to nine years and nine months custody after admitting grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of a knife in a public place.

His brother, Hussain, 25, was handed a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting affray.

Mohammed Afzal

A pupil at a top Kent boarding school was sexually assaulted by head of chemistry, Dr Afzal, who later went on to teach elsewhere in the country.

Even though the terrified child reported the incident to senior staff at the Maidstone school almost 30 years ago, police were never informed.

Afzal had planned the sex attack after buying alcohol before grooming the child and was lured to his home in the school on the pretext of babysitting duties.

The 66-year-old, now of Sheldon in Birmingham, was found guilty of sexual assault and was jailed for three years and ordered to pay his victim £1,000 compensation.

Isaac Kiggundu

Kiggundu flung dangerous chemicals into the face of a good Samaritan using a Lucozade during a crime spree.

His victim suffered burns to his eyes alongside severe respiratory complications following the attack in Dover.

The 25-year-old, of Priory Road, East Ham, denied two counts of occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon, arguing he had been wrongly identified.

However, a jury convicted him after deliberating for a little over an hour and he was jailed for six years.

Costel Coscodaru, Marih Ilihca and Mihai Florin

Coscodaru, 25, Iliahca, 39, and Florin, 19, fled Goody Demolition in Aylesham after stripping £1,500 worth of the metal from the site.

And the gang of balaclava-clad copper thieves nearly shutdown the business after causing £30,000 worth of damage during the raid.

A police helicopter scrambled shortly after the alarms were raised and soon traced the trio trying to escape through nearby marshland.

All three were handed 31 months' custody at Canterbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to burglary.

Patrick Mugford

Mugford, 68, raped a Canterbury schoolgirl as she was sleeping near her newborn baby – but she had to wait 20 years for justice.

The teenager reported the attack immediately but was not believed by her mother and had to endure two decades of pain and hurt before a jury convicted her attacker.

Last month Mugford, from Cornwall, was finally jailed after hearing how his victim was so traumatised by the attack she ended up drinking three litres of cider a day "to black everything out" and was once found in a coma after a suicide attempt.

He was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for the rape and indecent assault.

John Kirby

Kirby, of Still Lane, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, tormented his partner with relentless physical and mental abuse, between January 2018 and August 2019.

He threatened to murder and bury her and regularly beat her, punching and kicking her in the head and dragging her by the hair.

In one incident the 42-year-old pushed his victim down the stairs while she was pregnant and then throttled her with his hands, causing her to lose consciousness.

Kirby was sentenced to four years and six months’ custody and upon his release from prison, he will also be subject to a restraining order.

Jason Campbell

Campbell was travelling at 62mph in a Jaguar XF when he struck ex-servicemen Brenden Hoare on a blind corner in Broad Oak Road, Canterbury, in January last year.

The car valet had accelerated to 62mph in a saloon car he was using for work when he struck Mr Hoare, flinging him metres into the air.

Campbell, of Vauxhall Avenue, Canterbury, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

The grandfather-of-four was jailed for two-and-a-half years and banned from driving for three years and three months.

Andrew Maloney

The 53-year-old was jailed after spraying bleach at a group of people after a fight that started at a kebab shop.

Maloney had entered the Best Kebab shop on the High Street in Lydd in the early hours of Saturday, April 9, when he got into an argument with staff and a group of people inside.

After they removed him from the business, he sprayed a corrosive substance towards the group, causing one man in his 20s to temporarily lose his vision.

He was jailed for 16 months after previously admitting possession of an offensive weapon, affray and criminal damage.

Robert Downey, Mohamud Salah and Leesean Francis

Three drug dealers who sold crack cocaine and heroin as part of a county lines gang network were jailed following house raids.

Officers from the police's county lines and gangs team carried out simultaneous warrants and arrested three men in Chatham and Beckenham for their part in distributing and supplying crack cocaine and heroin across Medway.

Police found mobile phones used for drug dealing and Salah was found in possession of 50 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin. He also had a large amount of cash on him.

Salah and Downey, of Magpie Hall Road, were both jailed for two years and three months and Francis, from Beckenham, was jailed for five years and eight months.

Robert Wain

The 59-year-old "manipulative sexual predator" was locked up after being convicted of 35 offences against children.

A court heard how in the 1990s, Wain, from Gillingham – who was then in his 30s and lived in Woolwich – would target young vulnerable boys.

He would encourage children as young as 10-years-old to come to his flat, where he would groom the children, buying them gifts and offering them money.

One of the victims came forward in January 2020 - Wain was jailed for 24 years.

Josh Harkins

Harkins, 31, of Morningside Road, Liverpool, controlled a supply chain known as the ‘Scouse’ line, which distributed Class A drugs to users in Ramsgate for almost a year.

Officers had proved that between June 2019 and May 2020, Harkins used dedicated phone lines to advertise drugs to local users, by sending out bulk marketing text messages.

A number of phones were seized containing data linked to the line, which included messages such as "on at 9 with best of both fast drops" - indicating that from 9am fast delivery was available on high quality heroin and crack cocaine.

He went on the run to Spain when his criminal operation was dismantled, following a Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate investigation, but a judge sentenced him to 10 years behind bars.

James Beaumont

Beaumont, of Lancaster Road, Canterbury, repeatedly punched and stamped on stranger Lewis Gordon, causing head injuries as he lay defenceless in King Street, Ramsgate.

The 19-year-old ran at speed and launched a string of punches and a single stamp to Mr Gordon’s head, during a cognac and cocaine binge, on the evening of February 12.

Mr Gordon was treated for a broken nose, fractured finger, and suspected broken eye-socket at a nearby hospital, the court heard.

Beaumont was arrested 20 minutes afterwards, having been identified on CCTV, and sentenced him to three years inside a Young Offenders Institute.

To see who was locked up in Kent in April, click here.