A DANGEROUS and determined paedophile who attempted to have sex with at least seven young girls was jailed for four and a half years with a six-year extended licence period.

Malcolm Bellwood, 63, made internet contact with what he believed were children aged between 12 and 15 and urged them to commit acts of penetrative sexual activity on themselves and to take part in depraved acts of bestiality.

Bellwood, of Discovery House, Barkerend Road, Bradford, was labelled a danger to the public, especially little girls, by Judge Jonathan Rose at Bradford Crown Court.

Bellwood committed a string of new offences just 28 days after he was sentenced to a three-year community order and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, on June 25 last year, for attempting to incite a girl aged 14 to engage in sexual activity.

He was netted by a vigilante group after arranging to meet up with what he thought was the child.

Bellwood pleaded guilty to seven new similar charges when he was brought back to court. He admitted two counts of attempting to incite a girl under 13 to engage in penetrative sexual activity, three offences of attempting to incite a girl under 16 to engage in penetrative sexual activity and attempting sexual communication with a child under 16.

The sexual harm prevention order stays in place for the rest of Bellwood’s life and he must sign on the sex offender register, also for life.

AN ‘AGGRESSIVE and bullying’ driver who tailgated a motorist before accelerating to double the speed limit and hitting a pedestrian was jailed for 30 months.

Simon Hare was doing 69mph on the A657 Leeds Road at Shipley when his wing mirror struck 57-year-old John Lewis, sending him spinning into the carriageway, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Mr Lewis suffered a traumatic brain injury in the collision at 6.15am on August 21 last year that has left him unable to sleep and without his sense of smell.

Hare, 33, of Wellstone Avenue, Swinnow, Leeds, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Prosecutor Mehran Nassiri said that minutes before he struck Mr Lewis, Hare had tailgated a car through Thackley.

Hare then overtook, accelerated to 69mph and hit Mr Lewis who was waiting at a traffic island in the centre of the road.

Mr Lewis was left unresponsive and bleeding from a head injury. He was taken to Leeds General Infirmary where a CT scan revealed a lesion on his brain.

Hare was banned from driving for four years and nine months and must take an extended retest to get his licence back.

A 'WICKED' robber who groomed and then stole from a vulnerable 79-year-old man was jailed for three years.

Isere Forrest, 49, of Valley View, Baildon, befriended the elderly man so that he trusted her but she then grabbed his bank card and PIN off him and withdrew cash from his account.

But the altercation outside his Sticker Lane, Bradford, home was witnessed by the man's neighbours who stepped in to try and stop the incident and then followed Forrest to a post office to seize back the card and return it to the victim.

Judge Jonathan Rose, sentencing Forrest at Bradford Crown Court, said she was wicked.

He told her: "You befriended an elderly man but what you were doing was grooming this man so that he would be trusting of you.

"He was trying to help you and you were taking advantage of him.”

The judge imposed an indefinite restraining order preventing Forrest contacting the victim and going within 400 yards of where he lives.

The court heard that Forrest, who pleaded guilty, pushed the 79-year-old man into a corner of a communal area at the flats where he lives and pulled at his wallet while threatening him.

She had 37 previous convictions for 87 offences, many of them shop thefts.

She also had two convictions for theft from the person when she stole £54 from a vulnerable man aged 54 after searching his pockets and she also went through the pockets of an elderly man she pushed over when he was walking home from the pub.

TWO burglars who smashed their way into a woman’s Bradford flat were each jailed for four years.

The intruders were loading electrical items into a suitcase when the police arrived at the occupied address. A third man at the scene escaped capture.

Judge Colin Burn jailed 46-year-old Wajad Hussain and 23-year-old Leon Winchester for four years each for what he described as “a very serious domestic burglary”.

“I don’t think either of you have any appropriate insight into the effect of the offence on the young lady involved,” the judge said.

“A young lady at home on her own, at night, in bed when three of you smashed your way into her studio flat so that she had to lock herself in her bathroom and call the police.”

The court heard that the pair, who both lived in Little Horton Lane, Bradford, had lengthy previous convictions and Hussain had two previous convictions for house burglary.

They both pleaded guilty to burgling the flat.

A MAN who hacked into his ex-partner's Facebook account and sent naked photos of her to strangers, before posting 30 photos of her on to his own Facebook page, was jailed for more than two years.

Reece Lupton, 28, of the Salvation Army Hostel, Leeds Road, committed the revenge porn last month after wrongly hearing his ex-partner had been involved with another man, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Record Gavin Doig, said: "You breached a restraining order and non-molestation going to her house, and threatened her in the presence of three children, and published private photos publicly on Facebook."

Lupton received a total sentence of two years and two months for six offences.