The criminals jailed at Oxford Crown Court this week

Ellis Harvey's mug shot Picture: TVP

Ellis Harvey, 22, was jailed for four years for sexually assaulting a teen girl six years his junior between late 2018 and April 2020.

Judge Ian Pringle QC, who sent him down for four years and imposed a sexual harm prevention order, told the Banbury man: “You have done so well in your life in other respects. You are thought of extremely highly by all your family, grandparents, friends, people you work for, your girlfriend who’s stood by you.

“But this secret aspect of your behaviour is truly shameful.”

READ MORE: Man, 22, molested underage teen girl

Ex colonel's £628k fraud

File image of Bruce Cox Picture: OM

Former British Army officer Bruce Cox, 62, was given three years and four months for a fraud that almost brought an Oxfordshire company to its knees.

Cox worked as finance director for Kokomo, which made themed children’s toiletries and other products under licence, from 2011.

In 2018, he began to falsify invoices – obtaining advance payments from the firm’s bank, HSBC, which prosecutors suggested was to cover his own mismanagement.

READ MORE: Ex-army officer masterminded £600k fraud at Oxfordshire firm

Lag had 'shiv'

File image of HMP Bullingdon

Prisoner Amir Mostofi, 31, was holed up in HMP Bullingdon when he was caught with a makeshift knife, phones and man-made cannabis ‘spice’ in 2020.

On Friday, Judge Michael Gledhill QC sentenced Mostofi, who is now serving at HMP Wandsworth in London, to 22 months’ imprisonment.

He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possession of a class B drug and possession of unauthorised items in prison.

READ MORE: Prisoner gets 22 months for having 'shiv', phones and drugs behind bars

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