Below is a gallery summing up some of those to have been through the judicial system this week:
7. A drunken thug who plundered his wife’s shop profits then held a gun to her head and pulled the trigger when she ordered him to leave. Luckily, the imitation pistol was not loaded when Kamil Glowacki lifted it to the woman’s head after he downed a litre of vodka. Leeds Crown Court heard that Glowacki had become abusive, would steal personal items, took cash from her business and left her £17,000 in debt, all to feed his alcohol and drug habit. Judge Robin Mairs jailed him for three years and gave him a 10-year restraining order to keep him away from the victim.
8. A gang of teenage phone robbers as young as 13 who targeted students in the Hyde Park area have all avoided being locked up.
9. A thug who took "sadistic pleasure" in attacking his partners has been handed a lengthy sentence after a judge said he posed a "high risk" to women. Patrick O'Connor had only just been released from jail for violence against a woman when he bullied and attacked a new partner, beating her with a broom handle and a chunk of wood while spitting on her. When she finally ended it and after he was arrested, he became involved with another woman just weeks later whom he punched during an argument and threatened with a knife, Leeds Crown Court heard. Judge Robin Mairs said there was "enjoyment and degradation" from O'Connor as he handed him an extended jail sentence of more than nine years.
10. A furious motorist who had an argument with his girlfriend in his car then bizarrely drove at a woman standing nearby in anger. Wiktor Ul of Heights Way, Armley, was given a 20-month jail sentence, suspended for two years and 150 hours of unpaid work and 10 rehabilitation days.
11. A "vile" racist who threw the plaque of David Oluwale into the River Aire has been returned to court after scrawling antisemitic graffiti on an M&S store in Leeds city centre. Gregory Palmer appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court this week for defacing the Marks and Spencer store on Wellington Street, drawing two Stars of David and an antisemitic slogan on the door in felt-tip pen. The 60-year-old, of St Peter's Court, Bramley, was this week sentenced to a 12-month Community Order with 105 hours of unpaid work, 20 Rehabilitation activity requirement days and total financial penalty of £614 for the M&S incident.
12. A monster who repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl in Leeds has had his sentence almost doubled. Evil paedophile Michael King, 33, spent months abusing the young girl, who eventually confided in a friend. He was handed an extended 11-year jail sentence at Leeds Crown Court in October last year, but the victim’s family were left disappointed by the length of his sentence – and an application was lodged with the Court of Appeal. That application was successful and will mean that King will spend 20 years behind bars, including a one-year extended licence, which is almost double the original sentence.