Sheffield Crown Court Sentencing Results

At around 2.16am on 15 June 2024, Kevan Turner shot a child in the stomach with a five-foot long air rifle in Barnsley. The child was rushed to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Turner, 43, of Barnsley, was arrested on suspicion of assault and later charged with wounding without intent.

Anthony Blackwood, 46, of Sheffield, met a man in City Road and invited him to stay at his flat. Later that night on February 8, 2024, he brutally attacked the man with a metal pole, causing a complex depressed skull fracture, bleeding on the surface of the brain, and a stab wound to the abdomen. Blackwood attempted to clean the crime scene and change his clothes but was caught through witness statements and forensic analysis.

Jason McGuire, 31, from Mexborough, was caught on camera hurling rocks and concrete slabs at police guarding the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, smashing hotel windows during a violent rampage this August.

Michael Trainer targeted a Sheffield family by setting fire to the ground floor of a property in Upperthorpe on October 18, 2024, while a 61-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl were upstairs. The following night, on October 19, 2024, he started a fire at a property in Oughtibridge, with five occupants inside, including those from the first attack. The occupants escaped without injuries, and Trainer was linked to the crimes through forensic evidence from a bottle and brick found at the scenes.

On March 19, Daniel Heeley-Luty was involved in a fight outside Doncaster College. He brandished a 30cm kitchen knife and ran towards another person, leading to a lockdown of the college. He hid the knife in a fenced-off area before being arrested minutes later. The event involved multiple arrests and resulted in a minor hand injury to a non-student.

On December 22, 2024, at 10pm, Ryan Jobes and others arrived at a property in Doncaster, where they fired a gun several times at the building and then set it on fire. They fled in a vehicle, which was later found burned out. Jobes was arrested after being stopped in a Kia Sorento, wearing clothes matching those seen in CCTV footage and smelling of petrol and accelerant.

On December 22, 2024, at 10pm, James McGuinness and others arrived at a property in Doncaster, where they fired a gun several times at the building and then set it on fire. They fled in a vehicle, which was later found burned out. McGuinness was arrested after being stopped in a Kia Sorento, wearing clothes matching those seen in CCTV footage and smelling of petrol and accelerant.

Thomas Hampton was caught trying to take a picture of a woman in a tanning room cubicle. His phone was seized and examined, revealing dozens of self-recorded videos and photographs of women in public, including upskirting images. He regularly followed and recorded lone women without their knowledge or consent, leading to his arrest and conviction.

Mohammed Mahfuz Ahmed (02/03/1999), of Cleethorpes, was arrested on April 18, 2024, as part of an intelligence-led operation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East. A search of his home revealed extremist material including official Daesh magazines and propaganda promoting violent jihad. He used five social media accounts over five months to share this content, gathering over 1,300 followers and 14,000 likes, while circumventing platform rules and encouraging others to share material. He added commentary identifying 'easy' targets and demanding followers 'Answer the Call'.

Oliver Corney went to The Red Lion pub in Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, armed with a gun after hearing about an earlier argument, likely related to drugs. On June 28th, 2024, he fired three times into a group of people, missing his intended target and hitting the victim, the 56-year-old landlady, in the leg. This caused life-changing injuries, including ongoing pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, forcing her to give up her role as pub licensee and affecting her community involvement.

Michael Peterson, 38, of Doncaster, subjected a woman to a brutal attack, leaving her with horrific injuries including swelling and a bleed to the brain, a punctured lung, multiple fractured ribs, and other injuries. He attempted to cover up the crime by claiming the woman had fallen down the stairs.

Joseph Haythorne posted a message on X, formerly Twitter, stating 'Go on Rotherham. Burn any hotels with them scruffy bastards in it', which included a link to a post by activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. This occurred on August 4, 2024, during riots outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The post was viewed by 1,100 people in 17 minutes before being deleted. Haythorne handed himself in to the police and was sentenced after pleading guilty.

Kallum Flowers was driving at high speed, failed to stop at red lights, and collided with the victim's vehicle on Packman Road in Rotherham on June 22, 2023, causing life-altering injuries. He fled the scene and evaded capture for over four months, during which he was involved in another fail-to-stop incident that injured a woman in South Kirby.

Hannah Costello helped Kallum Flowers flee the scene of a crash on Packman Road in Rotherham on June 22, 2023, by picking him up in her black Peugeot 3008, allowing him to evade capture.

At 11.36 pm on November 26, 2023, Dean Rowbottom drove a Volkswagen Passat on Kimberworth Road in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, crashing into a row of parked cars with considerable force. His 47-year-old passenger died at the scene. Rowbottom suffered minor injuries.

Ryan Wright and Martell Maw armed themselves with knives and engaged in an altercation on Clipstone Gardens in Darnall, Sheffield on July 22, 2024, following a verbal disagreement. They attacked the complainant, inflicting a five-centimetre wound to his right elbow, a three-centimetre wound to his right knee, and injuries to the tendons in his index finger, which required plastic surgery at Northern General Hospital.

Martell Maw and Ryan Wright armed themselves with knives and engaged in an altercation on Clipstone Gardens in Darnall, Sheffield on July 22, 2024, following a verbal disagreement. They attacked the complainant, inflicting a five-centimetre wound to his right elbow, a three-centimetre wound to his right knee, and injuries to the tendons in his index finger, which required plastic surgery at Northern General Hospital.

Ty Kelsall was driving a rented white Vauxhall Corsa at excessive speeds without a licence when he crashed into the right-hand side of a woman's vehicle at the junction of Festival Road and Wath-upon-Dearne in Rotherham in May 2023. The collision left the victim, a woman in her 50s, with fractures to her pelvis, spine, fibula, and an injury to her sternum. She was trapped in her car, and Kelsall fled the scene without checking on her. He was apprehended two months later in possession of 26 wraps of crack cocaine.

Aston Martin, 54, of Sheffield, began messaging an undercover police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl named Molly in a highly sexualised manner. He asked if she wanted to be used as a sex toy, referenced sharing her with a friend, and instructed her to perform a sex act on herself. A phone call confirmed his awareness of the illegality, after which he terminated communication. Devices seized from his home contained extreme pornographic images and 48 indecent images across categories A, B, and C, including evidence of distributing a category A image. This occurred while he was on bail for a prior offense of filming a woman showering and committing a sex act on her underwear.

Jacek Brzozowski, 35, a Polish national from Rawmarsh in Rotherham, admitted to penetrative sexual activity with a vulnerable child in Rotherham between October and December 2011. He took advantage of an opportunity while living in another man's house, where the child had been exploited. This was described as an isolated incident, and he has not reoffended since. The case was part of Operation Stovewood, investigating child sexual exploitation in Rotherham from 1997 to 2013.

Daniel Bradshaw, aged 51, used a Stanley knife to inflict a permanent facial scar on the victim during a struggle arising from a neighbour dispute. The incident occurred at an unspecified date, but the victim continues to suffer cosmetic effects six months later. Bradshaw was charged with multiple offences related to this attack.

Morgan Farr Varney, a prison officer at HMP Lindholme, engaged in a romantic and physical relationship with an inmate. The affair began while she was on duty, involving sneaking into a cupboard and exchanging letters. Colleagues became suspicious, leading to CCTV evidence and a search that uncovered the relationship. She was arrested in January 2023 and the relationship continued even after the inmate was transferred to another facility.

Valentin Badica was involved in a sex trafficking ring that shipped 14 young women from Romania to Doncaster, Norwich, and Ilford in London between 2016 and 2019. The women were sexually exploited at multiple addresses in Doncaster and London, where they were subjected to sexual, physical, and financial abuse by the traffickers. The gang transferred large sums of money associated with the exploitation and drove the women across the UK for sex work.

Cristian Damaschin was involved in a sex trafficking ring that shipped 14 young women from Romania to Doncaster, Norwich, and Ilford in London between 2016 and 2019. The women were sexually exploited at multiple addresses in Doncaster and London, where they were subjected to sexual, physical, and financial abuse by the traffickers. The gang transferred large sums of money associated with the exploitation and drove the women across the UK for sex work.

Adrian Cioroaba was involved in a sex trafficking ring that shipped 14 young women from Romania to Doncaster, Norwich, and Ilford in London between 2016 and 2019. The women were sexually exploited at multiple addresses in Doncaster and London, where they were subjected to sexual, physical, and financial abuse by the traffickers. The gang transferred large sums of money associated with the exploitation and drove the women across the UK for sex work.

Iuliana Mavroian was involved in a sex trafficking ring that shipped 14 young women from Romania to Doncaster, Norwich, and Ilford in London between 2016 and 2019. The women were sexually exploited at multiple addresses in Doncaster and London, where they were subjected to sexual, physical, and financial abuse by the traffickers. The gang transferred large sums of money associated with the exploitation and drove the women across the UK for sex work.

Ionica Badica was involved in a sex trafficking ring that shipped 14 young women from Romania to Doncaster, Norwich, and Ilford in London between 2016 and 2019. The women were sexually exploited at multiple addresses in Doncaster and London, where they were subjected to sexual, physical, and financial abuse by the traffickers. The gang transferred large sums of money associated with the exploitation and drove the women across the UK for sex work.

Ionut-leonard Bahica was involved in a sex trafficking ring that shipped 14 young women from Romania to Doncaster, Norwich, and Ilford in London between 2016 and 2019. The women were sexually exploited at multiple addresses in Doncaster and London, where they were subjected to sexual, physical, and financial abuse by the traffickers. The gang transferred large sums of money associated with the exploitation and drove the women across the UK for sex work.

Mihaela Matei was involved in a sex trafficking ring that shipped 14 young women from Romania to Doncaster, Norwich, and Ilford in London between 2016 and 2019. The women were sexually exploited at multiple addresses in Doncaster and London, where they were subjected to sexual, physical, and financial abuse by the traffickers. The gang transferred large sums of money associated with the exploitation and drove the women across the UK for sex work.

Iran Johnson and an accomplice drove a victim to woodland and beat him over a drug debt, using a blunt implement to cause a fractured skull that required surgery. Johnson threatened to kill the victim if the debt was not repaid, leaving the victim in fear for his life.