It’s been a busy month for law enforcement in south east London and north Kent, with all manner of criminals being put behind bars.

From highly publicised dangerous cyclists to fraudsters posing as police officers, these people have all been jailed in September 2017.

• Michael Butler

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Michael Butler, 31, from Harrow Manor Way in Abbey Wood, was jailed for eight years for drug dealing after he hurled brick-sized blocks of cocaine out of a van as he fled from police.

Butler was driving a Ford Transit van along Alers Road in Dartford when the police tried to approach him.

The drug dealer sped off, throwing the bricks of cocaine out of the van as he drove into the cul-de-sac on West Heath Road.

Butler then fled on foot into the woods where he tried to hide in the undergrowth, but was eventually found by police.

Eight cocaine bricks were found by police and members of the public, each containing just over 1kg of cocaine of 81 per cent purity. This has an estimated potential street value of between £657,000 and £821,300.

• Christopher Heath and Anthony Patton

Christopher Heath, 35, of North Walk, New Addington, and Anthony Patton, 31, of no fixed abode were jailed for an attempted armed robbery of a post office in Biggin Hill.

The two men entered the store on September 9 demanded the keys to the safe but a female employee said she did not have them.

One of the men, who was armed with a handgun, hit her with the weapon on the right side of her face.

The member of staff then told the two men she had pressed her panic alarm and the police were on their way.

Heath was sentenced to a total of eight years' imprisonment.

Patton was sentenced to five years' in jail, to run consecutively to a 10-year term of imprisonment he was given in April, after he admitted a conspiracy to commit residential and non-residential burglaries, conspiracy to commit theft of motor vehicles and robbery.

• Teddy Bignall

Teddy Bignall, 31, of Chorley Wood Crescent, St Paul’s Cray, stole the charity box from St Christopher's Hospice shop in Cotmandene Crescent, St Paul's Cray.

He was arrested and charged with burglary on September 3. Bignall has been convicted and sentenced to eight weeks in prison.

• Michael Dickson

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Michael Dickson, 44, from Orpington, was jailed for eight years for non-recent indecent assaults.

Dickson had carried out the assaults over 11 years from the early 1990s while working as a Sea Cadet leader in Orpington.

The victim was first abused when he was a teenager and the abuse continued into his adult life. The victim told police about the abuse in December 2014 and an investigation was launched.

• Janette Norman

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Janette Norman, 51, of Chaucer way, Dartford, was jailed for two years for fraud after the supermarket worker stole £31,000 in extra wages.

Norman worked as a payroll clerk for a supermarket in Greenhithe and paid herself extra wages by reactivating a former employee's account.

Between November 2013 and November 2015 Norman paid herself the extra cash as missed breaks, extra hours or public holiday pay.

• Peter Kawuma

Peter Kawuma, 25, of Elmley Street, Greenwich, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his part in fraudster ring who stole £500,000 using phone calls from fake police officers.

In 2014 and 2015, four victims from Blackpool, Durham, Dorset and Fareham were phoned and told their accounts had been targeted by criminals, and were told to transfer the money to ‘police accounts’ or give cash to ‘police couriers’ at the doorstep.

When the victims called 999 to check, their calls were intercepted and someone pretending to be a police officer backed up the story.

One person lost his life savings of £288,000.

• Reece Davis

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Reece Davis, 24, was an inpatient at the medium-security wing of Bethlem Royal psychiatric hospital when he escaped and committed attempted murder.

Davis, who was already serving a sentence for previous offences, escaped from his escorts when visiting University Hospital Croydon for a medical complaint on May 5, 2016.

While he was on the loose, Davis stole two knives from Sainsbury's in Crystal Palace and then repeatedly stabbed a complete stranger who was out jogging on Belvedere Road.

Davis was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years. Davis will remain at Broadmoor secure hospital until he is well enough to go to prison.

  • Charlie Alliston

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Charlie Alliston, 20, from Bermondsey, was jailed for 18 months after he knocked over and killed a mother-of-two from Lewisham while riding an illegal Olympic-style racing bike.

Alliston, then 18, was travelling at 18mph on a fixed-wheel track bike with no front brakes when he crashed into 44-year-old Kim Briggs as she crossed Old Street in east London, in February last year.

Following a trial at the Old Bailey, Alliston was cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of causing bodily harm by "wanton and furious driving".

  • Kevin Ricardo Bourne

An American footballer who flew cocaine with a street value of £716,000 into Biggin Hill airport was jailed for 10 years.

Dutch national Kevin Ricardo Bourne, 32, from Amsterdam, admitted importing the Class A drugs when the plane landed in December 2016.

Border Force officers discovered nine kilograms of cocaine inside plastic bags hidden in a large black bag Bourne was carrying.

  • Ronnie Hughes

Ronnie Hughes, 21, of Steele Avenue, Greenhithe, was sentenced to three years and four months in jail for selling crack cocaine.

Hughes was stopped when he was witnessed acting suspiciously in Roseberry Court, Gravesend, in August.

Police searched him and found Class A drugs in his possession. The 21-year-old then handed over 21 wraps of crack cocaine.

  • Clive Pullen

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Clive Pullen, 37, of Bourne Way, Swanley, who threatened to stab a supermarket employee with scissors as he tried to steal beer and lamb has been jailed for four years.

Pullen warned a security guard "you're not going to like how this ends" after he was challenged in Asda in London Road, Swanley, on January 24.

He tried to steal eight cans of beer and three legs of lamb after entering the shop at 5.50am.

  • Carl Johnson

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Carl Johnson, 53, of Bowen Drive in Upper Sydenham, was jailed for ten years for abusing a young girl.

Johnson groomed the victim, exploiting his position in the Battersea Church community, eventually progressing to multiple sexual offences.

The victim came forward in 2014 to tell Met Police about the abuse and the investigation immediately started.