From a hammer killer “animal” who murdered his girlfriend in their flat, to a drug-addicted thief who dragged a hard-working delivery driver to his death, these offenders have all been brought to justice.
Also in the headlines this month was an “extremely dangerous” student nurse who carried a 10kg pressure-cooker bomb to a hospital so he could “kill as many nurses as possible”.
After a long month of sentencings for judges at Leeds Crown Court, here are 59 of the criminals who appeared in the dock -
13. Lamin Kuyateh
Lamin Kuyateh, 22, of Jenkinson Lawn, Holbeck, was jailed for five years after admitting Section 18 GBH with intent and possession of an offensive weapon, as well as two counts of ABH, obstructing police and criminal damage for the second. The court heard how the mugger slashed a man across the face with a machete as he tried to wrestle his bag from him on Cambrian Terrace in Holbeck in one incident on February 21, 2023. | West Yorkshire Police/Google/National World
14. Ali Irshad
Ali Irshad, 28, of Denstone Street, Wakefield, was jailed for 21 months after being convicted of attempting to meet a child after grooming and attempted sexual communication with a child. The paedophile tried to meet an underage girl for sex and later denied wrongdoing, claiming confusing “cultural barriers” were to blame. | West Yorkshire Police/Google
15. Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson, 39, of no fixed address, was jailed for three and a half years after admitting burglary, aggravated vehicle taking, driving without a licence and without insurance. He is the second criminal to be jailed for a smash and grab at Station Vape in Horsforth in December, which resulted in more than £10,000 worth of damage. | West Yorkshire Police/National World
16. Mark Smith
Mark Smith, 44, of Burntwood Grove, South Kirkby, was jailed for four years after admitting two counts of attempted sexual communication with children, one of attempting to incite a child to watch sexual activity and one of attempting to incite a child into sexual activity. Smith also admitted three counts of making indecent images, three counts of distributing indecent images, and possession of an extreme pornographic image. | West Yorkshire Police/PA
17. Endrit Muca and Elena Atanasiu
Endrit Muca, 37, of Cross Flatts Crescent, Cross Flatts, admitted a charge of production of cannabis and was jailed for 24 months, while his girlfriend Elena Atanasiu, 31, of Tempest Road, Hunslet Carr, admitted being concerned in the production of cannabis and was jailed for nine months. The couple were told they will be deported after a raid on a Beeston property uncovered a “professional” cannabis farm. | West Yorkshire Police/Google
18. Dylan Burnside
Dylan Burnside, 18, of Duke of York Avenue, Wakefield, was handed for 26 months' detention after admitting Section 18 GBH with intent, ABH and possession of an offensive weapon. The teenager became embroiled in a dispute over a classroom chair at Yorkshire Construction Academy in Pontefract on October 9 last year, and then brutally attacked a student with a machete. | West Yorkshire Police/Google