Violent Leeds loan shark attacked man with samurai sword and dagger over a £90 debt

David Jones arrived at his victim’s flat in Beeston and struck him on the arm with the sword – causing cuts and bruising. He then took a dagger out of his waistband and sunk the weapon into the victim’s shoulder blade, causing a fractured collar bone.

The victim told officers that Jones was a money lender known as ‘Double Bubble’ and he owed him £90.

Jones, of Hardy Terrace, Beeston, was jailed for six years at Leeds Crown Court in August 2015 after admitting wounding with intent and two offences of possession of a bladed weapon.

Carer Georgina Balboa Serrato, than aged 42, who operated a loan shark business targeting “desperate and exceptionally vulnerable” was jailed for two-and-a-half-years at Leeds Crown Court in March 2015

The court heard one of Serrato’s victim’s took out a £2,000 loan with her in 2007 to send to her son in the Philippines who was suffering from cerebral palsy. The woman ended up paying back over £11,000.

Serrato, of Oak Tree Drive, Gipton, admitted to operating without a consumer credit licence and two of money laundering.

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