From drug dealers corroding city streets to heartless burglars ransacking homes, these offenders have finally been brought to justice.
Among the defendants this month were a robber who snatched a cash register from Costcutter and a thug who stabbed a teenager outside McDonald’s.
After this busy month at Leeds Crown Court, here are 39 of the criminals who appeared in the dock in September -
1. Aiden Martin
Aiden Martin, 26, of Ealand Road, Batley, was jailed for 28 months after admitting dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen for testing. He also admitted ABH. Martin, who was banned from driving, punched and kicked his partner to the head and then bit her face when she refused to hand over the car keys in an attack in Beeston on July 15. | West Yorkshire Police
2. Liam Nicholls
Liam Nicholls, 34, of Raynel Way, Tinshill, was jailed for more than 11 years after he was found guilty of rape and coercive and controlling behaviour. He was described by his victim as "pure evil". | West Yorkshire Police
3. Dan Nguyen and Dihn Tran
Dan Nguyen, 46, was jailed for 15 months, and Dinh Tran, 37, was jailed for 20 months, after both were found to have been involved in the production of cannabis. They were told they will be deported from the UK because of the "sophisticated" farm on Torre Hill in Harehills, where more than £110,000 worth of cannabis was found on January 18. | West Yorkshire Police
4. Macauley Holmes
Macauley Holmes, 25, of Carlton Glen, Pontefract, was jailed for three years and nine months after admitting two counts of dealing in Class A drugs, and one of Class B. The cleaner employed to help tidy up at the Leeds Festival was caught selling drugs to music fans. | West Yorkshire Police/National World/Submitted
5. Adam Pidcock
Adam Pidcock, 49, of Radcliffe Road, Wakefield, was jailed for 16 years after he was found guilty of two counts of attempted GBH, dangerous driving, wounding with intent and possession of an offensive weapon. He mowed down a man and woman on Townley Street on Wakefield’s Lupset estate before thugs got out to slash and stab them with machetes or swords on December 23 last year. | West Yorkshire Police/Google
6. Romeo Barnett
Romeo Barnett, 19, an inmate at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire, was given a new 11-year extended sentence after admitted in court to attacking an officer at Wetherby Young Offender Institute. He bit an officer and carried out another brutal assault days before, pouring boiling water over an inmate and stabbing more than 30 times. | Northamptonshire Police/National World