Prolific sex offenders, violent thugs and heartless thieves are among the serial offenders to appear in North East courts in 2022.
Their cruel crimes leave their victims with mental and physical scars. But that hasn't stopped them racking up hundreds of convictions between them.
One serial offender has clocked up almost 200 previous convictions, while another had 109 previous convictions on their record. Another has a sickening history of sex attacks on male children going back as far as the 1970s.
