All the criminals jailed in East Lancashire this week

The longest sentence saw an Accrington drug dealer put away for more than 10 years for conspiring to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

Here, we bring you a round-up of all the criminals banged up in the region throughout the week.

All the East Lancashire criminals jailed this week

Hasnain Ashraf and Joseph Oakes

Hasnain Ashraf, left, and Joseph Oakes (Image: Lancashire Police)Hasnain Ashraf and Joseph Oakes, both of Accrington, were jailed for 10 years and four months, and two years and eight months respectively at Preston Crown Court on Monday, October 7.

Ashraf, 34, was the head of an organised crime group which dealt class A drugs across Accrington through the Max drugs line.

Oakes, 23, worked as a runner for the line.

They were sent down alongside two other defendants - Ashraf's right-hand man Lewis Lord, of South Square, Blackpool, and the group's 'cook', Lloyd Spencer, of Hawkshead Road, Manchester.

Full story: Two East Lancs men among four jailed over class A drugs conspiracy

Dominic Harwood

Dominic Harwood (Image: Lancashire Police) Dominic Harwood, 34, of no fixed abode in Burnley, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Monday, October 7.

Harwood held a knife to his grandmother's throat after "imprisoning" her in the house they lived in together.

He had previously cut a cross into his chest and used a knife to cut a wound on his arm.

He wiped the blood from this wound across his grandmother's face.

Harwood was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Full story: Burnley man 'imprisoned' his grandma and held knife to her neck

Rahmat Qalander

Rahmat Qalander (Image: Lancashire Police) Rahmat Qalander, 23, from Nelson, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Thursday, October 10.

Qalander was jailed for 10 years after he raped a woman at the back of a bus that was travelling between Burnley and Manchester.

He sat next to the victim before taking her to the back of the bus where he carried out the attack.

He was also charged with sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl after an incident on a bus in Nelson in February.

Full story: ‘Dangerous sexual predator’ raped vulnerable woman at the back of bus

Riyaaz Yusuf, Murad Khan, Bilal Shah, and Saif Shakil

Riyaaz Yusuf, Bilal Shah, Murad Khan (Image: Lancashire Police) Riyaaz Yusuf, 36, Bilal Shah, 29, and Murad Khan, 37, were jailed alongside Saif Shakil, 20, not pictured, at Preston Crown Court on Friday, October 11.

The four men, who were also sentenced alongside 66-year-old Jean Leatherd, Khan's mother, were part of an organised crime group supplying cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and cannabis across Blackburn.

The men had varying roles in the Rocket drugs line but were all observed by police operating in and around a drugs storage house in Briar Hill Close.

Leatherd, who received a suspended sentence, drove her son around to deal drugs as she was worried about previous instances where he had been assaulted.

Yusuf was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison, Khan to three years, Shah to two years and 11 months, and Shakil to two years and eight months.

Full story: Blackburn men involved in class A drug supply jailed

Craig Hodgson

Craig Hodgson (Image: Lancashire Police) Craig Hodgson, 56, of Railton Avenue, Blackburn, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Friday, October 11.

Hodgson was jailed for nine years and six months by Judge Michael Maher for the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 2002.

Full story: Blackburn man sentenced for historic rape of 13-year-old

Hodgson plied his victim and two of her friends with alcohol and gave the victim £10 to kiss him on the mouth.

On the site of the rape, he got the girl drunk and took her back to his bedroom while she was intoxicated.

As well as the prison sentence, he was made subject to sex offender notification requirements indefinitely.