Among those locked up were a man who paralysed his partner after years of coercive abuse, a father who admitted the manslaughter of his six-week-old son, organised crime figures running large-scale drugs networks across the county and offenders targeting vulnerable children.
Here are 27 criminals sentenced last month, and the crimes that put them behind bars:

21. Florin Ajudanu and Ruslans Stromanis
Florin Ajudanu (L) and Ruslans Stromanis (R), 41, of Blackburn, were jailed for four years and two years and three months respectively at Preston Crown Court after police shut down a crack cocaine and heroin drugs line operating in Blackburn. | Lancashire Police

22. Frankie Taylor and James Kiely
James Kiely, 30, and Frankie Taylor, 32, who headed an East Lancashire organised crime group, were among 19 people sentenced to a combined total of more than 79 years at Burnley Crown Court after Operation Vinci uncovered a conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis between December 2020 and July 2024. Kiely, of Bacup, was jailed for 15 years and three months, while his lieutenant Taylor, of Waterfoot, received 11 years and nine months, with other gang members handed prison terms and some given community sentences. | Lancashire Police


