Jake Syron was jailed at Leeds Crown Court after admitting causing serious injury through dangerous driving. The hit-and-run driver overtook a car waiting at a crossing and smashed into a pedestrian outside the Tipsy Cow pub in Morley. He was jailed for 39 months and banned from driving for more than 55 months.placeholder image
Jake Syron was jailed at Leeds Crown Court after admitting causing serious injury through dangerous driving. The hit-and-run driver overtook a car waiting at a crossing and smashed into a pedestrian outside the Tipsy Cow pub in Morley. He was jailed for 39 months and banned from driving for more than 55 months. | WYP

The names of eight heartless criminals locked up in Leeds last week including Morley hit-and-run driver

Alex Grant
By Alex Grant

Senior Reporter

Published 8th Sep 2025, 16:30 GMT

Here are eight of the heartless criminals who were locked up in Leeds last week.

Their crimes include a hit-and-run driver who catapulted a pedestrian 20 metres along the road, outside a pub in Morley.

Also sentenced this week was a Leeds butcher who spent three years submitting false tax claims and managed to dupe more than £134,000 from HMRC.

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Read on below for the full round-up of criminals locked up in Leeds this week...

Butcher Nigel Gifford, 65, was jailed for two years and four months and gave him a new 10-year order banning him from becoming the director of a company after admitting he spent three years submitting false tax claims and managed to dupe more than £134,000 from HMRC.

7. Nigel Gifford

Butcher Nigel Gifford, 65, was jailed for two years and four months and gave him a new 10-year order banning him from becoming the director of a company after admitting he spent three years submitting false tax claims and managed to dupe more than £134,000 from HMRC. | WYP

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Illegal immigrant Agim Buci, 31, was jailed for his role in a cannabis factory at Newgate House in Pontefract. Police raided the property and found a cannabis farm set-up that included 92 mature growing plants with the necessary equipment, including heat lamps and fertiliser. The judge jailed him for three years and said he would be deported once he had completed his sentence.

8. Agim Buci

Illegal immigrant Agim Buci, 31, was jailed for his role in a cannabis factory at Newgate House in Pontefract. Police raided the property and found a cannabis farm set-up that included 92 mature growing plants with the necessary equipment, including heat lamps and fertiliser. The judge jailed him for three years and said he would be deported once he had completed his sentence. | WYP

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