Here are 19 criminals who have been locked up after being sentenced at Leeds Crown Court this week:
Here are 19 criminals who have been locked up after being sentenced at Leeds Crown Court this week:
13. David Jones and accomplice
A plucky 5ft 3” grandmother was injured when she tried to stop two thieves stealing a trailer from her driveway in the middle of the night. The woman confronted David Jones and his accomplice a commotion outside her home woke her up at around 4am on August 15. She looked out to see two men trying to cut through the locks to the trailer and a wood chipper on her drive on St Andrew’s Road, Castleford, which belonged to her grandson. The brave woman, who suffers from COPD and has had two heart attacks, hurried outside and tried to intervene but was repeatedly pushed away by Jones, prosecutor Nick Adlington told Leeds Crown Court. But before they fled on a quad bike with the £7,000 equipment hitched onto the back, she was able to grab Jones’ hat. His DNA was later found in the hat. A short time later a witness recognised Jones on the bike and informed police. Around 45 minutes after the theft, the police found the men with the trailer near to Fryston Woods, but they drove off into the woods on the quad bike. Jones, 32, was later arrested and gave a mix no comments and denials during his police interview. Judge Anesh Pema jailed Jones for 53 months. Photo: West Yorkshire Police/Google
Joshua Anderson brutally beat his girlfriend then tried to “hunt her down” with a vacuum cleaner extension when she fled from her Leeds home. He was described at Leeds Crown Court as a “controlling and bullying” for subjecting the woman to a 90-minute ordeal after he accused her of cheating on him. The 31-year-old and the woman had been in a relationship since 2009 and had three children together. But the court heard after she gave birth to their third, Anderson would become verbally and physically abusive. In recent years she tried to enter the relationship but he would turn up at her Seacroft home. The on April 30 this year, she had been at a friend’s house party when Anderson continued to call her. He eventually arrived in a taxi at around 4.30am and she got into the vehicle with him. He began to accuse her of seeing another man and began hitting her repeatedly around the face, leaving her with a black eye. He was jailed for 34 months and was handed a 10-year restraining order to stay away from the woman. Photo: West Yorkshire Police