Below are some of the more serious and dreadful cases to have recently passed through our courts where some of the victims have been left traumatised.
Offenders have been involved in dangerous driving during a high-speed police pursuit, attempting to engage in a sexual activity with a child, and one thug has been jailed after he stabbed another man.
Another sex offender breached an existing Sexual Harm Prevention Order by messaging a 15-year-old girl online and he was also charged with causing a child to watch an image of a sexual activity.
A drug dealer was also caught with cocaine and heroin at his former home.
And in another case a motoring offender caused an injury to a passenger in another car following a collision.
But judges have seen fit to punish these offenders appropriately with custodial sentences of varying lengths.
1. Asam Hussain
Pictured is dangerous driver Asam Hussain, aged 28, of no fixed abode, who was spotted driving erratically by police near the Watchorn Island, Alfreton, on December 14, 2020, according to Nottingham Crown Court. Hussain raced through Somercotes, Selston and Underwood, along the M1, the A6175 through Heath and Holmewood, and re-joined the A38 into Mansfield town centre before crashing near Rosemary Street and Chesterfield Street. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance, failing to stop and to drink driving. Hussain was sentenced to ten months of custody and banned from driving for five years and five months. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police
2. Matthew Storey
Pictured is sex-offender Matthew Storey, aged 40, of Wetherby Close, Aspley, who has been jailed after he was snared by a police officer posing online as a 12-year-old girl. Nottingham Crown Court heard how Storey, who has previous convictions, pleaded guilty to four counts of attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child, two of failing to comply with notification requirements and to further counts of attempting to incite a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity and to making an indecent photo of a child. He was sentenced on January 26 to three years and four months of custody. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police
3. Colin Hartley
Pictured is Colin Hartley, aged 22, of no fixed address, who has recently been sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court to two years of custody after pleading guilty to wounding. Police said Hartley stabbed a man in the stomach with a knife in Beastmarket Hill, in Nottingham city centre, after an altercation in August, 2020. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police
4. Nathan Bray
Pictured is sex-offender Nathan Bray, of no fixed address, who has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years of custody after contacting a girl on social media despite an online ban. The 30-year-old groomed the girl through Snapchat and Instagram, as well as calling her on the phone, according to Nottinghamshire Police. He was charged with breaching his existing Sexual Harm Prevention Order and causing a child to watch an image of a sexual activity. He was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on January 14 following a series of incidents between May and June, 2020, where Bray had messaged the 15-year-old girl online. Photo: Nottinghamshire Police