HERE are the criminals jailed for the most serious crimes in Worcestershire during May.


Worcester police officer Michael Darbyshire, 57, was jailed after being found guilty of rape and sexual assaults.

The offences, which took place between November 2018 and August 2019, were reported to police in November 2019. He was subsequently arrested at the end of November 2019 and in April 2020 he was charged.

He was suspended from duty in December 2019.

Darbyshire was jailed for 14 years.

 

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A thug who subjected his partner to a torrent of abuse before strangling her in a hotel room was jailed for three and a half years. 

The court heard the details of the abuse Daniel O'Donnell subjected his partner to which culminated in the attack at a Travelodge in Tewkesbury in March 2022.

O'Donnell was jailed for assault as well as breaching a restraining order and a suspended jail sentence.

 

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Drunk driver Dorothy Denny, 65, of Blenheim Drive, Bredon - who drove the wrong way on the Worcestershire section of the M5 - managed to avoid immediate jail. 

Denny, 65 drank vodka at home for six hours on October 4 last year before getting in her Mini to drive to a garage to buy more alcohol.

Instead, she drove onto the exit road at junction 8 of the M5 heading south on the northbound carriageway.

Driving the other way was personal trainer Carley Pope, from Birmingham, who was hurt in a crash.

Denny was given a 20-month suspended prison sentence term, but the judge suspended the term. 

 

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