A clubland thug who launched a brutal attack on a student on a night out and a drug driver who killed a family of three have appeared in the dock this week.

A number of people have stood before judges this week in the county.

Here is a round-up of who has been in the dock this week.

Dereham Times: Mercede Silsbury and Michael Ndoro have been jailed for dealing drugsMercede Silsbury and Michael Ndoro have been jailed for dealing drugs (Image: Cambridgeshire Constabulary)

Mercede Silsbury, 26 and Michael Ndoro, 29

Mercede Silsbury and partner Michael Ndoro have been jailed for jailed for running a county lines operation to sell tens of thousands of pounds worth of crack cocaine and heroin. 

The pair continued to peddle drugs across the region even after being arrested.

When police raided Ndoro’s home at Haverhill in Suffolk in the early hours of September 14 they found a mobile phone linking them to Class A drug dealing.

They also seized more than £12k in cash and £9k in class A drugs.

Silsbury, of North Star Court in King’s Lynn, was sentenced to three years and two months at Peterborough Crown Court after previously pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and acquiring criminal property.

Ndoro, 29, was sentenced to four years and four months after admitting to being concerned in the supply of crack and heroin, three counts of possession with intent to supply Class A and three counts of acquiring criminal property.

Dereham Times: Alban Bafti, 30Alban Bafti, 30 (Image: Norfolk Constabulary)

Alban Bafti, 30

Alban Bafti, 30, was found with 2.9kg of cannabis, with a street value of about £30,000, in a bag in his BMW car in Christchurch Road, Norwich as well as two bundles of £1,000.

During a search of his home in Essex 203 cannabis plants, with a street value of £170,000, were found along with sophisticated growing and heating equipment.

Norwich Crown Court heard Bafti, an Albanian national, had got involved in the enterprise after borrowing £30,000 from another Albanian to help pay for a custody battle he was having with a British woman with whom he had an eight-year-old boy.

Bafti, from Harwich, Essex, appeared at court on Wednesday (June 21) having admitted possession with intent to supply cannabis on March 10 this year and production of cannabis on March 11 this year.

Jailing him for 32 months, Judge Andrew Shaw said he was willing to accept the defendant had got involved in the offending to help his battle for custody over his son.

Dereham Times: Lucy Hambridge has been banned from owning a dog for two yearsLucy Hambridge has been banned from owning a dog for two years (Image: Newsquest)

Lucy Hambridge, 41

Lucy Hambridge, of Heath Close, Great Witchingham, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, for assault, criminal damage, and breaches of a criminal behaviour order when she appeared at Norwich Crown Court on June 16.

It followed an incident at a home in the village on March 16.

During an argument, Hambridge assaulted the victim, injuring their arm, and damaged several of their belongings.

Hambridge has also been banned from owning a dog for two years following a separate incident, on January 30, when a dog in her possession attacked another dog on School Road, Reepham.

 

Dereham Times: Aurelijus Cielevicius, 39Aurelijus Cielevicius, 39 (Image: Contributed)

Aurelijus Cielevicius, 39

Aurelijus Cielevicius killed three members of the same family in a head-on crash after taking a cocktail of drugs.

The 39-year-old, of John Street in King’s Lynn, was driving at 96mph when the fatal crash happened in January. 

His BMW was seen travelling at speed and going through red traffic lights before it crashed into a Vauxhall Mokka head-on when Cielevicius attempted to overtake another car.

All three occupants of the Vauxhall, Paul Carter, 41, with his wife Lisa Carter, 49, and her daughter, 25-year-old Jade Mace, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Toxicology results found Methylamphetamine, Mephedrone and Cannabis in his system as well as other drugs.  

On June 20, he was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court to 10 and a half years to be served concurrently.

He will then serve a further four years on an extended licence due to the dangerousness of the offence and will be disqualified from driving for 15 years. 

Dereham Times: Achilles Lawrence Gate'te outside courtAchilles Lawrence Gate'te outside court (Image: Newsquest)

Achilles Lawrence Gate'te, 19

Achilles Lawrence Gate’te, of Cunningham Road, Norwich, was found guilty of grievous bodily harm during a series of violent incidents in Norwich’s nightclub district in the early hours of March 19 last year.

Former UEA student, David Constant, suffered injuries so severe he had to have part of his skull removed to save his life following the attack by Gate'te on St Vedast Street, off Prince of Wales Road.

Mr Constant, who had been out with friends when he was "taken off his feet" by a punch delivered with such force by Gate'te he fell back and hit his head with a "sickening thud".

He was rushed to the N&N before being transferred to Addenbrooke's while Gate'te later texted a friend to say "we killing people".

On Thursday, June 22, Gate'te was sentenced to seven and half years for his ultra-violent rampage through clubland.