Their crimes include an international footballer found guilty of raping a woman in the toilet of a Leeds flat after ignoring her pleas for him to stop.
Also locked up at Leeds Crown Court this week, was a machete-wielding thug found guilty of attempted murder after brutally attacking a man on his doorstep.
View our gallery below for the full round-up of criminals locked up in Leeds this week...
1. Ras Diamond Jnr
International footballer Ras Diamond Jnr was jailed for six years and put on the sex offender register for life after being found guilty at trial of raping a woman in the toilet of a Leeds flat after ignoring her pleas for him to stop. The 27-year-old has played for the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean and for Selby Town FC, Harrogate Railway FC and Yorkshire Amateur AFC. | WYP
2. Jay Shah
Jay Shah has been jailed for four years after he used relaxed cannabis laws in Thailand to import kilogrammes of the drug into the UK. He had more than 50 suspected customers and boasted about having an 80% success rate of successfully delivering packages. The 25-year-old was eventually arrested from his address on Stonegate Road, Meanwood, in July last year, when his phone was seized and it was found he was chatting to around 50 “customers”. | WYP / Getty
3. Ethan Marsden
Vile prisoner Ethan Marsden squirted urine at an officer at HMP Wealstun. The 27-year-old previously led police on a high-speed chase through Huddersfield in July of last year in a stolen car, tried to spit at a police officer after being arrested and also spat in his cell at the police station. Judge Howard Crowson jailed him for 30 months and gave him a three-year driving ban. | WYP / YEP
4. Ahmed Osman
Student drug dealer Ahmed Osman, who has twice before been caught with large quantities of drugs, was jailed for three years after he dumped £48,000 worth of drugs in a bin after being chased by police. Officers spotted a Mercedes driving without insurance on Burley Road on September 23 last year, but as they got out to speak with the driver, it took off at speed, forcing them into a pursuit. | WYP
5. Robert Ledger
Drug addict Robert Ledger has been returned to prison for 18 months after breaching a restraining order. Leeds Crown Court heard that Ledger is banned from contacting his sister because he would persistently badger her for money to feed his heroin and cocaine habit. He was given the restraining order in 2021 and has breached it 18 times before, resulting in prison sentences. He was also given a new five-year restraining order. | WYP / YEP
6. Anthony Hartley
Paedophile Anthony Hartley was jailed for 21 months and put on the sex offender register for 10 years after being found guilty of sexual assault of a child and exposing himself. Hartley, 61, had pulled his trousers and underwear down to expose himself to the girl, who was six at the time. The youngster later admitted there had been a separate occasion in which Hartley had “tickled her bits." | WYP / Adobe