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...
19. Jack Metcalfe
Thug Jack Metcalfe, who has a “terrible record for violence,” ripped a clump of hair from his partner’s head in an attack in which he also punched and headbutted her. They had been at home in the Swinnow area of Leeds on September 4 last year when he lunged at her. The 32-year-old admitted charges of ABH and assault - he was sentenced to 28 months in jail and given a 10-year restraining order. | WYP
20. Samuel Senior and Andrew Duffy
Known drug dealer, Samuel Senior, and Andrew Duffy were jailed for 10 years, and four-and-a-half years respectively, after police witnessed a bag that contained 25 kgs of near-pure cocaine, with an estimated street value of £2.5 million, being carried into Duffy’s property in Adel. It was heard that 36-year-old Senior had recruited Duffy to stash the drugs at his home. Over £12,800 worth of heroin at the property. | WYP
21. David Taylor, Mark Fellows and Lee Newell
David Taylor has been given a whole life order, a sentence his two accomplices Mark Fellows and Lee Newell, were already serving after they were found guilty of stabbing child killer Kyle Bevan to death in his cell at HMP Wakefield before tucking him up in bed and leaving him to bleed out. All three were already in prison for murder. Bevan, 33, was serving a life sentence for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter, Lola James. | WYP
22. Michael Charles
Michael Charles, who is known for carrying blades, was jailed for 30 months after a passenger on a bus in Leeds needed surgery after being slashed with a knife when an argument broke out between the victim and another passenger after he brushed past him. 45-year-old Charles, who was also on the bus, accused the man of racially abusing the other. The victim denied it, but Charles pulled the knife. | WYP / YEP
23. Lee Norton
Balaclava-wearing drug addict Lee Norton, who spent a night targeting homes on Willans Avenue in Rothwell looking for items to steal and trying door handles, has been told to “sort” his life out while in jail after being sentenced to 29 months behind bars. The 32-year-old, of no fixed abode, is a “third-strike” burglar, meaning it was his third dwelling burglary and faced a mandatory three-year sentence. | WYP / Google Maps
24. Nicholas Wilkinson
Violent thug Nicholas Wilkinson was jailed for 31-months, and given a 10-year restraining order to keep him away from his ex after he made increasingly sickening threats to stab her, set fire to her house and to hurt her family. The 26-year-old was previously jailed for 21-months for strangling the woman, but after his release moved back in with her, only for him to revert to his old ways. | WYP