Lawson A dangerous offender has been locked up for three years and two months after following a teenage girl for half a mile before carrying out a violent and determined sexual assault on her. Callum Lawson, 19, was labelled a public danger by Judge Andrew Hatton when he sentenced him at Bradford Crown Court today on a video link to HMP Doncaster where he was remanded. Lawson, of Cartmel Road, Keighley, pursued the teenage girl “determinedly and purposefully” through the town before attacking her in a secluded spot. He shoved his hand up his victim’s skirt, causing her to stumble forward and leaving her with severe psychological damage.
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A DRINK-DRIVER was jailed for eight years and eight months for causing the deaths of a devoted couple by ploughing into their vehicle on the A59 near Skipton. Thomas Finnegan, 29, had also taken cocaine when his Mercedes Vito van smashed into a Nissan Juke being driven by Mark Gregson shortly before 10pm on January 24 last year. Mr Gregson, 52, and his partner Claire Lucas, 43, were pronounced dead at the scene. Finnegan’s girlfriend, Lucille Hammond, who was the front seat passenger in the van, suffered a fractured spine. Finnegan, of Park Lane, North Newington, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, one offence of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving while under the influence of drugs and driving with excess alcohol.