Their crimes include a predatory paedophile with a foot fetish, who was caught trawling the internet looking for children, latching onto profiles, sending them photos of himself masturbating and asking for photos of their feet.
Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court this week, was a van driver who was checking his emails moments before he hit an 85-year-old man in Wakefield.
Read on below for the full round-up of criminals locked up in Leeds this week...
7. Sana Saidilly
Sana Saidilly, 18, was jailed after he and another ambushed a youngster and stabbed him multiple times on Assembly Street, near the Corn Exchange. The victim suffered three stab wounds - one to his chest, one to his upper arm and one to the abdomen. The judge gave him 19 months’ detention in a young offender institute, plus 146 days for possession of a knife, which comes to a total of more than 25 months’ jail. | WYP
8. Benjamin Pinchin
Benjamin Pinchin, 30, was caught trawling the internet looking for children, latching onto profiles, sending them photos of himself masturbating and asking for photos of their feet. He was jailed at Leeds Crown Court this week after admitting 36 offences, with the judge labelling him a “seriously depraved paedophile”. He jailed him for 12 years in total, made up of nine years custody and a three-year extended licence period. | WYP
9. Malcolm Nassur
Drug addict Malcolm Nassur, 37, hounded his mother for money to feed his heroin and crack habit, attacked her when she refused to hand over money. She estimated she had handed over around £1,000 this year to the relentless Nassur. He was jailed for around 24 months at Leeds Crown Court this week. | WYP
10. Christopher Flanagan
A judge told a sobbing Christopher Flanagan that his ex-wife was “not his property” before jailing him. He refused to leave the woman alone, despite being handed a suspended sentence in the summer. He had harassed her, assaulted her and started a fire in the house on that occasion. He was jailed for 18 months in total. | WYP
11. Stephen Thompson
High on drink and cocaine Stephen Thompson stabbed his neighbour without explanation after being invited into his home. The victim had offered to mend Thompson’s dartboard but he turned on the man without a word, stabbing him multiple times with a kitchen knife he had brought with him in what the judge described as being an “utterly shocking” act. Thompson was handed a 16-year sentence at Leeds Crown Court this week. | WYP
12. William Mangan
Chainsaw-carrying thief, William Mangan, took £119,000 worth of goods after using the weapon to smash the windows of Christopher Brown jewellers at Seacroft Green Shopping Centre. Mangan was jailed for a total of eight years and seven months after admitting the burglary, along other offences including having a gun stashed at his home. | WYP