Sheffield Crown Court Sentencing Results

Craig Berridge pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possessing a knife in a public place, and affray.

David Vincent Berry, linked to Park Farming Limited (PFL), breached environmental permits at sites in Kiveton and South Anston in South Yorkshire. Operated sites illegally for financial gain, ignoring permit conditions on waste storage and processing, resulting in environmental impact.

Arron Bailey took part in large-scale disorder at a Rotherham hotel where asylum seekers were staying. He threw bottles, fence panelling and other missiles at police, attempted to gain access to a police van, added wood to a fire, and was seen launching bricks at the building and stoking a fire inside a hotel window.

Alfie Rose had been drinking at a pub for several hours on June 1 2024 in Rotherham before driving his Suzuki Alto at speed along Potter Hill. He lost control and crashed into a wall outside the Crown public house. Police found open alcohol in the driver's footwell. His female passenger suffered a fractured elbow, ankle, foot and ribs, and a punctured lung, spending a week in hospital. Rose admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

On 9 July 2023 at Temple nightclub on Queen’s Road, Sheffield, Adam Kandrac, a door supervisor, punched a club-goer in the head after words were exchanged while attempting to escort the victim and his friends from the premises. The victim fell unconscious, suffered a fit, and was later found to have a bleed on the brain with swelling and drooping to the right side of his lip and cheek. Kandrac claimed hypervigilance due to recent weapons incidents at the venue and believed the victim had a knife (which the victim denies).

During a home visit at his supported living accommodation in Sheffield, Aboubakar Diaby became agitated and prevented two victims from leaving. He produced a six-to-eight-inch knife, pointed it at them, threatened to stab them, held it close to one victim's stomach, and punched the other victim in the face. He pleaded guilty to affray and false imprisonment.

Aaron Jones contacted a child through TikTok and Instagram using usernames that hid his identity. He asked her age, then requested naked images and videos and offered to pay her. The messaging began in May 2025 and escalated in June 2025, when he arranged to meet her, drove her to what he said was a friend's house, and sexually abused her. The defendant, aged 32 and from Barnsley, had previously pleaded guilty to 10 offences including sexual communications with a child and engaging in sexual activity with a child.

Leeson took part in a joint attack on a residential Barnsley street in March 2025. He struck the victim at least three times with an axe while a second attacker stabbed the same man four times. The victim suffered a broken and deformed arm and multiple stab wounds to his chest, abdomen and buttock, requiring surgery. The victim, a former serviceman, said the assault had an enormous impact on him and triggered post-traumatic stress disorder. No reason for the violence was given in court.

Bawan Hawre, a shop worker and asylum seeker from Iraq, groomed and trafficked seven vulnerable girls aged between 12 and 16 for sexual abuse. He gave alcohol and drugs to six of the girls before raping them. The offences took place in the Doncaster and Sheffield areas. He was convicted and sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court.

Becky Parsons committed a string of shoplifting offences between June 29 and July 20, 2026, stealing goods worth more than £1,700 from shops. She was caught on CCTV breaching the terms of a criminal behaviour order by entering a shop she was banned from on June 29 and July 10, 2026. She pleaded guilty at Barnsley Magistrates' Court on July 22, 2026 to 13 counts of shoplifting and two counts of breaching a criminal behaviour order, and was sentenced to one year and eight months imprisonment with compensation ordered.

Barry Reddish, 52, a registered sex offender from Roughwood Road, Rotherham, was found guilty of three counts of breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO). He babysat several children under 16 unsupervised between October 2019 and January 2020, ignoring his SHPO conditions. He was arrested on 30 March and charged shortly after.

Bradley Bennett, 32, of Ridgill Avenue in Doncaster, checked into the Holiday Inn Express in Balby under a fake name on 25 January due to paranoia. On 26 January he barricaded his hotel room door with a mattress, set the mattress and other items alight during a drug-induced psychotic episode, shouted for help and jumped from the window. He was arrested nearby. The fire caused £174,000 in damage plus over £50,000 in ongoing losses from closure. He had sought psychiatric help previously and had no prior similar convictions.

Charlotte Winstanley, a prison officer at HMP Lindholme, admitted misconduct in public office and sending a photograph from inside a prison after beginning a relationship with an inmate. She smuggled items and contraband into the prison.