Their crimes included a child rapist who was finally jailed more than 30 years after he carried out his sickening abuse, and a sexual predator who attacked a woman on Call Lane just days after he was released from a lengthy prison sentence for a similar attack.
Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court during February 2026, was a Wakefield businessman who smuggled more than £102,000 worth of thermal-imaging rifle scopes to China.
Here are the names and faces of 29 criminals who were locked up by judges last month...
1. Delroy Smithen
Child rapist Delroy Smithen, who persistently targeted an eight-year-old child has been jailed for three-and-a-half years, more than 30 years after he carried out his sickening abuse. The 43-year-old was found guilty after a trial of two counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault dating back to the mid 1990s. Smithen was only in his mid teens when he started his campaign of abuse. | WYP / Adobestock
2. Andrew Holland
Andrew Holland was jailed for stealing 50 metres of copper cable from the railways near Wakefield which led to 20 trains being cancelled and hours of commuter chaos at a cost of nearly £68,000. British Transport Police caught the 38-year-old attempting to burn the cabling down to leave the copper, which he would then weigh in. He was jailed for 20 months. | WYP / YEP
3. Callum Kellett
Paranoid and controlling Callum Kellett was jailed for 28 months and given a 10-year restraining order after a campaign of terror where he abused, attacked and bit his partner while demanding she hand over her wages £400 weekly wages “to live with him”. The 20-year-old would not allow the woman to wear dresses, accused of her cheating and made her call into work sick if he was not at work. | WYP / YEP
4. Jermaine Richards
Jermaine Richards was sentenced to three years and two months in prison at Leeds Crown Court for domestic abuse after he broke a restraining order three times. The 39-year-old, of Bexley Terrace, admitted to three charges of breaching a restraining order and making threats with a bladed article in public. | WYP
5. Nathan Harrison
Crack-cocaine addict Nathan Harrison who stole up to 40 cans of Red Bull at a time from the Shell garage on Bondgate in Pontefract has been jailed for 27 months after he lashed out at a shopkeeper who tried to stop him. The 33-year-old was also given a restraining order banning him from the Shell garage, B&M, Jollyes and Tesco in Pontefract, as well as their car parks, for the next 10 years. | WYP / Getty
6. Josemar Da Silva
Josemar Da Silva was jailed for three years and six months at Leeds Crown Court after police raid at his home uncovered a large supply of MDMA drugs, with an estimated street value of £3,960. The 32-year-old was hosting parties and working as a DJ out of his Armley home as a way to make money when he began taking and supplying MDMA. | WYP/YEP