Locked up in October – here's who has been jailed at Bradford Crown Court

• A CRUEL and depraved Bradford man was jailed for three years for having sexual intercourse with chickens and possessing indecent images of children.

Rehan Baig, 37, hoarded sick home movies of his violation of the birds that all died from his perverted and despicable acts.

His wife, Haleema Baig, 38, who joined in with the depravity at the family home in Shepherd Street, Great Horton, and filmed some of it on her mobile phone, was spared an immediate jail sentence.

The court heard that the indecent images of children as young as six, and the depraved home movies, came to light when the National Crime Agency raided the couple’s home on July 9 last year.

Computers and a phone were seized and images found that Judge Richard Mansell QC said would make right-thinking people “sick to the stomach.”

Rehan Baig was filmed on a GoPro camera, and by his wife, having sex with a number of chickens on different occasions. One of the birds was dead at the time and he was caught on camera putting another carcase into a bin bag.

Prosecutor Abigail Langford said the home movies were made in the cellar or basement at the couple’s home.

Other depraved footage showed the couple sexually abusing a dog.

Police found a covert camera in the bedroom which Haleema Baig seemed unaware of, the court was told.

The senior care assistant, and mother of four children, claimed to be the victim of her husband’s controlling and coercive behaviour.

But Miss Langford said it was the Crown’s case that she was a willing participant.

The court heard that the sexual abuse killed the chickens. It was believed they had been family pets but there were none at the address when the police searched it.

“The defendant caused the death of the chickens on each occasion,” Miss Langford said.

Rehan Baig admitted three counts of intentionally performing an act of penetration on live chickens.
He also admitted possessing extreme pornographic images; three charges of making indecent photographs of children; and possessing cocaine and cannabis resin. 
His wife pleaded guilty to three aiding and abetting counts, namely filming her husband having sexual intercourse with a chicken. 
Simon Hustler, for Rehan Baig, said the offences had attracted national and international publicity, including making news in Pakistan, Spain and Germany.

“They have attracted derision, loathing and ridicule,” he said.

Baig had been unable to leave his home and even had to send out for cigarettes.

“It’s a lengthy sentence he must serve, if not a life sentence in many respects,” Mr Hustler said.

The films seized by the police had been made several years ago.

John Bottomley, for Haleema Baig, said she, like her husband, was of previous good character.

She had four children and had worked long hours in the care industry.

She had left her husband because she alleged he was abusive to her, and she was now living in a refuge.

“The punishment is the shame and humiliation for the rest of her life,” Mr Bottomley said.

Sentencing her to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, with a rehabilitation activity requirement, Judge Mansell said there may have been an element of manipulation and coercion by her husband.

He told Rehan Baig he was guilty of “unspeakable cruelty to the animals he abused for his own sexual gratification.”

“The pain and suffering was horrific that you inflicted on these chickens,” the judge said.

Baig had also committed “depraved, perverted and despicable acts” by hoarding images of young children being sexually abused.

“They are the victims of human trafficking and exploitation,” he said.

The “home movies” of Baig having sex with the chickens were “simply beyond comprehension,” Judge Mansell said.

• THREE men were jailed for a total of almost 24 years for a horrific machete attack on a lone driver in broad daylight.

The victim was struck with two of the weapons after his car was rammed in Allerton Road, Bradford, on September 11 last year in what Judge Richard Mansell QC described as “an appalling example of premeditated gang violence.”

Rizwan Basharat, the driver who deliberately ran into the man’s car to disable it and then joined in the attack, was jailed for nine years.

Kamran Khan, who smashed the vehicle windows with a machete and aimed blows at the victim with it, was locked up for eight years.

Akash Ali, who the Crown accepted did not wield a machete but who took part in the joint enterprise, was jailed for six years and nine months.

Basharat, 27, of no fixed address; Khan, 23, of Aberford Road, Girlington, Bradford; and Ali, 24, of Whitehead Grove, Fagley, Bradford, were all sentenced for unlawfully and maliciously wounding their victim with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.

The court heard that a fourth man, known as KK, also took part in the attack but had not been apprehended.

Prosecutor Katherine Robinson said Basharat was not before the court for the hearing because he was isolating at HMP Leeds due to Covid-19 issues. But he had told his lawyers he still wanted to be sentenced.

Khan and Ali were sentenced on a video link to the prison.

Miss Robinson said that Ali had pleaded guilty to the offence. The remaining two defendants were convicted after a trial.

She said they were all being dealt with for their parts in a joint enterprise.

Judge Mansell said the motive for the attack was known only to the defendants and the victim, who had been reluctant to come to court to give evidence.

The man had been driving down Allerton Road in broad daylight when he encountered Basharat and his three passengers.

Basharat crossed the road at speed in his vehicle and smashed into the victim’s car, effectively disabling it.

The three defendants and KK had jumped out to attack the man and smash up his car.

Members of the public had filmed the incident on their phones, the court was told.

The victim suffered lacerations to his arms when he held them up to defend himself.

He was taken to a nearby shop afterwards with blood pouring from his wounds.

Basharat was on licence at the time having served a jail sentence for drugs trafficking.

His barrister, Jeremy Barton, said he was not initially armed. Then he did wield a machete but not to the extent that some of the others did.

Ian Hudson, for Khan, said he had no previous convictions. He was only 22 at the time and he had spent more than a year on remand in prison.

Alasdair Campbell, Ali’s barrister, said he did not have a machete but accepted it was a joint enterprise attack, knowing that others were armed.

The victim suffered four lacerations but no permanent damage was caused in an incident that lasted just seconds.

“It was a short brutal attack and not sustained or repeated,” Mr Campbell said.

• A MANIPULATIVE child sex abuser who exploited a girl aged 13 for his “paedophilic gratification” was jailed for eight years with a five year extended licence period.

Thomas Adams, 29, continued to exchange thousands of phone calls and text messages with his victim by lying to the prison authorities after he had been locked up on remand.

Labelling Adams a dangerous offender who posed a serious risk to the public, Judge Jonathan Rose said the girl was deceived by him into wrongly believing she was in a romantic relationship. She was in fact being manipulated, controlled and abused.

“She was an object for your paedophilic sexual gratification,” Judge Rose said.

Adams, whose address was given as HMP Hull, was sentenced on a video link to the prison after pleading guilty to two offences of sexual activity with a girl of 13, inciting her to engage in sexual activity, and engaging in sexual communication with a child.

Prosecutor Richard Woolfall said Adams was discovered to be having sex with the vulnerable child when the police seized boxer shorts from his home and a forensic link was made.

After he was remanded into custody, the girl obtained a secret phone and Adams lied to the prison authorities by pretending he was calling a fictitious woman when he was phoning the child. He also had illicit phones hidden in his cell, the court was told.

In all, they exchanged more than 3,000 phone calls while he was on remand, with 127 hours of talking and 13,000 text messages.

A relative of the girl said she was secretive and argumentative while under the influence of Adams. She smoked cannabis and her schoolwork suffered.

Adams’ solicitor advocate, Saf Salam, said there was nothing he could say to minimise the offending or to mitigate what he had done.

Adams had 14 previous convictions for 21 offences, including serving a seven year and eight month prison sentence for robbery with an imitation firearm, but nothing for sexual matters.

He felt genuine shame for what he had done and would attend various programmes while in jail to address his offending behaviour, Mr Salam said.

Judge Rose said Adams’ victim was immature and naïve. She could not be expected to understand the risks, dangers and potential consequences that he had posed.

He told Adams: “She wrongly believed she was in a romantic relationship but she was an object for your paedophilic sexual gratification.”

He was on licence for the robbery when he took his sexual opportunity, encouraging the child to keep matters secret.

After he was caught out when the police called at his home, Adams carried on manipulating the girl from prison by deviously using a fictitious contact to exchange thousands of calls and texts with her.

Judge Rose ruled that the case met the legal criteria for dangerousness. Adams presented a serious risk to members of the public and they needed to be protected from him.

He sentenced him to a 13 year extended prison sentence, with an eight-year custodial term and five years on extended licence.

Judge Rose made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order without limit of time and ordered Adams to sign on the sex offender register for life.

• A MAN who disguised himself as a delivery driver to carry out a terror attack on his ex-partner in her Bradford home was jailed for three years.

Mohammed Amir Ali wore a mask and gloves to bring a parcel to the door before lunging at her, grabbing her by the throat and forcing her into the living room.

He had a length of rope and a roll of silver Duck Tape with him for the sustained and planned assault on May 23, prosecutor James Lake said.

Ali, 31, of Holly Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, began to strangle the woman with the rope but it was only when his mask fell off in the struggle that she realised who it was.

Ali put tape over her mouth and round the back of her head, threatening: “You’re going to die today. I’m going to prison.’

He taped his victim’s wrists behind her back and put more tape round her mouth to stifle her screams.

He then put two white pills into her mouth telling her they were sleeping tablets.

Mr Lake said that a teenage girl cowering in fear upstairs managed to make a whispered 999 call to the police.

Ali forced his ex-partner upstairs and injured the child’s arm when he grabbed her phone, breaking the glass.

He threatened to take his victims with him, saying: “We’ve got two cars outside.”

Ali then removed the tape from around the woman’s head, pulling some of her hair out in the process.

She shouted out of the window that she had been tied up.

Ali went downstairs and opened the door the police. He made no comment when he was questioned.

The woman was taken to hospital with injuries to her neck and arms. Hair found on the tape confirmed her account that it had been wrapped round her head and her neck injury was consistent with a rope being put around it.

She said in her victim personal statement that she had problems sleeping afterwards and suffered flashbacks. She suffered with back pain and had undergone counselling for anxiety. She was now afraid when people arrived unannounced at her door.

Ali pleaded guilty to breach of a non-molestation order, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assault by beating and criminal damage.

The court heard that he had no previous convictions.

Michael Collins said in mitigation that Ali intended to move back to Blackpool where his family lived.

He had been remanded in prison since the offences, spending most of the day in his cell.

Judge Andrew Hatton said Ali brought rope and gaffer tape with him for the pre-planned attack on his former partner.

“It’s difficult to imagine the terror she must have experienced,” he said.

He made a five year restraining order banning Ali from having any contact with his victim.

• A MOTHER of two was jailed for three years after setting her Bradford home on fire and causing damage of up to £11,000.

Samantha Spencer was relocated to the city by Kent County Council to begin a new life but she turned to Class A drugs and began harassing a neighbour at Bentley Carter Apartments in Little Horton Lane.

On May 12, she set fire to the residential block in the early hours endangering around 35 residents, many of them vulnerable.

Spencer, 29, was sentenced on a video link to HMP Newhall after admitting reckless arson, battery and harassment.

Prosecutor Conor Quinn said she set off the fire alarm and when firefighters arrived, she falsely claimed that a young child was in her burning apartment.

Thick black smoke was coming from her room and between £7,000 and £11,000 damage was caused to the flooring, the bed and the walls.

An investigation concluded that Spencer started the fire deliberately using a naked flame on combustible material.

When the police arrived and firefighters pointed her out, she ran back into the building, throwing things into the path of the pursuing officers.

Spencer, who was under the influence of alcohol, returned to her apartment and was arrested by being restrained on the bed, Mr Quinn said.

She was in breach of a conditional discharge and a community order for offences including being drunk and disorderly and assaulting an emergency worker.

She was bailed to an address in Allerton Road, Bradford, before being remanded in custody.

Her solicitor advocate, Saf Salam, said she had mental health problems although a psychiatrist had found her fit to plead.

Mr Salam said the offence of arson was unpremeditated.

Spencer was from the south of England and began using recreational drugs and drinking alcohol in her mid-teens.

She became the mother of two children but her relationship with the father broke down.

In December 2019, Kent County Council offered her the chance to start afresh in Bradford but she complained her apartment was uninhabitable and began using Class A drugs.

Mr Salam said the arson was a cry for help. Spencer did not fully appreciate the gravity of her offending.

She no longer drank alcohol and she was keen to move back to Kent.

Judge Andrew Hatton said many people were endangered by the arson attack.

He imprisoned Spencer for 32 months, with consecutive sentences totalling four months for the battery and harassment of two women neighbours at the apartment block.

• A DRUG dealer caught repeatedly driving for the Junior Line was jailed for three years and two months.

Mohammed Shakeel was at the wheel of a black Mitsubishi vehicle when he was covertly filmed by undercover police officer “Libby” who was part of the Operation Errantdance crack down on street drugs trafficking in Bradford East.

Shakeel, 40, of Moorthorpe Avenue, Bradford Moor, Bradford, pleaded guilty to six offences of supplying Class A drugs between June 10 and 18 last year.

Prosecutor Michael Greenhalgh said that Libby tagged along with a drug addict to buy heroin from the Junior Line.

She then recognised Shakeel, who she code-named “Mitsubishi,” driving a drug seller around to supply her on three more occasions with heroin and crack cocaine.

Shakeel was arrested on December 11 and told the police he knew nothing about any drug dealing.

Mr Greenhalgh said calls and a text message on his phone showed that he was linked to the Junior Line.

Shakeel’s barrister, Robin Frieze, said his client was a drug user who funded his addiction by driving for the dealer line.

He had led a hardworking and blameless life until he turned to Class A drugs at a relatively late stage in his life.

“He was introduced to heroin at a low point and it got a grip on him and he got into terrible debt,” Mr Frieze stated.

He drove for the dealers for a few days well over a year ago.

Since then, Shakeel had made enormous strides to turn his life around. He was free from drugs and had the support of his wife and family.

“He’s made a terrible mistake and acknowledges that he must be punished for it,” Mr Frieze said.

But he urged Judge Jonathan Rose to spare him immediate imprisonment.

“He’s likely to have the character and resolve not to offend again,” Mr Frieze said.

Judge Rose told Shakeel: “The trade in Class A drugs is wicked as you yourself know because of the impact of these drugs on ordinary men and women of all ages.

“Addicts turn to crime to pay for them: selling drugs, stealing, burgling, robbery - it’s all because of them.”

Judge Rose said it was a tragedy that Shakeel had become drug-free only after committing the offences.

“The message will go out from this court that you address your addiction before you offend, not afterwards,” he said.

• A 62-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for five years and three months for the historic sexual abuse of a young girl.

Richard Wear groomed the child before molesting her, the court was told.

Wear, of Wells Court, Boothtown, Halifax, pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual assault of a girl under 13 and one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Prosecutor Catherine Silverton said he touched the girl indecently over her clothing and made her touch him indecently on one occasion.

When questioned by the police, he accused the girl of telling lies.

The complainant said in her victim personal statement that she had been left with chronic anxiety and panic attacks that left her struggling to breathe.

Lydia Carroll said in mitigation that Wear was a man of previous good character who had recently had a stroke. He would be at risk of Covid-19 in prison.

Judge Andrew Hatton said Wear had at first tried to shift the blame on to his victim.

“This is indeed serious offending. There is an element of grooming behaviour,” he said.

Wear was a retired man of previous good character and with health problems.

Judge Hatton said he bore in mind the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on life in prison at the moment, but a lengthy jail sentence was inevitable.

Wear must sign on the sex offender register for life and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order was made for an indefinite period.

• A “DRUNKEN thug” who punched a man to the floor in a public house and kicked him five times was jailed for 18 months.

John Sutcliffe attacked his victim after words were exchanged in the Great Northern Inn on Halifax Road in Keighley at 10pm on August 9 last year.

Sutcliffe, 32, of Beck Road, Micklethwaite, Bingley, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

It was an incident of “appalling, gratuitous violence,” Judge Andrew Hatton said when he sentenced him.

The court heard that the victim had no recollection of the attack, which left him unconscious, but the incident had been captured on CCTV which was played in the courtroom.

The man sustained a fractured right eye socket and cuts to his face when Sutcliffe punched him to the floor and followed up the assault with further punches and five kicks.

He said in his victim personal statement that he was unable to open his eyes for some time afterwards and he had suffered with headaches. He had to take three weeks off work and the incident had affected his self-confidence when going out.

The court heard that Sutcliffe knocked down another man when he tried to intervene.

He had served two previous jail sentences for offences of violence.

In June, 2013, he was locked up for four months after a drunken incident in which a man’s arm was slashed with a kitchen knife.

The following year, he was imprisoned for 20 months for his part in a group attack outside a public house in Keighley in which a man suffered a broken jaw.

Judge Hatton said of the latest incident: “This was appalling, gratuitous violence in a public place.”

He continued: “It was a sustained attack with a number of blows with fists and feet.”

Judge Hatton told Sutcliffe: “You have previous convictions for violence of a remarkably similar nature.”

Although character references spoke highly of him, and of the hardship that would be caused if he was jailed, Judge Hatton said he was unable to suspend the sentence.

He added: “You are simply a thug in drink.”

• AN attacker who terrified a Bradford family by hurling an ashtray at a woman's head and assaulting a youth with a claw hammer was labelled a public danger and given a five-year extended prison sentence.

Alan Thorpe also injured two small boys caught up in the vodka-fuelled incident in the early hours of August 4.

Thorpe, 36, of Mather Street, Eccles, Manchester, must serve up to three years and four months behind bars before being let out on extended licence for one year and eight months.

He pleaded guilty to four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was sentenced on a video link to Leeds Prison after he was recalled on licence after serving a sentence for harassing a previous partner.

Thorpe's extensive record for violence included wounding with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assaulting police officers, inflicting grievous bodily harm, robbery and battery.

The court heard he had racked up 33 previous conviction for 76 offences.

Prosecutor Geraldine Kelly said the violence erupted at the woman's Bradford flat after Thorpe had been out to buy more vodka.

When the woman protested about the extra drink, he smashed the bottle and pointed the jagged neck towards her. He then threw an ashtray, striking her on the head.

He punched her forcibly to the head and grabbed her shoulders while two young boys shouted at him to stop.

Family members in another flat heard the commotion and saw Thorpe with his hands round the woman's neck.

He then picked up a claw hammer from the kitchen and struck a youth who had come to the woman's aid on the hand.

The two small boys were hit in the face when they got caught up in the violence.

Even after the police arrived, Thorpe was grabbing at the woman and trying to put his hand over her mouth, Miss Kelly said.

She suffered a cut head from the ashtray and bruising to her face, neck, chest, arm and leg. The youth sustained a cut to his hand from the hammer. One small boy had a bleeding nose and the other a black eye.

Thorpe pleaded guilty to assaulting the children on the basis that his actions were reckless.

His barrister, Giles Bridge, said he now recognised that he could not be in another relationship with a woman. Much of his offending related to his misuse of alcohol and he had stopped drinking.

Judge Andrew Hatton said Thorpe had an extensive record for violence, several of his convictions being for domestic offending.

He had carried out a sustained and repeated assault on the woman, using an ashtray as a weapon, assaulted two small boys and injured the youth with a claw hammer.

Thorpe was on licence at the time and under the influence of alcohol.

He had a previous conviction for wounding with intent and Judge Hatton ruled that he posed a serious danger to the public.

He made a restraining order without limit of time banning Thorpe from contacting the woman or coming into Bradford.

• A VIOLENT bully got his comeuppance when he armed himself with a metal bar for a revenge attack on two brave brothers.

Lee Tallis and an accomplice set about the pair after they had prevented him from battering on his ex-partner’s door with a rock.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Tallis: “You’re a bully who got what he deserved,” after his solicitor advocate, Saf Salam, said he had suffered a broken shoulder when the brothers defended themselves.

Tallis, 36, was sentenced on a video link to Leeds Prison after admitting controlling behaviour, offences of criminal damage, two assaults occasioning actual bodily harm, and possession of an offensive weapon.

Prosecutor Ian Howard said the controlling behaviour reflected a course of conduct when Tallis bullied his former partner, intending to degrade and humiliate her.

After he was arrested by the police, he returned to her home on April 21.

Tallis, of Crag Lane, Wheatley, Halifax, damaged her property when he tried to smash his way in with a rock.

The brothers, who lived nearby, intervened and shouted at him to stop.

Tallis issued threats to them and went on to damage the home of his victim’s parents.

He then sought out an accomplice and carried out a masked attack on the brothers, armed with a metal bar and a baseball bat.

But the brave brothers defended themselves and Mr Salam said that Tallis came off worse.

He had 12 previous convictions for 21 offences, including criminal damage, common assault and battery.

Mr Salam said Tallis was heavily under the influence of cocaine at the time. His drug induced psychosis had triggered his violent behaviour.

During the five months he had been in custody, he had reflected on what he had done and he was determined to change.

Judge Jonathan Rose jailed him for three years and three months.

He said Tallis had subjected his former partner to “a stream of violent, threatening, abusive and controlling behaviour.”

“She was the vulnerable victim of a long and ongoing crime,” he said.

Tallis had then added to her terror by returning to her home within days of his arrest.

He had gone on to damage her parents’ address and found an accomplice to go “tooled up” with a metal bar and a bat in a revenge attack on the brothers.

Judge Rose made a restraining order without limit of time to protect the woman from Tallis in the future. 

• A WOMAN with “a dreadful criminal record” was locked up for three years and five months for robbing a vulnerable man in his own home.

Cheryl Thompson, 45, snatched the widower’s wallet containing £10 after she and her female accomplice forced their way into his Halifax address on June 2.

Thompson had 38 previous convictions for 68 offences, including robbery, 43 shoplifting offences, assault and possession of drugs.

Prosecutor Gareth Henderson-Moore said that her co-accused, Kimberley Booth, 41, of Woodlands Avenue, Halifax, was jailed for four years in July for her part in the robbery.

The court heard that the victim, in his late fifties, had learning difficulties and had recently lost his wife when the women struck.

When he refused to let them into his home, they forced their way in, went through his pockets and robbed him in the struggle. They searched the property but did not take anything else.

Thompson, of Maude Crescent, Sowerby Bridge, knew the victim and was aware that he was vulnerable, Mr Henderson-Moore said.

The man had since stepped up security at his home. He now travelled everywhere by taxi and did not carry much cash around with him.

He had suffered “untold nightmares” that amounted to significant psychological harm, the court heard.

Thompson’s barrister, Abigail Langford, said she wasn’t the ringleader. Booth knew the victim better and decided to target him, although it was conceded that Thompson joined in.

She had pleaded guilty to the robbery at an earlier stage in the proceedings.

Thompson had been in custody on remand since August and had worrying health symptoms that had not yet been looked at, Miss Langford told the court.

Judge Jonathan Rose said: “This was a joint enterprise to rob a vulnerable and largely defenceless man.”

He accepted that Thompson wasn’t “the leading light” but she played a full part in the robbery when the women got into the address.

She had “a dreadful criminal record” and was no stranger to the offence of robbery.

• A MAN was jailed for two years and three months for his fourth attack on his former partner and an assault on her mother when she intervened to protect her.

Sajad Mahmood had served three previous jail sentences for causing the woman actual bodily harm when he turned up on her doorstep in breach of a restraining order.

Mahmood, 37, of no fixed address, had been drinking and she was too afraid to refuse him entry into her home in the Manningham area of Bradford, prosecutor Emma Downing said.

Once inside the address, Mahmood continued to drink alcohol before falling asleep on the sofa.

When he woke, he began shouting at the woman, who covered her face with her hands fearing he was about to attack her.

Mahmood then punched her in the face several times, Miss Downing said.

She dared not ask him to leave so she went out and returned home at 9pm the following day, hoping he had gone.

When Mahmood saw her, he lunged at her and tried to grab her by the hair.

She ran outside, accompanied by her mother, but he pursued them and caught up with them.

It was then that the woman’s mother was assaulted while she was protecting her daughter.

Police officers in the area saw what was happening and Mahmood was arrested.

He pleaded guilty to his second breach of the restraining order, assault by beating and common assault, all between September 15 and 18.

The woman suffered cuts, bruising and a scratched face, the court was told.

Mahmood had three previous convictions for assaulting her occasioning actual bodily harm. He was jailed for four months, 18 months and 20 months. During the last attack, in 2017, he punched her and kicked her in the face five times.

This was his second breach of the restraining order made to protect her.

Mahmood had also been jailed for three years and six years for drugs trafficking and money laundering offences.

His barrister Clare Walsh said he knew he was going to prison.

He was homeless at the time and drink played its part in the offending.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Mahmood: “You are a man incapable of restraining your criminal instincts.”

He labelled him a violent bully with a bad record whose victim was too afraid of him not to allow him into her home.

Judge Rose ordered that the restraining order remain in place without limit of time.

• A WOMAN was jailed for seven years for stabbing a male friend in a vodka-fuelled attack in his home.

Jade Proctor, 28, was convicted after a trial of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and sentenced on a video link from the court to HMP Newhall.

Proctor, 28, of Sutton Crescent, Tyersal, Bradford, was a chronic alcoholic who had been battling a drink problem since she was 17, Judge Richard Mansell QC said.

In 2016, she was jailed for 27 months for stabbing another man three times in a drunken loss of temper. It was her third prison sentence in nine months for attacking her 54-year-old drinking companion.

In the latest offence, committed in her victim’s home on February 18, Proctor got drunk on vodka and stabbed him in the thigh and the back of the head.

Her barrister, Geraldine Kelly, said Proctor had been doing very well until then by abstaining from drink.

She had been alcohol dependant since her teens but was now well thought of by her support workers in the community.

Proctor had also stayed sober while in prison on remand and had obtained a job as a cleaner in the prison.

On her release she would be welcome back in her Sober Living accommodation, Miss Kelly said.

“She doesn’t want to be an alcoholic and she doesn’t want to be violent,” she told the court.

Judge Mansell said Proctor had been undergoing a period of rehabilitation but on February 17, she moved out of her accommodation and “fell off the wagon”.

She had been downing vodka and while she was at a friend’s Bradford flat she became increasingly drunk.

When he asked her to keep the noise down so she wouldn’t disturb the neighbours, Proctor threatened to stab him.

“He laughed it off thinking you weren’t serious,” Judge Mansell said.

But Proctor grabbed a small kitchen knife and while the man was sitting down, she stabbed him twice in the left thigh.

As he leaned forward to grab his wounds, she cut the back of his head with the knife.

“The injuries, mercifully for him and you, were not the most serious,” Judge Mansell said.

But Proctor’s previous convictions were a serious aggravating factor and the offence had been committed while she was in drink.

Judge Mansell made an indefinite restraining order banning Proctor from making contact with her victim or going to his home.

• A MAN was jailed for three years for twice stealing a VW Golf from “under the driver’s nose” and then speeding dangerously around Bradford in it.

Imaar Rashid repeated the same method for stealing the vehicles, cadging a lift and then jumping into the driver’s seat and accelerating off.

Rashid, 25, of Brantwood Grove, Heaton, Bradford, pleaded guilty on a video link to HMP Leeds to two sets of similar offences, the second matters committed while he was on bail.

Prosecutor Nick Adlington said Rashid was already a banned driver with convictions for theft of a car and dangerous driving dating from January 2018 when he struck again.

At 5pm on August 26 last year, he flagged down an acquaintance in Heights Lane, Bradford, and asked for a lift.

He became aggressive when asked to leave the VW Golf outside the driver’s home. When the man went to call the police, he drove off in it, Mr Adlington said.

Eight days later, on September 4, Rashid was spotted at the wheel of the stolen Golf on Lynfield Drive in the city. It was on cloned plates and he sped off when he saw the officers.

The car was seen again in the Girlington area and a blue light chase ensued along Agar Street, Hoxton Street, Washington Street and Duckworth Lane.

Rashid drove on the wrong side of the road and collided with an oncoming car.

When he mounted the pavement and a tyre burst, he abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.

He handed himself in at the police station on October 10 last year but was not charged until July.

Rashid was told to appear before Bradford and Keighley Magistrates on September 18 but by then he had committed the second set of offences.

On September 13, he was given a lift by another VW Golf driver to the offices of Girlington Taxis.

Mr Adlington said Rashid was swigging from a bottle of vodka at 4am before jumping into the driver’s seat. The ignition key snapped in the struggle and he sped off up Thornton Road.

The police were alerted and pursued him along Chellow Grange Road.

Rashid reached speeds of up to 80mph in a 30 zone and jumped red lights before leaving the damaged car on Bronte Close.

He was apprehended by the police hiding in bushes and said: “You’ve got me.”

He tested positive for cannabis and cocaine but refused to provide a blood sample.

Rashid pleaded guilty to two offences of theft of a motor vehicle, two offences of dangerous driving, failing to provide a specimen of blood and driving uninsured and without a licence.

He had 14 previous convictions for 17 offences, including the theft of a car and dangerous driving for which he received a 14 month jail sentence.

Ed Moss said in mitigation that they were opportunist offences “committed on a whim.”

Rashid was thoroughly ashamed and determined to lead a hardworking and law abiding life when he was freed from prison.

Judge Richard Mansell QC jailed him for a total of three years and banned him from driving for three and a half years.

“Twice you stole a car from under the nose of someone who was doing you a favour,” he said.

The first dangerous driving offence was after a school day when the streets were busy with pedestrians. During the second offence, Rashid was clearly unfit to drive at all, having drunk vodka and taken drugs.

Judge Mansell said the VW Golfs would be worth £5,000 to £10,000 each and both were damaged in the pursuits causing great inconvenience to their owners.

Although Rashid could not have planned to be given the lifts, he had clearly targeted the cars once he was in them.

• A MAN was jailed for two years for having sex with an underage girl.

Jake Smith, 24, of Lingcrag Gardens, Cowling, near Keighley, pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child and sexual communication with a child.

Prosecutor Gillian Batts said the offences came to light when the police interrogated his phone. The teenage victim had not co-operated with the investigation.

Smith’s barrister, Robin Frieze, referred to a report by the probation service and a letter to the court from Smith’s employer.

He said Smith was emotionally immature but he recognised that his behaviour was misguided and unlawful.

Judge Richard Mansell QC said only an immediate prison sentence was appropriate in the case to deter others from similar offending against children.

Smith was ordered to sign on the sex offender register for ten years.

• A BURGLAR said “I haven’t done it” as he passed a stolen television set to his accomplice through a smashed apartment window.

Lee Bolton, a “third striker” with 81 previous convictions for offences of dishonesty, was jailed for two years and eight months for raiding the £100 TV from a flat in Walmer Villas, Manningham, Bradford.

Bolton, 42, who was living in one of the flats at the time, pleaded guilty to burgling a neighbour on June 15.

The court was told that a resident heard glass smashing at around 6pm and saw a woman dressed in black pacing up and down outside the building.

The witness then saw Bolton standing in the window holding the television set.

He called out “I haven’t done it” as he handed it to his female accomplice.

Bolton then climbed out through the broken pane and the couple made off towards Manningham Lane.

Police forced entry to Bolton’s home and found evidence of drug use, the court was told.

He was arrested and made no comment when questioned.

He had 42 previous convictions for 141 offences, of which 81 were for theft and similar matters.

Bolton was sentenced for housebreaking in 2003 and the following year he was imprisoned for five years for several similar offences.

His barrister, Mark Mckone, conceded that he was a “third-striker” but drew attention to the big gap in his offending behaviour.

Mr Mckone said Bolton wanted money for food and not drugs when he committed the burglary.

He thought the victim of the break-in had moved out of the flat.

Judge Richard Mansell QC said Bolton had “a lengthy and unenviable” criminal record.

He jailed him for the three-year minimum term, giving him credit for his guilty plea.

• A FAMILY man was beaten with a baseball bat and robbed after phoning for help when he found a smashed-up car.

His assailants, Tauqir Saeed and Zain Hussain, were jailed for the street mugging that left him with a cut head and bruising to his face and arm.

The victim was out walking with his wife and two young children when he came across the crashed Vauxhall Astra on a dirt track off Hazelhurst Terrace in Daisy Hill, Bradford.

He was calling the police in case anyone had been injured in the crash when Saeed and Hussain were dropped off from a vehicle and began shouting at him, prosecutor Andrea Parnham said.

Hussain, 26, of Pearson Lane, Daisy Hill, followed the man while Saeed, 23, of nearby Hazelhurst Brow, reversed the damaged car off the track and parked it.

Saeed then attacked the victim, striking him several times to the head with an aluminium baseball bat. The man wrestled the weapon off him but went to the floor and was punched and kicked.

He flagged down a taxi and asked the driver to call him an ambulance, Miss Parnham said.

But the defendants reappeared and assaulted him again. They went through his pockets and stole both his phone and his wife’s that he had with him.

Saeed and Hussain were quickly arrested and Hussain had the stolen phones with him.

The court heard that the victim’s wife and children had been left extremely anxious and the man was now apprehensive about helping others.

Saeed and Hussain pleaded guilty to the robbery, on January 23, 2019, and were sentenced on video links to the prisons where they were on remand.

Saeed was jailed for three years and Hussain for two and a half years.

Hussain’s barrister, Jonathan Turner, said he did not have the bat with him or strike the first blow.

He was in the final year of an accountancy degree at the time and running a garage. But he began drinking heavily with Saeed.

The offence was almost 22 months ago and Hussain had been in custody for nine months.

The court heard that Saeed turned to drink because he was being bullied. He was in “a dark place” and described himself as being “drunk off his head” when he committed the robbery.

He now worked as a carpet fitter and no longer drank alcohol.

Judge Richard Mansell QC said the robbery had a huge impact on the victim and his family.

Saeed was the main mover, striking the victim with the bat, but Hussain had punched him when he was on the ground.

Both men came from decent families and had gone off the rails at the time, Judge Mansell said.

• A CANNABIS dealer who carried on selling the drug after being caught red-handed supplying almost £400 worth of it over a two-day period was jailed for more than four years.

Andrew Illingworth, 31, was sentenced for his fifth and sixth offences of possession of cannabis with intent to supply.

Illingworth, of no fixed address, had £60 of cannabis and £225 in cash with him when he was stopped by the police in central Bradford on April 28 last year.

He was at the wheel of a VW Golf heading towards Thornton Road but he parked it when he saw the police keeping an eye on him.

Illingworth was stopped on foot shortly afterwards with the bag of cannabis and phone on him.

His phone contained 46 text messages relating to the supply of £395 worth of cannabis over the past two days.

Prosecutor Syam Soni said he was charged with the offence in April this year.

On June 19, 2020, at 5.20pm, police on patrol in Bradford stopped Illingworth in an Alfa Romeo on Spring Hall Lane.

He became agitated and angry and was handcuffed and put in leg restraints when that turned to aggression.

Illingworth complained of police harassment and called the arresting sergeant a “pig bastard” and other offensive names, Mr Soni said.

When his home on Market Street in the city centre was searched, the police found £1,092 worth of skunk cannabis, a dealer list, a baseball bat, up to £500 in cash and drug bagging paraphernalia.

Illingworth said the cannabis was for his own use and the cash was his benefit money.

He denied the offence but went on to plead guilty to two offences of possession with intent to supply cannabis, disorderly behaviour, and breach of a suspended sentence order, imposed in December, 2019, also for possession with intent to supply cannabis.

Illingworth’s solicitor advocate, Shiraz Hussain, said his client was a hardworking fabricator and welder until he was made redundant in 2016.

He became depressed, began taking cannabis and then selling it on the street when he got into debt.

Mr Hussain said Illingworth wanted to apologise for the rude names he called the police sergeant when he was arrested.

Recorder Margia Mostafa set a timetable under the Proceeds of Crime Act to assess Illingworth’s financial benefit from drug dealing.

She jailed him for a total of four years and two months.

• DRUG dealing is a major blight on the Bradford East district with residents worried that their children will be groomed to join in the trafficking, the judge locking up a crack cocaine and heroin trader said.

Recorder Margia Mostafa stated that many teachers in the area felt insecure, with staff at one primary school carrying phones and whistles and leaving before nightfall.

Pupils at schools in the district told a community impact survey that drug dealing was the worst problem they identified in the area, while parents feared their children would be sucked into the deadly trade by the trafficking gangs.

Recorder Mostafa locked up Mohammed Ayaz for 30 months after he was snared by the Operation Errantdance crack down on street dealing in Bradford East.

Ayaz, 20, of Olive Crescent, Oldham, Lancashire, pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs to law enforcement officer “Libby” over a five-day period in June last year.

The court heard that he was working for the Junior Line when he was caught by the undercover sting.

His co-accused, Mohammed Shakeel, was driving a black Mitsubishi when the pair were covertly filmed by the Operation Errantdance team of officers.

Shakeel, 40, of Moorthorpe Avenue, Bradford Moor, Bradford, pleaded guilty to six offences of supplying Class A drugs and was jailed for three years and two months at Bradford Crown Court earlier this month.

In mitigation for Ayaz, the court heard that his brother had been murdered and he himself had been the victim of a stabbing.

His family had left the city to begin a new life in Oldham.