Their crimes include a fairground worker who groomed a child on Snapchat before taking her to a field to have sex with her, and a vile toddler rapist who was told he had caused “permanent” psychological harm to his three-year-old victim.
Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court during January 2026, was an international footballer found guilty of raping a woman in the toilet of a Leeds flat.
Here are the names and faces of 53 criminals who were locked up by judges last month...
13. Ethan Marsden
Vile prisoner Ethan Marsden squirted urine at an officer at HMP Wealstun. The 27-year-old previously led police on a high-speed chase through Huddersfield in July of last year in a stolen car, tried to spit at a police officer after being arrested and also spat in his cell at the police station. Judge Howard Crowson jailed him for 30 months and gave him a three-year driving ban. | WYP / YEP
14. Ahmed Osman
Student drug dealer Ahmed Osman, who has twice before been caught with large quantities of drugs, was jailed for three years after he dumped £48,000 worth of drugs in a bin after being chased by police. Officers spotted a Mercedes driving without insurance on Burley Road on September 23 last year, but as they got out to speak with the driver, it took off at speed, forcing them into a pursuit. | WYP
15. Robert Ledger
Drug addict Robert Ledger has been returned to prison for 18 months after breaching a restraining order. Leeds Crown Court heard that Ledger is banned from contacting his sister because he would persistently badger her for money to feed his heroin and cocaine habit. He was given the restraining order in 2021 and has breached it 18 times before, resulting in prison sentences. He was also given a new five-year restraining order. | WYP / YEP
16. Anthony Hartley
Paedophile Anthony Hartley was jailed for 21 months and put on the sex offender register for 10 years after being found guilty of sexual assault of a child and exposing himself. Hartley, 61, had pulled his underwear down to expose himself to a six-year-old girl. The youngster later admitted there had been a separate occasion in which Hartley had "tickled her bits." | WYP / Adobe
17. Marlin Rigby
Marlin Rigby, who was found guilty of attempted murder following a six-day trial trial in October, was given an extended 27-year jail sentence this week. A judge at Leeds Crown Court told Rigby that he was remorseless and a danger to the public after he rained repeated blows down on a man’s head with a machete after the man threatened to contact the authorities and tell them Rigby had been selling drugs. | WYP
18. Ian Wooffinden
Ian Wooffinden was jailed for 29 months in total at Leeds Crown Court this week after admitting arson reckless as to whether life was endangered. He attempted to exact revenge on his former partner by torching a garden shed which came close to spreading to a nearby block of flats. The intense heat caused windows to the nearby flats to break and caused the window frames to melt. | WYP / SNWS