Here 15 criminals who were locked up in Leeds this week.
Their crimes include a masked predator who spent almost 50 years evading justice after breaking into a student’s room and raping her.
Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court this week, was a hammer-wielding thug who strangled his partner in a “terrifying” attack when she refused to go to the shop for him.
View our gallery below for the full round-up of criminals locked up in Leeds this week...
1. David Sharp
Masked predator David Sharp, who spent almost 50 years evading justice after breaking into a student’s room and raping her, has been jailed for six years and put on the sex offender register for life. Despite moving hundreds of miles to the southern coast of England, the 66-year-old was unable to escape the overwhelming DNA evidence from the sickening 1977 attack. | WYP
2. Stephen Pickersgill
Stephen Pickersgill was sentenced to five years in prison after targeting Fountain Street newsagents and Premier newsagents within five minutes of each other. Wearing a balaclava and brandishing a knife, the 33-year-old began making demands for money and made off with £300 of cigarettes and tobacco, but left the second shop empty handed. | WYP/YEP/Google
3. Adam Senior
Desperate and homeless alcoholic Adam Senior was jailed for 23 months after he tried to flee with a container full of beer that had been drained from the pipes of Thor’s on Leeds City Square. The chronic drinker was jailed this week after he admitted the commercial burglary, along with multiple breaches of a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO), thefts and possession of cannabis. | WYP
4. Samuel Cartwright
Samuel Cartwright was jailed for 20 months for his part in a violent brawl near Crown Street that left a student in a coma and requiring brain surgery. Although the 24-year-old did not deliver the blows that left the man’s life hanging by a thread, he admitted his part by pleading guilty to a charge of affray, assault and ABH. | WYP
5. Mark Lockwood
Thug Mark Lockwood waved a hammer and a knife about and strangled his partner in a “terrifying” attack when she refused to go to the shop for him. The 52-year-old then made sickening comments to her sister, telling her that he had “chopped his partner up” and put her body in the freezer. He was jailed for 18-months and handed a five-year restraining order. | WYP / YEP
6. Adam Kirkpatrick
Violent thug Adam Kirkpatrick, who attacked and robbed two passers-by, later stole the wallet of a police officer who generously gave him a ride back into city centre. Having been questioned, the 37-year-old was sneakily able to take the officer’s wallet from his bag in the police car, then went on a spending spree at the Sainsbury's on Albion Street. | WYP / Adobe