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flag Fifteen in Essex sentenced in Dec. 2025 for drugs, fraud, assaults, and exploitation, including a 17-year term for romance fraud.

flag In December 2025, 15 people in Essex were sentenced for crimes including drug trafficking, fraud, violent assaults, and exploitation. flag Roger De Souza Prudencio, a Brazilian man who overstayed his UK visa, received a three-and-a-half-year sentence for cocaine possession and identity fraud. flag Nigel Baker was given a 17-year term—the longest for romance fraud in Britain—for stealing nearly £1 million from five women through fake relationships. flag Daniel Peasnell was jailed for five years after biting off part of a man’s finger at a wedding, causing permanent injury. flag Four men were convicted for running a drug operation using a vulnerable woman’s home, with sentences ranging from three years and seven months to four years and one month.

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