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Longstaff, pictured, was jailed for his offending A man has been jailed for 20 months for urinating on his partner and repeatedly punching her after drinking and taking drugs on St Valentine’s Day. Luke Longstaff left the woman bruised and bleeding in the attack at her home in the early hours of February 15 last year. Longstaff, 28, who had been remanded in Leeds Prison since April, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in Bradford and criminal damage to a radiator. A further charge that he unlawfully and maliciously administered a poison or other destructive or noxious thing, namely urine, with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy was dropped by the prosecution because it was part of the assault. ....
Richard Beech A FAILED businessman become the sixth and final member of an organised crime ring operating in Bradford to be put behind bars this month. Richard Beech was jailed for five years for laundering £5 million of drugs money for the gang. He made frequent trips between his home in Manchester and West Yorkshire to collect and deliver large amounts of cash concealed in hidden compartments under the seats of his specially modified Range Rover. He was labelled the “cash converter and banker” for the organisation led by Rashid Ashraf (also known as Mohammed Rashid) who was jailed for 18 years. ....
The men jailed this week in Bradford for various offences including robbery, drugs offences and paedophilia THESE are the people who were jailed this week in Bradford for a range of offences including paedophilia, drugs offences and robbery. THREE men were jailed for their roles in a major organised crime ring operating in the Bradford area. Father of three Yaser Nazir was imprisoned for five years and three months after the police seized £1.214 million of cocaine and heroin when they busted the operation. Nazir, 38, of Lindley Road, Little Horton, Bradford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine. Prosecutor Alasdair Campbell said he was involved with the gang on March 5 and 19 this year. ....
Simon Martin - who called himself ‘genuine UK perv’ A CONVICTED paedophile has been jailed for two years and eight months after asking an undercover police officer if he could perform depraved sex acts on two young girls. Simon Martin, 50, was snared in an internet sting in which the officer pretended to be the mother of children aged 12 and eight, Bradford Crown Court heard today. Martin exchanged messages with her in an internet chatroom in which he called himself “genuine UK perv” and said “no age limit whatsoever”. Martin, now in Leeds Prison but formerly of Brookfoot Lane, Brighouse, was in breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order made at Bolton Crown Court in January 2013, for attempting to arrange the commission of a child sexual offence. ....
Young mum suffered severed artery in knife incident involving ex partner A young mother suffered a severed artery in her hand when she grabbed at the knife her former partner was threatening her with, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday. The Bradford woman was left with permanent nerve damage when the blade sliced into her index finger as she tried to defend herself from 28-year-old Danny Thomas. Thomas, of Burneston Gardens, Wibsey, Bradford, was sentenced on a link to Leeds Prison after he pleaded guilty to controlling behaviour and unlawful wounding. Prosecutor Rupert Doswell said Thomas sent the woman hundreds of threatening and abusive messages when she ended their relationship. ....