Eight reprehensible criminals locked up in Leeds this week including four paedophiles

Senior Reporter

Published 8th Mar 2026, 16:30 BST

Here are eight reprehensible criminals who were locked up in Leeds this week.

Their crimes include an entrenched paedophile who abused four boys to “devastating” effect.

Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court this week, was a woman who claimed she had terminal cancer to get a lighter sentence after she took part in a violent house robbery.

View our gallery below for the full round-up of criminals locked up in Leeds this week...

Paedophile Scott Sherwood was convicted of seven counts of sexual assault of a child, one of sexual activity with a child and one of causing child to engage in sexual activity - the victims were as young as nine. Judge Mairs jailed him for nine-and-a-half years in total, put him on the sex offender register for life and gave him a lifelong sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

1. Scott Sherwood

Paedophile Scott Sherwood was convicted of seven counts of sexual assault of a child, one of sexual activity with a child and one of causing child to engage in sexual activity - the victims were as young as nine. Judge Mairs jailed him for nine-and-a-half years in total, put him on the sex offender register for life and gave him a lifelong sexual harm prevention order (SHPO). | WYP

Drink driver Jamie Bouncer, 22, was jailed for eight years and banned from driving for 10 years and four months after he lost control of a borrowed car following a party, causing the death of father-of-two Taylor, aged 18, who was thrown from the car. He suffered serious head injuries and died at the scene. Bouncer only held a provisional driving licence at the time.

2. Jamie Bouncer

Drink driver Jamie Bouncer, 22, was jailed for eight years and banned from driving for 10 years and four months after he lost control of a borrowed car following a party, causing the death of father-of-two Taylor, aged 18, who was thrown from the car. He suffered serious head injuries and died at the scene. Bouncer only held a provisional driving licence at the time. | WYP

Malgorzata Holdynska, who claimed she had terminal cancer to get a lighter sentence after she took part in a violent house robbery, was jailed for 36 months at Leeds Crown Court. The court heard that Holdynska had been invited by the robbery victim to stay at his house but later attacked him alongside another man and took his phone. The man involved in the robbery remains at large.

3. Malgorzata Holdynska

Malgorzata Holdynska, who claimed she had terminal cancer to get a lighter sentence after she took part in a violent house robbery, was jailed for 36 months at Leeds Crown Court. The court heard that Holdynska had been invited by the robbery victim to stay at his house but later attacked him alongside another man and took his phone. The man involved in the robbery remains at large. | WYP

Known drug dealer Anh Hoang was caught carrying two kilogrammes of cocaine worth £200,000 in a carrier bag in Leeds. The 48-year-old, who has served two lengthy previous sentences of dealing, was being monitored by a “serious crime unit”, Leeds Crown Court heard. He admitted dealing in Class A drugs and was jailed for six years.

4. Anh Hoang

Known drug dealer Anh Hoang was caught carrying two kilogrammes of cocaine worth £200,000 in a carrier bag in Leeds. The 48-year-old, who has served two lengthy previous sentences of dealing, was being monitored by a “serious crime unit”, Leeds Crown Court heard. He admitted dealing in Class A drugs and was jailed for six years. | WYP / YEP

Twisted Matthew Ashworth was detained after arranging to meet one youngster, but after being released, targeted two more youngsters online. But in all three instances, the profiles were run by hunter groups looking to snare paedophiles. The 53-year-old was jailed for six years, put on the sex offender register for life and given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) to curb his internet use.

5. Matthew Ashworth

Twisted Matthew Ashworth was detained after arranging to meet one youngster, but after being released, targeted two more youngsters online. But in all three instances, the profiles were run by hunter groups looking to snare paedophiles. The 53-year-old was jailed for six years, put on the sex offender register for life and given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) to curb his internet use. | WYP

Paedophile Cameron Hatton, who was described as being “dangerous” to children, was returned to prison just days after he was let out on licence to a hostel in Leeds in October 2024 after officers found vile animal porn involving people engaged in sex acts with dogs and horses on his phone. The 27-year-old was jailed for two years, but to run concurrently with his existing sentence.

6. Cameron Hatton

Paedophile Cameron Hatton, who was described as being “dangerous” to children, was returned to prison just days after he was let out on licence to a hostel in Leeds in October 2024 after officers found vile animal porn involving people engaged in sex acts with dogs and horses on his phone. The 27-year-old was jailed for two years, but to run concurrently with his existing sentence. | WYP

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