This gallery features a collection of 62 individuals who were jailed in Lancashire in 2024 for a range of serious crimes, including murder, rape, theft, drug dealing and violent offenses.
These faces represent the darker side of our community and serve as a reminder of the consequences of criminal behaviour:
21. Naeem Iqbal
Officers discovered a large quantity of cocaine, estimated to be worth around £24,000, following a raid at an address in Ormerod Street in September. Naeem Iqbal, 28, of Ormerod Street, was sentenced to 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply a Class A drug. | Lancashire Police
22. Conner Lettherd
Lancashire Police’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Team received information that Conner Lettherd had downloaded an indecent image to a dropbox in August 2023. The 24-year-old, of no fixed abode, was subsequently arrested. It was also reported that Lettherd was sexually abusing and taking indecent images of two young children. Lettherd was specifically asked about the allegations during a police interview. He denied them. He later admitted sexually abusing and taking indecent images of the children. Lettherd was arrested on suspicion of and later charged with assaulting a child under 13 by touching. He was sentenced to four years and 11 months in prison. | Lancashire Police
23. John Ryan
John Ryan was jailed for 20 years after raping and sexually abusing a young girl. Ryan, now 75, subjected his young victim to abuse over a number of years from when she was just six years old. Most of the offences were carried out in Blackpool. Ryan, formerly of Blackpool but originally from Tamworth in the West Midlands, denied offences of rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and cause/incite a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity but was found guilty after a trial. The total sentences handed down at Preston Court for all the offences for which he was convicted amounted to almost 70 years but will be served concurrently so he was jailed for 20 years. | Lancashire Police
24. Nazim Asmal
Nazim Asmal - an “extremely dangerous” rapist - pretended to be a taxi driver in order to trick women into his car. He was jailed for 17 years in July 2024 for raping three women between 2021 and 2023 in Preston and Darwen. He was also issued with an indefinite sexual harm prevention order. | Lancashire Police