HERE are some of the Worcester criminals who will spend Christmas behind bars.

From a child-raping paedophile to a knife-wielding killer, and from a drug dealer who attacked a Worcester cop to a death crash driver, they will all be doing porridge while most people are eating turkey.

Because of Covid-19, the prison regime has also become much harsher with many prisoners forced to spend up to 23 hours a day in their cells with recent outbreaks coronavirus reported at both HMP Hewell and HMP Birmingham.

Simon Clancy, 45, previously of Teme Road, Tolladine, Worcester has yet to be sentenced after being convicted of nine sexual offences against children in Worcester in 1992. However, judge Nicholas Cole refused him bail which means he will spend Christmas and New Year in jail before he is sentenced on January 8 next year.

The pervert babysitter who has now known to have abused six children and flouted orders put in place to protect children faces an 'inevitable' jail sentence.

Described as a 'monster' by the families of the three survivors, he abused the trust of a family to attack the boys, one of whom was just four and still in nappies at the time Clancy carried out his depraved sexual assaults.

Cadonius Lowe, 21, was jailed five years and one month for being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine in Worcester and for kicking the female detective who arrested him at Foregate Street Railway Station.

However, it remains unclear how long Lowe will remain in a British jail as he may be deported to Jamaica. He moved to the UK from Jamaica when he was just six months old but now faces the prospect of being returned to the country of his birth after organising the sale of crack cocaine and heroin from a flat in London Road, Worcester.

He had already admitted being concerned in the supply of both class A drugs between June 30 and August 18 this year and of assaulting an emergency worker in the execution of her duties on the day of his arrest when he was sentenced at Worcester Crown Court this month.

The female detective, DC Simpson, had seized the dealer's dirty 'burner' phone, used to organise the drug deals, when he kicked her so hard in the wrist that the phone flew out of her hand and hit the ceiling of Foregate Street Railway Station in Worcester during his arrest on August 17 this year.

Daniel Freeman-Hollins, 20, of Swinyard Road, Malvern, was described as a 'clueless' driver and 'unkind' by the judge who ordered his immediate detention in a Young Offender Institute following a fatal crash in the car park of the Robin Hood pub in Gloucester Road, Castlemorton on May 24 last year.

Beloved grandfather Raymond Johnstone, 72, lost his life in the crash. Freeman-Hollins had no licence, no insurance and no MOT certificate and had never even had a driving lesson. Worst of all he tried to blame the daughter-in-law of the man who died for the crash as she was grieving for him.

Ruth Johnstone was entirely blameless for the crash, winding down both windows at the front, turning off the car radio and telling her children to be quiet as she carefully pulled out of the pub carpark onto the main road at a junction well known for having poor visibility. Freeman-Hollins, who had already narrowly avoided an earlier head-on crash, swerved to avoid her and span out of control through the carpark, killing Mr Johnstone who was in the process of getting into his car.

Drug addict turned dealer Elaine Pritchard punched a security guard in the face and smashed his designer glasses during a drunken rampage at a Worcester hotel.

She also smashed four panes of glass and four plant pots after she lost her temper during the ugly episode at the Fownes Hotel in the city's Clare Street.

The hotel staff have been at the frontline in the fight against Covid-19, providing a home for rough sleepers and other people without stable accommodation during the pandemic.

However, 47-year-old Pritchard rewarded the kindness shown to her by assaulting Mr Chan and smashing up part of the hotel.

She admitted punching security guard Michael Chan in the face, breaking his £342 Ray Ban glasses on September 30 this year. During the incident she also caused £493 of damage to four panes of glass and four plant pots at the hotel.

She has now been recalled to prison on another sentence but was jailed for a further 12 weeks for the attack at the Fownes.

We have previously reported how Pritchard, who allowed her Worcester home to be used as a base by a Scouse gang, was jailed after walking out of rehab.

Last July a city judge said he had no choice but to jail Pritchard after she repaid an 'act of mercy' by walking out of care farm Willowdene in a 'fit of pique', breaching the terms of her suspended sentence. She had arrived at Worcester Crown Court looking pale and gaunt, carrying her belongings in a black bin liner and a carrier bag.

Cordelia Farrell put her hands over her face when she was jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of Wayne Coventry at Worcester Crown Court.

The jury had cleared her of murder in October but rejected her account that she acted in self-defence when she plunged the largest kitchen knife taken from the block through his chest, sinking it to a depth of 9cm and piercing his aorta.

The 38-year-old put her hands together over her face after she was told by Judge James Burbidge QC she could expect to serve at least two thirds of the sentence in prison after she stabbed her partner, father-of-three Wayne Coventry, in the chest with a kitchen knife at his brother’s Bromsgrove home.