HERE'S a round-up of court cases heard over the past week.

Indecent images

A chatroom paedophile who asked other men if they "would like to abuse a baby" was locked up for three years.

Stephen James Lee, of Lynton Drive, off Toller Lane, Bradford, told police his offending, which involved possessing 111 indecent images of children, was "like an addiction".

The 45-year-old married man was found to have 23 of the most serious images of children being abused on his devices when police searched his home.

'Menace on the road'

Danger driver Jonathan Nudds, 28, of Pasture Walk, Clayton, Bradford, was jailed for 20 months.

Locking him up and banning him from driving for three years and ten months, Judge Robert Bartfield described film footage of the police chase played in court as “horrifying.”

“This case highlights the need for Parliament to allow judges to pass appropriate sentences for people who are a complete menace on the road,” the judge said.

The court heard he was driving a Fiat Punto that sped away from the police, wheels spinning, and led officers on a 15 minute night-time pursuit from Horsforth to Bradford.

Nudds, who had three passengers in the car, slid round a bend, went the wrong way round a roundabout and three traffic islands and accelerated off at double the 30mph speed limit.

He eventually crashed into a parked vehicle in Fourlands Drive, Idle.The court heard he smelt strongly of alcohol and had a bag of cocaine in his pocket.

Soup kitchen assault

Byron Scorgie, 33, of Beamsley Road, Shipley, was spared jail after violence flared at a soup kitchen.

The court heard he kicked and punched a stranger who complained his friend had been rude to staff.

Scorgie received a 19-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months after pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

He will also have to complete 180 hour of unpaid work and 30 rehabilitation days.

Danger driver

A drug-driver from Bradford who led police on a high-speed chase on a dual carriageway and through York was jailed by a judge – who said it was “incredible no-one was injured or killed”.

Waqar Hussain, 25, of Gladstone Street, off Barkerend Road, failed to stop for police when driving a Toyota Auris on the A64 eastbound near Bilbrough Top Services, York Crown Court heard.

Footage of the dramatic chase recorded by a camera in one of two pursuing police cars was played in court. It showed the police car reaching speeds of around 120mph to keep up with the Toyota on the A64, and up to 70mph in built up residential areas of York. Following his arrest, Hussain tested positive for cannabis, the court was told.

He was sentenced to 14 months in prison and disqualified him from driving for 55 months.

Baildon stabbing

A knife-wielding attacker who pursued a man from a bus stop and stabbed him in the chest was jailed for seven years.

Ross Hunter told Aaron Hogan: “I am going to kill you,” before chasing him along Cliffe Lane West in Baildon and delivering a blow with a kitchen knife as he climbed a gate to get away.

Hunter, 26, of Sissons Road, Middleton, Leeds, was angered by a Facebook friend request that Mr Hogan had sent to his girlfriend.