Here are 40 reprehensible criminals who were locked up in Leeds during June 2026.
Their crimes include a young man who lashed out and killed 19-year-old Harry Abbott after being ambushed by a masked machete-wielding gang.
Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court during June 2026, was an off-duty pub doorman who fatally punched a drunken man after a night out, and a sexual predator who systematically abused three young girls.
Here are the names and faces of 40 criminals who were locked up by judges last month...
7. Hussain Lawnd
Teenager Hussain Lawnd has been sentenced to 27 months in a young offender institute and handed a driving ban of 37 months after he was chased by a police helicopter as he rode along pavements on an e-bike. The 18-year-old, of no fixed address, was selling high-purity crack cocaine from an electric bike and was armed with a fearsome machete. | WYP
8. Alfie rake
Hammer-wielding jealous thug Alfie Brake, who refused to leave his ex alone, was jailed for 30 months after he tried to smash his way into her home where her children were asleep. Brake, of Oxford Road, Gomersal, was with two other men when they targeted the terraced home in East End Park in the middle of the night. It was the culmination in a campaign of pestering in which he tried to call her 34 times in the space of two hours | WYP / YEP
9. Ervist Kodheli
Illegal immigrant Ervist Kodheli was jailed for a total of five years and eight months after he was caught working a network of cannabis farms at Leeds homes worth almost half a million pounds. The 33-year-old had been jailed and booted out of Britain in 2020 after a cannabis grow was found in Barnsley, but was later found to be working at four lucrative operations between 2024 and 2026. | WYP / YEP
10. Lloyd Morris
Smirking pervert Lloyd Morris was jailed for a total of 39 weeks after he groped a woman that tried to help him when he was found near unconscious in Leeds city centre. The 38-year-old, who is homeless, has been locked up previously for masturbating in public and sexually assaulting two women. Judge Anesh Pema told Morris it was a “deliberate act” and referred to his previous sexual convictions. | WYP / Google Maps
11. Dylan Phelan
Dylan Phelan was sentenced to six years and four months imprisonment after pleading guilty to encouraging a man in America to take his own life. In a recording, the 21-year-old, from Churwell, can be heard encouraging Travis Dyer, also 21, to pull the trigger and laughing afterwards. Phelan also pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of an extreme pornographic image and one count of making an indecent image of a child. | WYP
12. Declan Needham
Declan Needham, 29, was sentenced to six years and nine months after he was found with £600k worth of drugs and weapons stashed at his address on Halton Moor Avenue. Officers found five kilograms of heroin, one kilogram of cocaine and a small amount of cannabis. His partner, Chloe Britton, 25, was ordered to complete 100 unpaid work hours after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply cannabis. | WYP