These are the names and faces of 55 despicable criminals were locked up in Leeds during October 2026.
Their crimes include a violent thug who told his children their mother was in hospital after murdering her and dumping her body in a freezer at their Wakefield home.
Also sentenced at Leeds Crown Court last month, were a pair of racing motorists who caused the deaths of a mother and her four-year-old daughter as they walked to school.
View our gallery below for the full round-up of criminals who were locked up in Leeds during October 2026...
31. Joel Freeman
Known drug dealer Joel Freeman has been jailed for six years after helping to import millions of pounds worth of ketamine encased in expanding foam as part of an operation to import the drug and oversee its delivery to a storage unit in Wakefield. It is estimated that it was worth up to £350,000 wholesale, or more than £2 million if broken down into individual street deals. | WYP
32. Christopher Collinson
Drug dealer Christopher Collinson has been jailed for for three years and seven months after police found him to have 49 wraps of drugs placed in his groin area. There were also 19 of heroin and 30 of crack, worth a total of £245. The 41-year-old had been arrested on an unrelated matter, but he spilled his secret after being taken to the police station. | WYP / YEP
33. Thomas Childe
Thug Thomas Childe was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison after he purposely rammed his bike into 79-year-old Colin Starbuck and threw him to the ground at the bus stop outside the Tesco store in Garforth. As a result of the assault, the elderly victim, who had challenged Childe for riding on the pavement, died from an underlying heart condition. | WYP
34. Thomas Lee
Convicted paedophile Thomas Lee, who was previously jailed for attempting to target children online, has been returned to jail for 16 months after downloading the dating app, iHappy, which put him in breach of a sexual harm prevention order. During a close analysis, officers found the 40-year-old had also installed private browsers and had installed and deleted other dating and social media apps. | WYP / Getty
35. Christian Hargreaves
Young drug dealer Christian Hargreaves has been jailed for 32 months for a series of crimes in a Leeds village, which included stealing a motorbike and filming himself online. Police seized a backpack from the 18-year-old which contained more than 28 grammes of cocaine worth up to £1,680, and 163 vials of synthetic cannabis known as spice. He was also handed a driving ban of three years, four months. | WYP / YEP
36. Ian Metcalf
Cocaine-fuelled driver Ian Metcalf has been jailed for 15 months and banned from driving for two years and five months after he was twice caught drug driving. In one incident the 40-year-old was found to be three times over the limit for cocaine and 16 times over the limit for the cocaine breakdown product, benzoylecgonine. | WYP / YEP