All the criminals locked up in Yorkshire between January and June this year
It has been a very busy year at the courts in Yorkshire[1] this year.
Criminals[2] who have committed a whole range of crimes – from shop theft to murder – have been put behind bars as they sat 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[3] for crimes committed in our region. Those locked up include teenage killers Jovani Harriott and Jakele Pusey, who murdered schoolboy Khayri Mclean as he walked home, and Mohammed Taroos Khan, who took the life of his niece Somaiya Begum and hid her body.
Below is a list of all of the criminals locked up in Yorkshire in 2023 between January and June that YorkshireLive[5] has reported on.
January
Zef Gjorka and Dritan Mrozi
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Zef Gjoka [left] and Dritan Mrozi have been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Gjorka and Mrozi were found living in the kitchen area of a West Yorkshire warehouse where almost £1million worth of cannabis had been grown.[6]
The plants – which yielded a weight of between 50kg and 100kg – were discovered by police executing a search warrant at the former factory in Malvern Road, Knottingley on November 14 last year. Officers found 11,010 plants with a street value of just under £1million and equipment worth. £30,000. Gjoka and Mrozi pleaded guilty to production of cannabis at a plea, trial and preparation hearing.
Gjoka was jailed for three years and Mrozi for two-and-a-half years.
Gareth Milton
Gareth Milton has been jailed after he glassed a man in a local pub (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Violent thug Milton smashed a glass into a man’s face[8] after a disagreement with a doorman at a Pontefract[9] pub.
He had been drinking in the Horse Vaults when he took on a number of the pub’s customers, punched, kicked them and eventually glassed one of them. The man who had been glassed had gone to hospital for treatment before police arrived. Milton was jailed for three years and four months.
Sajid Janjua
Rapist supermarket security guard Sajid Janjua has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Child rapist[11] Janjua dictated a “retraction letter” to his teenage victim in a bid to get the allegations against him dropped was jailed for 13 years.
The teenager was told to write that she wanted to drop the charges, that she had told Janjua she was 16 or 17 and that he had never raped her. Janjua had forced himself on the girl in an isolated location when he raped her.
Philip Longstaff
Philip Longstaff, aged 51, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour and was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment by Sheffield Magistrates’ Court
51-year-old Philip Longstaff, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 20 weeks and given a £50 fine after abusing a train conductor. Longstaff pinned the conductor against the wall of the train when he discovered him hiding in the toilet. He held his clenched fist to the victim’s face while clutching a bottle in his other hand, which the conductor feared he was about to use as a weapon.
David Taylor
David Taylor stabbed his parents almost 300 times in a shocking attack (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Taylor, 37, was made the subject of a hybrid order[14] made up of a hospital order and life sentence with a minimum term of nine years for the killings of his mother and father, John and Beverley Taylor at their home in Regent Crescent, Skipton, in December 2021.
In the months leading up to the attacks, David complained he had been hearing voices that were telling him to murder people to save his family from “suffering for eternity.” On the day of the killings, David called the police and told a call handler he had killed his mother and father. He said he had used three knives in the attack.
Mark Greenwood
Sex offender Mark Greenwood has had his sentence increased (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick paedophile Greenwood had his sentence increased in January after more of his crimes[16] were uncovered.
He was jailed for nearly 20 years at Leeds Crown Court[17] in 2019 after he pleaded guilty to six sexual offences and three counts of making indecent images of a child. Following his conviction, a second victim reported to police that she had also been abused by Greenwood when she was just eight-years-old.
An investigation was opened and Greenwood was charged with sexual assault, to which he later pleaded guilty to. He was jailed for a further three years when he appeared again at the court[18] earlier this year. He remains on the Sex Offenders’ Register and is subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Wayne Joselyn
Wayne Joselyn (right) raided the graves of a married couple buried in a Barnsley cemetery (Image: YappApp)
Drug addict Joselyn disturbed the grave of a couple after becoming convinced firearms and jewellery were buried there.
He asked his friend on April 29 last year: “Guess where I’ve been?” After he got back from disturbing the grave[20] of Kell and Maud Goodwin at Carlton Cemetery in Barnsley.
Sheffield Crown Court[21] heard how Joselyn had gone in the early hours of that morning armed with a number of shovels and spades and dug the grave – disturbing it and the remains of Mrs Goodwin. Mrs Goodwin’s remains had to be exhumed. Joselyn was jailed for 15 months.
Lee Beevers
Lee Beevers (left) collided with Alan Tankard
Disqualified driver Beevers left a cyclist to die in the road after hitting him with his car.
Beevers, 27, of Normanton View in Normanton, hit cyclist Alan Tankard in Wakefield Road, Normanton, on April 13 last year. Beevers was driving a black Honda Civic at around 80mph in the 30mph road at the time. He left the scene[23] – and Mr Tankard, 33, who was lying in the road – and his burnt-out vehicle was later found nearby. He was arrested the next day. Beevers was jailed for four years and eight months. He was also disqualified from driving for five years and three months.
Daniel Shaw and Joseph Shaw
Daniel Shaw (left) has been jailed alongside his brother for a set of drug offences (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
A huge heroin stash worth up to £3.1 million was found at a house in Bradford after a debt-ridden addict walked into a police station and confessed to storing the drugs and cash at his home.
Officers searched the home of Mohammed Bashir in Silkstone Road back in August 2021 and found around 30 kilograms of heroin in two laundry bags[25] as well as a padlocked sports bag containing almost £100,000 in cash.
Bradford Crown Court[26] heard how the man said he had been storing the heroin and cash to clear his own drugs debt, but the discovery led to a complex police inquiry which resulted in two brothers both being jailed.
Daniel Shaw, 25, admitted offences of conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and heroin and and he was jailed for a total of 10-and-a-half years. Joseph Shaw, 29, who appeared on Channel 4’s First Dates[27], admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine, conspiracy to produce cannabis and being concerned in the supply of heroin by bringing the drugs from London to Bradford. He was given a six-and-a-half year jail sentence.
Aaron Horn
Aaron Horn (Image: Yorkshire Live)
Horn killed a devoted wife and her cousin in a “momentary lapse of concentration” on a Yorkshire road.
He was driving along Denby Dale Road, just outside Clayton West, on August 16, 2020, and was negotiating a left-hand bend but veered onto the wrong side of the road before colliding with the campervan[29] driven by Roy Davey. Horn was jailed for six months.
Brandon Hewlett
Brandon Hewlett (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Hewlett was found guilty of three counts of rape and one count of threatening to disclose a private sexual photograph and jailed for seven years and six month in January. It was said the offences took place in Goole and York.
Stuart Bellwood
Stuart Bellwood (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Bellwood was jailed for two and a half years for breaking into a woman’s home in Castleford and strangling her. He had forced entry to his victim’s property in October 2022 and then attacked her, causing “significant injuries”.
Daniel Spencer
Daniel Spencer has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Spencer assaulted his partner twice in the space of a few weeks was jailed for four years in January.
Spencer was jailed for three years in relation to the first assault involving the strangulation and a judge added a further year in custody for the second assault committed while he was on bail. The judge also made an indefinite restraining order which bans Spencer from contacting the complainant directly or indirectly.
Spencer, of Kirkgate, Huddersfield, got into an argument with his partner in Sowerby Bridge and he grabbed her by the neck. She said Spencer was strangling the complainant to the point where she started to collapse and he then let go.
Luke McInerny
Drug user Luke McInerny has been jailed after stabbing his dealer after being ‘ripped off’ (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Drug addict McIrnerny launched a knife attack on his dealer when they met up in Keighley and was jailed for five years.
McInerny stabbed the man[34] repeatedly to his neck, chest, abdomen and back. When McInerny was detained he said he had been “ripped off” by the dealer the night before and the dispute was drugs related.
February
Vibhor Garg
Vibhor Garg was jailed for over 11 years
37-year-old Garg was jailed for 11 years after admitting rape and perverting the course of justice.
Garg forced himself on a woman at a house in 2022. Using a pair of scissors to frighten her, he tried to tie her hands behind her back with a handkerchief and raped her. He was arrested the next morning and after being bailed he repeatedly contacted the victim – threatening to take his own life and putting pressure on her to drop the allegations against him.
Nikola Tokorova
Nikola Tokorova forced her way into an 87-year-old woman’s house in the Batemoor Road area of Sheffield in November last year. (Image: SYP)
Tokorova was jailed after she broke into a house in Sheffield and attacked an elderly woman last year. The resident – an 87-year-old woman was on the phone with her daughter and was hearing saying “please don’t” before the line went dead. The woman’s daughter phoned police, who went to the address and found the pensioner lying on her hallway injured.
Tokorova left the woman with a broken shoulder and head injuries. She managed to get away with just £30. She was jailed for six years.
Patrik Lukacs
Patrik Lukacs (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Creepy Lukacs followed a woman and attacked her while she was on her way to work in Bradford last year. The 27-year-old crossed the road, walked up right behind her and told her she was “looking good” and asked her for her number. Lukacs followed the woman to the Ripley Street area where he started groping her bottom and between her legs. He then tried to pick the woman up and take her into a snicket near some flats.
Lukacs followed the woman all of the way to her workplace and a friend alerted the police. DNA linked to him was found on the woman’s jeans. He was jailed for 18 months.
Liam Anderson
Liam Anderson (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Anderson seriously injured a female police officer and her male colleague when he deliberately revered a stolen campervan at speed into their patrol car. The woman suffered a fractured ankle, severe whiplash and suspected broken ribs while her colleague broke his wrist when the 33-year-old rammed their patrol car in a bid to disable it.
He was jailed for four years and banned from driving for the next four years.
Christian Wood
Christian Wood has been jailed for a series of sick sex offences (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sick Wood was found guilty of a raft of sex offences following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court. He was handed an extended sentence of 13 years – made up of ten years and an extended licence period of three years following his convictions for sexual assault of a child – relating to three instances – four counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of sexual communication with a child.
In a victim impact statement, Wood’s first victim faced him and told the court the abuse happened “too many times to count.” She said: “I want my voice to be heard now I know how to use it…I am not going to let this stop me from living my life. I’m not going to let you stop me. This is me gaining my power and my voice back. I’m going to learn how to deal with this. I am free and I am going to thrive.”
Fazan Bahder
Fazan Bahder, 34, of Erskine Crescent, Heeley has been jailed for 21 years (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sheffield rapist Bahder plied a teenage girl with drugs and abused her. He also violently raped a second victim.
The first girl was 17 at the time and after meeting her at an off-licence, Bahder plied her with drugs before raping her. Bahder met his second victim and invited her over to his house. He then assaulted the victim by punching her and attempting to strangle her.
He threatened to stab her, before raping her. He was jailed for 21 years.
Faiz Rehman
Faiz Rehman was able to live a life of luxury after facilitating the sale of over £4million worth of drugs (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Drug kingpin Rehman was caught out after being identified as an Encrochat user who had facilitated the sale of drugs worth over £4million in an 11-week period.
Rehman conversed with suppliers and customers on the encrypted telephone and messaging system and took in deliveries of class A drugs. Rehman lived a life of luxury with holidays to Dubai, Rolex watches and fast cars. In one conversation, Rehman bragged about being able to sell 40kg to 50kg of heroin a month and made reference to cannabis and cocaine being his main area of business.
He was jailed for 15 years.
Tyler Ward
Tyler Ward has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Huddersfield predator Ward had sex with a young girl and threatened to take his own life if she ended their “relationship.”
The girl – who reported Ward to the police in 2021 – told officers his demands for sex were “persistent” and she “just gave in to please him.” Leeds Crown Court heard sexual activity that took place caused the girl pain and when she told Ward to stop he said: “Just five minutes more.” It was said Ward would give the girl cocaine and alcohol and she said if she did not want to take cocaine he said she would and if she did not he would split up with her.
Ward also threatened to take his own life and it would be her own fault if she split up with him. While he was still under investigation for those offences in August last year at around 12.30am, Ward attempted to try and rob two men in a pub beer garden using a BB gun.
He made demands for money but was arrested. He was handed an extended sentence made up of five years in custody and an extended licence period of four years.
Jason Lee Booth
Jason Lee Booth (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Lee Booth, 51, was jailed for three years and six months in February after admitting sexually assaulting two young women.
He had denied the offences until right up to the last minute.
Faran Ashraf
Ashraf, of Edderthorpe Street, has been jailed for 12 years and six months for conspiracy to supply class A drugs and given eight years and nine months for conspiracy to supply cannabis – the sentences to run concurrently (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Ahraf trafficked “lorry-loads” of drugs across Europe. He was known as “mac-man” when using an encrypted network to speak to other criminals about supplying illegal drugs across the continent. He revealed himself to police when he told other users it was his birthday.
Ashraf was believed to be controlling numerous cannabis grows across West Yorkshire and distributing the product across Europe. He also posted to seek assistance from other users to process 160 litres of liquid cocaine. He was jailed for 12 years and six months.
Philip Lister, Ryan Beer, Stephen Singleton and Jordan Russell Blackburn
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[L-R] Philip Lister, Ryan Beer and Stephen Singleton have all been jailed (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
The foursome were jailed after a drug lab was discovered in a sleepy North Yorkshire village.
North Yorkshire Police responded to concerns raised in relation to suspicious activity at a property in Husthwaite. Inside, they found two men in the process of manufacturing amphetamine oil, a significant amount of hazardous chemicals, noxious vapours coming from the property, laboratory equipment and £20,000 in cash.
Lister and his brother-in-law Beer were arrested at the scene. It was found Lister had been using the Encrochat system. The investigation led officers to Singleton and Blackburn who were also using Encrochat. Officers found they were leading the operation.
Singleton was jailed for nine years and two months, Blackburn for eight years and nine months and Beer for two years an four months. Lister was jailed for four years and four months.
Dillan Young
Dillan Young is behind bars after slashing at a man with a machete outside a Todmorden nightclub (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Teenager Young slashed at a man with a machete after being confronted for slapping a female’s bottom at a Todmorden nightclub. 19-year-old Young did not like being reprimanded and returned to the scene later with a large knife.
The man was “caught” by the machete and suffered a cut to his abdomen. As he tried to run away, he tripped and while on the floor, he saw Young standing over him. The man put his hand up to protect himself and the machete struck it, causing very serious injury.
Young was jailed for four years and six months.
Lee White
Lee White is behind bars (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sheffield thug White dragged his partner across a kitchen by her hair, hit her with his trainer and then stole her car before leading police on a 90mph chase. He attacked his partner of 15 years and the mother of his children after she had asked him to move out on June 12 last year.
White attacked and drove off in the woman’s car before being spotted by officers who were tasked with looking for it. He then led police on a chase reading speeds of up to 94mph. It came to an end when he collided with a number of parked cars.
He was jailed for 16 months.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper, 55, targeted the youngster between 2001 and 2003 (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
55-year-old Harper was jailed in February after he was found guilty of a number of sickening sex offences.
Harper had sexually abused a “young and vulnerable” boy between 2001 and 2003 and his crimes came to light when he bravely reported him. Harper was jailed for six years and six months.
Ramiz Khan
Ramiz Khan has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Dewsbury man Khan, 34, was jailed after he lied to police and told them a group of people above a takeaway were in possession of suspicious items.
Khan’s lied prompted an armed operation. He was jailed for 32 months for perverting the course of justice. West Yorkshire Police said his fictitious story caused “significant disruption” to the area of Ravensthorpe, where he said the offences were taking place.
A warrant led to the arrest of six people – although no threat was identified and no evidence was found to suggest any offences had been committed at the address. All six people were released without charge.
Aaron Thompson
Prison inmate Thompson was serving a sentence at HMP Wealstun in Wetherby when he followed a staff member into an office and attempted to choke them.
Thompson said they “wouldn’t beat him again” as officers feared a hostage situation at the prison. He was jailed for a further 14 months in February.
Mohammed Ilyas Alibhai
Former Imam and teacher Alibhai was jailed for a year in February after being found guilty of three charges of sexual activity with a child.
Alibhai sexually abused a teenage boy around 15 years ago when he was in a position of trust at a Bradford mosque. Prosecutor Nick Adlington said Alibhai had hugged and kissed the complainant and rubbed himself against the teenager.
Jared O’Mara
Jared O’Mara was convicted of six counts of fraud at Leeds Crown Court (Image: South Yorkshire Police/PA Wire)
Disgraced former Sheffield MP O’Mara was jailed for four years after being found guilty of six counts of fraud by false representation.
O’Mara – alongside co-accused Gareth Arnold, who was given a suspended sentence after being found guilty of three counts of fraud – submitted fake invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA). Leeds Crown Court heard O’Mara did this in order to fund a cocaine habit. All of the applications made were rejected by IPSA. Some related to work carried out by Arnold, and others to a fictitious organisation called Confident About Autism South Yorkshire.
Charlie Booth
Charlie Booth has been given a life sentence for the murder of Baildon mum Lauren Howe (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Evil Charlie Booth was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 15-and-a-half-years for the murder of Baildon mum, Lauren Howe. Booth had violently and brutally assaulted the mum-of-two after she returned home from a night out in July last year. Lauren’s liver had torn and she suffered cuts and bruises.
Booth dumped her body close to the home they shared and tried to cover his tracks by asking a neighbour to clean their flat after he had smashed it up. It was said Lauren’s murder was committed “against a background of violence,” with Booth having been violent towards her previously.
Guss Golding and Connor Glen
Guss Golding and Connor Glen were jailed for seven years
Golding and Gled targeting elderly pensioners in a spate of Doncaster burglaries. The pair burgled their vulnerable victims between July 2021 and July 2022 and were eventually arrested and charged following extensive enquiries and reviews of CCTV footage by police.
Golding was jailed for 50 months and Glen for 36 months.
Nathan Thomas McCracken
Nathan Thomas McCracken (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Sick predator McCracken sexually assaulted a teenage girl as she rode her horse in a rural North Yorkshire road.
McCracken had driven past the 17-year-old but turned his car around and wound down his window to talk to her. He then got out of the car and sexually assaulted the young woman – repeatedly asking her not to report him to the police as he did so. She did and he was identified and arrested.
It was later found he had committed two breaches of a sexual harm prevention order when officers found an undisclosed laptop and that he had been using Snapchat under an alias. He was jailed for four years and seven months.
Dale Henfrey and Darren Potter
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Dale Henfrey [left] and Darren Potter have been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Post Office robbers Henfrey and Potter were jailed in February after they went into a Wakefield branch and attacked a security glass with hammers before demanding money from staff. They managed to escape but the Ford Focus they fled in was later found abandoned and enquiries led to their arrest.
Potter was jailed for five years and Henfrey for six.
Sean Walker
Prolific robber Sean Walker is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Prolific offender Walker is back behind bars after robbing a mum and her teenage daughter as they walked towards Bradford Cathedral.
Walker rushed up to them and grabbed the woman’s handbag, which she tried to hold on to. The woman let go as her daughter became distressed and collapsed. Walker was chased by two passers-by but managed to escape and he used the woman’s bank card later on. Three weeks later, he was caught trying to steal clothes from a Sports Direct in Bradford.
He was handed an eight-and-a-half-years extended sentence.
Reece Wales
After being stopped by police, Reece Wales momentarily reversed his vehicle and then accelerated directly at the police, throwing Sergeant Sarson into the air, onto the bonnet and onto the floor, before fleeing the scene. (Image: SYP)
Illegal driver Wales deliberately reversed his car and then accelerated forwards, hitting a police officer. The officer was thrown into the air and fell and hit the floor because of the impact.
Wales was already known to police as a disqualified driver and officers were out on patrol when they spotted him behind the wheel. They stopped the car and approached Wales, who then drove “directly” at one of them. He was jailed for 15 months.
Jamie Aron Ward
Evil rapist Ward, who subjected a teenage girl to “horrendous sexual abuse,” was jailed for 18 years in February.
He abused his vulnerable victim when she was under 16 – he preyed on her and raped and sexually assaulted her, forcing her to engage in horrific sexual acts. His victim came forward and bravely reported the abuse when she was an adult.
Leon Mathias
Leon Mathias murdered his own baby in a shocking killing at bath time
Mathias was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years for the murder of his son Hunter, who was just nine-weeks-old when he died.
A judge said his behaviour was “nothing short of grotesque” after jurors heard how Mathias had taken his son for a bath and the baby had relieved himself. The Honourable Mrs Justice Lambert said “in your frustration and irritation you shook him” and added that Mathias knew shaking a baby can be lethal.
Hunter stopped breathing and lost consciousness and doctors were unable to save him.
Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon
Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon has been detained for the killing of Thornton-le-Dale pensioner Brenda Blainey (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Darvish-Narenjbon was detained under the Mental Health Act in February after a court heard he killed a Yorkshire pensioner in circumstances of “appalling brutality.”
Brenda Blainey, 87, was killed at her home in Thornton-le-Dale by her “surrogate grandson” after he suffered a delusion in which he pressed a red button and received a “licence” to harm and kill her. Darvish-Narenjbon had met Mrs Blainey while working at a Carluccio’s restaurant in Leeds in 2013. He had arrived in the UK from Tehran when he was 15-years-old and spent time in the US in 2008, when he was admitted to a psychiatric unit. The court heard in 2015, Darvish-Narenjbon was refused asylum.
Mrs Blainey had taken him in and the pair had enjoyed a friendship for years before he killed her.
March
Paul Hinchcliffe
Paul Hinchcliffe was found guilty of sexual assault (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Disgraced South Yorkshire Police officer Hinchcliffe was jailed for eight months after being found guilty of sexual assault.
Jurors heard how Hinchcliffe had pulled down a woman’s top and took a picture before sending it to a colleague while on a night out with officers in Wath-upon-Dearne in 2020. The former police trainer, who was based at Robert Dyson House in Rotherham[63], also made inappropriate comments to the 18-year-old woman, who had spoken of her plans to have a breast enlargement because she “had the chest of a 12-year-old boy”.
Hinchcliffe said she also had the bum of one and “every time she got up to go to the toilet he was getting a good look”. He also flicked beer foam at the woman’s chest and face, took photographs and messaged her when she got home: “God I’d do you, is that bad?” With emojis of a fist and water.
YorkshireLive previously reported Hinchcliffe had resigned from his role at South Yorkshire Police before he could be dismissed.
Richard Sampson and Boe Barton
Richard Sampson (left) and Boe Barton have been found guilty of murder (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Teenager Barton was pictured for the first time as his co-accused was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 28 years in prison for the murder of Anthony Sumner. Barton, 17, was found guilty of murder last year and jailed for a minimum term of 18 years.
Mr Sumner died in July 2019 after being stabbed in Sheffield. Witnesses reported seeing two men wearing balaclavas walking away from the scene in Windy House Lane. Enquiries led to Sampson and Barton.
Stanislav Himal and Jozef Fedor
Stanislav Himal (pictured) and Jozef Fedor have been jailed after they carried out a sick sex attack on two teenage girls (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Jozef Fedor (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick friends Himal and Fdor targeted two “missing” teenage girls and subjected them to a sex attack. The girls were approached by father-of-seven Himal in Bradford in 2019 when he appeared to be finding an address.
He took them back to the home of Fedor and the pair subjected the girls to sexual assaults.
They were both jailed for more than 12 months.
Christopher Donaldson, Lorraine Hargreaves and Anthony Sladek
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[Left to right] Christopher Donaldson, Lorraine Hargreaves and Anthony Sladek have all been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Donaldson, Hargreaves and Sladek were jailed for their roles in an incident that led to the death of much-loved dad Tony Steel. Mr Steel was killed in an incident in September last year that occurred after Hargreaves lied and told her partner Donaldson she had been assaulted by a man. The man, Donald Price, was then assaulted by all three and after they stole his bank card he went with Mr Steel and another friend to the defendants’ home in Ossett.
During a violent incident, Mr Steel was stabbed three times. Donaldson was found guilty of murder, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and causing grievous bodily harm with intent and given a life imprisonment with a minimum term of 24 years. Sladek was found guilty of manslaughter and unlawful wounding and jailed for 11-and-a-half-years. Hargreaves was found guilty of common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and theft and jailed for three years.
Rocky Hoban
Rocky Hoban posed with the guns he kept stashed inside his house with £11,000 worth of cocaine (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Leeds dad Hoban was jailed after offices found a number of firearms and drugs stashed in a Matalan and JD Sports bag at his home.
Analysis of a mobile phone showed “trusted lieutenant” Hoban had posed for photos with two of the three guns later found. He was jailed for 10 years.
Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson has now been jailed (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Anderson was jailed for 36 after magistrates heard he assaulted police officers who tried to help him after he fell and hit his head while stealing from a shop.
Officers were called to a Co-Op shop in Colburn in February this year and found Anderson behaving aggressively towards members of the public after he had fallen and hit his head while stealing. While being put into a police vehicle, he kicked an officer. After being taken to hospital, Anderson continued to shout and swear at members of the public and medical staff and spat in the face of a police officer.
Scott Jones
Repeat offender Scott Jones is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Jones has been disowned by his family after being stung by a paedophile vigilante group for the second time. He was made the subject of a community order in 2017 but offended again within 24 hours of it lapsing.
He became engaged in sexualised chat with another 13-year-old “decoy.” Jones was told the girl’s age but he asked if she would have sex with him. Another member of the Secrets n Lies hunter group also posed as the 13-year-old’s younger sister and Jones encouraged the older girl to touch her 11-year-old sister.
Simon Weedall
Simon Weedall is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Weedall has been left homeless after getting locked up for child sex offences. Leeds Crown Court heard in March how he began talking to what he thought was a 12-year-old girl named Holly. Holly was actually a police officer working to snare offenders like Weedall who went on to ask her if she was naughty and told her to go into the school toilets to “play” with herself.
He was jailed for two years and ten months.
Zara Jade
Zara Jade has been jailed for an attack which saw her tie a victim to a chair, stab them and demand cash (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Convicted rapist Jade, 54, was handed an extended sentence after she stabbed her vulnerable victim, tied her to an electric chair and took her bank card to withdraw cash. Jade was given a 12-year extended sentence for the violent attack which took place at the victim’s Halifax flat on August 8 last year.
Jade even turned off the power supply before she left and used the bank card to withdraw £300. It is thought the complainant was in the chair for a few hours until Jade returned and untied her. The police were contacted after a district nurse saw the healing wounds during a visit a few days later and Jade was arrested.
Peter Emms
Peter Emms is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick Emms was jailed after a disastrous pre-sentence report interview where a judge said he sees himself as the victim – despite sexually assaulting a girl and filming her in the shower.
Emms retained images and committed “a gross breach of trust,” Leeds Crown Court heard. Mitigating, Michael Collins said Emms “Doesn’t agree with the jury’s verdict, he does respect their right to reach it.”
His Honour Judge Marson KC told Emms, of Trinity Street in Huddersfield, he does not have a “shred of remorse” for his offending and said: “I contrast her [the victim’s] courage in proceedings and pressing through these allegations with your reaction to present yourself to the pre-sentence report as the victim.”
Emms was jailed for three years and nine months.
Tahir Razaq
Tahir Razaq is now behind bars (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Razaq was high on crack cocaine when he led police on a dangerous 90mph chase through Rotherham. Eagle-eyed officers spotted Razaq driving at excessive speeds and a police national computer check showed the Kia Nero he was driving was possibly linked to organised crime. When officers requested Razaq to stop he failed to do so and instead led officers on a chase, reaching speeds of 90mph.
He was jailed for 18 months and disqualified from driving for three years and nine months and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £156.
Darren Rowe and Jordan Watkiss
Darren Rowe (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Jordan Watkiss (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Rowe and Watkiss were jailed in March for causing the crash that killed Simon Hinchliffe. Rowe’s Seat Ibiza ran into the back of Mr Hinchliffe’s van moments after he had Watkiss had been seen speeding along nearby roads. Rowe’s car was seen to hit speeds of up to 90mph when the limit was 40mph.
After the collision, he fled the scene, leaving his five-year-old alone in the car. He returned to the scene and was accompanied by an innocent and vulnerable woman who he tried to say was behind the wheel at the time of the crash.
Sickeningly, Rowe had even rubbed some of his own blood onto the woman to fake the appearance of injuries in a shameless bid to convince police she was the driver. A forensic investigation proved Rowe was the driver after his DNA was found on the steering wheel and airbag.
Rowe was jailed for five years and banned from driving for seven years and six months. Watkiss was jailed for four years and six months and banned from driving for six years.
Steven Donovan
Steven Donovan is behind bars (Image: Counter Terrorism Policing North East)
“Hateful extremist” Donovan was jailed after he posted terrorist material and stickers across Huddersfield.
He was caught in May 2020 after a PCSO who was out on routine patrol came across a large numbers of stickers and graffiti in and around Greenhead Park in Huddersfield. The officer raised their concerns and an investigation was carried out by Counter Terrorism Policing North East.
Enquiries found that the same person had also been posting and sharing extreme right wing material online. The investigation led to Donovan, who was arrested in June that year and charged in August 2021.
Donovan was handed an extended sentence made up of 27 months imprisonment and an extended licence period of one year.
Yaqeen Arshad
Yaqeen Arshad (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
17-year-old Arshad was jailed after being found guilty of the murder of caring Sheffield dad Richard Dentith. Richard, known as Ricky, was found dead after a stabbing in Burgreave in the early hours of April 7 last year.
It was found on CCTV that Arshad, of De La Salle Drive, Pitsmoor, had chased Richard to a mosque and attacked him before making off.
Arshad was told he must serve a minimum of 14 years behind bars.
Jamie Whitehead, Thomas Stead, Simon Balland, Ben Hardy and Carl Noble
Jamie Whitehead, Thomas Stead, Simon Balland, Ben Hardy, and Carl Noble have been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
The five Calderdale gang members were jailed after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis.
Message data obtained showed the group were involved in the supply of approximately 100 kilos of cocaine, heroin and cannabis worth millions of pounds. Whitehead was jailed for 14 years, Stead for ten years, Bolland for seven years and four months, Hardy for a year and Noble for seven years and six months.
Ten kilos of assorted controlled drugs were physically seized as part of the operation over three arrest phases in December 2020, May 2021 and June 2021. The OCG was using sophisticated methods, including specially constructed hydraulic operated ‘hides’ within vehicles, to conceal and transport large quantities of drugs and cash across the country.
Mohammed Taroos Khan
Mohammed Taroos Khan (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Evil Khan was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 25 years for the brutal murder of his niece Somaiya Begum and the concealment of her body.
Khan went to the home Somaiya shared with her uncle and grandmother in Binnie Street, Bradford, on June 25 last year and killed her. Her body was not found until July 6 on Fitzwilliam Street with a spike embedded into it. Khan was questioned by police and had been captured on CCTV dumping Somaiya’s body. He told officers he was in the area disposing of “garbage.”
Prior to the trial at Bradford Crown Court, he admitted perverting the course of justice in relation to disposing of Somaiya’s body and attempting to burn her phone. A jury found him guilty of her murder.
Edwin Gill
Edwin Gill (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
70-year-old Gill was jailed for eight years and nine months after he pleaded guilty to raping a girl. He initially said the girl had consented to sex but later admitted being truly sorry for what he had done.
Gill was jailed for eight years and nine months.
David Fairweather
Fairweather was jailed for 16 years sentence at Sheffield Crown Court
Fairweather stabbed, punched and choked two women – and fled the scene after being told by a nine-year-old who told him he was phoning the police.
Thug Fairweather had been invited to the house in Barnsley by a woman and her older sister for pre-Christmas drinks on December 12, 2021, but turned violent. South Yorkshire Police said “it is believed that when the young boys came downstairs, finding their mum and aunt bleeding on the kitchen floor, their mum was able to tell the boys to phone the police before she became unresponsive.”
The boys called the emergency services and directed them to the scene. Fairweather was jailed for 16 years.
David Hammond
David Hammond has been given an extended sentence (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick Halifax child abuser Hammond was given an extended sentence of 18 years after a judge decided he still posed a danger to young girls. He was found guilty of a series of non-recent sexual abuse charges relating to a young girl.
It was said Hammond made threats to secure his victim’s silence and had clearly acted in a “sexually predatory manner.” The girl said she had suffered nightmares and described Hammond as an “awful, disgusting man.”
Jack Setchell and Charlie Dunn
Burglars Setchell and Dunn were jailed after they reversed a van into two police cars and smashed a BMW into another while trying to escape. Police were hunting them over a series of rural burglaries in North Yorkshire where they stole a quad bike, a Ford Fiesta and farm equipment.
Dunn was jailed for four years and six months and Setchell was jailed for four years.
William Grassby
William Grassby arranged to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old boy at Meadowhall for sex (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Paedophile Grassby is now behind bars after arranging to meet a 14-year-old boy at Meadowhall for sex. Grassby, formerly of Spring Close View in Sheffield, also messaged who he thought to be a 12-year-old boy – but was actually an undercover police officer – on social media. He began to send multiple sexual messages to the “boy,” asking what his sexual interests were and arranging to meet up and have sex.
Once Grassby was arrested his electronic devices were seized and they showed his engagement in multiple sexual communications with suspected children. He was jailed for two years.
Richard Lister
Richard Lister told Bradford hotel staff he would burn it down (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Convicted killer Lister started a fire at a Bradford hotel and told staff “I’m going to burn the f****** hotel down.” He was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of four years and eight months.
Fortunately another resident was able to use a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze and the smoke and flames caused damage estimated at £1000. Two days after that incident in November last year drug-user Lister was at the WH Smith store in the Broadway shopping centre when he used something to set fire to the ribbons on a display in the shop.
Sivaganeshan Pardeep
Sivaganeshan Pardeep is now behind bars after carrying out a horrific attack at his Shipley takeaway (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Takeaway owner Pardeep was jailed for eight-and-a-half years after he admitted sexually assaulting and raping a young woman at his premises.
Some parts of Sivaganeshan Pardeep’s prolonged attack on his victim had been captured on CCTV footage. At one point during the footage his victim appeared to be trying to fend him off with a knife, but she then dropped it and collapsed to the floor. After the attack Pardeep had offered to take the woman home, but she ran from the premises and reported what had happened.
Mohsin Khurshid and Hassan Khurshid
Mohsin Khurshid (left) and his brother Hassan Khurshid (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
The twin Khurshid brothers were caught dealing crack cocaine on the streets of Bradford and are now behind bars. Mohsin Khurshid and his brother Hassan, both 26, were arrested back in May 2021 after they were spotted by police in a Ford Focus turning up in Rebecca Street to hand over drugs to a female addict.
Officers later stopped the car and arrested Mohsin, who had been driving, and Hassan, who was in the back. Hassan had nine wraps of crack cocaine on him and police also recovered a mobile phone which was linked to a drug dealing line. When officers later searched a bedroom at their then home they found £300 in cash, weighing scales, empty dealer bags and what was described as “an unofficial business card”. Analysis later revealed that one of the phones seized was taking nearly 100 calls a day with the vast majority of calls lasting less than a minute.
Mohsin was jailed for four years and Hassan was jailed for three years.
Adrian Thompson
Road rage driver Thompson was jailed after he deliberately mowed down a woman. Victim Michele Holding pulled out of a side street in Bradley before Thompson drove “aggressively” behind her and jumped out of his car and started banging on her window. In dashcam footage played to the court, Thompson could be heard swearing at her and making threats.
Mrs Holding threw a hairbrush at his front light and Thompson revved his engine and drove on the wrong side of the road, trapping her between two vehicles and sending her flying.
Thompson was jailed for 12 moths and disqualified from driving for 18 months.
Anthony Woodward
Anthony Woodward (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sheffield rapist Woodward was jailed for 15 years and six months after being found guilty of three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and two counts of attempted sexual assault.
The 60-year-old attacked two teenage girls – forcing himself on one, ignoring her pleas for him to stop as she yelled “no” before he raped her. The other girl told investigating officers Woodward would tell her not to tell anybody about the sexual abuse her carried out on her.
Lukas Stribrny
Lukas Stribrny is now behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick Stribrny walked into a police station and told police he had tried to have sex with two young children. He had first been arrested in 2019 after being caught trying to sexually abuse a young boy.
Despite the boy, his mother and Stribrny being interviewed, proceedings against him did not continue until December 2021 when he handed himself in to police. He told officers he was sexually attracted to children and thought he was a paedophile.
Stribrny was made the subject of an extended 12-year sentence, made up of eight years in custody and an extended licence period of four years. The judge also made him the subject of a Section 45A hybrid order. He will continue to receive treatment in hospital until he is well enough to be transferred to prison.
Ross Komoroczky
Ross Komoroczky (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Komoroczky was jailed in March for four years and ten months after he beat and cut a woman with a broken glass bottle and stamped on her.
Police said the woman was left with “significant injuries” and “given the manner of his assault the consequences.”
Michael Derrane
Michael Derrane (Image: National Crime Agency)
50-year-old Derrane was jailed for 19 years and two months after supplying firearms to organised crime groups across the UK. He sold firearms and multiple kilos of class A and B drugs on to criminals for profit until he was caught as part of National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation Operation Venetic. Officers found evidence in encrypted messages on EncroChat that showed Derrane, from Morpeth, was well known to organised crime groups across the country, including in Leeds.
Derrane would travel up to 700 miles to exchange illegal goods. One series of messages saw him discuss the sale of 30kg of heroin to be split between three locations.
Stephen Scholes
Stephen Scholes (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick Scholes raped and sexually abused a vulnerable teenage girl repeatedly. He was jailed for 17 years after a court heard he had plied his victim with alcohol on a night out in January 2020 and attacked her at an address in Leeds, leaving her “very badly traumatised.”
He pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape and four counts of assault by penetration. Following a trial at Leeds Crown Court[93], he was convicted of all offences and jailed for 17 years.
Bilal Ahmed, Motibur Rahman, Hassanuj Jamal, Mohammed Ahmed and Mohammed Arman Rashid
Jamal fired the shots
The five thugs brought terror to a Leeds street when they targeted a house with gunshots – with one firing shots, another acting as lookout and another acting as getaway driver. All five were all convicted of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life or enabling another to do so.
Jamal was jailed for six years and seven months, Bilal Ahmed for seven years and seven months, Rahman for five-and-a-half years, Mohammed Ahmed for six-and-a-half years and Rashid for seven years and three months.
April
Edem Sutton
33-year-old Edem Sutton has been jailed after sexually abusing a child (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sutton was jailed for six years and six months in April for sexually abusing a child while they slept.
He assaulted the boy after months of grooming him by buying him gifts, taking him on bike rides and speaking to him on social media. He manipulated the victim into staying at his home in October 2019 before the sickening assault. Sutton then sent the boy messages telling him not to tell anyone what had happened.
Jonathan Ashton
Jonathan Ashton, 35, is already serving a prison sentence for robbery and firearms offences (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Violent robber Ashton was jailed targeted a lone 60-year-old on Christmas Day. After hearing a knock at the door, the man answered and Ashton forced his way in. Ashton violently and repeatedly punched the man around the head and body, before running away. The victim suffered head injuries that required hospital treatment.
Ashton was jailed for 13-and-a-half years.
Awais Mohammed
Awais Mohammed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
New dad Mohammed was jailed in April abandoned a stolen car in the middle of the M606 and then ran across six lanes to escape police.
Mohammed was put behind bars for 15 months for getting behind the wheel of a VW Polo. Officers in an unmarked police car spotted the stolen vehicle on the M62 on the evening of February 26 this year and began a chase. Mohammed, 21, reached a speed of 117mph as he was pursued towards the M606. The chase eventually came to an end on the road when Mohammed suddenly slammed on his brakes in the live lane and reversed for a short distance before abandoning the car and running across six lanes towards an industrial estate. He was found hiding in bushes.
Usman Zahoor and Waqas Iqbal
Usmaan Zahoor is behind bars after causing a crash (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Waqas Iqbal (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Dangerous driver Zahoor killed his best friend in a crash three years ago, and then named his baby son after him. Junayd Haris, 20, died[99] and two other passengers suffered serious injuries when banned driver Usmaan Zahoor, then aged 19, sped straight across a busy crossroads junction and crashed into a Mercedes car.
Waqas Iqbal had been “tailgating” the Audi being driven by Zahoor, “egging on” him to drive faster. Zahoor was jailed for seven years and four months and Iqbal was put behind bars for five years.
Read the full story here.[100]
Saleh Mordi
Saleh Mordi, formerly of York Road, Rotherham (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
The 21-year-old has been jailed after it was found he was carrying a loaded weapon and class A drugs when he was stopped by police in Rotherham.
Police had received reports a man had been seen with a knife and stopped Mordi who was in possession of cannabis, wraps of a white substance and a large quantity of cash. He was also carrying a bag which had a handgun inside. He was jailed for eight years and 11 months.
Read the full story here.[101]
Jermaine Richards
Locked up in Yorkshire in April this year (Image: SYP)
Evil Richards was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 26 years for the murder of beloved dad David Ford. Richards used Mr Ford’s own car to run him over as he prepared to go on a fishing trip in September last year.
He was found guilty of murder and assault following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court in March and was jailed in April.
Read the full story here.[102]
Cavner Kelsall
Cavner Kelsall has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Angry Uber Eats customer Kelsall was jailed in April after he slashed at a delivery driver with a Rambo-style machete. A judge told him he was lucky he had not killed his victim when he struck him over the head with the lethal weapon outside his flat in Shipley.
It was said Kelsall had messaged the delivery man because he was frustrated and concerned that his takeaway would be cold. When the delivery arrived, he began arguing about the delay and during the exchange the takeaway ended up on the ground.. When the victim told Kelsall to relax, he pulled out the machete and struck him on the head with a heavy blow. He was sentenced to four years in a young offenders’ institution.
Read the full story here.[103]
Huram Iqbal
Huram Iqbal is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Iqbal, 20, was sentenced to 40 months in a young offenders’ institution after he chased a man through Bradford with a machete.
A month later, he was involved in the first of two dangerous driving incidents resulting from police pursuits around Bradford’s streets. The first seven-minute pursuit involved Iqbal driving a Volkswagen Jetta at double the speed limit, driving through red lights and on the wrong side of the road.
While on bail for the dangerous driving and machete incidents, Iqbal then fled from police again in a chase in a Volkswagen Golf. This time uninsured Iqbal was driving the car at 5am and ended up losing control of the speeding Golf and crashing it into a parked vehicle.
Read the full story here.[104]
Pauline Caster
Pauline Caster has been jailed for the murder of her husband, Kevin
Mum-of-three Caster was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of seven years and three months for the brutal murder of her husband, Kevin.
Sheffield Crown Court heard that Caster pleaded guilty to murder on the third day of her trial. It was said she had been heard shouting and seen stamping on Kevin before his death. CCTV footage confirmed the attack went on for around 20 minutes.
The court was told Caster failed to call the emergency services to High Hazel Crescent, Rotherham, until one hour and 40 minutes later, and she gave different accounts to witnesses and paramedics about what had happened. She also posted sick tributes to her husband on Facebook following his death.
It was said Mr Caster had taken a “cocktail of drugs”, including Lamotrogine before his death, and would have died if his wife’s attack upon him had not happened. His cause of death was given as a combination of injuries and toxicity.
Read the full story here.[105]
Derek Bilby
Derek Bilby carried out his perverse acts over a two-year period (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
64-year-old Bilby, a former Doncaster taxi driver, was jailed for 18 years in April after admitting committing horrific sex attacks on two extremely vulnerable women he met through his work.
Bilby had built up a relationship with his victims, who both have significant disabilities, after picking them up in his taxi. He continued to visit their homes, grooming them, before carrying out his perverse acts over two years. Both women were able to tell their respective carers what had happened and Bilby was arrested.
Read the full story here.[106]
James Taylor
James Taylor is now behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Bully boyfriend Taylor was jailed for 18 months this month after he threatened to dig up his partner’s dead dad and smash her face in.
It was said the couple had been arguing when he turned violence and grabbed the woman’s hair. Taylor continued to kick her and grabbed her previously broken wrist. They made up but days later Taylor sent texts to the woman, calling her a “s***” and said he would “smash her face in, her brother’s face in and her family’s face in and would dig up her dead father.”
Read the full story here.[107]
Mohammed Kammer, Nahman Mohammed, Wiqas Mahmud, Mohammed Imran Ibrar and Abdul Rehman
Latest convictions relating to Operation Tendersea has totalled more than 500 years in prison given to sex offenders who targeted children in Huddersfield (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
The five were jailed for a total of 28 years following the conclusion of a trial under Operation Tendersea – a long-running investigation carried out by West Yorkshire Police focusing on the sexual exploitation and abuse of young girls in the Huddersfield area between 2005 and 2020.
They were all found guilty of carrying out or facilitating the sexual abuse of a young girl in the Huddersfield area between 2005 and 2020. The abuse started when the girl was just 14-years-old.
Rehman was sentenced to three years and nine months after being convicted of two offences of engaging in or facilitating a child sex offence and supplying drugs. Kammer was jailed for seven years and six months after being found guilty of three counts of rape and a trafficking for sexual exploitation offence.
Mohammed was jailed for seven years after being convicted of two rape offences and trafficking for sexual exploitation. Mahmud was jailed for six years and three months after being convicted of rape and Ibrar was jailed for five years – minus time spent on remand – after being convicted of sexual assault and rape. The time he had spent on remand was three years and six months.
Read the full story here.[108]
Thomas Mason
Thomas Mason has been jailed after officers uncovered his drug dealing enterprise (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Bradford dad Mason was jailed for more than three years after a routine stop for speeding uncovered his drug dealing activities.
Back in November 2020 patrol officers stopped Thomas Mason’s car in Great Horton due to its speed, but further enquiries revealed a stash of cocaine hidden under the gearstick console and cash in all his pockets. His home was then searched and more drugs and cash was found. In total officers seized cash amounting to more than £16,500 and cocaine and cannabis worth over £5,000 was also recovered.
Read the full story here.[109]
Lance Winkle
Nightmare neighbour Lance Winkle has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Nightmare neighbour Winkle was jailed for 16 months after he continued to harass a woman and her son.
Winkle, 53, set fireworks off below the family’s window just 12 hours after being released from a sentencing where he had been given a restraining order for similar offending. He was also seen on CCTV footage throwing a cigarette at the woman’s door and a muddy stone and making gestures with his hands including putting his middle finger up and tampering with the cameras.
His previous offending included leaving bullets and a dead pigeon outside the woman’s door and making racial slurs.
Read the full story here.[110]
David Smith
David Smith has been sentenced to eleven and a half years after admitting to multiple counts of rape against a child (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Bradford paedophile Smith was jailed in April for eleven-and-a-half years for raping a child.
He was also made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will also be required to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life. The offending took place on several occasions between 2003 and 2009 during the victim’s childhood, who reported the crimes as an adult.
Read the full story here.[111]
Matthew Nixon
Former soldier Matthew Nixon has been jailed after he robbed a woman at a cashpoint (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Nixon attacked a woman as she used a cash machine in Halifax. The cocaine-riddled former soldier was jailed for more than three years when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court in April. It was said he shoved the woman away from the machine in Commercial Street and grabbed the £30 she had been withdrawing.
Nixon who had his hood up, pushed her away with both hands causing her to fall against a parking payment machine. The attack was captured on CCTV and after an image was circulated Nixon was identified by a police officer. He was also handed an additional three months in prison after pleading guilty to two offences relating to two dangerous dogs who had been involved in an attack on a woman in February last year.
The court[112] the two German Shepherd dogs, which belonged to Nixon’s then partner, were let out unsupervised by him onto a recreational area. The court heard that when Nixon called the dogs back in they did not respond and he went back inside the house. Soon after screaming could be heard as at least one of the dogs bit a woman as she walked to her home. Nixon did nothing to help the victim.
Read the full story here.[113]
Joseph Masih
Joseph Masih was caught out after police raided his home (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Birkby dad-of-three Masih was jailed after it was discovered he kept thousands of pounds in his freezer and blocks of cocaine at his home. Officers searched the family home, making the discovery, before his parents’ home was targeted and more drugs found.
Multiple packages of cannabis and over 14g of cocaine was also found in the garage of the property as well as three mobile phones and two laptops. Masih was jailed for eight years.
Read the full story here.[114]
Sheffield dad
A Sheffield dad – who cannot be named for legal reasons – was jailed for 18 years after he raped and sexually assaulted his own children. He pleaded guilty to 22 sick charges including rape of a child under 13, sexual activity with a child, sexual assault of a child and making indecent images of children.
The children featured in the images were aged between one and 14-years-old.
Read the full story here.[115]
Liam Allott
Liam Allott (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sick Allot subjected a woman to mental, emotional and financial turmoil on her.
He was jailed for 37 months after he was found guilty of controlling and coercive behaviour. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Allott repeatedly harassed his victim, threatening her and controlling her life. Allott was arrested in February 2020 after his victim bravely came forward and reported what he had done to her.
Read the full story here.[116]
Saeed Haq
Saeed Haq (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Former Halifax teacher Haq was jailed in April after being found guilty of nine charges of sexual assault. Bradford Crown Court heard Haq had sexually abused a teenage girl over a period of seven years.
It was said the abuse started with Haq massaging the girl’s thighs before it went on to him touching other parts of her body. In a statement read to the court[117] the now adult woman said she is “tormented by the memory of the abuse” she suffered at Haq’s hands.
Haq was jailed for eight years.
Read the full story here.[118]
Izhaar Nazir, Mohammed Nazir and Usman Nazir
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Mohammed [left], Usman [middle] and Izhaar Nazir have all been jailed for affray (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
The trio were jailed for an affray which involved them tasering a man and hitting him with a baseball bat. The attack left the man with a bleed on he brain.
Leeds Crown Court heard the taser was used “time and time again” before the man was held in a headlock while it continued. Usman Nazir continued to use the baseball bat on the man’s legs and his brother Mohammed Nazir went towards another man with a similar weapon and “began to swing it at him.”
It was said Usman Nazir was also seen with a machete which was discovered close to the scene later on. Usman Nazir was jailed for 26 months and Mohammed Nazir for 21 months. Izhaar Nazir was jailed for 102 weeks – just under two years.
Read the full story here.[119]
Dennis Lane
Dennis Lane has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
“Weird old man” Lane was jailed in April after he was spotted by a concerned woman speaking with his face close to a young girl who “looked uncomfortable.” He was subject to a sexual harm prevention order at the time, having previously committed sexual offences against children and possessing indecent images.
It was said Lane admitted having a “fixation” with the girl who he had already previously spoken to on a number of occasions. It was said a woman was told by her daughters that a “weird old man” would stop and talk to them. After a report was made, officers searched Lane’s home and found images of children inside a Diana Princess of Wales book, a crossword book and two Nativity DVDs. There were also pictures of children in a bin liner and a two-and-a-half-foot child-like doll.
Lane was jailed for three years.
Read the full story here.[120]
Mohammed Kashef and Mustafa Ali
Mustafa Ali and Mohammed Kashef were given over six years between them (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
The two men were found to run a sophisticated drugs operation in Sheffield – but were caught out when one was spotted putting cocaine inside his trousers.
Seven months later, plain clothed offices were on patrol again and this time spotted Kashef and Ali in a vehicle on Abberydale Road. £650 was found on Kashef and Ali was also searched. The search uncovered almost seven grams of cocaine and four grams of heroin concealed in his underwear along with a burner phone. Within Ali’s home address, a further 30 grams of crack cocaine were found, as well as almost 13 grams of heroin, alongside drug supply equipment, a hunting knife and over £800 in cash. The drugs seized that day had a street value of over £5,000.
Kashef was jailed for three years and Ali for two-and-a-half years.
Read the full story here.[121]
May
Amy Molloy
Amy Molloy (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Molloy was jailed at York Crown Court in May after she became part of a scam to con elderly people out of thousands of pounds. She was jailed for two years after it was revealed she was part of the scam which persuaded people to hand over their bank card or money before the scammer then visits their address to collect the item.
The initial victim in North Yorkshire[122], an 86-year-old man, was contacted by a person claiming that they worked at his bank.
The victim was told there had been suspicious activity on his account which required a replacement bank card. On that same day, Molloy attended the victim’s home address and collected his bank card, which was immediately used at an ATM in Wetherby to withdraw £300.00 before it was used at the Apple Store at Meadowhall in Sheffield to purchase nearly £8,000 worth of goods. Further attempts to use the card the next day were unsuccessful as the victim alerted his bank and the card was frozen.
A second victim was also targeted.
Read the full story here.[123]
Nicola Fortis
Nicola Fortis
Convicted drug smuggler Fortis, who has previously been jailed for attempting to smuggle spice into a prison, is back behind bars. Officers found she was in a car with crack cocaine, heroin and cash inside in 2020. She was arrested and released, but just nine days later was back up to her old tricks.
Officers again stopped another car in Dewsbury and two bags of heroin and cash were seized. She was jailed for 32 months.
Read the full story here.[124]
Kieran Hayes
Hayes was sentenced in May after he admitted killing a Sheffield dad who died after being pulled from a pond last year. Hayes received a hospital order for manslaughter. Last year, South Yorkshire Police officers were called to Oxspring Dam in Sheffield after a report of a man behaving suspiciously near a members-only fishing pond.
Police searched the pond and discovered Kevin Hodkinson unresponsive. Officers tried to resuscitate him at the scene and he was then taken to hospital, where he tragically died. Hayes was sotted a short while later “behaving suspiciously” at the scene. He was arrested a short time later.
Read the full story here.[125]
Jonathon Warren
Jonathon Warren has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick Warren was handed a life sentence after it was discovered he was sexually abusing children. He will have to serve a minimum term of six years and eight months after admitting a series of sexual abuse charges relating to two young girls.
He was arrested last October after police received information that he had been involved in the distribution of indecent images. Officers seized Warren’s devices and discovered 2,086 indecent images of children. Among the images and videos were ones which showed him committing sexual acts on the two complainants, who were nine and 12-years-old at the time.
Read the full story here.[126]
Michael Peter Wilson
Michael Peter Wilson is now behind bars (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sick Wilson was jailed after being found guilty of sexually abusing a child in Doncaster. It was said he subjected the girl – who was under 13-years-old – to numerous and repeated sexual offences.
He was jailed for 21 years.
Read the full story here.[127]
William Parr
William Parr, formerly of Hall Park Head, has been jailed for nine years (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sheffield thug Parr beat his neighbour Lee Phillips to death.
He was jailed for nine years in May after being found guilty of manslaughter at a trial earlier this year. Jurors heard that in the time leading up to his death, Mr Phillips’ partner had raised complaints about fires in their neighbours’ garden and excessive noise.
Mr Phillips’ partner reported hearing raised voices in their home and when she went downstairs to tell Mr Phillips to leave the issue to the police, she found him “slumped”. Parr was arrested at first on suspicion of assault.
Parr told police he had just “pushed” Mr Phillips, who had suffered a laceration to the right side of his chin and a deep bruising to a muscle down the side of his neck. A post-mortem examination concluded the injuries were not consistent with falling, rather with a punch or a blow. Mr Phillips’ cause of death was recorded as a haemorrhage at the base of the brain.
There were no injuries on his hands or knuckles to suggest that he punched or assaulted Parr.
Read the full story here.[128]
Jovani Harriott and Jakele Pusey
Jakele Pusey, left, and Jovani Harriott, right (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Teenage murderers Harriott and Pusey were handed life sentences for the brutal killing of 15-year-old Khayri Mclean as he walked home from Huddersfield in September last year.
Harriott, 17, was handed a minimum term of 18 years, and Pusey, 15, was handed a minimum term of 16 years. A judge lifted the restriction allowing the youths anonymity until they turn 18 after representations made by the press.
The teenagers “lay in wait” for Khayri as he walked home from school and attacked, with the 15-year-old shouting “Yo Khayri” before delivering the fatal blow to his chest. The 17-year-old was seen on CCTV “twisting in the air” before lunging at Khayri with a large knife and stabbing him in the leg.
Both teenagers ran from the scene and changed their clothes while 15-year-old Khayri collapsed and received medical attention. He was taken to hospital but tragically died.
Read the full story here.[129]
Michael Horne
Michael Horne (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Bloodied Horne paraded a Pontefract street with a crossbow and axe, threatening the man who had beaten him up for favour with drug dealers.
Horne returned to his family home after being made the subject of a community order for an assault against his partner and told her he had been “beaten up.” He began picking up a number of weapons, prompting her to leave, and went into the garden with an axe and a crossbow before parading up and down the street.
He was heard to shout: “Come on Connor, you p****, Connor f****** hurry up. Tell you what if you don’t come here, I’ll come to your house, your f****** missus and your f****** kids.”
He was jailed for two years.
Read the full story here.[130]
John William Renel
John William Renel (Image: NYP)
Former teacher Renel was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a girl in the 1990s. The charges included one count of rape and four counts of indecent assault.
Renel was described by police as a “predatory child abuser.”
Read the full story here.[131]
Sibusiso Moyo and Christopher Gill
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Illegal arms dealers Christopher Gill [left] and Sibusiso Moyo have been jailed
Moyo and Gill were jailed for over 31 years for using a 3D printer to create lethal machine guns destined for criminal gangs
They were convicted of manufacturing the firearms after police found the deadly plastic weapons in the back of a BMW, driven by their associate Majeed Rehman. Officers discovered an ‘FGC9’ homemade automatic sub-machine gun, magazine and bullets hidden in a supermarket bag-for-life in the rear footwell of the car.
Raids on Gill’s property also revealed two further almost complete FGC9s in a holdall hidden in his loft.
When Moyo was later arrested, evidence showed he’d been manufacturing FGC9s at his home address in Hull where he had two 3D printers and parts to make weapons. Officers also found a range of other tools and parts, including springs and screws, that could be used to make the guns as shown in an online manual at his address.
One of the weapons recovered had an image of an arm holding a curved sword with what appears to be blood dripping from its blade imprinted on its side.
Read the full story here.[132]
Leon Fenton
Leon Fenton is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Thug Leon Fenton was jailed for nine years for a horrifying attack on a passer-by.
Fenton slashed the man’s neck with a broken beer bottle after becoming angry with someone on the phone and then arguing with two men in the street. Bradford Crown Court heard the man told Fenton to leave, which angered him and he said: “I’ll kill you mother f*****” and “You think you’re a gangster mother f******” before he attacked.
Read the full story here.[133]
Jamie Alexander Wheeler
Jamie Alexander Wheeler (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Wheeler, a former teacher, was jailed for four years and ten months after it was discovered he kept a “paedophile manual.”
A colleague reported concerns after seeing inappropriate images on his laptop and he went on to admit possessing a paedophile manual, three counts of making indecent images of children, six counts of sexual touching, eight counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, two counts of taking an indecent photo of a child and two counts of meeting a child to engage in a sexual act.
Read the full story here.[134]
Damien Sartip Zadeh and Dale Sartip Zadeh
Damien Sartip Zadeh (Image: National Trading Standards)
Dale Sartip Zadeh (Image: National Trading Standards)
The Zadeh brothers were jailed in May after it was discovered they made £2million as part of an online health insurance scam. They set up deliberately misleading websites in an attempt to trick people into paying them for European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs), which are available for free on the NHS website.
The pair were caught following an investigation by the National Trading Standards Crime Team, and Damien was jailed for nine-and-a-half years and Dale for eight years after being found guilty of fraudulent trading and laundering the proceeds.
Damien was also convicted of engaging in aggressive commercial practices after threatening consumers who complained in an attempt to stop them from chasing refunds.
Read the full story here.[135]
John Taylor
John Taylor is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Manipulative Wakefield dad Taylor sent messages to his own daughter with instructions on how her mother should take her own life. The couple had been together 26 years and shared three children before the relationship broke down and he was made the subject of a restraining order.
Despite the order, Taylor sent messages to his daughter meant for her mother. Taylor was jailed for 20 months.
Read the full story here.[136]
Shaheib Mohammed
Shaheib Mohammed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Mohammed almost “obliterated” an innocent pedestrian after he ran a red light and hit a HGV. He was jailed for two years and eight months for causing serious injury by dangerous driving. It was said Mohammed’s friend and passenger suffered a bleed on the brain and a ripped aorta in the collision.
Read the full story here.[137]
Jason Ryder
Jason Ryder (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Ryder was jailed for dangerous driving after he immediately got back into his car despite just being banned for 12 months.
He went on to lead police on a dangerous pursuit on the A1. Other drivers were forced to evade him as he sped along the motorway. Eventually, the police deployed stingers to bring him to a stop and he was arrested. He was jailed for a year.
Read the full story here.[138]
Syla Jurgent
Cannabis farmer Jurgent is facing deportation after being jailed for 13 months.
Officers found him hiding in the cellar of a house in Brighton Street, Wakefield, in January this year. 69 cannabis plants and equipment were found in the house and it was also discovered the electricity had been bypassed.
Read the full story here.[139]
Jack Flint-Downing, Christopher Syhas and Luke Comer
Jack Flint-Downing, Christopher Syphas and Luke Comer have all been jailed (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
The trio were jailed earlier in May for a string of burglaries, robberies and thefts in Sheffield.
They were handed sentences totalling 19-and-a-half years for the crimes including terrifying attacks which saw one of them use a knife and a hammer to rob his victims.
Read the full story here.[140]
Max Lambert, Liam Whitaker and Liam Hanbury
The people who have been jailed for knife-related offences in West Yorkshire (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sadistic gang members Lambert, Whitaker and Hanbury, tailgated the car their victim was a passenger in and pounced on him as he reached his mum’s house before chopping off his leg. The trio had armed themselves with a machete, axe and sledgehammer for the attack which left the man too scared to give evidence in court.
They then went to extreme lengths to cover up their tracks – even burning the car they had travelled in – but they did not suspect their victim could recognise them. After his screams alerted neighbours and the police were called, he named Lambert as one of the attackers.
Lambert, Whitaker and Hanbury were all jailed for 30 years and were told they must serve three quarters of that sentence in custody before going before the Parole Board who will determine if they are safe to be released.
Read the full story here.[141]
Jack Powell
Drug dealer Powell lasted nine days in the job before police raided his home in Batley and discovered 13g of skunk cannabis and more drugs including MDMA. Officers also found dealer lists and cash.
He was handed an extra six months in prison on top of the three years he was handed in April last years for a number of offences.
Read the full story here.[142]
Donna Abbott and Macey Holmes
Jordon Glover was jailed last year
The mother and girlfriend of convicted murderer Jordan Glover are now behind bars for helping him after he killed Rahees Mahmood.
Rahees was killed in June 2021. He was the passenger on a quad bike which was deliberately rammed by Glover[143], who was behind the wheel of a Ford Focus. He was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 19 years. Bradford Crown Court heard in May that in the aftermath of the fatal collision, Glover’s mum Donna Abbott and girlfriend Macey Holmes frustrated police efforts to arrest him as he “went to ground” for three days.
The pair both denied knowing the whereabouts of Glover and having any contact with him when questioned by police, but prosecutor Simon Clegg said Abbott rang her son on a new mobile number soon after the police left her home and Glover was eventually found at Holmes’ address on the estate despite her claims not to have seen him for a few months.
Holmes was jailed for 10 months and Abbott for six.
Read the full story here.[144]
Naveed Khawaja
Naveed Khawaja who sexually assaulted vulnerable women has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Huddersfield man Khawaja has been jailed for three years after he sexually assaulted a vulnerable woman.
The 55-year-old was arrested on October 11, 2021 following a report that a man had attended the home of a victim earlier that month.
Once in the house he committed a sexual assault[145] on the victim who was particularly vulnerable. An investigation was launched by officers from Kirklees CID who on reviewing the offence, linked Khawaja with two unsolved offences in Bradford from July 2017 and October 2019.
In both of them, vulnerable women had been sexually assaulted. Following a detailed investigation, the 53-year-old was charged with all of the offences in September 2022.
Read the full story here.[146]
June
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith has been jailed
“Intelligent” Smith was locked up in June after officers discovered him dealing drugs from a Volkswagen Polo. A search of his home also revealed cash, drugs, designer clothes and a small pistol.
Smith’s barrister said he was “surprised” at how good he was at the job and “felt guilty” about spending the money. He was described as “bright” and “intelligent” by a judge before he was jailed for three years.
Read the full story here.[147]
David James Kitching
David James Kitching (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Sick Kitching was jailed after being found guilty of a catalogue of sex offences including indecent assault and gross indecency. His victim’s wife gave a statement and said he had wanted to kill himself and drive a kitchen knife into his skull to stop the flashbacks of the abuse which took place almost 30 years ago.
Kitching was jailed for nine years.
Read the full story here.[148]
Liam Anthony Scott Morris
Liam Anthony Scott Morris, of Parkside Mews, Sheffield, has been jailed after assaulting a British Transport Police officers (Image: British Transport Police)
Sheffield[149] man Morris attacked a police station at a train station and was jailed for 10 weeks in June.
On March 1 this year, Morris was approached by plain clothed officers at Sheffield Railway Station as part of a county lines operation. When officers informed him he would be searched, he struck an officer in the chest in order to escape. Once restrained again, he bit a second officer on their hand and continued kicking out at the officers.
He was found to be in possession of Class B drugs and as he was placed in the van to be conveyed to custody, kicked out once more hitting the officer again in the chest.
Read the full story here.[150]
Cyrus Scarborough
JAILED: Cyprus Scarborough
Scarborough gauged a man’s eye out after threatening to kill him and then, in a separate attack, stabbed her friend with a knife.
Police were called to London Road in Sheffield following reports that a man had been assaulted at a bar. While in the venue, Scarborough had launched an unprovoked attack on her victim, pushing her to the floor, while shouting “I’m going to kill you”.
Scarborough, 28, sat on top of her victim, before pushing her fingers into the victim’s eyes, causing the man, aged in his 50s, to permanently lose his sight in one eye. She was restrained by members of the public and arrested by officers at the scene.
Just two days later, she launched another unprovoked attack – this time on her friend. She stabbed him three times in the chest, neck and head and also broke a glass bottle on the back of his head. She was jailed for 18 years.
Read the full story here.[151]
Andrew Wileman
Andrew Wileman (Image: SYP)
Evil paedophile Wileman indecently assaulted his two victims and bought them sweets before warning them against telling anyone what was happening.
He was jailed for 14 years after admitting four counts of indecent assault on a child, two counts of gross indecency with a child and one count of indecency with a child.
Read the full story here.[152]
Adam Bottomley
Adam Bottomley was jailed after carrying out a terrifying sexual assault on a woman as she walked home (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Bottomley dragged a woman to an alleyway and sexually assaulted her as she walked home from a night out. Bottomley’s attack was thankfully stopped when a couple intercepted and a man punched him.
The woman said she had been impacted by the assault which Bottomley committed before moving on to a number of other offences, including an assault on his own mother. Leeds Crown Court heard the woman suffered small scratches to her face and ear.
He grabbed her by the neck and punched her while saying he was going to kill her and suffocate her. He was jailed for six-and-a-half-years.
Read the full story here.[153]
Nathanial Serella
Nathanial Serella is now behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick Serella repeatedly raped a young girl after plying with her cannabis and threatening her with violence.
Leeds Crown Court heard in June that lingerie was found at his home when police searched it after receiving a report from the girl’s mother. It was said Serella would make the girl cry during the abuse and would hit her.
He was jailed for 18 years.
Read the full story here.[154]
Michael Leaf, James Leaf, Niki Squire, Andrew Bailey, Michael Clancy, Mark Vasey and Craig Hazel
Father and son duo, Michael and James Leaf (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
The father and son duo were jailed after a stupid blunder caused the collapse of their drugs empire. One of the Leafs’ trusted lieutenants – Niki Squire – was caught driving with a kilogram of cocaine in his passenger seat.
North Yorkshire Police[155] had also taken covert recordings as they carried out their investigation into organised crime.
Michaelo Leaf was jailed for 16 years and five months and his son James for 14 years and eight months. Employees Clancy and Bailey were jailed for seven years and one month. Squire was jailed for eight years and six months, Vasey for six years and eight months and Hazel for six years.
Read the full story here.[156]
Safdar Ali
Safdar Ali is behind bars (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
BMW driver Ali was high on cocaine when he ploughed his vehicle into three cars. He left a woman with a fractured neck during the collision in which he said he was very lucky not to have killed someone.
He was jailed for three years and 32 weeks.
Read the full story here.[157]
Aaron Carter
Aaron Carter
Facebook Marketplace scammer Carter is behind bars after he took part in a sophisticated scam which included the use of a fake NatWest banking app to trick five victims into handing over valuable items in the mistaken belief that money had already been transferred into their accounts.
He was jailed for 27 months for that and an offence of burglary where he stole an unlocked safe from a wardrobe which contained a valuable Rolex watch, £2,000 in cash and some keys.
Read the full story here.[158]
Ricky Lee Stevenson
Ricky Lee Stevenson (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Stevenson stole £40,000 from a Yorkshire bed and breakfast and left its owners on the brink of collapse to fund his cocaine addiction. He stole the money from the hotel and holiday chalets in Hinderwell, North Yorkshire in 2020.
In December 2020, the owner of the business began receiving emails from utility companies and providers about unpaid bills. At first, Stevenson explained the lack of funds as being down to guests failing to turn up due to Covid restrictions.
The owner confronted Stevenson in January 2021, and he broke down and admitted to taking the money to pay for his cocaine addiction and gambling. This was then reported to North Yorkshire Police, and Scarborough and Ryedale CID began investigating.
He was jailed for two-and-a-half-years.
Read the full story here.[159]
Alfie Damien Bailey, TJ Lewis Glendinning and Joshua David Greaves
Alfie Damien Bailey, 22, of Maple Drive was one of the gang jailed on Tuesday (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
The trio were locked up in June for bringing “untold misery” to Scarborough through their drug dealing enterprise.
Bailey and Glendinning were each imprisoned for four years and Greaves for three and a half years after their illegal activities were found out.
Read the full story here.[160]
David Lesley Crowley
David Crowley is already serving a sentence for 13 similar offences committed between 1979 and 1985
Former priest Crowley was told he must serve longer behind bars after he admitted further sex offences against young boys.
He is already serving an 18-year sentence at HMP Full Sutton for 13 similar offences between 1979 and 1985 but was sentence to a further eight-and-a-half-years as he appeared in court last month. He pleaded guilty to a further 15 offences and it was said the crimes took place between 1982 and 1993 when the defendant was a priest at St William’s RC Church in Bradford, Our Lady of Lourdes in Huddersfield and St Mary’s and St Michael’s RC church in Settle. There were five victims.
Crowley used his position of authority as a priest to groom the boys, taking them on day trips, plying them with gifts, alcohol and food, and visiting pubs. Some of the victims came forward as a result of media coverage of Crowley’s previous offending.
The abuse he suffered caused one victim to experience flashbacks and to attempt suicide as an adult and left another with drug and alcohol dependence.
Read the full story here.[161]
Amanda Hallows
Amanda Hallows, 37, of Tithe Barn Way, Sheffield (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Evil Hallows subjected a pensioner to a violent assault in their own home and was handed a 14-year prison sentence. She targeted the 94-year-old, who lived alone, and forced her way into the property before savagely attacking them with a wooden chair, knocking them unconscious.
Hallows then ransacked the house and took the victim’s reading glasses, a wallet containing bank cards and other items including coins.
Read the full story here.[162]
Thomas Bottomley
Thomas Bottomley has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Knife-wielding robber Bottomley fist-pumped one of his victims and told her “safe lad” after forcing her to give him £5. The woman was approached by Bottomley as she walked through Halifax town centre earlier this year.
He caused her to turn around by shouting “Oi mate” and went on to force her to give him £5. He also targeted a student on a night out but made a run for it after two police cars passed them. He was jailed for four years.
Read the full story here.[163]
Joshua Deere
Joshua Deere has been jailed (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Sick Deere violently assaulted a woman in her own home – slashing at her with a knife and smashing pint glasses over her head while shouting “kill her and take her gold”. He was jailed for 11 years for aggravated burglary after he made his way into her home with two women.
After beating her at the top of the stairs, the woman fell to the bottom and attempted to escape, but he continued to attack. Deere went on to smash glasses over her head, throw kitchen appliances at her and cause deep wounds to her hands with a knife.
The woman was taken to hospital for treatment to serious injuries and CSI officers at the scene found Deere’s blood, alongside the victim’s, on a knife recovered. It linked him to the scene and a hunt for him began. He was finally arrested and charged with aggravated burglary, harassment and a separate burglary charge following a public appeal.
Read the full story here.[164]
Ian Kelly
Ian Kelly (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
“Lonely” paedophile Kelly thought he was speaking to a 13-year-old girl online – but it was actually a member of a paedophile hunter group. The chat turned overtly sexual, with Kelly telling her he wanted to kiss every inch of her body and suggesting he would buy her drinks if they met up.
He was jailed for 18 months.
Read the full story here.[165]
Callum Ripley
Callum Ripley was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison, as well as a further 16 weeks following a previous suspended sentence (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
Prolific shoplifter Ripley was jailed for eight-and-a-half months after being charged with 13 offences.
Sergeant Matt Cook from the Ecclesfield policing team said: “Shoplifting offences are not victimless crimes and have an impact on the company and members of the local community who work there. Ripley’s offending has been prolific in recent months and I am pleased he is now behind bars and facing a custodial sentence for his actions.
“Members of the public should also be reminded that anybody buying stolen items from thieves are also liable for prosecution for handling stolen goods.”
Read the full story here.[166]
Daren Skillings
Daren Skillings has been jailed (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sick sex offender Skillings was finally caught out and jailed – despite being allowed to carry on with his offending after two of his previous victims were not believed.
Skillings went on to rape a third child after being reported and interviewed almost a decade ago about his abuse of two others. No further action was taken at the time until he was reported again several years later.
He was jailed for 11 years.
Read the full story here.[167]
Olajede Webb
Olajede Webb (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Huddersfield thug Webb pulled out a knife from his belt and slashed a nightclubber on a dancefloor in a horrific attack.
A fight broke out between the men at the Halifax nightclub before Webb, 27, used the weapon. He was jailed for eight years on Friday.
Read the full story here.[168]
Clare Bailey
Locked up in June (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Scorned teacher Bailey was jailed for 22 years after she carried out a horrific and violent knife attack on her love rival.
Bailey was having an affair with the woman’s husband and soon after he had ended their relationship she drove from her home and was captured arriving at the woman’s family home in Harrogate[169] on their Ring doorbell. She was wearing a red wig and holding a bunch of flowers she had bought from a nearby Sainsbury’s before launching into the blood-thirsty knife attack.
She had previously sent flowers with a hand-written note to the family home making out the man’s wife was having an affair before calling her work.
Read the full story here.[170]
Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson has been handed an extended sentence (Image: West Yorkshire Police)
Sexual predator Wilson is finally behind bars again after spending ten years in prison previously for rape.
Following his release, he targeted a second victim in a horrific attack where he dragged her across a floor and bashed her head against a wash basin before raping her. He was handed nine years and six months with an extended licence of six years.
Read the full story here.[171]
David Wesling
David Wesling, 48, from Littlethorpe Lane, Littlethorpe (near Ripon) has been found guilty of attempting to engage a 13-year-old girl in sexualised communications for which he has been jailed for 32 months (Image: North Yorkshire Police)
Smirking paedophile Wesling used Snapchat to try and talk to a 13-year-old girl.
He was already the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order after being convicted of similar offences in 2019, but was jailed for more which took place between April and May this year. He was jailed for 32 months in June.
Read the full story here.[172]
Simon Williams
Simon Williams brutally attacked his victim last year (Image: South Yorkshire Police)
“Vicious” Doncaster rapist Williams was made the subject of a 20-year extended made up of 15 years in custody.
He had admitted attacking and raping a woman, who suffered facial injuries, bruising to her body and knife marks on her back.
Read the full story here.[173]
Darren Reynolds and Christine Grayson
Darren Reynolds and Christine Grayson have been found guilty (Image: Counter Terrorism Policing North East)
Conspiracy theorists Reynolds and Grayson were jailed in June after being found guilty of a number of offences.
Grayson was jailed for 12 months after a jury found she had plotted to burn down 5G masts she said had caused Covid. Her co-accused Reynolds, was jailed for 12 years, with an additional year on licence, after being found guilty of eight terrorist offences linked to his “extreme right wing, antisemitic and racist views”.
The court heard Reynolds, 60, discussed armed uprisings and advocated violence towards people he called “traitors,”.
His comments included describing Parliament as “a nest of Jews, foreigners and collaborators” and repeatedly calling for MPs to be hanged.
Read the full story here.[174]
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