Spending Christmas in jail…These are some of the people from our area who were locked up this week.

Chop shop conspiracy

Three men were jailed for a total of 19 years after the police busted “the most sophisticated chop shop that can ever be imagined” at the Chapel Green Works in Independent Street, Little Horton, Bradford.

Bradford Crown Court heard that high value stolen cars were stripped, dismantled and disguised in the sophisticated commercial enterprise.

The ringleader, Siyavash Omidifar, was jailed for ten years in his absence after he fled the country to Qatar part-way through the trial.

Omidifar, 41, of Ayresome Oval, Allerton, Bradford, and his “lieutenant” Pawel Wach, 35, a neighbour on Ayresome Oval, were convicted of conspiracy to dishonestly receive vehicles and vehicle parts. Wach was imprisoned for six years.

Marc Holton, 38, of Burneston Gardens, Buttershaw, Bradford, was jailed for three years after pleading guilty to the conspiracy.

Omidifar was also found guilty of laundering £57,000 of criminal money from the business.

‘15th strike’ house burglar

A housebreaker caught trying to smash his way into a pregnant woman’s home with a spade was locked up for two years and eight months.

Michael Coultous, 50, of Draughton Street, Bankfoot, Bradford, attempted to burgle a house in Carrbottom Road, Wibsey, and burgled a property on the same street, on June 12.

The heavily pregnant occupier of the first property disturbed him trying to prise open a window with a large spade, Bradford Crown Court heard.

A kitchen window was removed at a neighbouring property and a Playstation and £3,000 worth of wedding jewellery stolen.

Coultous had 14 previous convictions for house burglary.

Robber squandered £96,000 compensation

Scott Cross, who was jailed for nine years for a string of robberies, had spent the £96,000 he received in compensation for the tragic death of his mother on fuelling his addictions, the court was told.

Cross, 34, who threatened a pensioner with a hammer while plundering his home, was the only child of a woman who died in 2003 after she suffered an allergic reaction to penicillin.

“He spent the £96,000 he received in compensation for her death funding his addictions,” his barrister Abigail Langford said.

Cross, of Wharncliffe Crescent, Eccleshill, Bradford, was labelled a danger to the public by the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, after he admitted a spate of robberies.

He was jailed for nine years with a five-year extended licence.

“Unlucky” third strike drug dealer

A ‘THIRD strike’ drug dealer was caught after a car being chased by the police ran into his vehicle.

Qasim Ahmed was spotted throwing 42 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin into a garden after the smash on Jarratt Street, off Whetley Lane, Bradford, on November 26.

Ahmed, 32, of Naples Street, Girlington, Bradford, was “the unluckiest man in Bradford,” his barrister, Howard Shaw told Bradford Crown Court.

He was jailed for more than five and a half years for possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply. He received seven years as a third strike drug dealer, minus 20 per cent for his early guilty plea.

“Pink wine” pervert asked schoolgirl for sex

A convicted pervert who asked a 14-year-old girl for sex outside her Bradford school was jailed for 19 months.

Abdul Rubel downed a litre of “pink wine” in five minutes before propositioning the child and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl fifteen minutes later.

Rubel, 28, of Allerton Road, Bradford, had served an 18 week jail sentence just months before for trying to grab a woman at a bus stop and sexually assaulting another complainant by touching her breasts.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Rubel struck twice on the morning of September 6.

He pleaded guilty to attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and sexual assault.

“Terror case” man jailed for 12 years

A CCTV operative who disseminated terrorist videos was jailed for 12 years.

Asim Majid, 30, of Cranbourne Road, Heaton, Bradford, possessed and shared graphic films including videos which depicted suicide bombings, guidance on how to use a knife to kill, and images of dead soldiers, some of which were shared among a group of "trusted contacts".

Leeds Crown Court heard how the material was designed to inspire others to "fight for the cause of Islamic State".

Following a two-week trial, Majid was convicted of two counts of possessing documents likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, as well as eight counts of disseminating terrorist publications.

He was also found guilty by a jury of a single charge of transferring money knowing that it may be used for terrorism.