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Joshua MacFarlane was sentenced to 10 years and four months behind bars, with a further four years to be spent on licence.
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David Wilkinson, now 56, initiated the abuse of the school-aged girl in the late 1980s when he was a teenager. He raped and sexually assaulted the girl multiple times, including in the Newcastle area.
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Two men found guilty over the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree have been jailed for a combined eight-and-a-half years.
James Wright, 25, raped both victims at his Sunderland address last year. He also assaulted one of the victims by throwing a mobile phone at her.
Barry Houston, now 63, repeatedly sexually assaulted the school-aged boy at an address in South Tyneside when he was a teenager.
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More than 100 arrests have been made in the North East as part of a co-ordinated nationwide crackdown on cross-border drug dealing – with almost £170,000 of criminal cash seized alongside Class A drugs and weapons.
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A former professional boxer who masterminded a cocaine conspiracy has been extradited from Cyprus and jailed.
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A drug dealer who spearheaded an organised criminal network which sought to flood the North East with Class A drugs has been jailed.
A paedophile who unwittingly engaged in explicit online messaging with what he believed were children has been jailed. Kai Bell, also known as Ben Ryan Barclay, spoke with a number of decoys who were posing as 12-year-old girls.
Two men who conspired to supply drugs across the North East have been sentenced to a total of 17 and a half years behind bars.