All the criminals locked up in Yorkshire since July 2024

It has been a very busy year at the courts in Yorkshire this year.

Criminals who have committed a whole range of crimes – from shop theft to murder – have been put behind bars after sitting in the docks at the courts across our region. Yorkshire is home to some of the busiest in the country, and despite everything going on outside their doors, judges, barristers, ushers and clerks do their best to keep the wheels of justice turning.

This year has seen some of the most dangerous criminals in the country locked up for crimes committed in our region. Those locked up include Mark Metcalfe, who killed beloved mum Terri Jordan and hid her body for 12 days after he rejected her, and Vincent Morgan, who assaulted his partner Lisa Welford and drowned her in the River Derwent.

Below is a list of all of the criminals locked up in Yorkshire between July and December this year that YorkshireLive has reported on.

July

Ebrahim Pandor and Amjad Hussain

Amjad Hussain [left] and Ebrahim Pandor have been sentenced for abusing a teenage girl
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Pandor and Hussain have finally faced justice for abusing a teenage girl. The victim – now in her 30s – came forward and bravely told police she had been trafficked by Pandor and raped by Hussain. The pair were found guilty in June and Pandor was jailed for six years in July, and Hussain for 10.

Hussain is still at large and was convicted and sentenced in his absence and a bench warrant is out for his arrest. Read the full story here.

Luke Merry

Luke Merry is back behind bars
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Foot fetishist Merry has found himself back behind bars after breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order just a month after being released from prison. He had been released from a sentence imposed back in 2019 for sexual assault on a child under 13 and one offence of voyeurism at a Vue cinema. He had also previously been convicted of outraging public decency by sitting under a desk that was being used by a female and performing a sex act while looking at images of women’s feet.

He was jailed in July for 14 months. Read the full story here.

Shahid Hussain

Shahid Hussain
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Hussain was finally jailed for 21 years after he fled the country after indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl. He was extradited from Bulgaria to face justice and was convicted by a jury.

The National Crime Agency says the offence relates to 2003, when Hussain’s victim was just 14. He drove the girl down a road and parked up before telling her to get out of the car. He then led her away and asked her to engage in sexual acts. When the girl said ‘no’ Hussain forced her.

Read the full story here.

Leon Roberts

A passenger in Leon Roberts’ car shared a Snapchat video saying “I’m gunna die” moments before the car ended up in a fatal 100mph collision on Sheffield Parkway
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Drink-driver Roberts killed young mum Sharna Brooke Burgin in a crash as he drove her and other passengers into Sheffield on February 26, 2023. He collided with a taxi in Sheffield Parkway and left the scene, and his injured passengers.

Roberts handed himself in hours later and Sharna tragically lost her life. He was jailed for nine years and six months. Following the sentence a chilling video taken by one of Roberts’ passengers, captioned “I’m gunna die”, was released.

Read the full story here.

Akeel Liaqat

Akeel Liaqat
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Dewsbury man Liaqat has found himself behind bars after viciously attacking a man who asked him to leave his afterparty.

Liaqat, his victim and another man had been drinking at the man’s home. The other man left and the victim had wanted to rest and asked Liaqat to leave, but he ignored him, before turning violent and punching and kicking him.

He was jailed for five years and four months. Read the full story here.

Acasia Welburn

Acasia Welburn
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Sick Welburn was jailed for two-and-a-half years in July after sexually abusing an autistic boy at the school she worked at. She admitted three charges of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

York Crown Court heard her campaign of abuse took place while she was working at a school in North Yorkshire. She initially made contact with the boy on social media which involved the sharing of sexual messages and images. A shocking string of abuse followed on from this when she met the victim on a regular basis and sexually abused him in her car and flat.

Read the full story here.

Robert Kerry

Robert Kerry
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Yorkshire chocolate thief Kerry was jailed for 50 weeks after persistently raiding a One Stop shop in Doncaster.

He stole items totalling more than £1,100. The offences had been committed during Kerry’s suspended sentence that was imposed for a theft he committed in June, 2024. Read the full story here.

Luke Prentice

Luke Prentice
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Vicious thug Prentice, 34, pretended to throw acid in his girlfriend’s face after she left him.

He had previously strangled the woman – who was 17 when they became a couple. It was said that following their breakup on December 21, 2023, the victim and her friend were walking when they saw Prentice, of Windermere Drive, Knottingley, on a bicycle. Mr Ahad said: “He put his hand inside his coat and pulled out a bottle – which looked like a bleach bottle. He came to the right of her and squeezed the bottle, trying to spray over her body.”

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The women managed to get away and Prentice posted on his Facebook page: “[The victims’ names] thought it would be a good idea to come to my house. Bad idea. Never seen two girls run as quick.”

His Honour Judge Tom Bayliss KC at Leeds Crown Court said he found Prentice had intended his ex-partner to fear he had thrown a corrosive liquid. He jailed Prentice for 27 months. Read the full story here.

Paul Doherty

Paul Doherty
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Doherty was put behind bars after he left a pensioner terrified when he climbed into her home. The woman had been asleep when Doherty woke her up by opening the top part of her bedroom window and demanded money.

She bravely told him to go away before shouting and screaming for help. Doherty continued with his demands and she struck out and hit his hands with the mobile phone she was holding. Doherty threatened to “come in and get her” and he said he knew where she lived and would come back.

He was eventually jailed for 42 months. Read the full story here.

Amjid Aziz

Dangerous driver Aziz found himself back behind bars in July after he narrowly missed hitting a pedestrian as he used a pelican crossing in Keighley.

He was jailed in 2018 after he reversed his Audi over a man lying in the street following an assault in Bradford. Aziz was told he wouldn’t be able to drive lawfully again until he had passed an extended re-test. He had never taken the retest when he was caught almost hitting the pedestrian in September 2023.

He was jailed for eight months. Read the full story here.

Mohammed Ali

Ali was jailed for 13 months after he left a shopkeeper needing surgery on a broken leg following a violent attack. The man had been working alone when Ali picked up some Vaseline costing £1.99, but only left about £1 in cash on the counter before leaving. The shopkeeper went after him and said he had not left enough money, but he then told Ali to forget about it and returned to his store.

Ali, 26, then went back into the shop and after the shopkeeper threw a punch at him he subjected him to a persistent attack which was captured on the store’s CCTV. Read the full story here.

Sanchez Francis and Kieran Doherty

Sanchez Francis, pictured left, and Kieran Doherty, right.
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Huddersfield men Francis and Doherty were handed life sentences in July for the brutal murder of Paul Early.

The pair had stabbed Paul at random before hiding his body in a cellar among pieces of broken furniture. Francis was told he must serve a minimum term of 21 years, and Doherty told he must serve a minimum term of 17 years and six months. Police had attended at an address on Bradford Road in the Fartown area on the afternoon of June 19 to conduct arrest enquiries for Kieran Doherty in relation to a robbery offence.

After arresting Doherty at his home, officers conducted a search of the property and discovered Paul’s body. Read the full story here.

Scott Layzell

Robber Scott Layzell has been jailed
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Violent Wakefield robber Layzell threatened to kill a shop worker with a knife after he jumped over the counter and stole two bottles of vodka.

He had gone into the Batley shop under the pretence he would be buying the alcohol before launching himself over the counter and threatening staff. He punched a staff member to the right side of his face and “put his hand in his right pocket and said, ‘I will kill you if you block me’ while showing the outline of a knife.

Layzell was jailed for four years. Read the full story here.

Charles Turner

Charles Turner, 25, of Kiln Court, Doncaster was sentenced to three years concurrent in prison at Sheffield Crown Court on July 22
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Turner was part of a Doncaster drug dealing trio who were sentenced in July after they flooded Scarborough with class As. Turner was jailed for three years, Jack Gregory was made the subject of a two-year sentence suspended for 18 months and Elie May Scorer was handed an 18-month sentence suspended for 18 months. Read the full story here.

Zarie Jackson-Burchall, Shanikae Smith Gardener and Jahrico Smith Gardener

Zarie Jackson-Burchall, Shanikae Smith Gardener and Jahrico Smith Gardener
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Jackson-Burchall, Smith Gardener and Smith Gardener were all put behind bars for their parts in a kidnap plot which saw a man chased and attacked in Bradford before being taken to an address in Sheffield where he was held against his will and assaulted.

Calls were then made to the victim’s family and money was demanded to ensure his release. Officers were able to locate the man – who had suffered minor injuries – and the suspects and they were arrested.

Jackson-Burchall was convicted of kidnap and false imprisonment and jailed for six years and eight months. Shanikae Smith-Gardener was jailed for five years for kidnap and false imprisonment and Jahrico Smith-Gardener was jailed for five years for blackmail, kidnap and false imprisonment. Read the full story here.

John Bagnall

John Bagnall has been jailed
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Thug Bagnall dragged his girlfriend around her house and subjected her to a terrifying attack. Despite the woman asking Bagnall to stop messaging her and that she had met someone else before agreeing to meet him so he could collect his belongings.

While doing that, Bagnall dragged her inside the property and viciously attacked her. He was jailed for 18 months. Read the full story here.

Adie Cliff, Logan Day, Billy Alexander and Josh Ashton

The moment drug dealer Adie Cliff was arrested was caught on camera
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The Doncaster drug dealing gang have all been jailed after police discovered the “Ash Line” being used to peddle drugs like heroin and crack cocaine in the Conisborough, Denaby and Mexborough areas.

South Yorkshire Police says the line operated on a “ring and bring” basis, with customers told to contact the number before a supplier would meet them with the drugs.

Day, Alexander and Cliff were all caught by eagle-eyed officers and arrested in November 2023. Cliff’s arrest – and his attempted escape after getting out of a taxi – was caught on body-worn camera.

Alexander was jailed for three years, Cliff and Day for three years and four months and Ashton for four years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Mark Foster

Mark Foster
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Doncaster man Foster bragged about grooming children online and has now been jailed. He was arrested after the police executed two warrants at his home in Doncaster, leading to the seizure of his electronic devices following an investigation by the Internet Sexual Offences Team (ISOT).

These were submitted for analysis and the police found hundreds of illegal images of children and messages showing Foster talking to underage children on the internet. In one conversation, Foster was caught talking about how he had been able to keep his crimes secret and how easy it was to groom children online.

He was jailed for four years and two months. Read the full story here.

Eugene Sykes

Eugene Sykes, 48, from Halifax was jailed for 13 years for attack on woman

Evil Sykes was jailed for 13 years after he left a woman with fractured bones in a horrifying attack in Huddersfield. He repeatedly punched and kicked the woman during the violent incident in July 2023.

Read the full story here.

Mehmet Yumusak

Mehmet Yumusak
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Doncaster man Yumusak used social media apps to target and communicate with a teenager with learning difficulties who just “wanted a friend.” He was jailed for a year after admitting to engaging in sexual communication with a child and causing a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity.

His offending came to light after the 13-year-old’s mother reported to police that her daughter had been speaking to an older man called MT on the TikTok and Likee apps. Police found in the messages that Yumusak had talked about dating the young girl, asking her to come to his house and made comments such as “love you” and “miss you”. Read the full story here.

James Hugh Fraser Fleming

James Hugh Fraser Fleming
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Fleming was jailed for 18 months as police said he was a “menace to society.”

He had previously admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine in Scarborough after being arrested for the offence. He denied being involved in drug dealing but analysis of his phone found evidence which led to him being charged.

Read the full story here.

Liam Robinson

Liam Robinson
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Vile thug Robinson live-streamed a brutal stabbing on Facebook. He stabbed the labourer working on his Doncaster house and two response officers raced to the Moorends address where they found Robinson and drops of blood in an area matching the location where the victim was attacked.

Robinson was soon arrested on suspicion of GBH, brought into custody and later taken to hospital. He was jailed for two years after admitting wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent and assault by beating of an emergency worker. Read the full story here.

Gerard Langton

‘Career criminal’ Gerard Langton
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Career criminal Langton stole £19,000 worth of cigarettes after breaking into a convenience store in Thrybergh.

On three occasions in October and November 2023, Langton broke into a takeaway, also in Thrybergh, by damaging the property’s roof. The 47-year-old also caused extensive damage to the building’s security system and fuse board. Langton then proceeded to steal any money which had been left in the building – this included £200 from the till and £50 from charity boxes. The damage to the property also cost the victim over £2,000 in repairs.

An investigation into the break-ins was launched, and after completing CCTV enquiries Langton was identified at both scenes. He was jailed for two years and two months in July. Read the full story here.

Daniel Lakatos

Daniel Lakatos has been jailed
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Gang member Lakatos was locked up for more than four years after he admitted robbing teenage boys and supplying heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer.

Lakatos, 20, was part of a group of young men who hung around together, often wearing hoods and balaclavas, and engaging in antisocial behaviour and crimes such as street robbery and thefts. He was described as a “very active member” and the eldest of the group.

He was jailed for four years and nine months. Read the full story here.

Ozain Shahzad

Ozain Shahzad has been jailed
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Shahzad was jailed in July after filming himself having sex with a 14-year-old girl he claimed he “wanted to marry.” The video was then sent to the girl’s father and Shahzad, 24, was made the subject of an abduction warning notice that prohibited him from having the girl inside an address or vehicle – but was later found at an address with her.

Shahzad was remanded in custody on November 27 last year after the girl’s father reported her missing and she was found at the Bradford apartment. Sexually explicit messages between the pair were also found, as well as messages discussing their future marriage, home, buying wedding jewellery and the prospect of them running away together.

He was jailed for four years and nine months. Read the full story here.

Harry Broughton

Burglar Harry Broughton targeted a pub and two homes
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Young Crook Broughton broke into a pub to nick cash after he had a row with the landlord over underage drinking.

He targeted the Victoria Hotel in the Gleadless area of Sheffield where he stole cider and money. He later attempted to steal the car belonging to the parents of his brother’s friends and targeted two properties in Hackthorne Road. At the first, he managed to get away with an iPhone and Samsung, a kitchen knife, a vape and a set of keys.

He tried to get into another house but the occupant had seen him trying the door to her house and other vehicles. He was eventually arrested and in July was jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

Armaan Khan

Newlywed Armaan Khan has been jailed after police found class A drugs in his bedroom
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Newlywed Khan had only been married a month when he was jailed after a stash of crack cocaine worth nearly £3,500 was found in his bedroom.

Police officers went to Khan’s home in Grisedale Close, Bradford and found two bags of the Class A drugs in a shoe box during a search of his bedroom. They also seized a mobile phone which later revealed messages linking Khan to low-level street dealing. He was jailed for 27 months. Read the full story here.

Gavin Thorpe

Violent Gavin Thorpe has been put behind bars
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Thug Thorpe was jailed in July for a brutal and jealous attack in a pub that left a man needing surgery.

The victim had been drinking with a woman in the Drum Winder premises in Bradford a few days before Christmas 2023 when he was punched by the woman’s on-off partner Thorpe. The woman took the man back to her flat to give him medical attention, but Thorpe then turned up and kicked in the locked door before launching another attack on him.

Thorpe was jailed for two years. Read the full story here.

Martin Gorman

Calderdale warehouseman Martin Gorman preyed on a teenage girl
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Evil Gorman preyed on a young girl more than two decades ago, subjecting her to vile sexual abuse.

A second trial got underway in April when he finally changed his pleas and admitted two offences of sexual intercourse with a child under 13. The woman – who says she is a survivor – was at court for Gorman’s sentence hearing and described in her powerful victim impact statements how she had fought to be heard for years and the abuse had left “a massive scar.”

Gorman was jailed in July for 14 years and three months and made the subject of an additional one-year licence period. Read the full story here.

John Gaukroger

John Gaukroger has been jailed more than 40 years after abusing a young boy
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Sick pensioner Gaukroger, 91, finally faced justice and was jailed for abusing a young boy almost 50 years ago.

He was put behind bars for over two years after a jury sitting on his trial at Leeds Crown Court found him guilty of two counts of indecent assault against a boy in the 1970s.

The court heard Gaukroger helped out at a centre which cared for children after school and would take them on camping trips. He preyed on the victim – who was under 10 at the time – between 1975 and 1976. The victim came forward to police in 2020 and an investigation was launched. Read the full story here.

Duane Holland

Duane Holland

Huddersfield rapist Holland was given more jail time after being found guilty of further sexual offences. He was already serving a 12-year sentence when he was jailed for an additional four years for sexual offences against two young boys.

The former Boys’ Brigade leader was also made subject to five years extended licence and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order at the hearing in Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday, July 10. The sentencing came after Holland, who had been involved with the church youth movement in Huddersfield, was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of indecent assault against two victims, then aged under 16. Read the full story here.

Adam Ali

Adam Ali
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Sick taxi driver Ali was jailed in July for 13 years after being found guilty of raping two children in Rotherham more than 20 years ago.

Ali, known as Razwan Razaq at the time of his offending, carried out his attacks between 2002 and 2004, using his car to drive vulnerable young girls to various locations where he assaulted them. He was convicted of three counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving girls aged as young as 12 and 13 following a trial in May this year.

Ali was released from prison in April 2023 after serving an 11 year jail term for separate sexual offences investigated by South Yorkshire Police. He was arrested by the NCA just a month after his release after officers were notified that he intended to travel to Pakistan. Read the full story here.

Kristian Feko

Kristian Feko is now behind bars
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Dangerous driver Feko ran over a police officer’s foot and dragged him a short distance along the ground at a petrol station in Bingley. He was involved in three separate incidents of dangerous driving over a seven-week period and was jailed in July for 30 months and banned from driving for 33 months. Read the full story here.

Luke Brandon

Burglar Luke Brandon has been jailed
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Bradford dad Brandon missed the birth of his second child after he was hauled back to prison for continuing a life of crime.

He was part of a three-man burglary team which prowled a residential street in Bradford in the early hours looking to break into houses. He has been jailed for 20 months. Read the full story here.

Rhys Maughan

Predator Rhys Maughan has been jailed
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Terrifying predator Maughan raped a woman as she slept after a night out and then lied about his age so he could abuse two teenage girls. He was jailed for nine-and-a-half years. Read the full story here.

Sophie Yorke

Sophie Yorke threw a ‘corrosive’ liquid at her neighbour
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Nightmare neighbour Yorke threw brick cleaner at a man after a row they had while walking their dogs. She had accused the man of “spreading rumours” about her and her family before throwing the corrosive liquid at him.

It was said the man had known about a dispute between Yorke and his friend – another neighbour – but was not involved. She was jailed for four years. Read the full story here.

Alejandro Castillo

Alejandro Castillo ‘lured’ a group of boys to his home for a ‘party’
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Sick teacher Castillo abused two teenage boys he had met at a bus station after inviting them back to his flat for a “party.”

Cannabis and pizza was put on at Castillo’s home and nothing happened that night, but the next day he invited two of them over again, but four attended. A court heard he sent a number of boys away with money and this time preyed upon two of them.

One of the boys drank until he passed out and was very unwell. He recalled being in the bathroom naked and waking up in Castillo’s bed with him attempting to perform sexual activity with him. Castillo then attempted to kiss one of the other boys. He was jailed for 18 months. Read the full story here.

Zygfryd Bochynski

Zygfryd Bochynski
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Bochynski was jailed in July for viciously attacking a man who was helping his ex-partner collect her belongings. The victim had been called in by the woman and was subjected to a terrifying attack during which he was punched by Bochynsi.

He was jailed for two years and three months. Read the full story here.

Safet Marina

Marina, who arrived in the UK by a boat on the English Channel, was found locked inside a house in Beeston where he was kept as a “gardener” for 86 cannabis plants. Leeds Crown Court heard he had lost his job in construction when he was approached by an Albanian man and told him he had work. He said he did not know what the job was until he was taken to the property and locked in.

He was jailed for a year. Read the full story here.

Benjamin Robinson

Disqualified driver Robinson chowed down on a kebab and supped on a can of Stella while he was behind the wheel of a car. Officers stopped the car in Dewsbury Road in July and spotted the food and drink. They asked him to get out of the vehicle and he refused.

He was showing signs of intoxication and despite him initially refusing to take a breathalyser test, he eventually agreed and was found to be over the drink-drive limit. He was jailed for 36 weeks. Read the full story here.

Reece Lawrence

Hit-and-run driver Reece Lawrence has been jailed
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Lawrence hit and killed mum Michaela Fowles as she crossed the road in Thorpe Lane, Middleton in June this year. Lawrence, 29, had been seen by witnesses swerving and almost colliding with another car before he hit Michaela, Leeds Crown Court heard in July. It was estimated he had been driving at 88mph in the 30mph zone before hitting Michaela and fleeing the scene.

He was jailed for 10 years and disqualified from driving for 15 years. Read the full story here.

Kovi Lee

Kovi Lee
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Controlling Lee subjected his ex-partner to a violent attack after spotting a message from another man on her phone.

Lee “snatched” the phone and “went through its contents” before biting it and hitting the woman and pulling her hair. He went on to stamp her and tell her he “wanted to kill her.” A horrified neighbour called the police after seeing Lee put the woman in a headlock. Officers arrived and later found Lee in possession of a knife.

He was jailed for two years. Read the full story here.

Amanda Georgiou

Carer Georgiou stole a bank card from a vulnerable pensioner and gave it to her sister-in-law Samantha Peace to withdraw money.

The court heard £2,500 was taken from the woman’s bank over the course of the pair’s offending. Georgiou was jailed for 10 months. Peace was made the subject of a six-month sentence suspended for 18 months. Read the full story here.

Joshua Spruce

Joshua Spruce
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Thug Spruce was part of a gang that had gone to a house in Harehills to confront a woman about comments she had made about a couple’s deceased daughter.

He claimed he had gone to ensure a “fair fight” but was caught pulling out a machete from the trousers of another man in his group and brandishing it. He was later arrested and made comments such as: “I’m going to admit this” and “this is the last thing I did, I’m trying to turn my life around, I’m trying to get myself sorted, put a good word into the CPS for me.”

He also said it was a “stupid mistake” and he “knew he shouldn’t have done it.” Spruce was jailed for four years. Read the full story here.

Daniel Bright

Robber Daniel Bright has been put behind bars
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A pensioner bravely fought off Bright as he tried to steal his car. The man was at his home when Bright approached and demanded his car keys off him before turning violent.

During the scuffle that ensued, Bright managed to get away but returned to the scene of the crime the next day and stole an Audi. He was jailed for 26 months. Read the full story here.

Ibrahim Kone and Ibrahima Krubally

Ibrahim Kone and Ibrahima Krubally
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Kone and Krubally were jailed after they lured two women to a “house party” and sexually attacked them. Kone had met the women while they were on a night out in Leeds and invited them back.

The women later went to the house in the Harehills area and were met by the defendants and were seriously sexually assaulted. The men were identified and charged and after Krubally failed to turn up to a court hearing, he was extradited from Germany after a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TaCA) warrant was issued for his arrest.

He was jailed for 12 years after being convicted of three counts of rape and one of sexual assault by penetration. Kone was jailed for eight years after being convicted of one count of rape. Read the full story here.

Matthew Bradshaw

Matthew Bradshaw has been jailed at Leeds Crown Court
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Sick Leeds pervert Bradshaw was locked up after police found indecent images showing him sexually assaulting young children on his phone.

He had been made the subject of a community order in 2021 after being convicted of a sexual assault on a two-year-old girl but new images found showed him carrying out more sick acts against the toddler and two other victims. As well as keeping the horrific images showing the three victims, Bradshaw had also hoarded 31 extreme pornographic images that were “taken from his devices involving sex with an animal.”

He was jailed for 20 years. Read the full story here.

Pawel Partyka

Pawel Partyka has been jailed
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Desperate knifeman Partyka told his victim he “needed” the £10 he had just taken from a cash machine as he tried to rob him. He had been sat on a bench close to an ATM before he set upon the man.

He produced a small knife with a black handle and the victim managed to get away. Partyka was later spotted discarding something and the knife was found in the area. He was jailed for 27 months. Read the full story here.

August

Harvey Gardner

Harvey Gardner, 20, who has been jailed for nine months at Leeds Crown Court for encouraging violent disorder. Harvey pleaded guilty to encouraging violent disorder over social media posts urging people to gather at the Huddersfield train station and promising “it’s not going to be peaceful”

Would-be rioter Gardner was put behind bars in August after trying to organise disorder at Huddersfield train station. The 20-year-old was jailed for nine months for encouraging violent disorder over social media posts.

He urged people to gather at Huddersfield Train Station and promised “it’s not going to be peaceful.” Police and local businesses were forced to prepare for it but no violent disorder took place. Read the full story here.

Louis Melotte

Birley teenager Louis Melotte has been jailed
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Melotte, 17, was identified after YorkshireLive urged Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, to lift the restriction prohibiting publication of his identity. Melotte had posted on Reddit and had told another former student of Birley Academy that he was going to attack the school earlier this year.

Armed with broken pieces of glass he went to the school and attacked a 12-year-old girl and two members of staff. Melotte was handed a 10-year extended sentence made up of five years in custody and an extended licence period of five years for the attack.

Read the full story here.

Paul and Luke Sissons

Paul Sissons [pictured] and his brother Luke Sissons have been jailed
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Brothers Paul and Luke were jailed in August for their parts in the shameful riots outside the Holiday Inn hotel in Rotherham. The hotel was housing asylum seekers and refugees when it was targeted earlier in the month.

Paul Sissons was heard chanting “Tommy Robinson” alongside others before trying to tip a police vehicle over containing officers and dogs. It was said Luke Sissons was spotted on police bodycam footage earlier in the day drinking alcohol before verbally abusing an officer.

The younger Sissons brother could be heard saying he “hates the police” and they are “running away from immigrants but are willing to quash them.” He went on to antagonise and gesticulate towards officers shouting “Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire.” He was then seen on footage throwing a can at police before joining in and rocking the van.

The brothers were jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

Darren Clayton

Shirtless thug Clayton walked into a Barnsley shop and asked the owner: “What is your nationality?” and “Where do you come from?”

He then said: “This is my town and country” and told him: “Go back to your own country.” Clayton left the store but returned later, knocking over produce and shouting: “Are you ready for tomorrow?” When he was arrested, he turned violent and kicked a police constable in the arm.

Clayton was jailed for six months. Read the full story here.

Ricky Hutton

Paedophile Ricky Hutton has faced justice decades after carrying out a sick attack
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Paedophile Hutton was 16 when he raped a little boy and carried out a number of sick offences on him. He was found guilty of two counts of rape, assault by penetration and causing or inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity.

The victim – who was around nine or ten-years-old at the time – said in a victim personal statement Hutton, of Pike Road in Rotherham, had “ruined his childhood.”

Hutton was jailed for eight years. Read the full story here.

Andrew Kenningham

Sick Andrew Kenningham is behind bars
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Sick Kenningham’s arrest after he tried to kidnap three young girls led police to make a shocking discovery. Officers found underwear, a sex toy and massage oil in Kenningham’s car when he was arrested.

He had previously tried to get three young girls in his car. A judge said he was “concerned” about Kenningham’s offences and the items found and jailed him for three years. Read the full story here.

Lewis Merritt

Lewis Merritt has been jailed
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Merritt has been jailed for his part in the Rotherham riots after finally being caught – despite trying to hide from police in his attic. The 27-year-old forgot to tuck his legs in and an officer could be heard on body worn footage saying: “Come down, we can see your legs.”

He was said to have fired missiles at officers, kicked a police van and removed barriers that were put in place to control crowds. He then tried to conceal his identity, but had already been captured on camera during the disorder on August 4. He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Lewis Lynch, Michael Bailey, and Peter Beard

[L-R] Lewis Lynch, Michael Bailey and Peter Beard have all been locked up
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All three were jailed for their parts in the disorder in Rotherham. Former Army peacekeeper Beard was jailed for three-and-a-half-years after he attacked police officers.

Bailey was also put behind bars for two years and four months after approaching a police officer and telling him: “It’s happening today. That hotel’s getting burnt down today.” He also pushed off a police vehicle’s right wing mirror.

Lewis Lynch was jailed after being caught on camera being verbally abusive towards officers, as well as repeatedly kicking out at them. The 30-year-old, of Burman Road in Wath-upon-Dearne, was seen in the company of a group who went on to smash the hotel’s windows, and he was seen walking out of the Holiday Inn after the group of thugs had smashed their way inside.

Lynch also tried to jump onto the bonnet of a police van and pushed a trolley towards our officers, with a defence lawyer claiming he got “swept up in the excitement of it all”. He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Philip Lee Raine

Philip Lee Raine

Dangerous drugged-up driver Raine was jailed for a year after he led North Yorkshire Police officers on a hair-raising chase during which he drove twice the speed limit through built-up areas, drove through red lights, and mounted pavements. He also crossed solid white lines, forced other motorists to take evasive action, and collided with another car in the 15-minute pursuit. Read the full story here.

Jordan Teal

Rioter Jordan Teal has now been jailed
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Ignorant mob member Teal was put behind bars for his role in the Rotherham riots. He chanted “Save our kids” and told officers they were “protecting paedophiles” when he joined the riot.

He said he had initially gone to a pub before what he says he thought was a “peaceful protest” and was handed a balaclava by someone there. He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Alfie Conway, David Chadwick, Lee Crisps, Liam Gray and two teenagers

Alfie Conway is among those that have been jailed
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All six were put behind bars for their roles in the disorder in Manvers, Rotherham. Chadwick will now spend more than the next two years behind bars reflecting on his disgraceful behaviour which involved him throwing a large plank of wood at officers. Chadwick was then caught on CCTV throwing a can of alcohol into a police van.

Crisps was seen verbally abusing occupants of the hotel and attempted to kick the officers in the cordon before he was arrested at the scene and was jailed for three years and four months. Alfie Conway was jailed for two years and three months in a Young Offenders’ Institution after he left a police officer “seriously fearing” for his safety when he began launching bricks and stones at him.

Liam Gray was jailed for three years after he helped attack officers protecting the hotel. A 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy were sentenced after taking part in the violence. Read the full story here.

Nathan Palmer

Nathan Palmer has been jailed
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Nosy home renovator Palmer was on the “frontline” of a large mob outside the Holiday Inn – for which he was jailed. He had grabbed a police shield which was then passed around after an officer fell during the unrest on August 4.

A court heard Palmer, who lived nearby, had attended the protest out of “nosiness” after he saw details on social media. He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Niven Matthewman

Niven Matthewman
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Matthewman was jailed in August for his part in a riot outside the Holiday Inn in Manvers, Rotherham, which was housing asylum seekers and refugees. The 19-year-old was part of the group shouting “Yorkshire, Yorkshire,” outside the hotel on August 4. He was put behind bars for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Mohammed Tasadiq Khan and Hayaan Alam

(L) Hayaan Alam and Mohammed Tasidiq Khan (R) jailed for involvement in £100m Class A drug supply plot
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Drug kingpin Khan and his courier Alam are behind bars after being convicted for their involvement in a £100m class A drug supply plot. The supplied blocks of cocaine in kilogram quantities across the UK during their campaign. Khan was jailed for 16 years and Alam was jailed for five. Read the full story here.

Victor Wild

Victor Wild has been jailed
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“Dangerous liar” Wild was put behind bars after sending North Yorkshire Police detectives on a wild goose chase. He demanded officers tell him why his victim – who he had claimed was a sex offender – wasn’t in prison yet and claimed he had spoken to witnesses who said they had seen the Scarborough man carrying out his crimes.

Wild even attempted to convince newspapers to print his fake stories and posed as a journalist. He was jailed for three years and four months. Read the full story here.

Nadeem Hussain

Nadeem Hussain has been found guilty of a series of sex offences following a trial
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Vile rapist Hussain finally faced justice in August when he was jailed after being found guilty of four counts of rape and one count of assault by penetration. A court heard his victims were 16 and 17 at the time of the offences, and were plied with crack cocaine and heroin that enabled Hussain to carry out his offending.

He was jailed for 21 years. Read the full story here.

Billy Pemberton and Michael Whitehead

Billy Pemberton, left, and Michael Whitehead, right
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Pemberton and Whitehead were jailed for their roles in the riots at the Holiday Inn in Manvers. The group smashed hotel windows and threw planks of wood at officers during the disturbance.

Pemberton was later seen on CCTV holding a police baton and appearing to use it as a bragging tool in front of his friends. He was jailed for two years and four months.

Whitehead was seen shouting racist abuse in officers’ faces and encouraging others by saying, “Let’s go mental.” He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

David Saynor

Paedophile David Saynor
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Paedophile limo driver Saynor was jailed after he used the vehicle company he owned to groom and sexually abuse teenage girls in Rotherham. He was put behind bars for 24 years after his brave victims came forward and reported him for the abuse that took place in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Read the full story here.

Martin Whittle

Martin Whittle

Sick Huddersfield paedophile Whittle finally faced justice after attacking a child 40 years ago. The pensioner was jailed for four years and six months for the indecent assault on a child under 14 years old. The offence took place in 1981. Read the full story here.

Stuart Bolton

Stuart Bolton
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Smirking Stuart Bolton was put behind bars after bragging about his role in riots in Rotherham. He was caught out after bragging to petrol station staff after driving onto the forecourt and filling his car up – despite being a disqualified driver.

He got into his car and drove from his home in New Holland, North Lincolnshire, with his partner and 15-year-old son, after seeing coverage of the shocking disorder at the Holiday Inn hotel on August 4 and decided to get involved. Bolton was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Elliott Wragg

Elliott Wragg
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Wragg threw pieces of wood at the Holiday Inn in Manvers on August 4. He was jailed for two years and four months after a court heard he had gone to the riot after reading about a protest about immigration on social media. Read the full story here.

Trevor Lloyd

Rotherham dad Trevor Lloyd has been jailed
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Chanting dad Lloyd was also part of the riot – despite being on sick leave for a spine injury. He had gone to a nearby Aldi to buy ingredients for dinner when he became involved and even entered the hotel and filmed disorder.

He was jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

Samuel Moore

Samuel Moore has been jailed
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“Obsessed” neighbour Moore stabbed and killed Karl Williams on Halloween 2023 following their multiple disputes. Moore had made multiple complaints to West Yorkshire Police about Mr Williams in the month before his death and was on the phone to the force when he stabbed him.

He left his victim to bleed out. He was eventually found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 13 years. Read the full story here.

Szczepan Zenon Malczewski

Szczepan Zenon Malczewski
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Sick Malczewski raped a woman in a pub toilet. He was jailed for two years and nine months after previously admitting rape and sexual assault by penetration in relation to the attack at a Scarborough pub on May 7.

The victim – a woman in her early 20s – had been drinking in the pub with her friends before they left to go home. Malczewski followed the victim into the toilets and would not let her leave.

He later admitted forcing himself on her for around 10 minutes despite the victim’s repeated calls for him to stop. Uniformed officers were called to the scene and arrested Malczewski nearby. Read the full story here.

Kaine Hicks

Kaine Hicks
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Smirking Valentino-clad Hicks was jailed in August for his part in the Rotherham riots. Hicks claimed he had gone to the Holiday Inn hotel in Manvers to be “nosy” but was captured on police bodycam footage verbally abusing officers.

He was said to have acted in an aggressive manner towards and officer and was heard saying things including “You f****** dirty b*******, the f****** lot of you, dirty c**** All of yous, go on, go on.”

He was also part of a group putting their hands up and pushing against officers’ shields. Hicks was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Curtis Coulson

Coulson cried during his first court appearance but changed his tune when he appeared for sentence in August for his role in the riots. He was jailed for four-and-a-half months brandishing a stick taken from an anti-racism sign in Sheffield city centre. Read the full story here.

Drew Jarvis

Drew Jarvis has been jailed
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Jarvis told police “I’m f*****” after handing himself in after getting involved in the Rotherham riot. He said he had got in with the “wrong crowd” before saying in his interview that he had wanted to go and “sort out” those staying at the hotel. He was jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

Ricky Hardman

Ricky Hardman
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Haulage boss Hardman was also among the rioters jailed. He was put behind bars for two years and eight months for his role in the Rotherham disorder.

He was arrested after a picture of him brandishing a piece of wood during the disorder on Sunday, August 4 was published in a national newspaper. Read the full story here.

Kenzie Roughley

Kenzie Roughley
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Teenager Roughley was filmed punching and kicking a South Yorkshire Police CCTV van during the disorder in Rotherham and was sentenced to two years and four months in prison. Read the full story here.

Imran Tai and Jogee Mohammed

Batley perverts Tai and Mohammed were jailed after they both abused the same teenage girl. The girl reported her abuse to police in 2018 and in August the pair were both jailed, with Tai being put behind bars for nine years and Mohammed for four years.

Tai repeatedly had sex with the victim while Mohammed also sexually abused the girl after taking her in his car to the Showcase cinema complex car park in Birstall.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, the girl said she had been “torn to pieces” by what had happened to her. Read the full story here.

Charles David Pratt

Rapist Charles David Pratt has been put behind bars
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Sick predator Pratt is likely to die in prison after being found guilty of a catalogue of sex offences. He was convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court for serious sexual offences against three female complainants.

The court heard that Pratt, of Keighley Road, Skipton, committed offences of rape against the two women and a girl often when he was under the influence of alcohol. Judge Ahmed Nadim said Pratt had also used violence to overcome any resistance his victims may have offered to his sexual demands.

He was jailed for 27 years.

Read the full story here.

Nicholas Hemingway

Nicholas Hemingway has been jailed
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Vulgar racist gestures are what put Hemingway behind bars for a year in August. He had been on the other side of a cordon to the pro-Palestinian protesters that had gathered outside Leeds Art Gallery on August 3 when he made the gestures. He was captured on camera in the act.

His offending was said to have left a woman “terrified.” Read the full story here.

Ben Tate

Rapist Ben Tate has been jailed
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Rapist Tate was put away for 19 years after two of his victims came forward and bravely reported him. He targeted a teenage girl and tormented her, sexually abused her, made threats to kill himself and took advantage of her financially.

He was also convicted of a count of rape in relation to a second victim. His first victim had already disclosed the abuse but did not support a prosecution until the second woman came forward.

Both of them bravely told how Tate had attacked them and raped them. Read the full story here.

Bradley Long

Bradley Long is finally behind bars
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Thug Long was finally put behind bars in August after being subject to two previous suspended sentences – despite continuously strangling his partner. The last straw for the courts came when Long applied and released pressure to the woman’s neck for an hour after punching and biting her in another attack. He was jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

Dominic Lowe

Drug dealer Dominic Lowe is now behind bars
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Lowe was already serving eight years behind bars when he was sentenced in August after being spotted counting the cash he made from a drug deal by an eagle-eyed police officer. A search was carried out and he admitted being in possession of drugs and produced wraps.

A court heard wraps of crack cocaine, with a street value of £1,000, were discovered, as well as wraps of heroin with a street value of £750. Two mobile phones were also seized, as was £150 in various notes. His home was searched two sets of digital scales were recovered. Lowe was jailed for two years. Read the full story here.

Nadim Hussain

Nadim Hussain has been jailed
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Hussain was part of a group that fought with far-right protesters in Leeds city centre in August. An earlier demonstration had taken place in Headrow, and at around 4.42pm, and Hussain was among a group of around 17 men who had left the area and was walking in St George Street when they clashed with four men. Two of the men in the other group were wearing union flags around their shoulders.

Hussain was seen to be “putting his hand into a fist and raising it in an offering of violence” and shouting during the incident. He said the group was subjected to racist remarks by the other. Hussain was jailed for 14 months. Read the full story here.

Phillip Hoban

Philip Hoban has appeared in court
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Paedophile vigilante group founder Hoban found himself on the other side of the dock in August after he was filmed making racist gestures towards a group of pro-Palestinian protesters. Hoban, founder of Predator Exposure UK, was seen stood on top of a bollard close to the art gallery and rubbing his lips.

Hoban claimed he was insinuating the demonstrators were “cry babies” but went on to admit two counts of racially aggravated intentional harassment, or alarm or distress by using threatening or abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour.

He also told police he was shouting “Who the f*** is Alan?” and not “Who the f*** is Allah?” as was being claimed during the incident. Hoban was jailed for eight months. Read the full story here.

James Gettings

James Gettings
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Gettings was jailed for eight months after being caught making racist gestures during the same incident as Hoban. He was arrested at home but told police he was about to hand himself in.

He told officers in interview he was “disgusted” in himself and said “those three seconds of madness ruined his life.” Read the full story here.

Richard Aidoo Nyarko

Richard Aidoo Nyarko

Rapist Nyarko was jailed for five years after attacking a woman after she fell asleep on his sofa. The woman has since told YorkshireLive Nyarko has lied and told family and friends he is in Ghana when he is actually behind bars.

She said she woke up on a night out in 2022 on Nyarko’s sofa to find him on top of her. She said he was acting “weirdly” throughout the night and “kept trying to grab my arm.” Read the full story here.

Jozeffi Jeffers, Phillip Bryant and Emile Riggon

[L-R] Emile Riggon, Jozeffi Jeffers and Philip Bryant
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The trio were jailed after being found guilty of murdering teenager Emmanuel Nyabako in Leeds. Emmanuel was stabbed and his naked body dragged into a Harehills street. It was said during the sentencing in August that Emmanuel was riding an e-bike in Chapeltown with a youth in the early hours of August 26, 2023.

It was said Emmanuel was “not welcome” in the area and was soon chased by two vehicles being driven by Bryant, of Skinner Lane, and Jeffers, of Hyde Park Road. They went on to stab and kill him during a ferocious attack.

All three were handed life sentences with minimum terms of 27 years to be spent behind bars before they go before the Parole Board, which will determine if they are safe to be released. A fourth man, Louis Grant, 28, also known as Louis O-Brien, remains at large and wanted over Emmanuel’s murder. Read the full story here.

Jordan Plain

Jordan Plain
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Racist thug Plain had been day drinking in Leeds city centre and was supposed to get on a bus home to Horsforth when he found himself embroiled in disorder. He was captured on camera on August 3 making racist gestures to a woman involved in a pro-Palestinian protest outside Leeds Art Gallery.

Two short clips shown to Leeds Crown Court on Friday, August 9 showed Plain making the gestures surrounded by people swigging from beer cans and chanting “EDL EDL EDL” and “Tommy Robinson.” Others in the clips were also observed making the Nazi salute.

Plain was jailed for eight months. Read the full story here.

Jordan Parlour

Jordan Parlour
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Despite having a foot cast on, and being unable to take part in the riots himself, Parlour encouraged others and their dogs to “smash f*** out of Britannia hotel.” The hotel in Seacroft houses refugees and asylum seekers and damage was caused to it when stones were thrown at its windows.

Parlour put up a post telling followers: “Every man and their dog should be smashing f*** out Britannia Hotel.” Leeds Crown Court heard that police units had been deployed to the hotel once staff noticed the damage, and the hotel manager became aware of Parlour’s post after being told about it by another member of staff.

The court heard Parlour’s phone was examined and the original message, as well as others, were recovered. They included a reply from someone else who said: “I’m down if you are my lad?”

Prosecutor Matthew Donkin said: “Almost immediately afterwards ‘On lates tomorrow anyway, so if we get nicked we’ll be out by shift starts,’ and the defendant replied, ‘Start by 5 bells tonight. Be my boy. Be all gravy.’ Another user asked simply, ‘Why’ to which the defendant replied: ‘Because they’re over here given life of Riley while we’re all taxed when it could be better used…come over with no trades to their name and sit and doss…They get top band priority on housing and many other reasons.'”

The prosecutor added: “Those are the posts including the initial one. From his account as the police had it on his phone, his initial post had received six likes or thumbs up, the second one about refugees being over here received a single thumbs up and another Facebook user replied: ‘Wouldn’t do owt, people doing it the wrong way and its too late now we’re the minority.'”

He was jailed for 20 months and blew a raspberry as he was led from the dock. Read the full story here.

Sameer Ali and Adnan Ghafoor

Samir Ali
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Adnan Ghafoor
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Ali and Ghafoor have both been jailed following disorder in Leeds city centre in early August. The pair were sentenced for an affray which they said took place after they were subjected to racist abuse by a group of four men dressed in Union Jacks walking past before violence erupted. Footage of the incident was captured and played to the court.

It was said Ali also used a shod foot against one of the men before carrying on raining punches down on them. Ghafoor then ran across the road after violence started and punched another man who was already in a chokehold before walking away and gesturing to the group. Ali was jailed for 20 months and Ghafoor for 18 months. Read the full story here.

Inderjeet Gosal and Hardeep Sangha

Hardeep Sangha [top right] has been jailed alongside her brother Inderjeet Gosal for plotting a fake gun threat
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Gosal and his sister Sangha were jailed in August for their parts to frame her estranged husband for a gun threat. They were found out after being caught laughing on their own CCTV footage during a fake gun threat ‘set-up.”

Gosal, Sangha and his wife Harpreet Gosal were at the couple’s home in Ash Hill Lane, Shadwell, Leeds, when two masked gunmen burst through the door and pointed a long-barrelled shotgun at them and said: “Stay out of Jonny’s business, stay out of your sister’s case.” The thugs, now known to be Kane Allen, then 16, and Matias Jozio, then 17, were referencing the financial battle and divorce settlements of Hardeep Sangha and her ex-husband Harpal Sangha, who is from Huddersfield, and is also known as Jonny.

Mr Sangha was held in custody for 15 hours before eagle-eyed officers noted laughing on the footage.

Leeds Crown Court

During the campaign, Mr Sangha’s parent’s shop was also the target of a “robbery” and between July and September 2020, and the group also made fake threatening phone calls, during a recording of which one of them could be heard saying ‘”are you ready?”

Leeds Crown Court heard Mr Sangha had been the victim of a firearm-related set-up in April 2017 when police received information that he had a sawn-off shotgun hidden in the garden of his home in Huddersfield. The gun was recovered at the property, and he was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences. The shotgun was forensically examined, and DNA found inside the weapon linked it to another man, known to Hardeep.

He was subsequently charged with possession of a firearm without a certificate and perverting the course of justice in relation to planting the gun. He was convicted in November 2018 and sentenced to three years imprisonment. Hardeep Sangha received a two-year suspended sentence for her part in the plot.

Hardeep Sangha was jailed for 55 months and Inderjeet Gosal for 37 months. Read the full story here.

Soloman Perkins

Soloman Perkins has been jailed
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Evil sex predator Perkins sexually assaulted a pregnant woman after she asked him multiple times to leave her home. The woman went on to miscarry, something she put down to the trauma of her ordeal.

Perkins had also targeted an ex-partner by assaulting her at her home. A court heard he picked the woman up above his head, flung her to the floor and kicked her about the body. He left the property, locked the woman in and returned to assault her.

Perkins was made the subject of an 11-year extended sentence, made up of seven years in custody and a four-year extended licence period. Read the full story here.

September

Shane Charlotte

Shane Charlotte started his criminal career when he was just 11-years-old
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One-man crimewave Charlotte – who first found himself before the courts at just 11-years-old – is back behind bars for touting a BB gun at his elderly neighbour and stealing her handbag.

The Barnsley man burst into the woman’s home in Wood Park View wearing a balaclava and brandishing an imitation firearm on March 2. He went on to steal her bag and use the cards that were inside it at a local shop where the worker identified him.

He was jailed for seven years. Read the full story here.

Zaheer Khan

Bradford dad Khan was jailed after he drove a red Audi A1 at high speed over a zebra crossing near the Bradford Royal Infirmary during a late night police pursuit.

During the five-minute pursuit Khan, who had a passenger in the car, reached speeds of 80mph on 30mph residential streets and failed to slow down for a zebra crossing immediately outside the hospital. Khan tried to run off after the Audi’s path was blocked by another vehicle, but he was chased and arrested. He tested positive for cocaine.

Khan was jailed for 16 months. Read the full story here.

Adam Pidcock

Adam Pidcock has been jailed
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Pidcock was jailed in September following a terrifying incident where a man and woman were set upon with swords in Wakefield.

He was driving the car that ploughed into them before two armed males jumped out and attacked. Pidcock was made the subject of an extended 16-year sentence made up of an 11-year custodial term and a five-year extended licence period. Read the full story here.

Harvey Oliver

Killer teen Oliver took videos and selfies on mobile phones smuggled into prison.

The 19-year-old was serving a sentence for manslaughter at HMP Wetherby when his cell was searched and prison officers discovered two mobile phones and three SIM cards. He was handed a ten-month sentence. Read the full story here.

Yousef Camara

Yousef Camara
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Sick sexual predator Camara, 24, was jailed in September after he sexually assaulted a woman after she let him stay at her home. He took advantage of her and her friend’s kindness when he attacked her as she slept. He was jailed for five years. Read the full story here.

Neil King

Neil King
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Rotherham man King sexually abused a young girl with his partner and finally faced justice this month.

He was put behind bars after being convicted of 17 sexual offences against two young girls. He started to abuse his first victim in 2008 with his then-girlfriend, the late Louise Tye. King paid Tye for her help with the abuse and he went on to rape the girl at his home and in his car. During another occasion, he abused the girl and another together.

He was jailed for 21 years. Read the full story here.

Amanj Mustafa

Train pervert Amanj Mustafa has been jailed
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Huddersfield man Mustafa exposed himself and masturbated while staring at a woman on a train. He was jailed for six-and-a-half months following the terrifying encounter which took place on a train from Leeds to Huddersfield on November 7, 2023.

The 20-year-old woman noticed Mustafa staring at her and when she looked again saw he was exposing himself and masturbating while looking at her. She moved to another carriage but chillingly Mustafa followed the woman and continued to stare at her.

He then followed her when she got off the train at Huddersfield and she immediately reported what had happened to a member of staff at the station. Read the full story here.

Mohammed Basharat Mughal, Mohammed Tabarak Mughal, Talhat Mughal, Ahmed Mughal and Muhammad Uwais Mughal

[L-R] Mohammed Basharat Mughal, Mohammed Tabarak Mughal and Talhat Mughal
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The five men were part of a group of seven that attacked and beat a man outside his own house. They drove to the victim’s house and launched an attack, kicking him to the ground. Basharat was seen wielding a machete-style knife and others were seen carrying long sticks. Basharat was also seen discarding a weapon in a neighbouring property.

The targeted attack left the victim with a stab wound to the knee and facial injuries. During the attack, the victim’s brother suffered severe facial injuries and fractured bones and his son also sustained a head injury.

Talhat Mughal, 51, of Gerard Road, Rotherham, was jailed for five years and seven months for section 18 wounding, his brother Mohammed Basharat Mughal, 46, of Burns Road, Herringthorpe, was jailed for six years and six months for section 18 wounding and section 47 unlawful wounding.

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Mughal’s son Mohammad Tabarak Mughal, 48, of Burns Road, Herringthorpe, was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison for section 18 wounding. Ahmed Mughal, 34, of Gerard Road, Rotherham, was jailed for two years and four months in prison for violent disorder.

Muhammad Uwais Mughal, 27, of Gerard Road, Rotherham, was jailed for two years and four months in prison for violent disorder. Read the full story here.

Charlie Eames, Morgan Hardy and Cameron Callear

Charlie Eames, Morgan Hardy and Cameron Callear have been jailed for their parts in riots at a hotel in Rotherham
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The trio were part of the disorder at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers on August 4. Callear confronted officers protecting the hotel and was seen removing the leg of a wooden chair and launching it at police. He was jailed for two years and two months.

Eames was locked up for two years and six months after being recorded throwing sticks at officers while a beer bottle poked out from his waistband. Hardy was jailed for three years after being seen throwing a fire extinguisher and a chair at officers. Read the full story here.

Waleed Ali

Rapist Waleed Ali
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Ali finally faced justice for raping a girl in a Rotherham alleyway more than 20 years ago. He was found guilty of the attack within hours of jurors beginning their deliberations. Ali, then in his early 20s, targeted the girl after spotting her sitting alone at a water fountain in Rotherham town centre. He, with a group of men, approached her and he asked her to go to a nearby alleyway with him.

When she repeatedly refused, he grabbed her and tried to force her to her feet. Intimidated, the girl went and Ali raped her. He was jailed for five years. Read the full story here.

Christian Ivermee

Christian Ivermee has been jailed
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Tattooed thug Ivermee kicked and punched police as they protected a hotel in Rotherham used to house asylum seekers. He was seen on footage kicking an officer who had fallen down as he was trying to protect the hotel.

Ivermee was also captured throwing a large piece of wood at officers with shields. He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Abid Saddiq, Mohammed Sadiq, Ramin Bari, Mohammed Amar, Yaser Ajaib, Mohammed Siyab and Tahir Yasin

From left to right, Abid Saddiq, Mohammed Amar, Mohammed Siyab, Mohammed Zameer Sadiq, Ramin Bari, Tahir Yasin and Yasser Ajaibe
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These seven men were jailed for abusing two young girls in Rotherham. They were sentenced over two days at Sheffield Crown Court in September. The court heard from their victims, one of which bravely faced them and told them: “I am your karma.” The court heard the men would collect their victims from care homes or meet them in public places and would ply with them alcohol and cigarettes before abusing them.

Saddiq was handed a 25-year extended sentence made up of a 24-year custodial term and an extended licence period of one year. He was also made the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order. Sadiq was made the subject of a 16-year extended sentence made up of a 15-year custodial term and an extended licence period of one year. Bari was jailed for nine years and Yasin 13 years.

Amar was made the subject of a 16-year extended sentence made up of a 14-year custodial term and two-year extended licence period. Ajaib was handed a seven-year extended sentence made up of one-year extended licence period. Siyab was made the subject of an extended sentence made up of a 25-year custodial term and one-year extended licence period. Read the full story here.

Luke Fowler

Luke fowler has been jailed
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Thug Fowler waved to his supporters from the dock in September as he was jailed for his part in the violent disorder at the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers. Sheffield Crown Court heard he had been captured on footage carrying a piece of plywood towards a fire that had been set at the hotel. He also threw missiles at police. He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Liam Crosby

Liam Crosby has been jailed
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Sick paedophile Crosby offered money to a teenager in exchange for indecent images. The trans boy became concerned after he did not receive the money he was promised. Evil Crosby then put the images online.

The offences were committed while he was on bail after indecent images of children were found on his phone. Crosby was made the subject of a nine-year extended sentence made up of six years in custody and three on an extended licence period. Read the full story here.

Kurt Hooley

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Father-of-two Hooley tried to snatch a riot shield during the violent clashes outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers on August 4. Hooley was also among those shouting insults towards the police line. He was jailed for two years and eight months. Read the full story here.

Peter Dzudza

Peter Dzudza has been jailed
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Evil Dzudza preyed on and attacked a vulnerable pensioner waiting for treatment at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He pounced as he had been “staying” at the hospital himself due to being “homeless and cold.” He sexually assaulted the 71-year-old after she was put into a private cubicle. He was jailed for 27 months. Read the full story here.

Craig Barker

Craig Barker
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Wakefield man Barker was jailed in September after a “horrific” attack on a woman which left her with a fractured eye socket and cheekbone. He was jailed for eight years and made the subject of a two-year licence period. Read the full story here.

Gavin Smedley

Gavin Smedley
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Doncaster burglar Smedley, who claimed he had found a number of stolen guns on the floor, was jailed in September. Officers found him with three firearms after an intruder alarm was activated at a firearms store in Doncaster. He was jailed for one year and 10 months. Read the full story here.

Lee Grant

Lee Grant
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Sick Grant was jailed for 19 years after being found guilty of 10 sexual offences. The bravery of one of Grant’s victims in telling police about his crimes led to other victims coming forward. Read the full story here.

Thomas Birley

Thomas Birley has been jailed
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Smirking decorator Birley helped fuel a fire set at the Manvers hotel housing asylum seekers by adding chipboard to the flames that had been set at a fire door. He was later seen to be in possession of a police baton and shouting abuse and throwing missiles at officers. He was handed an extended sentence of 14 years, made up of nine years in custody and five years on extended licence. Read the full story here.

Brad Westerman

Brad Westerman
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Westerman was put behind bars for two years and eight months for his part in the Holiday Inn Express riots. He launched missiles at officers and was said to be “proud” of his behaviour which also included throwing a bin at police. Read the full story here.

Craden McKenzie

Craden McKenzie has been jailed
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Vile thug McKenzie shouted “burn it down” during the same riot as Birley and Westerman. He was seen on footage through a smashed window before gesturing at police with his arms open and joining in with vile chants. He was jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

John Gary Carney

John Gary Carney has been jailed for eight years for sexual offences
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John Gary Carney was jailed for eight years for sexually assaulting a child and making sick videos using a hidden camera.

The 69, of Prospect View in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to more than 20 charges of making and possessing indecent images of children, voyeurism and sexual assault on a child. North Yorkshire Police received a report about Carney in January 2022 following a disclosure made from one of his victims. Read the full story here.

Robert Holden

Holden has finally faced justice
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Disgraced Calderdale councillor Robert Holden went on the run after using hidden cameras to film people in their most vulnerable moments during a chilling campaign of perversion. He was extradited from Cape Verde in 2023 after fleeing there on a one-way ticket following his failure to appear in court for a catalogue of sick sex offences.Read the full story here.

Jonathan Walker

Smirking predator Jonathan Walker has been jailed
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Smirking sex predator Jonathan Walker, 34, was jailed for six years when he appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Thursday, September 26. Walker, from Liversedge, was found guilty of offences committed against his victim between 2005 and 2007.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Natalie Green of the Kirklees District Child Safeguarding Unit at West Yorkshire Police, said: “The appalling offences Walker committed against a young girl has affected her deeply, and illustrates the dreadful impact this can have on a victim. Read the full story here.

Martin Massey

Martin Massey
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Martin Massey, 48 from Doncaster, has been jailed for 32 months after he was betrayed by his own “courier” for not deleting messages on Telegram which led him to be put behind bars. He recruited former carer Chloe Jennet, 34, to drive across the country for a “rendezvous” where she was instructed to pick up almost £100,000. Read the full story here.

Nicholas Bradshaw

Nicholas Bradshaw attacked a pensioner
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Nicholas Bradshaw, a homeless addict, has been jailed for three years for seriously injuring a pensioner during an attack in Todmorden. The 41-year-old apologised for the injuries suffered by his 81-year-old victim when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court before a judge heard that he now has to walk with the aid of stick and did not leave his home for six months. Read the full story here.

Scott Mitchell

Violent Scott Mitchell attacked his partner
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Halifax man Scott Mitchell has been jailed for 37 months after he used violence to control his victim. Mitchell, 38, had fractured the complainant’s finger, bust her lip, punched her and hit her over the back of the head with a vodka bottle in a two-hour attack, forcing his victim to smash a window to escape. Read the full story here.

Garry Sinclair

Garry Sinclair has been jailed
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Garry Sinclair, 37, desperately tried to escape police by reversing into one of them and attempting to drive off, however fast-thinking officers were able to catch up with his VW Passat and box it in against a tree where they discovered £6m cocaine. Judge Kirstie Watson jailed Sinclair for 10 years for the drugs offence and imposed a concurrent sentence of nine months for the dangerous driving with a six year driving ban. Read the full story here.

Liam Short

Liam Short has been jailed
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Liam Short, of Burns Hill, Addingham, was jailed for three years for attacking a woman who had gone to bed after taking a sleeping tablet when he was 19. Bradford Crown Court heard the woman believed Short, 22, had filmed the incident after noticing “flashing” of a light during it. It was said police have not recovered any video of the incident. Read the full story here.

Corey Rodgers

Corey Rodgers
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Corey Rodgers from Sheffield was jailed for three years and six months after admitting 10 counts of burglary dwelling, theft, handling stolen good and driving while disqualified. He was caught filming a number of the high-value vehicles and then careering at speeds across the county. Read the full story here.

Ijaz Saeed

Ijaz Saeed has been locked up
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Domestic abuser Ijaz Saeed, 40, has been jailed for 40 months after he controlled what his partner wore, who she had on her social media and where she went during his campaign of restraint and terror over her. Saeed of Moorside Avenue in Huddersfield, beat her on two separate occasions – one where he refused to take her to hospital and after the second told her to leave their home, which led to her sleeping in the woods. Read the full story here.

Haider Darwish

Drug dealer Haider Darwish has been jailed
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Haider Darwish has been jailed for five years and eight months after he turned to drug dealing when his immigration status was in question and was not allowed to work or study in the UK. He was caught by police when he was with two others stood in an empty street in Sheffield. Read the full story here.

Mason Reddy

Mason Reddy, 24
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Mason Reddy, of Victoria Street, Goldthorpe, was jailed for three years after he took part in the large-scale Rotherham riot. The 24-year-old dad was spotted carrying his child by South Yorkshire Police. Read the full story here.

Lee Lindley

Lee Lindley has been locked up
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Lee Lindley, 28, from Doncaster has been jailed for 21 months after he was in court for a terrifying assault which saw him hit out at his partner after she refused to let him drive her car. Lindley was not insured to drive but was arguing with the woman in February last year. Read the full story here.

Jamie Stones

Jamie Stones has been jailed for 110 weeks during a sentencing hearing at Sheffield Crown Court last Thursday ( September 12).

Jamie Stones appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on September 12, where he was sentenced to 110 weeks in jail. Stones pleaded guilty to affray, threatening a person with an offensive weapon, sending a communication or article of an indecent or offensive nature and assaulting an emergency worker. Read the full story here.

Yasmin Martin

Yasmin Martin
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Yasmin Martin, who was 17 at the time, was almost double the drink drive limit when she caused a fatal crash. She has been jailed for eight years, of which she must serve two-thirds in custody. She will be banned from driving for five years after she is released from prison. Read the full story here.

Regan Urruty Dever

Regan Urruty Dever
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Regan Urruty Dever, 22, was jailed for two years after being captured on footage “pushing” officers holding shields outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers on August 4. Dever from Doncaster was in the area shopping at Tesco for ingredients to make a katsu curry when he got a call about something kicking off in town – which he wanted to take part in. Read the full story here.

Liam Nicholls

Rapist Liam Nicholls has been jailed
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Nicholls was jailed for 11-and-a-half years after being found guilty of rape. He was found guilty following a trial at Leeds Crown Court and was jailed in September. He was also convicted of controlling and coercive behaviour. Read the full story here.

Nathan Belsham

Nathan Belsham has been jailed
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Prolific paedophile Belsham was jailed in September after being caught at Leeds Train Station trying to meet a 12-year-old.

He had already been arrested after a breach of a court order led police to seizing his phone and discovering that he was talking to young boys online. Leeds Crown Court heard Belsham had sent indecent images of himself and audio messages “describing sexual acts he wanted to do with” boys who were 14, 15 and 16-years-old.

Belsham was also found to be in possession of category C indecent images of children before he went on to arrange to meet a 12-year-old called Jake – who was actually an undercover police officer. He was made the subject of an extended 15-year sentence made up of eight years in custody and seven on extended licence. Read the full story here.

Richard Telo and Ardit Brahushi

Telo went back to bed after officers arrived at a property in Leeds to search it. They were there to make enquiries about Bruhushi alongside immigration officials, but found a raft of drugs and cash. Telo was jailed for six months and Brahushi for eight months. Read the full story here.

October

Dominic Cicak

Dominic Cicak has been jailed
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Foolish burglar Cicak was put behind bars for two years after he was caught out by stopping for a drink in a house he burgled. He had left his DNA on a kitchen cupboard and in a glass he drank from. Read the full story here.

Jared Lamb

Jared Lamb
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Lamb, 46, was jailed for child sex offences after he was caught out by cops communicating online with a man who he believed to be the father of a five-year-old girl he planned to abuse. Lamb had begun communicating with the ‘father’ on June 11 and over the course of several weeks he sent several messages discussing how he planned to sexually abuse the young child.

Lamb arranged to meet the man he believed to be behind the online profile at a location in Sheffield on July 20, but was arrested by officers when he arrived at the scene. He was jailed for five years in prison and six years on an extended licence. Read the full story here.

Nigel Porter

Huddersfield grandad Porter’s wife dropped him off outside court but was to find out his 16-month jail sentence from his barrister as she felt unable to sit in the public gallery.

Prosecutor David Ward told the court that between December 22, 2021 and February 15, 2022, Porter, of Park Grove Court, downloaded 28 category C indecent images of children, 31 category B and 16 category C. He was already the subject of a sexual harm prevention order that was due to expire soon after, it was said. Read the full story here.

Daniel Stones

Daniel Stones
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Pontefract man Stones burst into a woman’s home as she was showering and demanded to know where her son was before unleashing a vicious attack. He shouted: “Where is Reuben?” Before raining punches on the man.

During the attack, Stones, of Gillygate, Pontefract, told the man he had “ten lads outside” and said: “I have a knife and I’m going to stab you.” He then left the house and got into a car. The driver was said to have to have told him to “leave him alone, he had had enough.”

Stones was jailed for three years and nine months. Read the full story here.

Shereen Brown and Javayne John

Shereen Brown and Javayne John have been jailed for helping Khayri Mclean’s murderers
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Brown and John were jailed after they helped the murderers of Khayri Mclean by disposing bags.

Jakele Pusey and Jovani Harriott were captured carrying the bags into secluded woodland close to North Huddersfield Trust School before they stabbed and killed 15-year-old Khayri in September 2022. They returned without the bags, but Brown and John were seen going to retrieve them.

The bags were never recovered. Brown was jailed for 30 months and John for 20 months. Read the full story here.

Luke Smith

Luke Smith
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Smith was jailed for 876 days after he broke into a home to steal a TV and electric toothbrush just after Christmas.

On December 30, 2023, the owner of a home in the Goldthorpe area of Barnsley returned home to find the window on the back door of his house smashed. His television was missing and a new electronic toothbrush, bought as a gift for Christmas, as well as a crate of beer, had also been stolen.

Blood was discovered on the blinds near another smashed window by the police and forensic analysis linked this to prolific burglar Luke Smith. Read the full story here.

Leon Martin Smith

Leon Smith
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Smith was jailed for six years after he threatened to stab a shop worker as he robbed a Tesco Express for the second time.

He had already taken from the store and then targeted two other stores in Hebden Bridge and Todmorden during the next 10 days, stealing hundreds of pounds worth of coffee and washing powder. Smith returned to the Tesco Express store in Halifax and again began filling his bag, this time with washing powder.

The same employee that approached him on the previous occasion then approached him and he told her: “I have a drug problem and if you come any closer I’ll f****** stab you.” Read the full story here.

Atif Ali

Former pharmacist Ali stalked a teenage college student on a daily basis and tried to get her into his car. He was caught by police after the 18-year-old’s ordeal was reported to them.

It was said he had asked the girl if she wanted a lift and he also claimed to be just 23 when he asked her age. The teenager told Ali she was just 16 to try to put him off, but he persisted in asking for her mobile phone number.

Every day for a week Ali would approach the teenager in a Mercedes, again asking for her number and if she wanted a lift. On one occasion the complainant ran over to a female pedestrian and walked with her, but Ali, of Poplar Court, Bradford, continued his harassment. Ali was jailed for 10 months. Read the full story here.

Gavin Tuohey, Rhys Morgan, Jamal Lazrak and Maz Haigh

Ringleader Gavin Tuohey
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‘Sidekick’ Rhys Morgan
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Jamal Lazrak
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This organised crime gang were jailed in October after they flooded North Yorkshire with cocaine. North Yorkshire Police seized £50,000 worth of the class A drug during their investigation, which found the group conspired to sell it throughout the county in 2022 and 2023.

Leeds United fan Gavin Tuohey, 46, from Tadcaster, headed up the group and would source large quantities of cocaine for onward supply to others further down the chain. Tuohey was stopped by police in August 2022 with a kilo of cocaine following a trip to Seacroft.

North Yorkshire Police said Tuohey was carrying an estimated £43,000 worth of the drugs in his rucksack. Text messages recovered showed he would threaten and intimidate other members of the group when they did not pay their debts for the cocaine he had supplied.

Other members of the group included his “sidekick” Morgan, top contact Lazrak and Haigh, who was linked to a number of addresses during the police investigation. Read the full story here.

Jamie Cresswell

Jamie Cresswell
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Sheffield man Cresswell was jailed for his involvement in a county line which supplied class A drugs including crack cocaine. He was involved in the operation of a drug line which supplied cocaine in the Sheffield area between January and April this year. He was arrested following the execution of a warrant carried out in Main Street, Sheffield, on April 17.

A quantity of drugs, cash and jewellery were recovered during the search. He was jailed for nine years. Read the full story here.

Tavian Sutton

Tavien Sutton
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Violent chef Sutton subjected his partner to “disgraceful” domestic violence. He was jailed for more than five years for his offending after he moved into the woman’s home earlier this year.

Bradford Crown Court heard the couple had constant arguments and Sutton assaulted the woman for the first time within weeks. A month later he threatened to “smash her face in” and “boot her in the face” during another row. The woman described being “booted in the face” by Sutton with full force and her nose and lips bleeding heavily.

The court heard that Sutton could be heard screaming and shouting in the background during a 999 call and the attack was also heard by a neighbour. Sutton was released under investigation and the relationship continued. During another incident, the victim had to curl up on a bed as he repeatedly punched her and she vaguely remembered Sutton standing over her and stamping on her head.

Sutton then sat on the bed and said he was going to kill her with a knife and stab himself in the face. When Sutton later fell asleep the woman was able to call 999 and was taken by ambulance to hospital. A CT scan later revealed bleeding on her brain and the court heard she had also suffered a broken nose. Read the full story here.

Anthony Pilling

Rapist Anthony Pilling has been jailed
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Serial rapist Pilling used dating apps to target women in Huddersfield in their own homes. The two women’s lives were said to have changed beyond recognition following his attacks. He had pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and was jailed in October for 24 years. Read the full story here.

Anne-Marie Dinsdale

Anne-Marie Dinsdale stole from her employer but does not know where the money went
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Former accountant Dinsdale was jailed for 30 months after she admitted defrauding the Brighouse company she worked for out of more than £250,000 over a four-year period. She had previously served a 12-month prison sentence for stealing £10,000s from a previous employer. Read the full story here.

Levi Adams

Evil Levi Adams has been jailed
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Sick sexual predator Adams was been put behind bars for 13 years after he attacked his two victims as they slept. One of victims woke to find him raping her. His second victim, who was under 16 at the time, told Adams what he was doing was wrong but he continued with his attack. Read the full story here.

Simran Asif and Ridha Kazmi

Former care workers Asif and Kazmi were jailed after they admitted ill-treating vulnerable residents with dementia. Asif was given an 11-month prison sentence after a judge heard how she had punched an 80-year-old man in the face leaving him with a black eye at Wingfield Nursing Home in Bingley. She and Kazmi then lied about the attack and claimed the victim had punched himself. Kazmi was jailed for two months. Read the full story here.

Yasar Hussain

Yasar Hussain
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Hussain was finally jailed after being convicted 12 years ago and fleeing the country. He was found guilty of 13 counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in December 2012 after he was investigated by the West Yorkshire Police Economic Crime Agency.

This related to £312,520.58 which was paid into business accounts used by Hussain who had set up a company to manufacture an energy drink which was styled after Duracell batteries. He travelled overseas and had persuaded four international companies to pay advance fees for sole distribution rights to the drink in their countries.

However, he did not have Duracell’s permission and and used the money to fund his own lavish lifestyle. He had his original sentence of seven years and six months, which was handed down in his absence in January 2013, confirmed. Read the full story here.

Aftab Hussain

Aftab Hussain
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Predator Hussain was jailed after admitting to raping a teenage girl in a Rotherham park. After the attack he chillingly said: “I can’t believe I just did that to my wife.” He was already serving a sentence of 24 years for indecent assault when he appeared at Sheffield Crown Court after admitting one count of rape. Read the full story here.

Jack Kirkbright and Mason Sagar

Jack Kirkbright and Mason Sagar
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Bradford thugs Kirkbright and Sagar were jailed in October after they attacked a man and his dog with an axe in a “revenge attack” after he retaliated when a girl threw a box of juice at him. Both were jailed for two years.

As they were instructed to leave their respective conference rooms at HMP Lincoln and HMP Leeds, Sagar was heard to say: “Ride it Jack,” to which Kirkbright responded: “Ride it big.” Read the full story here.

Daniel Barker

Barker was jailed for 10 months for repeatedly attacking an ex-girlfriend who he followed to Wakefield. Twisted Daniel Barker had stolen £1,850 from the woman and became controlling of her between February 2023 and January 2024. It was said that during one terrifying incident, the woman was forced to hide in her bathroom to call the police after Barker took the keys to her home and refused to give them back.

Barker left the property before the police arrived and the woman estimated he was at large for around two to three days, during which he “repeatedly” went to her family’s home and left notes for her and asked for food. Read the full story here.

Shamrez Razaq

Shamrez Razaq
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Single dad Razaq used his Audi as a weapon in a “revenge attack” on two men as they left a mosque. He drove into his target and an innocent bystander in the Hoxton Street area of Bradford.

As his intended victim ran off, Razaq, who had no previous convictions, chased him in the Audi. When he and his accomplices caught up with the victim in a nearby cul-de-sac, Razaq drove over the man and broke his ankle. He then climbed out of the car and joined at least four others in kicking the victim while he was on the ground.

The victim identified Razaq to police from his hospital bed. The attack took place on January 5 – which was the targeted victim’s 19th birthday. Razaq was jailed for seven years and two months. Read the full story here.

Anthony Houlihan

Anthony Houlihan has been jailed
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Houlihan – who was released early under a government scheme set to ease prison overcrowding – found himself back behind bars soon after in October. The 47-year-old was found to have WhatsApp and dating app Skout, which was a breach of a sexual harm prevention order he was made the subject of in January 2024. He was jailed for six months. Read the full story here.

Katherine Smith and David Edis

Katherine Smith
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David Edis
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Doncaster couple Smith and Edis were jailed after a secret stash of heroin was found at their home. South Yorkshire Police rushed to Milton Road in Doncaster on July 27, 2023, after reports of an incident involving a gun. They conducted a search of a property and its gardens, finding a man-made hole in the floor of the shed.

Inside, they found a large bag, containing 100 grams of heroin and 190 grams of cocaine. These were estimated to be worth a combined £20,500. A further search found more wraps containing class A drugs and drug paraphernalia.

On February 27, officers conducted a warrant at the same address under the Misuse of Drugs Act and found more class A and class B drugs. Smith was jailed for three years and six months and Edis for four years and six months. Read the full story here.

John Robert Sanderson

John Robert Sanderson, known as Robbie, said he punched the child in the face because he was having a bad day.

Sanderson knocked a 14-year-old boy in the street unconscious because he was “having a bad day.” He was jailed for three years and three months after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm. The 28-year-old hit the boy so hard he broke several of his teeth and left him with cuts and abnormal bleeding in his head. One witness said the victim fell so hard, they thought he was dead. Read the full story here.

Wade Priestley

Wade Priestley
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Bradford army veteran Priestley arranged for firearms and bullets to be posted to West Yorkshire from America. He was put behind bars for nine years and 10 months after he flew to the US and arranged to send back a parcel containing a handgun to an address in Bradford. The parcel was intercepted, prompting an investigation.

Four further parcels were then posted from California to addresses in Halifax and Bradford and were also intercepted before they arrived. Read the full story here.

Martin Shaun Slater

Martin Shaun Slater
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Scarborough man Slater was jailed for more than 15 years after being found guilty of 16 child sex offences.

He was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 16, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a girl under 13, two counts of sexual touching against a girl aged between 8 and 9, one count of sexual touching against a girl aged between 8 and 9 including penetration and eight counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14.

This abuse dates back to the 1980s and early 2000s. The abuse began when the boy was just seven-years-old and when the girl was five, continuing into their teens.

The court heard how Slater’s abused had impacted all aspects of the victim’s lives and their mental health as they grew up, causing huge distress to them and their families. Read the full story here.

Darren Smith

One-man crimewave Darren Smith has been jailed
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Thug Smith threw a cup of tea at a doctor and then set fire to a hospital toilet in a vile one-man crime spree. Smith, 47, carried out a spate of offending against emergency workers between June and November 2023, starting with an assault on a prison officer at HMP Leeds.

He was made the subject of an eight year and eight month extended sentence, made up of four years and eight months in custody and an extended licence period of four years. He will have to serve two-thirds of the sentence in custody before going before the Parole Board who will determine if he is safe to be released. Read the full story here.

Tokara Ali

Tokara Ali has been jailed
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A shop worker thought he was going to die as he bravely fought off three armed robbers during a raid on a Bradford convenience store. The shocking incident was captured on CCTV footage from inside the Eko Polski premises in Legrams Lane and on Friday, October 4 one of the masked intruders was sentenced to more than three years in a young offenders institution.

Prosecutor Jessica Lister told Bradford Crown Court the first male had a large knife, another was armed with a pick-axe handle and 18-year-old Tokara Ali was carrying a hammer. The knifeman pointed his weapon towards the assistant and he tried to defend himself by grabbing a wooden pole. Read the full story here.

John Staveley

Former football coach John Staveley has been jailed
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Former football coach and teacher targeted young boys and abused them over the course of a decade from the late 1990s. His victims finally saw justice handed out when evil Staveley was found guilty of nine counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14, two counts of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 16, and one count of causing or inciting a boy under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity. He was jailed for nine-and-a-half years. Read the full story here.

Matthew Helliwell

Matthew Helliwell has been jailed
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Helliwell, 36, preyed upon a teenage boy’s infatuation and sexually abused him on three occasions. Helliwell, of Chesterfield, was found guilty of three counts of sexual activity with a child following a trial.

It was said that he undertook a “meaningful” attempt on his own life in the court’s cells following the jury’s verdicts. He was jailed for seven years. Read the full story here.

Liam Bacon

Predator Liam Bacon has been jailed
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Sick sex abuser Bacon offered his young victim money to send him pictures of her wearing just her knickers. When police arrested 31-year-old Liam Bacon they examined his mobile phones and found 49 indecent images of children including one of the girl, which she had been pressured into sending him.

The teenager, who must not be identified for legal reasons, said Bacon’s offending against her had caused her serious anxiety and she still suffered “night terrors” when she tried to sleep. He was jailed for 34 months. Read the full story here.

Peter Turton

Violent Peter Turton has been put behind bars
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Violent Turton locked a woman in his flat and repeatedly attacked her. During an assault in October last year, Peter Turton poured a can of cider over the woman’s head and dragged her by her hair as she begged him to stop. The attack only ended after she managed to attract the attention of neighbours. Turton was jailed for five years and eight months. Read the full story here

Marius Mihai

Marius Mihai is now behind bars
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Leeds teenager Mihai targeted lone men on nights out in Leeds city centre and robbed them of their belongings. The 19-year-old subjected his victims to attacks, with one suffering a fractured cheek bone and another having his teeth knocked out.

One of the men had his watch, phone and leather jacket stolen from him. Mihai was jailed for six years. Read the full story here.

George Chalmers

George Chalmers
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Sick Chalmers had a history of abusing partners before he went to murder his girlfriend of six months, Ruth Baker, at his home in Tempest Road. Chalmers watched Kes before strangling Ruth with a TV wire.

It was not the first time he had attacked and had assaulted and strangled her during a romantic staycation near Carlisle in November 2023. Ruth had described the attack in texts to Chalmers afterwards.

He was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 17 years and six months. Read the full story here.

Nathaniel Philip

Nathaniel Philip has been jailed
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Philip killed his “friend” Robert in a drunken row at a Leeds pub following a disagreement over his partner. It was said at Leeds Crown Court that Robert had told Philip not to talk to his wife in a certain way before things got nasty.

The pair had gone outside to “make up” and could be heard shouting at each other before they returned, with Mr Hiscoe being heard to say: “I hit him.” Philip then tried to get Robert to go outside with him and then punched him to the face.

It was said another witness described Philip, of Cobden Terrace, Leeds, as punching Mr Hiscoe “four or five times” before he picked him up and “slammed him to the floor and punched him four or five times.” Philip was jailed for five-and-a-half years. Read the full story here.

Graham Sunter

Graham Sunter
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Revolting paedophile Sunter carried out a catalogue of appalling sexual abuse against a young boy.

He attacked the victim over a number of years in the late 1980s and 1990s, and was found guilty following a trial of nine sexual offences. He was jailed for 19 years when he appeared in court in October. Read the full story here.

Mary Maughan

Mary Maughan
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Serial shoplifter Maughan tormented Leeds stores and told a shop worker: “I can f****** take what I want.” She stole £4,700 worth of items in her latest spree, which began in March. She enlisted help from others – including her partner – to loot shops around the city, including Morrisons, ASDA and JD Sports. She was jailed for 47 months. Read the full story here.

Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown has been jailed
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Vengeful daughter Brown posted intimate images of her father’s ex-lover on an escort website during a disturbing campaign of abuse. She also messaged the woman’s husband and included his number on an advert she’d posted on the site. She was jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

Marlon Stewart

Marlon Stewart
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Drug dealer Stewart, who had previously held convenience store workers up at gunpoint, was told in October he was to spend more time behind bars after being caught selling “sniff.”

He was already serving a 10-year and four-month sentence when he appeared again at Leeds Crown Court for drug offences that took place in 2021. The court heard that at around 3.15am on September 28 that year, officers on patrol in the Belle Isle area of the city pulled over a Vauxhall Corsa being driven by Stewart due to a “brake light deficiency.”

He was spoken to by officers who went on to find drugs in the car. Stewart was jailed for a further two years. Read the full story here.

Christopher Mozley

Prolific domestic abuser Mozley was put behind bars in October after strangling his girlfriend until she stopped breathing. He was previously jailed after throwing coffee and pouring hot water over a former partner, and found himself back in court in October for offences committed against a different woman.

He was put behind bars for 15 months. Read the full story here.

Gareth Jones

Violent Gareth Jones has been made the subject of an extended sentence
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Evil Jones was locked up for a sustained and violent attack on a woman after she had put up his partner who had discovered he had cheated on her. Witnesses saw the woman “crawling like a baby” away from him before she began to suffer seizures. The woman told how she feared she would die during the attack.

Jones was made the subject of an extended sentence of 11 years made up of seven years in custody and a four-year extended licence period. Read the full story here.

Christopher Stewart

Very hungry Christopher Stewart has been jailed
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Hungry thief Stewart nicked bank cards from people using gyms across Leeds and spent their money at McDonalds and Five Guys. He also stole a Love2Shop voucher during his campaign. He was jailed for 18 months. Read the full story here.

Lisa Ives

Drug user Lisa Ives has been jailed
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This Leeds woman told officers she was high on cocaine before being found behind the wheel of a car in Dewsbury Road. She had already been given a suspended sentence by the time she was caught driving the VW Gold on February 3. She was jailed for 22 months. Read the full story here.

William Foley

William Foley swung a knife at his ex-partner after kicking her door in
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Foley kicked his ex-partner’s door in and threatened her with a knife and was later found hiding from police on a neighbour’s trampoline. William Foley, 25, went to the woman’s home on August 3 after seeing she had posted something on her Snapchat account. She later contacted police to say he had gone to her address and kicked her door down, causing it to come off its hinges before threatening her with a knife.

He was later found in her neighbour’s garden on a trampoline. He was jailed for 21 months. Read the full story here.

Cameron Bottomley

Cameron Bottomley
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Leeds drug dealer Bottomley was jailed after a court heard he was spotted in a car in North Parkway and found to be alongside cannabis and cocaine. He was jailed for four years and nine months. Read the full story here.

Stephen and Cheryl Long

Cheryl and Stephen Long
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Cruel couple Stephen and Cheryl Long were jailed in October for the manslaughter of popular Paul Davinson. Paul was killed during a neighbour dispute which saw him targeted while he walked home from a pub after telling a group of men that he was going to smash their windows.

Stephen Long pounced, grabbing Paul and holding him in a headlock while his wife kicked him a number of times and filmed some of the attack.

The court heard Paul had a pre-existing and unknown heart condition that led to his death. Stephen Long was jailed for eight years and Cheryl Long was jailed for two-and-a-half years. Read the full story here.

Iustin Dobre, Mark Mitchell, Milan Zamostny and Celan Valentin Palaghia

Iustin Dobre
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The foursome were jailed for their parts in the disorder in Harehills where a bus was set on fire. Its driver and passengers were forced to flee during the violence where 300-400 people were seen in the area by 6.30pm on July 18.

Mitchell was jailed for six years for arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered and violent disorder. Dobre was jailed for six years for arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered and violent disorder. Zamonsty was jailed for five years and four months for arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered and violent disorder. Palaghia was jailed for three years for arson and violent disorder. Read the full story here.

November

Nathan Scotting

Nathan Scotting was jailed earlier this year
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Scotting, 22, was locked up for 26 weeks after allowing three puppies to attack a duck until it died. He was seen by his neighbour to be “baiting” the animals with the duck.

Scotting was also disqualified from keeping and owning dogs or participating in keeping or dealing or transporting or arranging the transport of dogs. Scotting cannot apply for that order to be lifted for a year. Read the full story here.

Dawid Szczerbacz

Dawid Szczerbacz,
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“Dangerous” knifeman Szczerbacz launched an unprovoked doorstep attack in Bradford. The city’s Crown court heard how he and the victim had been staying at a couple’s home, but he had developed an irrational and unfounded hatred towards the man in the days leading up to the attack.

He had accused the victim of “talking about him” and of using an app on his mobile phone, but the man did not take it seriously when the defendant threatened to stab him. While the victim was out of the house dropping off some food, Szczerbacz was seen with knives in the property and he told a witness that he was going to kill him.

Although the victim was able to flee to a nearby house to seek help, he was seriously injured and about to collapse. Read the full story here.

Christopher Lister

Christopher Lister
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Lister snuck into a Sheffield businesses to steal alcohol. He nicked spirits worth more than £1,000 between November 4 and 23. On one occasion he stole 20 bottles of Jack Daniels and five bottles of spiced rum after crawling behind the bar in Cactus Jack. That haul was worth around £700.

He was on licence at the time and was identified through CCTV enquiries. Lister, 40, was jailed for 10 months when he appeared at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court.

Sarah Connor

Sarah Connor
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Well-known Doncaster shoplifter Connor is back in prison after breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order. She was charged with six counts of theft after targeting One Stop stores in Doncaster. She took items including Lurpack butter, Yankee candles and packets of chocolate biscuits.

The thefts were a breach of the order she was made subject to in September, which prohibited her from entering any One Stop stores in the city. She has already been to prison twice so far this year for shoplifting offences and is now behind bars for another three months.

Nghia Tran and Puong Nguyen

Tran and Nguyen were locked up after officers discovered an industrial scale cannabis growing operation at units in Bradford this year.

A judge at the city’s crown court heard that more than 1,800 cannabis plants had been found growing in various units at the site in Mount Street and the potential yield of the drugs could have had a wholesale value of more than £350,000. Prosecutor Felicity Hemlin said it was an incredibly large operation and the cannabis was likely to have been sold on a wholesale basis.

Judge Colin Burn said those playing a leading or significant role in the cannabis production would have seen it as “an industrial facility.” Tran, 32, and Nguyen, 19 were both arrested in separate units on the site when officers moved in on April 11 this year.

The court heard that Tran had served jail sentences before for his involvement in cannabis growing and had even come back into the country after being deported. Nguyen, had no previous convictions, and the court was told he had no money and nowhere to live at the time. The teenager had come into the country illegally when he was 15 and he had stayed at the unit out of fear.

His barrister said he had now signed voluntary deportation papers and wanted to return to his family in Vietnam. Both defendants had been remanded in custody since their arrests and Judge Burn imposed custodial sentences which will mean they could both be deported imminently.

The judge jailed Tran for 21 months after he pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis partway through his trial. Nguyen was sentenced to 19 months in a young offenders institution after he admitted the same offence at an earlier stage. The judge said he accepted that both defendants had become involved in the offending due to “a degree of pressure” and their own circumstances.

Ernest Kazlauskas

Kazlaukas drove into an industrial unit that was the host of an “international distribution hub” for cannabis products, and two grows, as police pounced.

He claimed he was attending the site to use a sauna that was housed in one of the units, but a search of his vehicle revealed chemicals and plant food used in cannabis production. The 35-year-old was arrested and one of the keys in his possession opened a third unit which prosecutor Austin Newman told Bradford Crown Court was effectively a warehouse or holding point for a significant quantity of cannabis products.

The unit contained equipment, labels and packaging which suggested that it was being used as a distribution hub. He said the labels contained a QR code which, when scanned directed customers to the encrypted Telegram social media platform and an online website. The site advertised various strains of cannabis as well as oil extracts, liquids and Vape pens for sale on the black market.

A further search of the unit revealed a large quantity of cannabis as well as a large number of Vape pens. A police expert had estimated that the products in the unit could have been worth more than £100,000. The police also linked Kazlauskas to a semi-detached house in Green Hill Lane, Wortley, Leeds, and when that property was searched they found 152 cannabis plants growing in two ground floor rooms.

Those plants could have produced cannabis with an estimated wholesale value of £54,000. The court heard that Kazlauskas had a latest model iPhone 15, but he refused to reveal the PIN and police were unable to download any data or messages from it.

Kazlauskas pleaded guilty to charges of producing cannabis and being concerned in the supply of cannabis and Judge Colin Burn jailed him for a total of three years.

Florin Ion

Florin Ion
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Serial thief Ion who travelled the country to steal from supermarkets was put behind bars in November. He targeted stores in Suffolk, Gloucestershire, Runcorn and finally Huddersfield to steal booze and beauty products in a bizarre crime spree. The 26-year-old was captured on CCTV on each occasion – and twice hid his stolen wares under tortilla wraps and tea towels.

He was jailed for 32 months. Read the full story here.

Barney Griffin, Rebecca Moore and Jack Douglas

Barney Griffin, Rebecca Moore and Jack Douglas
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Two teenagers and sex worker Moore were jailed for their parts in the murder of Sacad Ali.

Sheffield Crown Court heard how Sacad was lured to Ponderosa Park by Moore before being stabbed and killed by Griffin and Douglas. Douglas was finally able to be named following an application to lift a reporting restriction by YorkshireLive.

All three were handed life terms, with Moore ordered to spend a minimum term of 15 years behind bars. Griffin was ordered to spend a minimum term of 16 years behind bars, while Douglas received a minimum term of 15 years. Read the full story here.

Rahan Ali and Umar Khalil

Ali and Khalil threw chairs at a man inside a Bradford Greggs after he allegedly gave them “attitude.”

The two instigated the brawl inside the store which was witnessed by a man who was pushed out. Both went on to admit affray. Ali was jailed for 13 months and Khalil for 11 months. Read the full story here.

Scott Greenwood

Scott Greenwood
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Sick Greenwood for jailed for six years for his part in the Rotherham riot in August which saw him set and stoke multiple fires outside the Holiday Inn hotel. He was also made the subject of an extended licence period of three years. Read the full story here.

Stephen Hopkinson

Stephen Hopkinson

Sheffield man Hopkinson, 37, is behind bars after repeatedly breaching a criminal behaviour order to steal purses and handbags from a River Island store in the city centre.

He ignored the order five times between October 15 and 21. Hopkinson was banned from entering the city centre for any reason other than for pre-arranged appointments or medical reasons and the order also prevented him from remaining on any retail premises if told to leave by staff.

Hopkinson stole handbags and purses worth a total of £816 during his week-long spree and was caught on CCTV each time. He was jailed for a year when he appeared at Sheffield Crown Court.

Daniel Heaney

Daniel Heaney
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Heaney, 29, from Hull Road in York, was jailed for stealing from businesses including Lucky Days café and Five Guys in the city in the early hours of November 15.

North Yorkshire Police officers attended the scene within minutes, and after a short pursuit through the city, he was caught, arrested, and stolen property recovered.

Previously, on 7 October 2024, Heaney threw a brick through the window of the Angel on the Green on Bishopthorpe Road and stole a till. He was linked to this incident through forensic evidence.

He also entered Spar on Lowther Street on October 7 and stole washing powder. On trying to leave, he failed to read the ‘pull’ sign on the door, and accused staff of locking him in. He then kicked the glass door, smashing it, before realising he could just pull the handle to open it.

Heaney was sentenced in his absence at York Magistrates’ Court after refusing to leave his cell. He was jailed for 28 weeks.

Eric Midende and Tom Janicek

Eric Midende [left] and Tom Janicek
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These 26-year-olds were both jailed after they were caught supplying cocaine as part of the “ring and bring” Ely line in Doncaster. Intelligence and evidence gathered about their activities led to them being linked to a series of drug deals in the city, with the pair arrested in October 2023.

Midende was charged with three counts of supplying Class A drugs, with Janicek charged with five counts of the same offence. Janicek was jailed for two years and nine months and Midende for four years.

Yusuf Camara

Yusuf Camara
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Camara was found with more than 100 wraps of illegal class A drugs when he was searched by a plain-clothed officer as part of an ongoing operation in Broomhall.

During his arrest, Camara assaulted an officer as he tried to escape, causing the officer to require hospital treatment, with Camara further arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker. He was later charged with possession with intent to supply cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin, possession of cannabis, possession of a bladed article, possession of criminal property, and assault of an emergency worker. He was jailed for four years.

Mason Ward

Mason Ward
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Pontefract thug Ward left his girlfriend with a fractured eye socket following a terrifying attack. He had turned on the woman twice on March 7, 2023 following arguments they had at her home.

During one incident, he kicked her to the floor and grabbed her around the neck. She reported to the police that he was not strangling her but scratching her neck and squeezing her jaw and pulling her hair. He later pounced again by “grabbing her by the throat and throwing her on the sofa.” He was jailed for 27 months. Read the full story here.

Declan Middleton

PC Declan Middleton has been jailed
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Sick former police officer Middleton was put behind bars after a jury found he used his position as a police officer to target vulnerable victims of crime.

Middleton had sexual intercourse with one domestic abuse victim and tried to start a sexual relationship with a woman who had reported being harassed. He met both women as he went to take their statements and gave them his personal WhatsApp number.

He was jailed in November for two years. Read the full story here.

Saqib Khan

Saqib Khan
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Dangerous Khan entered a family’s home while they slept and barricaded himself in a room with a 10-year-old and sexually assaulted him. Khan told the boy he “loved him” as he kissed him. The boy’s mother and father were said to be trying to get into the room by Khan had barricaded the door using a mattress.

He was made the subject of an extended 10-year sentence made up of six years in custody and a four-year extended licence period. Read the full story here.

Shahban Hussain

Shahban Hussain
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Evil Hussain sexually assaulted a woman in a Huddersfield alleyway as she made her way home from a night out.

The delivery driver had had an argument with his wife before pouncing on the woman. He then stole her phone and once caught, went on to admit robbery and sexual assault. He was jailed for two years and four months. Read the full story here.

Michael Stevens

Michael Stevens
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Sick Stevens, who raped and sexually abused two young children, was handed a 17-year sentence after one of his victims bravely reported him to the police.

He was arrested in in August 2023, and a search of his home led to the discovery of mobile devices that he had attempted to hide. Evidence on the phones led police to identify Stevens’ second victim.

Officers found digital evidence including indecent images of children and the rape and sexual abuse of the two girls over a number of years. They were just three and nine-years-old when the abuse started. Read the full story here.

Diaz Watson Frederick, Kyle Snowball, Connor Leigh Walker and Billy Dennis Wright

Diaz Watson Frederick
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Kyle Snowball
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Connor Leigh Walker
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Billy Dennis Wright
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These four men were jailed after admitting planning and committing burglaries across Yorkshire. They appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Friday, November 29 for sentencing after pleading guilty on the first day of a scheduled trial to conspiracy to commit burglary, encompassing 21 burglary offences committed between February 4 and March 5.

Frederick, 18, formerly of Thurnscoe, Barnsley, was jailed for six years and eight months. Snowball, 25, formerly of Darfield, Barnsley, was jailed for seven years and seven months. Walker, 25, formerly of South Elmsall, was jailed for eight years and nine months and Wright, 20, formerly of Darfield, Barnsley, was jailed for four years and 11 months.

Wright, Watson and Snowball were members of a Snapchat group chat called the ‘A-Team’. While Walker wasn’t a member of the group chat, he was referenced within the group on several occasions. Conversations in the chat included references to police cars and chases, changing vehicle registration plates, police activity in the area, selling stolen vehicles and jewellery and planning of offences throughout Yorkshire.

On February 21, a white Kia Sportage and an Audi were stolen in a burglary in the Doncaster area. The Kia was subsequently used to commit further offences. On March 4, a police pursuit was authorised after the vehicle was seen leaving the scene of a burglary in the Woolley area of Wakefield. All four defendants were in the Kia during the pursuit and were subsequently arrested. Jewellery which had been stolen in a burglary in Huddersfield was also found in the vehicle.

Luke Thistlewaite

Thistlewaite, 43, was jailed for five months after he caused £500 worth of damage to a premises in Sheffield city centre. He also stole several items from H&M and Card Factory worth more than £340. Officers arrested Thistlethwaite the same day and he was found to be in possession of pregabalin and spice.

Lee Hamshaw

Lee Hamshaw
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Doncaster shoplifter Hamshaw stole more than £1,000 worth of products from shops in the city. He stole from shops including Sainsbury’s, Aldi and B&M during a seven-and-a-half week spree.

On one occasion, the 42-year-old stole £554 of fragrances, with his other crimes seeing him steal £99 worth of vodka bottles and 11 joints of meat worth £150. He was jailed for seven months.

Amanat Tariq

Amanat Tariq
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Evil Tariq preyed on a woman as she made her way home from a night out and sexually assaulted her in a Dewsbury alleyway.

He then took the woman home and raped her there and urinated on her. The woman was subjected to the horrifying ordeal for two hours.

Prosecutor Kitty Colley described the incident as a “prolonged sex attack.” She showed footage of the attack, which was taken from CCTV close to an alleyway, to Leeds Crown Court in November.

Tariq was told by His Honour Judge Tom Bayliss he will have to spend a minimum of nine years and 189 days behind bars before he is eligible for parole. Read the full story here.

Joshua Yates

Yates was ordered to spend more time behind bars after a number of incidents at HMP Wetherby.

He was already serving time when he attacked another inmate alongside his co-accused Jake Thornton. In another incident, he attacked an officer who believed he was trying to become involved in a “commotion” at the prison. Yates repeatedly punched the officer, and when other officers intervened, he shoved his fingers into that officer’s eye, attempting to gouge it. Yates then punched another officer to the mouth and upper jaw.

In another incident, Yates stabbed a prison officer after “crab walking” on some railings on a wing at the prison. He then was said to “suddenly lunge forward,” stabbing the officer to the cheek with an improvised blade. His Honour Judge Ray Singh jailed Thornton for 27 months and Yates for three-and-a-half years, which will run consecutively to the sentence he is already serving. Read the full story here.

Arber Axhami

Arber Axhami
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Weapons “collector” Axhami was found driving around Doncaster with two machetes, a hunting knife and a loaded crossbow. He said he was a collector and was going to use the weapons for self defence. He was sentenced to 14 months in a Young Offenders’ Institute. Read the full story here.

Branden Sedgwick-Boyle

Branden Sedgwick-Boyle
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Sedgwick-Boyle was jailed for locking a man he met on Grindr in a hotel room and assaulting him. He had been drinking and taking cocaine at the time.

Just two days before appearing in court for the offences of false imprisonment, section 39 assault and racially aggravated harassment causing alarm or distress, Sedgwick-Boyle turned violent once again. He had been drinking with a neighbour and had gone home – but returned angry, having not been invited to carry on with the celebrations.

Sedgwick-Boyle shouted and banged on the door before assaulting a man with a beer bottle, leaving and returning armed with a Samurai sword. He was jailed for four years. Read the full story here.

Keith Wilcox and Lisa Burgess

Keith Wilcox
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Lisa Jane Burgess
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Cruel couple Wilcox and Burgess were jailed in November after a woman was robbed of her purse and a have-a-go hero was flung from their fleeing car.

The man sprung into action after Wilcox robbed the woman, and tried to cling onto the bonnet of the car being driven by getaway driver Burgess, who had met her co-accused on Tinder.

A court heard the defendants told him to get off, but he told them to stop the car. Burgess drove the car for around a third of a mile before the car jerked and he was thrown from it. He landed in the road and hit his head.

The couple were eventually caught and Wilcox was jailed for 20 months, and Burgess for three years. Read the full story here.

Daniel Pinnington

Daniel Pinnington has been put behind bars
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Sick Pinnington claimed he was insane when he sexually abused a teenage girl. A jury rejected this defence and found him guilty of a series of offences of sexual activity with a child. He was jailed for five years.

It was said that during the abuse, Pinnington claimed he believed the victim was a “celestial being” with an age measured in thousands of years. He maintained their encounters were consensual, but the court heard he had sex with the girl and promised to marry her when she was 16. Read the full story here.

Karl Hill

Predator Karl Hill has been jailed
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Hill was jailed in November after he carried a sleeping woman to bed and sexually assaulted her. Sick Hill then filmed himself masturbating. The woman did not know the incident had happened until she was shown a clip by a friend at a later date. Hill was jailed for seven years. Read the full story here.

Sipho Pfukani

Sipho Pfukani
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Pfukani was jailed for stabbing Lazarus Makono to death at a house party in Barnsley. He was handed a life sentence for the murder and ordered to spend at least 18 years behind bars. His co-defendant Terrance Mltoshwa was jailed for 29 months for assisting an offender, and then a fraud from a separate indictment. Read the full story here.

Kyle Byfleet

Rapist Kyle Byfleet
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Evil abuser Byfleet was caught out after his victim watched a YouTube video and told him what he was doing to her was wrong. He was jailed for 17 years after being found guilty of offences including rape of a child under 13, sexual assault and assault by penetration of a child under 13. Read the full story here.

Nuno Dias

Dias stalked his victims before exposing himself and assaulting them on rural paths in Rotherham. The 44-year-old exposed himself to a woman in Moor Road, Wath-upon-Dearne, and then continued to follow the victim after she ran away from him.

The day after, two teenage girls were approached in the same area by Dias who performed a lewd act in front of them. CCTV enquiries captured Dias following the girls in his car before running to the footpath they were on.

A week later, Dias approached a woman on the TransPennine Trail in the Dearne Valley. He exposed himself and sexually assaulted her. A CCTV trawl showed Dias stalking his victim for over a mile before waiting until she entered a rural pathway.

The extensive CCTV evidence linking Dias’ car to the crimes, as well as the recovery of clothing matching the description his victims gave, led to his arrest. Dias was charged with three counts of indecent exposure and one charge of sexual assault. He pleaded guilty to all charges at Sheffield Crown Court on October 1.

He was sentenced to 54 weeks in prison, suspended for two years, at the same court. Dias was also ordered to a 55 day rehabilitation order, 43 accredited sex offender programme days and 66 hours unpaid work.

Kristopher Becker

Kristopher Becker
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Prolific shoplifter Becker was handed a three-year criminal behaviour order banning him from entering any One Stop or Heron Foods stores in Doncaster as well as the Lidl in Askern Road, Bentley.

It comes after Becker pleaded guilty to a spree of reckless thefts which saw him steal £100 of meat from Lidl, 44 Cadbury’s chocolate bars from One Stop and five tubs of butter from Heron Foods. Any person or business who sees Becker breaching the terms of his CBO should report it to police on 101 or by submitting information to us online via South Yorkshire Police’s website.

Sergeant Steve Roberts, of Doncaster Central Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “Becker had already been to prison twice this year for shoplifting offences and we are pleased to have now secured a CBO against him. CBOs are given to criminals who engage in incessant anti-social behaviour, and to obtain this particular CBO, officers had to gather evidence to show his repeated lack of respect for law.

“We will be keeping a watchful eye on Becker’s behaviour over the next three years to make sure he abides by the strict conditions of the CBO and I hope this sends out a warning that the police and courts will hold serial shoplifters accountable for their actions.

“Shoplifting isn’t a victimless crime and we will not let our businesses, communities, retail workers and shoppers suffer at the hands of thieves.”

McKenzie Ward

McKenzie Ward
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Ward was convicted of a string of animal welfare offences after police executed a search warrant at his home in Seacroft earlier this year. Four dogs were seized from the address after they were found being kept in appalling conditions – covered in faeces and with untreated injuries which officers suspected had been caused by animal fighting.

They were taken for immediate vet care and one of the dogs was covered in ticks and had fresh puncture wounds to the side of its face, which was severely infected and swollen. Ward was interviewed at a later date and charged. He went on to admit three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, one count of causing an animal to fight and four counts of failing to ensure the welfare of an animal.

Ward was handed a 26-week custodial sentence, suspended for a year and ordered to undertake a five-day rehabilitation order, 200 hours of unpaid work and a 10-year ban on keeping animals.

Sergeant Andy Katkowski, who led the investigation, said: “The conditions these four dogs were found being kept in were truly appalling and we believe the injuries to one of the dogs was the result of it being involved in animal fighting, most likely with a badger. Badger-related offences are a particularly cruel form of wildlife crime where badgers face a horrific and prolonged death purely for the entertainment of those involved.

“It is an illegal activity that is often linked to other types of crime and the police and our partner agencies will continue to target those who take part in this so-called bloodsport.

“We encourage anyone who witnesses any suspicious activity in the countryside that could be linked to this type of offending or who has any information about those involved to contact us via 101 or online referencing Operation Molehill.”

Mark Ambler

Mark Ambler
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Burglar Ambler was caught in the room of an elderly person living with dementia at a Leeds care home. Staff at the care home in Armley were alerted when a movement sensor in the room was set off in the early hours of September 6.

When they went to check on the woman, who is aged in her eighties, they found her asleep but discovered Mark Ambler hiding in the bathroom. They kept him on the premises until police arrived and arrested him on suspicion of burglary.

An examination of the scene showed Ambler had used wire cutters to cut a security band on the ground floor window to get in. When he was searched in police custody, he was found in possession of a quantity of crack cocaine. Ambler, 42, was jailed for three years and nine months.

David Timmins

David Timmins
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Timmins was bravely apprehended by a Sheffield home owner after he was caught trying to burgle their home. He was arrested at the house in Penistone Road during the early hours of September 2 after he alerted the homeowners to his presence by switching on a downstairs light.

Officers were at the scene within 10 minutes of receiving the 999 call and found Timmins being pinned down on the sofa by the homeowner. Timmins was jailed for two years and six months.

Joseph Pokuta

Joseph Pokuta
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A brave passer-by stepped in to detain smirking Pokuta after he grabbed a woman’s bum when she walked past. The woman had told the 19-year-old to leave her alone after he said to her: “Alright baby?” When she walked past him. He then went on to sexually assault her.

A court head that Pokuta, of no fixed abode, was interviewed by police, after which he became agitated and punched a police constable to the face, knocking them to the ground.

It was not the first time he had assaulted an emergency worker. As well as the sexual assault, Pokuta also fell to be sentenced for assaulting an emergency worker and robbery. He was just 16 when he carried out the robbery of a man in Burngreave Road on October 15, 2021.

He was jailed for five years and six months. Read the full story here.

Aadam Qayum, Gulstan Qayum and Harris Qayum

[L-R] Aadam Qayum, Gulstan Qayum and Harris Qayum have all been jailed
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Gulstan and his two sons kidnapped and attacked a teenage boy before dumping him unconscious in a remote woodland. The pre-planned attack was prompted by “concerns” Gulstan had. The boy was found by the men hiding inside a wardrobe at a property in Bradford before they bundled him into a car.

The boy “blacked out” during his ordeal and came round in the woods. His mobile phone and bag were missing and his clothing ripped and he was bleeding. He stumbled around the woods until he saw the lights of some nearby houses and flagged down a passing motorist.

Gulstan was jailed for seven yeas and six months and his sons for five years and nine months. Read the full story here.

Jonathan Holmes

PC Jonathan Holmes
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Former West Yorkshire PC Holmes was jailed for 26 months after he sexually assaulted a woman in her own bed.

The woman had made it clear she did not want sexual activity on the day Holmes went to her home and attacked her. He left shortly after and apologised to her the next day and the woman said: “I don’t see how this can be taken out of context. There is only one way I perceive it to have happened. I don’t see how you can justify yourself in any way… I’m embarrassed I let it happen… I just want to delete you, just delete anything you have of me.

“I don’t think working in law enforcement is for you. I thought you was a really nice lad until last night. I made it clear to begin with nothing was going to happen…”

In messages, she also said: “I told you no and to stop… you even said yourself, something along the lines of you’re a police officer so you know you shouldn’t but don’t know if you crossed the line. You literally pinned my arms down… There is nothing that you can say that will excuse how forceful you were with me last night.” Read the full story here.

Hanzel Scott

Hanzel Scott
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Evil Scott was told he will serve more than 20 years in prison as he was sentenced for offences including rape, assault and drug supply. Scott committed the sexual offences against two 16-year-old girls in August and October 2022, with officers launching their investigation after the first victim reported Scott on November 2, 2022. The following day, Scott was wanted and he was arrested and charged with rape on November 6, 2022.

The second victim came forward on May 16, 2023. Scott was in police custody at this time and was re-arrested for further rape offences. Following an investigation, Scott’s ‘drug empire’ was disrupted and he was arrested for conspiracy to supply cocaine, conspiracy to supply heroin, and concealing criminal property on March 9, 2022.

Over a four-year-period, Scott is estimated to have conspired to supply more than £680,000 worth of Class A drugs. He concealed his earnings through the transfer of funds. He was jailed for 24 years. Read the full story here.

Jake Turton

Jake Turton has been jailed
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Barnsley dad Turton was jailed for his part in the riot at the Holiday Inn hotel at Manvers in August. He was captured on CCTV driving a van with wood inside that was used as missiles to throw at police. The wood was also thrown over a blazing fire that was still spreading. He was jailed for two years and three months. Read the full story here.

Mark Philip Pelling

Mark Pelling attempted to carry out a knife-point robbery on a woman dog walker in Whitby in 2022

Pelling was jailed for two years and nine months after he tried to rob a woman at knifepoint as she was walking a dog in Whitby.

He pulled out a large knife and threatened the woman to hand over a small bag that was around her waist. The woman told him the bag contained nothing more than dog poo bags and dog treats, but he repeated his initial threat to stab the woman’s dog while demanding she hand over her purse.

York Crown Court heard on Wednesday, November 6 that the victim, fearing for her life but bravely managing to stay calm, replied: “What purse? I haven’t got a purse. Who brings a purse on a dog walk at six in the morning?” Pelling then walked away empty-handed. Read the full story here.

David Fish

David Fish has been jailed
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Dangerous predator Fish who approached a teenage girl while she sat in a Rotherham park and went on to rape and abuse her was jailed in November. He was put behind bars for 12 years after Sheffield Crown Court heard how he targeted the girl and raped her and forced her to film sexual activity. Read the full story here.

Codi Trower

Trower catfished his best friend by pretending to be her ex-boyfriend so he could stalk her. He claimed to be “supportive” of the woman as she went through the breakup, but set up social media accounts and sent disturbing cards in her ex-boyfriend’s name. He was jailed for 16 months. Read the full story here.

Sisay Beyene

Sisay Beyene

Robber Beyene threatened a cyclist with a hacksaw after cutting off his lock and stealing his bike in Huddersfield. The owner had confronted him and tried to stop him, but he was threatened by Beyene who went on to be jailed for three years and six months. Read the full story here.

Zahid Hussain

Driver Hussain deliberately rammed a man with his car following a “dispute.” He had seen the man and his friend walking along Cecil Avenue in Bradford before committing the crime. The injured man suffered bruising to his right leg and was discharged from hospital on crutches the following day. Hussain went to a police station afterwards and admitted to hitting a person with his car.

Hussain then told the officers he hoped the man’s legs were broken and said: “I hope he is disabled for life”. He also handed over two knives he claimed to have found in the boot of his car. He was jailed for 14 months. Read the full story here.

Ingus Galaskis

Ingus Galaskis
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Galaskis was jailed for an aggressive knife attack on his partner where the knife broke after he stabbed her “again and again.” He was found not guilty of attempted murder following a trial but had already admitted wounding causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for 10 years. Read the full story here.

Shafiqul Islam

Shafiqul Islam
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Islam was jailed for 25 months after being caught talking to what he thought was a 12-year-old. In fact, Islam was asking an undercover officer if they were wearing pyjamas while using social media app KIK.

He also asked the profile whether she was naked and if she had ever had a cuddle with a boy in bed before. It was not the first time Islam was convicted of sexual offences – he was made the subject of a suspended sentence when he was convicted of making and distributing pseudo images of a child. Read the full story here.

Jinshuo Dong and Jingshu Wong

Jinshuo Dong
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Jinhshu Wong
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Dong and Wong used students living in Leeds to take in cannabis sent in the post from Canada.

The two would go to the student accommodation offices to pick up the parcels. Their sophisticated operation unravelled after border force officials became suspicious and began to work with West Yorkshire Police and staff working at the buildings.

Dong and Wong were each jailed for three years in November. Read the full story here.

Sara and Jean Barnbrook

Sara and Jean Barnbrook
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The Barnbrook sisters used a charity Gift Aid scam to steal almost £450,000 from HMRC while running Leeds Girl Guide groups. The pair claimed repayments on non-existent donations over six years and spent the money on loan repayments, home improvements, clothes, hotels, travel and luxury items.

Sara Barnbrook was jailed for three years after pleading guilty to cheating the public revenue and Jean Barnbrook was jailed for 30 months after admitting to entering into a money laundering arrangement. Read the full story here.

Mark McGregor

Birthday boy Mark McGregor
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Drug dealer McGregor said he is “too old” for the job after his house was raided on his birthday. He was put behind bars in November for 44 months after officers from the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit discovered 111g of cocaine at his home in October this year.

McGregor told police in his interview that the drugs were for his own personal use and he was saving them for Christmas and New Year. He then later said he was “too old” for the job. Read the full story here.

Umar Khan and Arshad Mahmood

Umar Khan
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Arshad Mahmood

A Leeds couple were forced to deal drugs for Khan and Mahmood after they were threatened with being “cut up.” The couple handed themselves into police, with the man calling and telling them he and his partner were being forced to act as delivery drivers for a drug dealer in the city.

He told officers where his girlfriend was at that time and in what car, and officers found her with Khan and Mahmood. A court heard 100 wraps of cocaine, with an estimated value of £800, and 20 wraps of heroin, with an estimated value of £250, were found. Khan was also found to be in possession of cash.

A phone seized showed messages corroborating the story from the couple who said they were threatened and ordered to help deliver drugs. Khan was jailed for six years and nine months and Mahmood was jailed for two years and nine months. Read the full story here.

Jack Beale

Jack Beale subjected a Leeds judge to a foul-mouthed rant when he appeared in court
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Beale landed himself in hot water after he subjected a Leeds judge to a foul-mouthed rant. He was appearing in court to be sentenced for a robbery when he told His Honour Judge Ray Singh: “I’m sat here while you’re paying for my food, gym, library, paying for everything that is going on that taxpayers pay for…At your liberty mate give as much as you want in your pocket, I couldn’t give a f***.”

He was jailed for 52 months after the court heard details of the robbery he committed in May. The court heard Beale carried out the robbery of a woman who was walking between two buildings holding her bag. She tried to fight Beale off as he snatched at her bag, before her laptop fell out of it. He was then apprehended by members of the public and gave her the laptop back. Read the full story here.

December

Jack and Joshua Peart

Jack and Joshua Peart
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The Peart brothers were given sentences of more than five years after a vehicle stop in Bradford led to the unravelling of their significant drug dealing operation.

In January 2024 a police patrol stopped Joshua Peart, 28, when he was behind the wheel of a Subaru Forester and found two tubs of cocaine in the vehicle. The discovery led to a house on Tong Street, with two caravans in the front garden, also being searched by officers.

In one caravan officers found almost £2,000 worth of cocaine as well as a few tablets of MDMA. Inside the house police found weapons including a machete, knuckledusters and a telescopic baton. In the loft there were nearly 3000 tablets of Class C drugs and the second caravan also contained drug related items and cash.

Jack was not arrested in connection with the drugs offences until March this year and at the time he was “bragging” falsely about making more money than the police officers. Both brothers were jailed for five years and four months. Read the full story here.

Ben Swindells

Ben Swindells has been jailed for 23 years

Thug Swindells was jailed after he kicked his ex-partner in the head repeatedly and then paused to smoke a cig before smashing her head on the floor. He was spotted by a witness outside a Tesco Express in Wakefield and reported to police.

Officers found Swindells cradling the victim in his arms. She was unconscious and as officers pulled him away he started ranting ‘kill me, just kill me’ He also said he had not done anything and loved her but then also said he would kill her. He was jailed for 23 years with an extended licence period of four years for attempted murder. Read the full story here.

Mario Palumbo

Mario Palumbo was sentenced to 40 months in prison and 10-year sexual harm prevention order to restrict his future contact with under 16s and his use of the internet.

Sick paedophile Palumbo was tracked down to his Bradford home by a paedophile hunter group after he engaged in sexual conversations with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl. He sent naked images of himself and described the decoy as “absolutely adorable” before being confronted. He was jailed for 40 months. Read the full story here.

Dylan McNamara

Dylan McNamara caused “havoc” by walking on train tracks near to Bradford Interchange and has been jailed for 18 months.
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Serial hoaxer Dylan McNamara was jailed in December after he walked on train tracks near Bradford Interchange. He was initially detained under the Mental Health Act after it was suggested he had wanted to take his own life but he was later identified by a British Transport Police officer as someone who had been involved in “numerous” previous incidents. He was jailed for 18 months. Read the full story here.

Laurence Ward

Laurence Ward has been jailed for three years and four months for killing his wife

Evil Ward stabbed and killed his wife Joanne at their home in Rotherham before walking to a relative’s to confess.

He stabbed Joanne through the chest during an argument on June 21. After doing so, Ward, who was also seriously injured, went to a relative’s home where he confessed to stabbing his wife and told them he feared he had killed her. He later told police he left her to die because he was in a state of “shock and panic.”

Police were called to the address at 5.53pm and found Joanne in her living room with fatal injuries. Tragically, paramedics declared her dead at the scene. He was jailed for manslaughter for three years and four months. Read the full story here.

Zulkernan Mahmood and Rehan Yousaf

Zulkernan Mahmood

Rehan Yousaf.

These cowboy builders were jailed in December for their parts in a scam which saw them use Eastenders character Dot Cotton to fleece £1m from OAPs seeking energy savings under a government scheme.

The vulnerable residents hired them for work “living in structurally unstable properties.” They were convicted of fraudulent trading and criminal property offences. Leeds Crown Court heard Mahmood and Yousaf – along with two other men – traded under names including Pilkington Home Improvements and Love Windows Ltd, and installed poor quality, undersized, and cracked or scratched windows in people’s homes. In a TV ad for Love Windows, EastEnders star June Brown, who played Dot Cotton, says there is ‘no catch’ with windows being ‘fully fitted’ with ‘no confusing sales offers to worry about’.

Another ad, featuring boxer Floyd Mayweather, showcased the company’s triple-glazed windows and promised a ’15-year guarantee’. There is no suggestion that either the undefeated boxer or the EastEnders star, who died in 2022, knew anything about the crimes.

The gang’s companies, which exploited the Government’s ‘Green Deal’ initiative, cold-called customers and carried out shoddy work which caused damage to homeowners’ walls and left large gaps.

Mahmood was jailed for six years and four months and Yousaf was jailed for two years and six months. Read the full story here.

Jake Brown, Lester Ramsey, Leon Waite, Adam Mulligan

Jake Brown has been jailed for the murder of beloved dad Kevin Pokuta
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This gang was jailed in December after Brown was convicted of the murder of beloved dad Kevin Pokuta, who was gunned down in a Sheffield street in a case of mistaken identity.

Ramsey, Waite, Mulligan and a 17-year-old boy – who cannot be named for legal reasons – were convicted of conspiracy to rob after the group attempted to rob a cannabis farm. During that crime, a car drove at them and Brown later returned to the scene, shooting four times at a vehicle he believed to be the same one.

It was not, and instead he shot and killed Kevin. Brown was made the subject of a life sentence with a minimum term of 36 years. Ramsey and Waite were jailed for four years and six months and Mulligan for three years and six months. The teenager was made the subject of a Youth Rehabilitation Order for two years. Read the full story here.

Kristafa Spencer

Kristafa Spencer
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Thug Spencer told his ex-partner she would meet the same fate as a Huddersfield murder victim before swinging a baseball bat at her in her own home. He sent the sick messages after being made the subject of a non-molestation order put in place to protect her from him.

Spencer was jailed for three years. Read the full story here.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley
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Walmsley, 29, of Kirk View, Barnsley, was jailed for 14 separate shoplifting offences that took place over a three-year period. Between November 14 and December 4, he stole £650 worth of goods from a Co-Op and a One Stop shop.

He was jailed for six months and given a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order preventing him from entering any Co-Op, One Stop, or B & M Stores shop in the Barnsley area. Read the full story here.

Kyle Lewis-Rudge

Kyle Lewis-Rudge
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Lewis-Rudge was jailed after police discovered several containers filled with harmful drugs in his home. On 11 June, following the collation of local intel, a drugs warrant was executed at a property in the Dinnington area of Rotherham.

Inside a significant quantity of Class A and Class B drugs were recovered, including several bags of cannabis stored within mason jars. In total approximately £800 worth of cannabis was discovered and between £500 to £1,000 worth of cocaine.

Lewis-Rudge, 24, went on to tell police after his arrest at the scene that the drugs were all for his personal use. He was jailed for four years at Sheffield Crown Court in December. Read the full story here.

Henry Gaskin

Henry Gaskin
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Gaskin was jailed for 16 months after he crashed a car into a shop. He was wanted at the time PCSOs spotted him driving a black Suzuki Vitara on November 5 in Thorne.

Gaskin, who was driving the Suzuki dangerously through the streets, crashed the car into a shop near the junction with Grange Road and Marshland Road, prompting him to flee the scene to try and evade justice.

However, he didn’t get far as officers were alerted to his attempt to run, resulting in the 29-year-old’s arrest a short time later. When questioned by officers in interview, Gaskin tried to pin the blame on another person and falsely claimed he wasn’t driving the vehicle.

Dashcam footage showed Gaskin climbing out of the passenger side of the Suzuki, however, it became clear that he did this as the driver’s side door would not open, with forensic results also proving he was the driver at the time of the collision. Read the full story here.

Atique Khan

Atique Khan
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Khan was jailed for 18 months after he tried to help a friend avoid a traffic offence. Kashif Khan gave false details to police when he was sent a Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) after a car registered to him was captured on dash cam driving through a red light on the A650 Keighley Road on the morning of July 25, 2021. Suspicions were raised when the details provided by Kashif were found to have been previously used by others attempting to avoid similar prosecutions and were linked to Atique.

Kashif was further quizzed about the offence and said he had taken the car into a garage in Halifax the day before for required maintenance and had not collected it until three days later. He provided details of the garage which was found not to exist at the address given and was also found to be linked to Atique.

Both men were arrested and Kashif’s mobile phone was seized, which showed that he and Atique had discussed how to avoid prosecution for the offence. Kashif Khan, aged 30, received an 18-month sentence which was suspended for two years. Read the full story here.

Liam Dixon

Liam Dixon
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Wanted Doncaster shoplifter Dixon, 36, is back behind bars after he was arrested near to a Tesco shop with unpurchased items.

The officer raced from a police station and darted through traffic to catch Dixon, after police were alerted to a sighting of him. He was jailed for five months and made the subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order which prevents him from entering Tesco Express in Barnsley Road for the next three years. Read the full story here.

Damien Hughes

Damien Hughes
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Halifax predator Hughes was put behind bars in December after he used a fake Instagram account to groom a child and then went on to abuse her in a supermarket car park.

He exchanged sexualised messages, photos and videos with the teenager even though she had told him her age. Hughes went on to encourage the teenager to meet up with him and on three occasions, he picked her up in his car in Cambridgeshire. Nothing happened on the first meeting but on two other occasions Hughes took the girl in his car to a shopping centre car park and abused her.

The offending came to light after the girl’s mobile phone was checked by a family member and he was shocked to find the sexually explicit photos, videos and conversations on her Instagram account. He was jailed for six-and-a-half years. Read the full story here.

Levi Fishlock

Levi Fishlock has been jailed
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Thug Fishlock was jailed after a court heard he was a prominent figure in the riots that took place outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers in the summer. The hotel was used to house asylum seekers and was the centre of violence on August 4.

Fishlock was jailed for nine years by a judge who said he was involved in almost every arena of racist criminal conduct that day”.

Fishlock was part of a group shouting abuse and racial slurs, at one point tapping the England badge on his shirt. As the violence escalated, Fishlock was seen adding planks of wood to a large burning wheelie bin that was pushed up against the hotel, “intending to endanger the lives of many people trapped in the hotel”, the judge said. Read the full story here.

Charles Pickering

Speeding driver Charles Pickering has been jailed

Selfish Pickering hit and killed Sheffield mum Tracey Rimmington with his car as she crossed the Prince of Wales road in 2022. He had modified the vehicle with a “heavily tinted” windscreen before the collision.

A court heard he was travelling well in excess of the speed limit, at around 60mph in a 40mph zone. He was jailed for 18 months. Read the full story here.

David Ramsay

Music teacher David Ramsay is behind bars
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Sick teacher Ramsay sexually abused a teenage girl and then kissed her friend during a vodka-fuelled game of spin the bottle. He was jailed for five years. Read the full story here.

Kyan McWhir

Kyan McWhir killed his brother when he punched him in Hebden Bridge
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McWhir killed his own half-brother John after assaulting him in a street in Hebden Bridge in July. Horrified witnesses told how they had heard a “crack” after John was punched and fell to the floor. McWhir was jailed for five years. Read the full story here.

Mark Gregoire

Mark Gregoire, of Bradford, has been jailed for five years after being found guilty of sexual assaults and controlling behaviour
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Sick Gregoire sexually assaulted an unconscious woman after he “groomed” her with alcohol, drugs, and “flashing his money.”

After assaulting her, Gregoire told her any complaint by her would be “worthless.” He was guilty by a jury of controlling and coercive behaviour and two offences of sexual assault following an earlier trial and jailed for five years. Read the full story here.

Zaheer Ahmed

Zaheer Ahmed
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Halifax man Ahmed was jailed after being found guilty of sexually attacking a 15-year-old girl in 2009. The girl came forward to report the crime in 2020 and Ahmed faced a trial. He was jailed for two years. Read the full story here.

Vincent Morgan

Vincent Morgan
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Evil Morgan was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 20 years for the murder of his partner, Lisa Welford.

Morgan seriously assaulted Lisa before drowning her in the River Derwent in Malton in April. He was subject to a Domestic Violence Protection Order at the time. He faced a jury and lied to it, saying that Lisa had jumped into the water. However, Lisa was taken to hospital and it was found she was suffering from head injuries, a bleed on the brain, fractured ribs, a fractured collar bone and a severely fractured femur.

She died a day later and Morgan has now faced justice. Read the full story here.

Khuram Yaqoob

Khuram Yaqoob
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The ringleader of a speeding ticket scam was put behind bars in December. Yaqoob was the leader of an NIP Farming scheme which allowed more than a dozen drivers in West Yorkshire to avoid penalty points for speeding offences. This took place over a two year period from June 2017 to December 2019.

Yaqoob’s scam related to Notices of Intended Prosecution and the scheme came to light in 2019 when he was arrested in connection with firearms offences and his mobile phone revealed details of his scam

Yaqoob, aged 35 and of Bawtry Road, Hatfield, Doncaster, received thousands of pounds from people who used his services to avoid getting points on their licences. The scheme involved nominating fake drivers and false addresses linked to him.

He was jailed for three years and four months. Read the full story here.

Abdulaziz Haruna

Abdulaziz Haruna, 26, of Middlewood Drive East, Sheffield
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Drug dealer Haruna was jailed in December after he was caught carrying out a drugs operation worth more than £280,000.

South Yorkshire Police was bursting into his Sheffield home while executing a warrant when he launched himself towards an officer trying to gain entry using a chainsaw. He was arrested and treated for injuries and went on to be jailed for seven years and three months. Read the full story here.

Mark Metcalfe

Mark Metcalfe has been jailed for the manslaughter of Terri Jordan
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Evil Metcalfe was jailed for 17 years in December after he was found guilty of the manslaughter and the prevention of a lawful burial of beloved mum Terri Jordan.

Metcalfe assaulted Terri at his home in Harehills after being rejected by her and went on to hide her body in a wheelie bin before dumping it in bushes close to a supermarket.

Terri was missing for 12 days before her body was discovered. Read the full story here.

Sabu Singh

Sabu Singh
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In December, Singh was the last of a gang who set up a staged doorstep gun threat as part of a vendetta following a bitter divorce to be jailed. CCTV captured the moment two masked males armed what appeared to be long-barrelled firearm made the threat to Inderjeet Gosal at his home in Ash Hill, the Shadwell area of Leeds, on Friday, July 31, 2020.

He acted shocked for the camera and later made a panicked 999 call reporting the incident but telltale laughter on the footage trigger police suspicions which uncovered the plot.

The gunmen had told him to “stay out of Jonny’s business, stay out of your sister’s case”. Gosal’s wife Harpreet and sister Hardeep Sangha were at the address at the time, and he told officers he believed the threat was linked to an ongoing divorce case involving his sister’s ex-husband Harpal Sangha, known as Jonny or Jon. Harpal Sangha was arrested the next day on suspicion of witness intimidation and held in police custody for 15 hours.

Gosal provided CCTV of the incident to detectives and when it was reviewed their suspicions were raised when they heard laughing after he and his wife returned to the living room where his sister had remained.

It was found that Harpal Sangha had been the victim of a firearm-related set-up in April 2017 when police received information that he had a sawn-off shotgun hidden in the garden of his home in Huddersfield.

The gun was recovered at the property, and he was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences. The shotgun was forensically examined, and DNA found inside the weapon linked it to Sabu Singh, who was Hardeep Sangha’s boyfriend. He has now been jailed for three years and seven months. Read the full story here.

Robert Jean

Robert Jean, 47, has been jailed

Jean was jailed in December after he murdered his two housemates in a brutal explosion of violence.

He attacked 65-year-old Khaja Raisoddin Mohammed and 53-year-old Abdullah Mirzada, repeatedly stabbing both men in a frenzied attack at the house in Hill Top Mount, Harehills in September last year.

What caused Jean to launch such a violent attack on the victims has never been established although it may have been related to arguments over rent arrears. He was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 34 years. Read the full story here.

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