South Essex criminals were jailed for serious offences last month including two vile paedophiles handed 19-year jail terms and a drugs gang ringleader.

Here are the south Essex criminals jailed in August.

Daniel Carroll

Daniel Carroll, 45, of Westbourne Grove, Westcliff, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court on September 1 where he was jailed for 19 years.

He was charged in February 2023 with two counts of rape of a child under 13, one count of rape of a child over 13, three counts of causing a child to watch a sexual act and three counts of multiple possession of indecent images of children.

Police discovered mobile phones and computers which contained category A images, the most serious prohibited images of children, after a search of Carroll’s home.

He was found guilty of the nine offences following a three-week trial which concluded on June 11 at Basildon Crown Court.

The jury came to their decision in just 90 minutes.

Brandon Stewart

Brandon Stewart deliberately drove at his victim in a Thurrock multi-storey car park back in January.

He now been jailed for 15 years by the judge at Basildon Crown Court.

Officers were called to the incident on January 5 at a car park at Lakeside shopping centre following a report that a man had been hit by a car and the suspect had left the scene.

The car had been driven the wrong way round the car park by Stewart, colliding with a barrier and then hitting the victim.

Stewart fled the scene, leaving his victim with multiple injuries, before returning to his vehicle and jamming a lighter and rag into the petrol tank, in an attempt to set the car on fire.

The victim and the suspect had both been at mini-golf venue Puttshack earlier in the evening.

Stewart, 24, of Hampton Crescent, Gravesend, Kent, sat in his car and waited for the victim to appear. He then reversed his car back into the service road, turned into the car park, accelerated, and hit the victim.

The victim suffered life-changing injuries including multiple broken bones in his legs, crush injuries and collapsed lungs.

He spent an extensive amount of time in hospital and is still recovering.

John Darby

John Darby, 66, of Thames Road, Grays appeared at Basildon Crown Court on August 15 where he was jailed for 19 years, after being found guilty of 14 sexual offences against a child.

In 2017, Essex Police received a report from a girl, who bravely disclosed that she had been sexually abused by Darby.

The Child Abuse Investigation Team say the abuse took place at Thurrock Yacht Club where he often taught children how to sail. Throughout the investigation, Darby continued to deny all allegations against him.

He was charged with 12 counts of assault of a child under 13 by penetration, one count of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, and one count of attempted assault of a child under 13 by penetration.

Shazad Miah

Shazad Miah, 30, was sentenced to 9 years in prison on August 8 for running a drug line supplying crack cocaine and heroin in Southend.

The specialist Operation Raptor team at Essex Police conducted a forensic investigation into the "Frankie" drug line, which used 10 different mobile numbers to send out messages advertising the sale of Class A drugs.

Miah held the drug line phones across a period between February and June 2023, with up to five runners working under him on any given day.

Miah was arrested after he returned to Luton Airport from a trip to Turkey in June last year.

Essex Police executed a warrant on his home in Ashingdon Road, Rochford, seizing evidence including more than £3,000 in cash from a safe found at the property.

Harrison Barnett

Harrison Barnett, of St Marys Crescent, Basildon, was imprisoned for perverting the course of justice for one year and six months after providing a shelter to Tieran Carmody.

Carmody was the subject of a manhunt after stabbing and killing dad-of-three, Max Richardson, 35, near Joyners Field, Harlow, on August 21 last year.

Images of Carmody were analysed and released to the public before the killer was captured on CCTV at a shop in Pitsea, and leaving a pub in Benfleet alongside 19-year-old Barnett, in the days following the murder.

A police investigation revealed Barnett had provided shelter to Carmody, allowing him to use his phone to speak with friends and family, and to conduct internet searches.

Stevie Mulryne

Stevie Mulryne, an electrician, 29, was jailed for 16 months for making a stabbing gesture towards police.

Police arrested 121 people after disorder in Whitehall, London, two days after three children were killed during a mass stabbing at a dance studio in Southport.

Mulryne, of Basildon, joined in with a chant of “who the f*** is Allah?” during the protest in central London on July 31, Inner London Crown Court heard.

He pleaded guilty on Wednesday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to violent disorder.