A host of dangerous criminals were locked up in 2021 for a range of shocking crimes - among them are murderers, rapists and acid attackers.
Among the criminals jailed in the UK over the past year were Wayne Couzens, David Fuller, Emma Tustin and Savannah Brockhill, who committed crimes that shocked the nation.
Their sentences go from 14 years to whole life orders - here are 23 of some of the most notorious criminals who were jailed over the past 12 months.
5. Penelope Jackson
Penelope Jackson was jailed for at least 18 years for murdering her husband David. The retired accountant stabbed her husband of 24 years three times and told a 999 operator “I thought I’d get his heart but he hasn’t got one”. During her trial she claimed she had lost control following years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. | PA
6. David Fuller
David Fuller will die in jail after he murdered and then sexually assaulted two women decades before abusing corpses in mortuaries. Fuller, 67, who was given a whole life sentence, pleaded guilty to murdering Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.Police say they have evidence of 100 victims abused by Fuller in mortuaries, and have been able to identify 81 of those. Photo: Kent Police/AFP
7. Zephaniah McLeod
Zephaniah McLeod was jailed for at least 21 years for a series of stabbings in Birmingham city centre. McLeod, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2012, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of musician Jacob Billington by diminished responsibility. He had also admitted four counts of attempted murder, including one attack which left a victim partially paralysed, and three separate offences of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. | SWNS
8. Marcel Grzeszcz
Marcel Grzeszcz, 15, was locked up for a minimum of 16 years and 36 days for murdering his 12-year-old friend after luring him to woodland and attempting to decapitate him. Grzeszcz repeatedly stabbed Roberts Buncis on ground off Alcorn Green in Fishtoft, near Boston, Lincolnshire, on 12 December last year, just two days before his 13th birthday. The teenager’s trial at Lincoln Crown Court was told he stabbed Roberts “in excess of 70 times”, with a wound to the neck that was “consistent with a decapitation attempt”. | PA