Here are nine atrocious criminals who were sentenced in Leeds this week.
Their crimes include a predator who systematically abused three young girls, with a judge telling him “you have an entrenched sexual interest in children.”
Also sentenced at Leeds Crown Court this week, was a thug who attacked his partner on a night out with such brutality that one shocked witness said the victim was left “destroyed”.
View our gallery below for the full round-up of criminals sentenced in Leeds this week...
1. Damien North
Vile paedophile Damien North, who abused three young girls, has been jailed for 18-years. The 38-year-old, of no fixed address, admitted two counts of rape, one of engaging in sexual activity on the presence of a child and 10 counts of sexual assault of a child. He was also given an indefinite-length restraining order, a lifelong sexual harm prevention order and put on the sex offender register for life. | WYP
2. Hussain Lawnd
Teenager Hussain Lawnd has been sentenced to 27 months in a young offender institute and handed a driving ban of 37 months after he was chased by a police helicopter as he rode along pavements on an e-bike. The 18-year-old, of no fixed address, was selling high-purity crack cocaine from an electric bike and was armed with a fearsome machete. 27 wraps of 92% purity crack cocaine were found in his underwear. | WYP
3. Alfie Brake
Hammer-wielding jealous thug Alfie Brake, who refused to leave his ex alone, was jailed for 30 months after he tried to smash his way into her home where her children were asleep. Brake, of Oxford Road, Gomersal, was with two other men when they targeted the terraced home in East End Park in the middle of the night. It was the culmination in a campaign of pestering in which he tried to call her 34 times in the space of two hours. | WYP / YEP
4. Ervist Kodheli
Illegal immigrant Ervist Kodheli was jailed for a total of five years and eight months after he was caught working a network of cannabis farms at Leeds homes worth almost half a million pounds. The 33-year-old had been jailed and booted out of Britain in 2020 after a cannabis grow was found in Barnsley, but was later found to be working at four lucrative operations between 2024 and 2026. | WYP / YEP
5. Lloyd Morris
Smirking pervert Lloyd Morris was jailed for a total of 39 weeks after he groped a woman that tried to help him when he was found near unconscious in Leeds city centre. The 38-year-old, who is homeless, has been locked up previously for masturbating in public and sexually assaulting two women. Judge Anesh Pema told Morris it was a “deliberate act” and referred to his previous sexual convictions. | WYP / Google Maps
6. Dylan Phelan
Dylan Phelan was sentenced to six years and four months imprisonment after pleading guilty to encouraging a man in America to take his own life. In a recording, the 21-year-old, from Churwell, can be heard encouraging Travis Dyer, also 21, to pull the trigger and laughing afterwards. Phelan also pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of an extreme pornographic image and one count of making an indecent image of a child. | WYP