Here are the names and faces of 47 criminals who were locked up in Leeds during July 2026.
Their crimes include a dangerous paedophile who raped and sexually assaulted children as young as one, and a “warped” paedophile, who smirked in court, and continued to deny sexually assaulting a teenage girl was wrong.
Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court during July 2026, a dangerous drive who turned his car into a “lethal weapon” before causing the death of an 18-year-old girl.
Here are the names and faces of 47 criminals who were locked up by judges in July...
13. Alan Ward
Predator Alan Ward was jailed for 13 years for sexual offences against a teenage girl in the 1980s and 1990s. He was aged in his 30s and his victim was 14 at the time. The victim came forward to report Ward, now 71, in 2020, which prompted an investigation by the Wakefield District Safeguarding Unit. | WYP
14. Damien Robinson
Damien Robinson was jailed for just over 29 months after breaking into a terrified student’s flat. The 35-year-old admitted the break in, and a further attempted dwelling burglary and a commercial burglary after he was caught in the staff room of a city-centre Tesco store. Robinson has 148 offences on his criminal record. | WYP / YEP / Google Map
15. Sam Cawood
Drug dealer Sam Cawood has been locked up after breaching his suspended sentence. The 24-year-old was previously caught peddling crack cocaine and heroin in Wakefield but avoided jail due to his “naivety”. Carwood bizarrely claimed he was being coerced to work for travellers who had threatened him and his family, but the judge activated all 22 months of his suspended sentence. | WYP / YEP
16. Danny Rudd
Burglar Danny Rudd was tackled by a homeowner after he stole alcohol and crisps, and has been jailed for three years. The 39-year-old broke into the bar in the man’s garden and had stolen two bottles of alcohol and four packets of crisps before he was taken down by the victim. Rudd has 17 previous convictions for 39 offences. | WYP / YEP
17. John Pinner
Jealous thug John Pinner has been jailed for 28-months and given an indefinite length restraining order to keep away from her after he grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head into the bar at Tinshill & Cookridge Social Club without warning. The 62-year-old then picked up the glass and raised it before bringing it down on the top of her head. She required seven stitches to a “horseshoe-shaped” cut to her head. | WYP
18. Dean Smith
Prolific shoplifter Dean Smith has been jailed for 50 weeks and made the subject of a five year made Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) banning him from Morley town centre after he pleaded guilty to more than 20 theft from shop offences. On top of this, the 44-year-old, of no fixed abode, is banned from entering any Boots, Farm Foods or B&M stores in the Leeds Metropolitan district. | WYP