Leeds Crown Court Sentencing Results

While an inmate, Kieran Teasdale hurled a container of faeces and urine into the face of an officer on December 13, 2023.

Kieron Jordan was involved in a fight in Burley on June 29 while armed with a machete and left covered in blood.

On 18 July 2024 in Harehills, Leeds, Iustin Dobre, 37, joined a mob that set a double-decker bus alight and overturned a police car after four children from a Roma family were taken into care. He was filmed holding a lighter next to the bus seats and throwing missiles at police.

Jacinta Hunter and her son operated a waste site at Queens Mill Road, Huddersfield, under Hunter Group (Yorkshire) Limited, holding an environmental permit. Repeated breaches found in 2015 and 2016 inspections: huge piles of waste pushing against broken perimeter fence, shredded waste stored improperly. Failed to comply with orders to move waste and repair fences. Verbal abuse to Environment Agency officers by Samuel Hunter. Fire risk advised by West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service but no fire breaks introduced. Site caught fire on 18 August 2016, smouldering until 30 August 2016, cleared by March 2017 at cost of £1,142,131 to Kirklees Council. Waste volume 825-1383 tonnes.

Irfan Hanif Patel, acting as a sole trader, purchased counterfeit Abel and Cole cranberry sauce in December 2020 and supplied it to his brother Mohammed Patel, director of Stock Up Direct Limited. The company supplied over 1,000 jars to a wholesaler, reaching food businesses including in Kirklees. Neither had registered food businesses with Kirklees Council, trading illegally without hygiene inspections. Premises inspected, food seized and destroyed under Kirklees Magistrates’ Court order in February 2021. Sauce confirmed counterfeit by Public Analyst and trademark holder.

Inderjeet Gosal participated in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by staging a fake gun threat at his own home in Shadwell on 31 July 2020, pretending to be shocked and calling 999, as part of a plot linked to his sister's divorce from the victim, including threatening phone calls and the shop damage in Huddersfield.

Graham Sunter was found guilty of nine sexual offences against a child committed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Glen Atchinson knocked a man unconscious on 6 July 2024, then stamped on his head leaving him with a fractured skull.

Glen Russell, 38, was seen by a resident performing a solo sex act in his parked car beside a play park in Wakefield while children were playing nearby. He was repeatedly looking towards the children. A resident filmed him before he drove off. He was arrested about a week later and refused to answer police questions. At Leeds Crown Court he admitted outraging public decency. The court heard he had previously been given a nine-month suspended sentence at Sheffield Crown Court in July for downloading hundreds of abuse images and attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child. Recorder Ruwena Khan activated the suspended sentence in full and added two months, giving a total of 11 months' imprisonment.

Harpreet Gosal took part in the conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, present at the staged gun threat at her home in Shadwell on 31 July 2020 to incriminate the victim in her sister-in-law the victim's wife's divorce case, along with subsequent threatening calls and the Huddersfield shop attack.

Harry Mahoney was convicted as a conspirator in the violent armed robbery on 26 September 2015 at a specialist car repair business in Holbeck, Leeds, where two men armed with a revolver and machete assaulted the owner and stole Porsche Carrera GT parts worth £140,000. The victim was bound, beaten, slashed, and left injured.

Gyaltse Yolmo laundered more than £580,000 as part of a large-scale computer support scam. Between November 2015 and January 2019 he was the sole director of UK Infotech Technology Ltd, one of several companies receiving payments from victims misled into paying for unnecessary or meaningless computer repairs at inflated prices.

Hardeep Sangha was involved in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, including staging a fake doorstep gun threat at the victim's home in Shadwell on 31 July 2020 to frame her ex-husband in a divorce dispute, arranging threatening phone calls, and organising an attack on her ex-husband's parents' convenience store in Huddersfield on 2 September 2020 causing £2,000 damage.

Finley Seggie, 21, and a friend were travelling on a York-bound train on 14 December 2024 without tickets. When conductor the victim asked them to leave at the next stop, Seggie verbally abused him and then punched him in the mouth, causing the victim to lose a tooth and needing £3,000 of dental work. Seggie fled but was arrested on 18 February 2025 after being identified from CCTV. He later pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm.

Police found 100 indecent images of children on Gavin Richards' phone after seizing it on November 30 2022. The images had been cached and deleted but were recovered during forensic examination. They had been downloaded between May and November 2022. 63 images were category A, 26 were category B and 31 were category C. The court heard the offences were committed during a time of significant instability in his life following the death of his wife and a turn to alcohol.

James Baines, 27, admitted dangerous driving, driving while banned and having no insurance. He led police on a chase in a stolen car on Outgang Lane in Bramley on September 19.

James Fairburn was involved in seven attacks on cash machines in Darlington, Bradford, Keighley and Huddersfield, as well as two burglaries where vehicles were stolen for use in the crimes. The attacks between October 2017 and February 2018 involved pumping gases into the machines to cause explosions, resulting in thousands of pounds of damage and more than £300,000 stolen.

James Gettings, 35, of Bramley, Leeds, appeared alongside Phil Hoban. A video showed him mocking Muslim people praying during the anti-immigration demonstration in Leeds city centre on 3 August 2024. He admitted the offence at a previous hearing.

James Gray recruited a group of masked men armed with hammers and axes to attack a woman at her home in Leeds in retaliation for an earlier incident in which she had damaged his home. Gray drove his Ford van at speed, forcing the woman to jump out of the way, then struck the house and rammed a parked car. The group smashed windows, and one man struck the woman in the face with an iron bar while wearing tights over his head. She needed three titanium plates in her face and suffered bleeds behind her eyes, leaving a black spot in her vision. Gray was later arrested and picked out in an identification parade.

James Holmes, a registered sex offender with illegal images of children, failed to comply with his notification requirements. His whereabouts were unknown for a period, causing him to breach a previously imposed suspended sentence.

James Oldfield was already banned from driving when he was pursued by police on the M62 and M18 in West Yorkshire. He reached 120mph, cut across traffic and repeatedly rammed police cars before losing control and hitting the central reservation. He was found with a can of lager and refused to provide a breath test. Earlier he had threatened a family member with a baseball bat and damaged a fence. The judge said it was a matter of fortune that his driving did not result in multiple fatalities.

James Pearson admitted three counts of possessing illegal images, possession of prohibited images, breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and an attempted breach. The court heard he attempted to avoid detection by downloading animations of children being abused.

Jacob Lindo was part of a masked group that attacked an occupied property in Seacroft during a party in the early hours of April 12 last year. Some members of the group got out of a BMW carrying machetes and a pistol; a window was smashed with a machete and a converted blank-firing pistol was fired at another window. The incident was captured on CCTV.

On 11 August 2024, Jack Sweeney attacked his step-sister at the family home after her ringing phone woke him. He threw and stamped on her phone, then grabbed her by the hair and smashed her head against a wheelie bin and a brick wall. He later armed himself with a bread knife and tried to go upstairs after her, and after being stopped he retrieved a sawn-off shotgun and attempted to go upstairs again before being forced outside. He hid the dismantled shotgun and two cartridges under a vehicle; officers recovered it.

Jarnail Bassan's now dissolved company, LHC Asset Management Ltd, helped source over 275 tonnes of mixed household, commercial and industrial waste and leased the site on Duncombe Road, Bradford, where it was illegally stored between January and March 2017. Robin Hood Group Ltd had control of the operation. Despite claims of intending to ship it abroad to burn as fuel, the vast majority remained on site. Inspections by Environment Agency officers started in March 2017 following a report from Bradford Council.