Others criminals now behind bars include a man who threatened to burn his ex partner’s house down “with her he children inside”, a thug who who glassed his partner during a Christmas argument and a driver behind the wheel of a powerful Golf R who smashed into a car at high speed in Beeston.
1. Leeds Crown Court round-up
The criminals that are starting jail sentences this week. Photo: WYP
2. Liam Rogan
Liam Rogan, 28, of Holtdale Gardens, Adel was handed 21 months' jail this week after tried to bribe his partner to drop the charges against him after he attacked her. He also threatened to kill her dog. Judge Christopher Batty jailed him for 21 months and gave him a restraining order of indefinite length. He told him: “You lost self control on those occasions. She did not how far it was going to go.” Photo: WYP
3. Wayne Thomas
Forty-year-old Wayne Thomas who has "a long history of violence in a domestic setting" was jailed after attacking his partner with a wine glass during a Christmas argument. Claiming he tried to throw a drink over her, she put her arms up to protect herself, shattering the glass and slicing a tendon in her hand. Thomas, of St Wilfrid’s Avenue, Gipton, has convictions relating to his previous three partners. He was jailed for 30 months. Photo: WYP
4. Paul Brook
'Dangerous' Paul Brook was jailed this week for terrorising two consecutive partners. He followed one and rammed her vehicle with his own car while she waited at traffic lights, threatened to share intimate photos of her, and spent five months engaged in a “campaign of harassment and stalking”. He then moved onto his next girlfriend and attacked her, choking her during a sustained attack, then threatened to burn her house down with her children inside. Brook, age 25, of Firth Road, Cross Flatts, was given an eight-year extended jail term after the judge deemed him to be a serious risk to women. Photo: WYP
5. Adam Scott
Violent Adam Scott was jailed this week after he slashed a man's face with a broken bottle, just days after attacking the same man at a party. After giving no comments to police, his DNA was recovered and he was picked out of a line-up by the victim. The 38-year-old, of Bodmin Square, Middleton, has two previous convictions for attacking people with a bottle and a knife. He was given an extended five-year prison sentence. The judge told him: "You have a propensity to use sharp objects to inflict injury. I’m quite sure you are a risk of causing serious harm.” Photo: WYP
6. Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett was arrested for glassing a man in a Leeds city centre bar, but during his police interview confessed to flashing at a hotel chambermaid in Garforth in 2011. He also admitted attacking a man outside Leeds' Kirkgate Market in 2012. Along with the wounding charge for which he was arrested for, the 37-year-old of no fixed address was given a total of 34 months' jail. Photo: WYP