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...
19. David Lawn
Ageing paedophile David Lawn has been brought to justice 30 years after he began sexually abusing a young girl. The court heard that the abuse began the 1990s when the youngster was just five, and went on for around six years. He was handed a 21-year extended jail sentence after being found guilty after a trial of 16 offences, including rape. | WYP
20. Darren Roughley
Darren Roughley, who ignored court orders to stay away from his ex, has been jailed for 27 months and given a new three-year restraining order after admitting ABH, two breaches of a restraining order and criminal damage. The 48-year-old, who had let himself into the woman's home as she slept, punched and headbutted her four times after she stood up to him. | WYP / YEP
21. Christopher Wordsworth
Thug Christopher Wordsworth was jailed for 21 months and given a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) to prevent him begging and drinking in public in Wakefield after he chased down a woman on Northgate, threatened to kill her and “bit her head." The 44-year-old got the woman in a headlock even after she had sought refuge in an estate agents. | WYP
22. Rehan Farooq
Twisted paedophile Rehan Farooq, who discussed “grotesque” fantasies about raping and murdering children, and was also caught filming a woman using the toilet was jailed for 40 months with the judge telling him he “clearly” had a sexual interest in children. The 37-year-old was also put on the sex offender register for life and given a lifelong sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) to curb his internet use. | WYP
23. Craig Winstanley
Troubled man Craig Winstanley was jailed for three years and nine months after he put his neighbours at “high risk of serious physical harm” during an apparent suicide attempt at his home on Ramshead Drive, Seacroft. The 51-year-old, who has a history of mental health struggles, admitted a charge of arson reckless as to whether life was endangered. | WYP/YEP
24. John Conroy
Drug addicted former plasterer John Conroy threatened a couple with an angle grinder as he stole their bike from outside the Wetherspoon-owned Picture House on Queen Street, Morley. The pair shouted at Conroy to stop and he turned to them holding the rotating, jagged-edge tool and told them: “Stay back or I will use it on you.” The 33-year-old was jailed for 40 months and given a five-year criminal behaviour order. | WYP