As the months roll on, so do the wheels of justice across Yorkshire as more criminals enter the court docks. Some leave the court the same way they came in - through the security doors - but others are taken away in a van to begin their time behind bars.
October has been another busy month, with some of the region's most dangerous criminals locked up by the courts in Yorkshire. The month saw sentences passed for Alfie Franco, who murdered Syrian refugee Ahmad Mamdouh al Ibrahim in a Huddersfield street after he "brushed past" his then partner, and knife-obsessed Mohammed Umar Khan, who stabbed and murdered Harvey Willgoose at a Sheffield school earlier this year.
Below are the criminals and their crimes which they were put behind bars in October.
Dewsbury man Ramsden was jailed in October after being found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault between 1970 and 1977. He was also found guilty of two counts of indecency with a child.
He was handed a sentence of 13 years, made up of 11 in custody and two years on an extended licence.
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Former South Yorkshire PC Thompson posed as a paedophile hunter to blackmail a suspect.
The man was suspected of possessing indecent images and Thompson demanded £3,500 from him using a fake email address. She abused her position to fund her gambling addiction.
Bradford burglar Hanrahan broke into an elderly woman's home to steal her pension money so he could spend it on drugs.
He was on licence at the time for similar crimes against elderly people when he tricked his way into the 85-year-old's property. He asked her for £15 to fix her roof tiles. She wanted to call her son but he made his way further inside, asking her if he could use the toilet. The woman took two £10 notes out of her jam jar to get rid of him but he grabbed the cash and took another £180 from the jar, before running away.
He was arrested later that night and was jailed in October for 45 months.
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Evil Jarrett plied teenage girls with drugs and alcohol in exchange for sex, which he then filmed and shared with others.
The offences took place between April and June 2024 and he recorded or filmed the sex acts and shared at least one video with one of the girls as well as two of his friends.
When his mobile was seized, officers found 36 Category A, 27 Category B, and 17 Category C child sexual abuse images.
He was convicted of a catalogue of sick offending including offences such as: Arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation and distributing an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child.
Evil Lewin was handed an extended sentence of 13 years made up of 12 years in custody and one year on extended licence for the sexual abuse of a teenage girl.
The court heard Lewin abused the girl after buying her jewellery and a phone, and would message her like a "boyfriend."
It was said he started by kissing the girl before going on to have sex with her.
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Doncaster man Thomson smashed a woman's head with a hammer in a "horrific" attack.
After knocking the woman over, he climbed on top of her and continued to attack her with the hammer before pressing down on her throat and eyes. Three witnesses acted courageously to interrupt the attack, with two of them able to get Thomson into another room and barricade him in there until police arrived moments later. The victim was rushed to hospital with serious injuries, with Thomson also receiving hospital treatment for a self-inflicted stab wound.
Bradford man Rahman downloaded horrific child abuse material and then asked for money from other perverts who wanted to see it. He was arrested from his workplace in December 2022 after West Yorkshire Police received information about him uploading material to the internet.
When his mobile phone was analysed officers found almost 100 still and moving indecent images of children. Almost 50 of them were from the most serious category showing children as young as babies being raped by adult males.
Enquiries revealed that he had distributed 27 still and moving images, and had engaged in Telegram messages showing individuals specifically requesting images and movies from him, for which he requested monetary payment.
Huddersfield rapist Hardman attacked a woman hours after matching with her on dating app Badoo. He continuously asked to see the woman hours after matching on the site, but it later became clear he already knew more details about her life than she had imagined.
After the pair chatted at hers, she went to bed - having already made it very clear nothing was to happen - and he followed her and raped her. Afterwards, when the woman confronted Hardman, he told her if he saw her or her friend again he would harm them and said he was not scared of the police.
He was arrested and was found to already be under investigation for a harassment offence relating to an ex-partner. He was said to have hounded her with calls and even threatened to burn her grandmother's house down.
Hardman was jailed for five years and nine months.
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Former office manager Barker, who abused her position at a Calderdale demolition firm to get money to fund her drug and alcohol addiction, was jailed for 30 months in October.
A court heard her offending came to light in 2021 and she went on to admit fraud by abuse of position relating to the total sum of more than £190,000.
It was said she took the money over a six-year period while she was responsible for the office's day-to-day operations and had access to the company's bank account.
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Care home worker Mateen sexually assaulted two women and was jailed this month.
A court heard Mateen had sat next to the first complainant and put her hand on his crotch area. The second offence took place a year later when Mateen grabbed the hands of a vulnerable woman and tried to move them towards his penis.
The court heard that Mateen also touched the second woman's bottom and later told her not to tell anyone.
Schoolboy Khan was jailed in October after being found guilty of the murder of Harvey Willgoose.
Khan was detained for life and told he must be in custody for a minimum of 16 years for the murder, which took place at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3 this year. The school was plunged into lockdown after Khan stabbed 15-year-old Harvey with a knife he had taken in with him.
A court heard about Khan's "interest" in knives and an image and video released following his sentence showed him posing with a weapon and holding another on school grounds.
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"Depraved" Yorkshire soldier Fleming abused and blackmailed children as young as 1- more than 80 times in his "prolific" sextortion plot.
He et up multiple fake social media profiles, including female ones, and groomed children to send indecent images and videos of themselves in a "prolific" display of sexstortion. The youngest of Fleming's many victims was aged just 10 and the oldest only 17.
Fleming secretly recorded interactions to use as leverage. When the children refused, Fleming would threaten to share the images already sent with their loved ones or bribe the children with money and vouchers for further images. One of Fleming's victims was so badly traumatised by the threats made that he attempted to take his own life.
Evil Agar was jailed for six years and seven months for a vile attack which saw him rape a woman and urinate her.
The then-19-year-old was arrested the next day and told police in a prepared statement that all sexual activity had been consensual. He later admitted a charge of common assault in relation to the urination and was found guilty of rape by a jury.
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Predator Massey was jailed for six years after he sent sexually explicit messages to a police officer posing online as a 12-year-old girl. The messages he sent were said to be "extremely graphic and persistent" and amounted to 67 pages over a ten-day period in May 2023.
A court heard that Massey, of no fixed abode, had tried to incite the "decoy" child to performed sexual acts on herself and he had also sent sexual images of himself.
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Domestic abuser Leason was put behind bars in October as he refused to show a "shred of remorse" for his offending.
He was said to have headbutted his victim, intentionally strangled her and even kicked her in the head and body while wearing "steel toe-capped" footwear. He had already previously attacked the victim, and told her afterwards he would "never be violent to her again."
Bower and Boocock were jailed for their parts in a violent disorder that kicked off after a Luke Boocock rowed with a love rival.
A court heard how he had agreed with the man to have a "one-on-one" fight but he turned up with others armed with weapons and attacked his house.
During the horrific violence, Bower drove his Transit van at the victim's house, nearly running over a pedestrian and the family dog as he did so. Lewis Boocock "lost his temper" and "showed enthusiasm" for violence by running towards a woman with a mental pole. It was said he went on to strike the door of the house with a stick before kicking it and smashing the window on it.
He was jailed for 18 months and Bower for two years. Luke Boocock was handed a 3-month sentence suspended for two years.
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Sick predator Walsh plied a teenage girl before raping her while she was unconscious at his Elland flat.
Walsh knew the girl was extremely drunk when he took her back, along with his 40-year-old daughter, to his flat. The teenager had no recollection of going in the taxi and her next memory was waking up in the flat to find him performing a sex act on her.
Walsh went on to admit rape and assault by penetration on the third day of his trial. He was jailed for 11 years.
His daughter, Lynzy Walsh, was sentenced to 12 months suspended for 18 months for perverting the course of justice in relation to lies she told to police.
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Disgraced tip boss Hunter found himself back in court in October after stalking a stranger he mistakenly believed to be having a relationship with his partner.
Hunter harassed the man with calls and messages, and did the same to his ex-partner. He even tracked the woman's mother after believing she had started a new relationship.
A court heard how Hunter had tracked his ex to an address which he mistakenly believed belonged to the man, and he began stalking him. On one occasion, the man was made aware by a friend they had had a visit from two men telling them to ask him to "Call Sam."
It was said that on one terrifying occasion, the man - who had never met Hunter or his ex-partner before the court proceedings - was at the gym when he received a Facebook message that read: "Hope you're having a good gym session."
"Show-off" dentist Mir killed much-loved Joshua Wilson when he ran over him on the A647 Bradford Road while reaching speeds of 96mph.
Joshua was said to have not had a "chance" when Mir hit him. A court heard he had got off a bus and was crossing the road when Mir - who was trying to "show off" to another driver ploughed into him.
It was said Joshua saw the car and "held his arm up to tell him to stop," to no avail.
"Dangerous sexual predator" Ackroyd tried to rape a young girl before attempting to intimidate her out of giving evidence.
He was found guilty of child sex offences and witness intimidation following a trial. He was jailed for ten years in total for the offences.
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Bradford barber Naveed was jailed for nine years after he locked a boy in the back room of his shop before pinning him down and raping him. The boy had previously been given free cannabis by Naveed, but on this occasion was told he would "have to work for it."
When the boy refused to do what Naveed wanted him to, he locked the door to the room and raped him.
The boy was sexually abused separately by Muhammed Afsan who committed offences against him in the back of his Audi car. He was jailed for eight years.
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Sick child rapist Green was caught trying to meet a 12-year-old girl so he could abuse her.
The girl - "Olivia" - was actually a police constable using social media site Kik to snare predators like Green, who already had a conviction for raping a child under the age of 13.
Conversation soon turned sexual and Green sent pictures of himself and his penis and videos of him masturbating. He also referenced the pair meeting. Officers attended at his home in June this year and discovered a damaged Motorolla phone buried in the cellar. He was banned from keeping devices that could connect to the internet, and it was found he had been messaging "Olivia" from that.
He was made the subject of an extended sentence made up of a six-year custodial term and a three-year extended licence period.
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Leonard and his younger brother Kswiga left a young girl broken and "traumatised" after raping a schoolgirl and getting her pregnant. The pair were said to have destroyed the girl's life for their own sick "sexual gratification."
The girl went on to give birth and it was confirmed the baby was father by Leonard, who is HIV positive. The girl did not contract HIV from the abuse.
Leonard was handed 24 years and an extended licence period of one year and Ksigwa was jailed for 12 years.
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North Yorkshire's Watkin was found guilty of sexual assault after deceiving a man and not disclosing her biological sex to him.
The pair arranged to meet up after talking on Snapchat. A court heard Watkin had a stuffed bra and repeatedly claimed to be on their period before asking for lights to be turned off and performing sexual acts on him. The man said he would not have consented had he known Watkin was a biological male.
The two met once more at the man's family home. Watkin later revealed a "big secret" to the victim, confirming details in a text message: "that's why I didn't s*** you."
Evil Franco was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 23 years for the heartless and brutal murder of Ahmad Mamdouh al Ibrahim.
Ahmad - a Syrian refugee who had been in Huddersfield for a matter of weeks - was stabbed in the neck in the town centre in a bloodthirsty attack by Franco on April 3.
It was said Ahmad had "brushed past" the then-partner of Franco. Franco had filmed himself smoking a joint on his way to a Job Centre meeting in Huddersfield earlier that morning. He was said to have taken ketamine and cocaine the night before, and had an interest in knives, taking pictures of his collection and sending them to friends.
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Ahmed and Elahi were jailed in October after four teenage boys from Bradford were used in a county lines operation during the pandemic.
A 14-year-old and three 17-year-olds were all used by a Bradford-based drugs line - the "Ace drugs line - and taken more than 150 miles from their home city to deal heroin and cocaine on streets in the Aylesbury area.
A court heard that Qaddus Ahmed, 28, and 25-year-old Usama Elahi were the "principal operators and managers" of the Ace line which sent out bulk messages to potential customers advertising drugs for sale.
Ahmed was jailed for seven-and-a-half years and Elahi was jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Yasser Malik was jailed for 27 months and Zia Mahmood for 30 months for their involvement with supervising the 14-year-old.
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Evil Woodhouse controlled a woman's life during a horrifying campaign of terror.
He was jailed in October for seven years and three months after admitting attempted assault and stalking including fear of violence which took place last year.
In a victim impact statement, his victim described how he "beat me like I was an animal". She bravely said: "I've never felt that level of hatred and violence before. He hit me harder than I could ever imagine, without any care, without any remorse. I thought I was going to die. I honestly thought that was it.
"I couldn't breathe, couldn't escape, this went on for hours. There was no stopping him, no calming him down, and I did try, I basically begged him to stop but he just wouldn't. He carried on until I looked unrecognisable.
"I think that was the scariest thing of all, the complete lack of mercy. I wasn't even fighting back. I just stood there, numb, like I was watching someone else take the blows. In those moments, dying felt like it would be a release."
As well as the savage beating, Woodhouse then subjected the woman to a terrifying stalking campaign, during which he would tell lies about her and turn those she knew against her. He even tried to get her fired.
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Barnsley predator Gamble was jailed after a brave woman reported him years after he abused her.
Gamble groomed and abused the victim between 1989 and 2002, offering her cigarettes and telling her his actions were "their secret" before sexually abusing and raping her.
Former soldier Lawton, who stabbed his partner Michelle Egge-Bailey in her bed, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 16 years and 158 days.
Lawton, who suffers from PTSD following tours in the army and the deaths of family members and ex-colleagues, launched his attack on his partner after he had been caught drink-driving by police a few days earlier.
The court heard that after fatally stabbing his partner in bed Lawton put a pillow over her face and shut the bedroom door. He then went to the pub, where he hoped to meet a friend, and also withdrew £700 from his partner's bank account which he thought about using to flee the area. After returning to the house he drank himself to sleep before waking up the next day hoping that it had all been a nightmare.
Michelle's body was discovered by police after Lawton contacted a friend and said he had "done something beyond stupid."
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A woman was left with life-changing injuries after uninsured BMW driver Hussain ploughed into her parked car during a police chase.
Hussain smashed into the parked up Toyota Yaris the woman was driving, leaving her with a catalogue of injuries including a bleed on the brain, fractures to her spine, a partially collapsed lung, rib fractures and a deep wound to her thigh. The "hit and run" driver then fled the scene - but not before leaving his DNA in blood-staining on an airbag.
Hussain was eventually arrested two months after the collision when officers spotted him behind the wheel of an Audi.
Sick Langlands, 74, finally faced justice in October after he was found guilty of sexually abusing two teenage boys in West Yorkshire.
Langlands travelled regularly from his home in Scotland to volunteer at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. He "took advantage" of his position in life to satisfy his appetite for young boys and was said to have not shown a "scintilla of remorse" for his offending.