Leeds Crown Court Sentencing Results

Nicholas Moulding was caught with dozens of illegal images and videos of children, including Category A material depicting the rape of children as young as nine. Between October 2023 and November 2024 he ran online group chats and made sexualised comments about children. He initially claimed his devices had been hacked but later admitted his crimes.

Nicholas Wilkinson, 26, was in an on/off relationship with the victim for around four years. After being released from a 21-month prison sentence for strangling her, he moved back in with her. When she asked him to leave, he refused and she moved out. Over about 10 days in March, he repeatedly rang her in the early hours and sent many messages, at one point calling more than 50 times a day. He threatened to stab her, set fire to her house and hurt her family, and warned: 'If you thought it was bad last time you have seen nothing yet.' He also pestered her for money and threatened to contact social services about her children if she reported him. He was arrested after she contacted police.

Neynn Nyuon attempted to communicate sexually with a child and was caught trying to meet a young girl after grooming. He was later found to have an extreme pornographic image involving a person sexually interfering with a dismembered corpse.

Paul Barker posed online as a 22-year-old man to contact two decoy profiles of girls he believed were 13-year-olds, first in November 2021 and again about a year later. He sent hundreds of sexual messages, tried to arrange meetings, and described sexual acts. After arrest he initially denied wrongdoing and denied a sexual interest in children, but later changed his pleas to guilty.

Owen Walcott was involved in planning the violent armed robbery on 26 September 2015 at a specialist car repair business in Holbeck, Leeds. He hired the white transit van used in the crime and enquired about Porsche parts post-robbery. Two men armed with a revolver and machete assaulted the owner and stole parts worth £140,000.

Robert Pratt was found guilty after a trial of downloading more than 400 indecent images and videos of children, some involving the rape of very young children. He claimed his partner had planted the material on his phone, but the court heard she had no access to his phone at the time. He also admitted stalking his ex-partner and five breaches of a sexual harm prevention order. The court heard he repeatedly breached a restraining order by contacting her through bank transfers and Vinted. In August 2024 police seized two mobile phones and found 433 abuse images and videos.

Roger Golesworthy, 63, travelled 250 miles from Hastings to Leeds after grooming what he believed were underage girls online. The profiles were decoys run by a vigilante group. He admitted attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, attempting to incite a child into sexual activity, arranging or facilitating a child sex offence, and attempting to meet a girl under 16 following grooming. Officers found condoms he had brought with him after he was confronted and arrested.

Part of Operation Tourway investigation into child sexual abuse in Kirklees between 1999 and 2012, where eight young girls were victims of rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking.

Sam Millard launched an unprovoked attack on a woman at a house party in Castleford on January 26, smashing a gin glass into her face. The offence came weeks after he was involved in a drink-fuelled crash.

Part of an Albanian gang that ran five commercial cannabis farms across West Yorkshire between 2024 and 2025, growing cannabis with a street value of more than £3m. In contact with property owners. Sites included 192 Alverthorpe Road, Wakefield (3 Oct 2024); Newgate House, Pontefract (8 Oct 2024); 17a Wakefield Commercial Park, Horbury (19 Feb); Unit 8 Beckbridge Industrial Estate, Normanton (19 Mar); former social club Moldgreen Top, Huddersfield (9 Apr 2024).

He tried to groom a child on Facebook. A pre-sentence report found he still denies a sexual attraction to children.

Simon Hook set up a secret camera to watch people undress. He admitted possessing prohibited images of children, possessing an extreme pornographic image, breaching his 10-year sexual harm prevention order and breaching the terms of the sex offender register. He was jailed for a total of 21 months.

Steven Chadwick, a former Scout Master, abused two young boys in the late 1980s. He used his positions in the Scouts and a local church youth club to befriend one boy's family and groom him before the abuse took place. One survivor described waking up to images of the abuse nearly 40 years later and suffering anxiety, depression and self-destructive behaviour as a result.

Stuart Penney 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.

Between June 2015 and April 2017, Thomas Todd managed businesses operating from the former Bowman’s Site in Lincolnshire near the A52, storing materials illegally, failing to have a fire prevention plan, stacking waste too high and close together creating fire risk, leading to health risks from mice and flies. Site permit suspended multiple times. Judge noted fire safeguards non-existent and flagrantly breached environmental law.

Thomas Lock subjected his girlfriend to a five-month abusive relationship marked by extreme paranoia, during which he gave her five black eyes.

Tejpal Sagoo's company, Robin Hood Group Ltd, controlled the operation at the site on Duncombe Road, Bradford, where over 275 tonnes of mixed household, commercial and industrial waste were illegally stored between January and March 2017. 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. Officers instructed no more waste to be brought in and for it to be legitimately disposed of.

Terry Soloman Dugbo, 48, from Leeds, failed to pay Proceeds of Crime confiscation orders totalling over £1.3 million from a 2019 fraud case (£2.2 million defrauded from electrical waste recycling industry), £79,000 from a 2011 Environment Agency prosecution for exporting hazardous waste to Nigeria, and £17,000 from a 2015 VAT fraud, despite court orders. Only approximately £46,000 paid towards earlier orders. HHJ Jameson QC ruled no realistic prospect of payment. Sentences imposed consecutively on top of current 7 years 6 months for 2016 conviction (conspiracy to defraud, acting as disqualified director, breaching environmental permit via falsified paperwork for TLC Recycling LTD claiming recycling of 19,500 tonnes non-existent waste).