Buckinghamshire criminals jailed in February, 2026
From dangerous driving to attempted burglar, drug dealing and modern day slavery offences, courts and law enforcement across the county were kept very busy last month.
The prison sentences given out ranged from mere months to an entire decade.
Here's a summary of the criminals jailed in February, including cases in Bucks and suspects from Bucks.
Taffyn Betnay, aged 35, of Benouville Close, Oxford, Tony Cooke, aged 26, of no fixed abode, and Tom Loveridge, aged 44, of no fixed abode, were each jailed for nine years after they broke into a house in Coal Mews armed with a baseball bat, a claw hammer, and an imitation firearm.
Reading more about the 'terrifying' burglary here.
Muhammed Qasim Saleem, aged 27, of St Highs Avenue, High Wycombe, was jailed for four years for drug dealing offences after officers caught him with heroin and cannabis.
Muhammed Qasim Saleem (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Traf Almaghrabi, aged 24, was jailed for ten years for causing death by dangerous driving after a fatal crash on the M40 near Beaconsfield where Almaghrabi initially fled the scene before handing himself in at Wycombe police station.
Traf Almaghrabi (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Alexander Simmons, aged 26, of Portway Road, Twyford, was sentenced to three years and three months in prison after he drove his Mercedes on the wrong side of the road on the A41, crashing into another car and leaving a 56-year-old woman with life changing injuries.
Alexander Simmons (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Simon Bennett, aged 26, of St Peters Avenue, Aylesbury, and George Watts, aged 28, of Roxwell Path, Aylesbury, were jailed for four years and eleven months and three years and one month, respectively, for their roles in a cocaine dealing network in the Aylesbury area.
Simon Bennett and George Watts (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Phillip Grace, aged 43, of Cleavers Avenue, Conniburrow, Milton Keynes, was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison after sending sexual messages to a Facebook account he thought belonged to a 12-year-old girl but which was actually a decoy set up by an activist group.
Phillip Grace (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Arkan Omer, aged 24, of Empire Way, Wembley, Brent, was jailed for five years and four months for drug dealing, modern slavery, and trafficking offences after he lured High Wycombe teens into dealing drugs on his behalf.
Arkan Omer, 24, of Empire Way, Wembley, Brent (Image: NQ)
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David Shurrock, aged34, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 16 weeks and banned from Aylesbury town centre after a string of public order offences and a case of theft.
David Shurrock, 34, has been jailed for 16 weeks (Image: TVP)
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Jaye Cardy and George Cardy, were sentenced to five years and two-years-ten-months, respectively, after the brothers conned thousands of pounds from an Amersham widow in her 80s for unnecessary roof repairs.
Read more here.
Nexhat Hoda, aged 41, of no fixed abode, was jailed for two years and four months for drug dealing in Aylesbury, and will be deported once he has served his sentence.
Nexhat Hoda (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Jamie Bolton, aged 25, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 20 weeks after he was caught with a blade and breached an order that banned him from begging or entering certain parts of High Wycombe.
Jamie Bolton has been jailed for four months (Image: TVP)
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Shane Wrenn, aged 31, of Millway Furlong, Haddenham, was jailed for two years and six months after the drug dealer tried to flee from officers on Bedwyn Walk in Aylesbury.
Shane Wrenn (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Kaine Smith, aged 25, of Coyne Road, West Bromwich, Sandwell, was sentenced to a year in prison after his attempted burglary left a family in Milton Keynes feeling "unsafe in their own home".
Kaine Smith, 25, of Coyne Road, West Bromwich, Sandwell (Image: TVP)
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Kelmend Tershalla, aged 22, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 25 months after the Albanian drug dealer was caught by police in High Wycombe and found to have taken photos posing with cash, drugs, and guns.
Kelmend Tershalla (Image: TVP)
Read more here.
Thomas Mason, aged 29, from Buckinghamshire, was jailed for 24 weeks for failing to failing to keep police adequately informed about his address status while being on the sex offenders register.
Read more here.
Mark Michalke, aged 55, from Hambledines in Milton Keynes, was jailed for one year for driving dangerously and failing to stop for police in Botley, Oxfordshire.
Read more here.
Nicholas Gilpin, 23, of Dippingwell Court, Farnham Common, was sentenced to three years and four months of imprisonment for terrorism offences and stirring up racial hatred.
Nicholas Gilpin (Image: Counter Terrorism Policing South East)
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Alexander Chis, aged 38, of Richmond Crescent, Slough was jailed for two months and four weeks after stealing £120 worth of alcohol from Sainsbury's in Marlow.
Jason Murray, 47, of no fixed abode, was jailed for four months after admitting he was going to Chesham equipped for theft when he was caught with a balaclava, two pairs of gloves, a signal device, screwdriver and latex gloves.
