BRADFORD’S top judge warned criminals who set up large-scale cannabis farms in the district that the police and the community are on to them after two big grows worth £200,000 were busted in one day.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC jailed two Albanian men who smuggled themselves into the country and were caught red-handed tending drugs factories in Bradford and Keighley.

Sajmir Gjauri, 20, was locked up for 27 months after he was apprehended by the police fleeing from a £150,000 cannabis factory hidden behind a shop front on Killinghall Road, Bradford, on June 9.

Seven rooms were being used at the commercial address to grow 300 cannabis plants. The electricity meter had been bypassed and sophisticated equipment installed to automatically water the grow.

Police then discovered a similar smaller cannabis farm next door.

Gjauri, who came voluntarily to the UK hidden in the back of a lorry several months ago, pleaded guilty to two offences of production of cannabis.

In a separate case the same day, another Albanian illegal immigrant caught at a substantial cannabis farm was jailed for two years.

Leonard Llapanji, 22, was apprehended legging it from a £50,000 drug grow in Poplar Terrace, Keighley, on the same day.

Llapanji, who also came to the UK in the back of a lorry, admitted production of cannabis and possession of cannabis with intent to supply.

Four bedrooms and the cellar at the house were given over to the grow. There were 78 cannabis plants, 114 seedlings and two kilos of harvested cannabis in vacuum packs.

Judge Durham Hall warned criminals thinking of setting up drugs farms in the Bradford area: “The community, never mind the police, is on to them.”

A PERVERT who peeped over changing room doors to spy on women at Keighley Leisure Centre in breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention order was locked up for three years.

Connor Atkinson, 20, who moved across Yorkshire committing sexual offences, deliberately sneaked into the centre in Hard Ings Road to watch females undressing, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Atkinson, of Green Way, Glusburn, near Keighley, began his string of offending by sexually assaulting a woman dog walker in Northallerton last summer, prosecutor Paul Abrahams said. He followed her down a public footpath, grabbed her and touched her indecently.

He next struck in Harrogate, putting his hand up a young woman’s skirt and touching her bottom as she walked down a narrow pathway.

Atkinson committed the two offences of voyeurism at the leisure centre on January 29 and February 4.

One mother had her small daughter with her when he peered over her cubicle in the women’s changing rooms when she was dressing after a swimming session for children.

Atkinson fled when he was challenged by another woman who caught him in the act.

His second victim was in her bra and leggings after an adult swimming class when he peeped over the door of her cubicle.

Atkinson pleaded guilty to an offence of sexual assault and to two charges of voyeurism by observing a female doing a private act, for the purpose of his sexual gratification.

Judge Jonathan Gibson sentenced him to a total of three years in a young offender institution.

He revoked the original Sexual Harm Prevention Order and replaced it with a more onerous ten year order that means Atkinson must wear a location monitoring device when he is released from custody.

Atkinson must sign on the sex offender register indefinitely.

A MAN was jailed after seriously injuring two men - including one of his friends - in a horror crash in Ilkley.

Aaron Menzies, 25, of Aire View, Brunthwaite Lane, Silsden, appeared before Bradford Crown Court to be sentenced, with the judge telling him it was a “miracle” no-one was killed.

The crash happened at around 6.20pm on October 12 last year, when Menzies, who has no previous convictions, was driving a Vauxhall Astra along Skipton Road with his friend Craig Williams.

Bashir Ahmed, prosecuting, told the court that prior to the crash, Menzies had been seen attempting to overtake an HGV. He pulled back behind the lorry, but a short time later did the same thing again. This time, an Audi driven by Benjamin Warriner, who was with his partner and five-year-old son, was approaching in the opposite direction. As Menzies started to overtake, Mr Warriner had to slam his brakes on, while Menzies moved to the side, but ended up clipping the lorry. This caused his car to “take off”, spin in the direction of the Audi and crash into it head-on, leaving the Astra on its side and the other car so severely damaged it was written off.

The court heard Mr Warriner had been left with a laceration to his face, from his jaw area to his earlobe, and will have a permanent scar.

Mr Williams, Menzies’ front seat passenger, suffered a neck fracture, and Menzies was left with a fractured skull, neck and collarbone.

At the hospital, he was asked to provide a blood sample, but medics were unable to due to his injuries. Mr Ahmed said he was then asked to provide a urine sample but refused.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Menzies, who pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving to Mr Warriner and Mr Williams and failing to provide a specimen of urine, it had been a “dreadful incident.”

Jailing him for 20 months, the judge said he was unable to suspend the sentence.

Menzies was also disqualified from driving for nearly four years and must take an extended retest.