These are the heartless criminals who have faced justice this week at Leeds Crown Court, with jail sentences ranging from just a few months up to many years.
7. Festim Sefa and Mirban Xhukellari
Festim Sefa (left) and Mirban Xhukellari were found at a property on Nowell Grove in Harehills during a police drugs raid. More than 109 plants were found across five rooms with a potential street value of £74,000. Both 23-year-old Sefa and 28-year-old Xhukellari admitted charges of producing cannabis. Mitigating for both, Gary Cook said they had both been trafficked to the country having paid money to gangs, and like many illegal immigrants, were put to work illegally. They were jailed for 28 months each. Photo: WYP
8. Daniel Matthews and Robert Kurzweil
Matthews (left) and Kurzweil were both jailed this week after they were caught with £8,000 worth of cocaine and MDMA at Leeds Festival. Security had been alerted to drugs being dealt from the campsite on the first day of the popular festival at Bramham Park in August of this year. The pair, who are both from Manchester, admitted two counts of dealing in Class A Drugs and possession of criminal property. Kurzweil, aged 27, and 29-year-old Matthews were both jailed for 36 months and 32 months respectively. Judge Mushtaq Khokhar said: "It’s serious and long sentences are imposed. Drugs are taken to these festivals where there are a considerable number of young people attending who are very often still at school. Some of them fall prey to drug dealers and experience drug taking for the first time.” (pics by WYP) Photo: WYP
9. John Butler
Persistent Leeds paedophile John Butler, 58, was caught by twice before being remanded in custody when police raided his home for a third time. Officers retrieved thousands of indecent images of children from his internet devices, but were tipped off again a year later where they found thousands more. Having been bailed again, officers returned again in May of this year and found another 21 images. Butler, of Sackville Street, Sheepscar, has 22 previous convictions for 77 offences, including an indecent assault on a seven-year-old in 1984 for which he was jailed for three months. He was jailed for 25 months for his latest offending. (pic by WYP) Photo: WYP
10. Luke Widdop
Drug-driver Luke Widdop, aged 51, was sentenced to eight years after admitting causing the death of a nine-year-old boy in a hit-and-run. Widdop, of Park Avenue, Keighley, admitted causing the death of George Lewis through careless driving while unfit through drugs. The youngster tragically died at the scene of the collision in Sutton-in-Craven, in September 2021. (pic by WYP) Photo: WYP
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Daniel Young pulled a gun out on a man in the street who was with his nephew, demanding cash from him. The 38-year-old threatened the man outside a convenience store in Hunslet. He has earlier broken into the victim's vehicle and stole items, before demanding the man pay £2,000 to hand over what he had taken. He was jailed for five years after admitting possessing a firearm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and handling stolen goods. (pic by WYP) Photo: WYP