Here are the criminals who have been jailed this week at Bradford Crown Court
Horrified eye witnesses saw the masked driver turn his black Seat Leon round twice on Southfield Lane in Great Horton before flinging the victim on to the bonnet and right over the car.
He sustained multiple injuries including a fractured nose, a hematoma to his forehead, a shoulder injury and cuts and abrasions.
The assailant was identified as Paul Webster, 39, of Francis Street, Leeds. He pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and dangerous driving and was jailed for three years.
Prosecutor Mehran Nassiri told Bradford Crown Court that Webster had a criminal record that contained 18 convictions for 30 offences, including drug trafficking, possession of a knife, actual bodily harm and assaulting police officers.
Mr Nassiri said the incident began on the slip road from the M606 into Bradford at 8.45pm on December 28 last year.
The victim, a passenger in a car with a child on board, asked Webster what he was looking at when the vehicles were drawn up side by side.
The Seat then followed the car being driven by the victim’s partner into Bradford.
Webster stopped to put on a mask or balaclava and then swerved towards the victim who had got out of the car at a shop.
His partner was so afraid for the child that she drove a short distance to park the car.
Webster then clipped the man with his wing mirror before driving at him again and flipping him over the bonnet and the roof.
A male eye witness told the police he couldn’t believe what he had just seen, describing it as ‘like something out a film.’
He said he saw the Seat execute two three-point turns in the road, driving at the victim at least twice. The car hit him and he rolled over the bonnet and the roof.
An ambulance was called and the man was taken to the accident and emergency department at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He had a CT scan and his arm was put in a sling.
He told the police the injuries had impacted on his life.
Michael Collins, Webster’s barrister, said he had the offer of employment as a labourer, starting on Monday.
He was the carer for his mother who had COPD, cancer and arthritis.
Mr Collins conceded: “This was an appalling piece of behaviour by the defendant.”
He told the court ‘the first exchange’ came from the complainant who asked Webster: “What are you looking at?”
Webster then got carried away in the moment, showing ‘a high degree of poor judgement,’ Mr Collins said.
He had been recalled to prison on licence for two months before being released on bail.
Recorder Anthony Hawks said Webster’s previous convictions included offences of violence, disorder and damage. He was jailed for three years in 2019 and on licence when he committed the latest offences.
This was ‘a mindless confrontation’ with the victim who was a passenger in a car driven by his female partner with a child on board.
Webster had followed the vehicle from the M606 slip road, put on a balaclava or face covering and deliberately run the man over. He had sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Webster had ‘no insight whatsoever’ into what he had done. His response was that it was an accident and to blame the victim.
Recorder Hawks said he had used the car as a weapon while on licence and with a woman and child witnessing the attack, as well as members of the public who had to watch a man being thrown in the air.
Webster had pleaded guilty on the day of his trial, having originally been charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
He was jailed for three years and banned from driving for three years and until he passes an extend retest.
Akeel Bavington-Allen, 19, was said to have been showing a fascination for knives, gang culture and drill music when he was caught with a knife on him while he was attending Shipley College in April last year.
The teenager, formerly of Great Horton, admitted having ‘a shank’ on him when he was challenged and claimed he was carrying the knife because he had been assaulted by a group from Leeds.
Bradford Crown Court heard how two months later Bavington-Allen, who had stopped taking his ADHD medication, poured bleach into the family toothpaste tube at his home, but the corrosive substance was discovered before it caused any harm to anyone.
The court heard that one of the family’s chickens had also been found dead and when CCTV was checked he could be seen chasing after the animals with a garden fork and stabbing one of the chickens several times.
He later said he didn’t feel anything at the time and when his mobile phone was checked a video of him stabbing the family cat was also found to have been posted on Snapchat.
While on remand at HMP Doncaster Bavington-Allen made threats to kill his parents accusing them of being ‘snitches’.
In addition to his sentence in a young offender institution, Bavington-Allen was banned from going within 100 metres of his family home for the next five years and he was also banned from having direct or indirect contact with his mother.
He admitted a series of offences including threats to kill, possession of a bladed article, animal cruelty and attempting to administer a noxious substance.
As part of his sentence Judge Colin Burn banned him from keeping animals for the next five years.
The judge said he had to deal with Bavington-Allen for a series of disturbing and serious offences that could have resulted in serious harm to people and did result in suffering to animals.
“It is clear from what I have read that there is a lack of understanding by you as to how serious these offences are,” he told Bavington-Allen over a prison video link.
“A psychiatrist says that you do pose a fairly substantial risk of future offending as you are at the moment.
“The whole picture overall is a very worrying one and obviously a custodial sentence today of some length is inevitable.”
He said putting the bleach in the toothpaste tube was a serious matter adding: “There was no warning at all for your parents that there was that corrosive substance in the toothpaste tube.”
The judge said Bavington-Allen had killed one of the chickens and “tortured” the family cat, but he had shown no empathy whatsoever.
Barrister Gerald Hendron, for Bavington-Allen, said his behaviour appeared to have coincided with his client no longer taking his medication.
Reports on Bavington-Allen suggested he was immature and acted impulsively.
Jordan Mathers had bags of Class A drugs at his home and a box containing the taser when the police searched the premises two years ago, Bradford Crown Court heard.
Mathers, 28, of Whiteways, Bolton Lane, Bradford, was arrested shortly after midnight on August 10, 2020, after police officers attended at his home on an unrelated matter, prosecutor Abdul Shakoor said.
An officer noticed a buzzing sound from a box she picked up in his bedroom and found the homemade taser. The court heard it was in working order and capable of discharging a high voltage electrical current.
A tin box contained drugs and there were more in another room upstairs. In all there was £245 worth of cocaine and crack cocaine at the property, along with dealer scales and plastic bags and a phone with evidence of drugs trafficking on it.
Mathers at first denied any wrongdoing, saying all the drugs were for his own use, and it wasn’t his stun gun, but he went on to plead guilty to possession of cocaine and crack cocaine with intent to supply and possession of the taser.
Mr Shakoor said the cocaine was of low purity, up to 55 per cent.
Mathers had 15 previous convictions for 16 offences, including simple possession of cocaine and cannabis, but nothing for drug dealing.
His solicitor advocate, Saf Salam, said he was selling drugs to a circle of people he knew, largely to meet his own habit. He had been using cocaine since 2017 and could not afford to pay for it.
There was no suggestion that the taser would ever have been used. It was stored in a box away from the drugs.
Mathers was a family man involved in selling drugs at a low level and he had not been in any trouble since, Mr Salam said.
Judge Ahmed Nadim acknowledged that he was funding his own addiction by supplying to a limited circle of friends.
But he had been working as a drug dealer, with a stun gun as a tool, and he had not indicated a guilty plea at an early stage.
Judge Nadim ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cocaine, the taser and all the drug dealing paraphernalia.
A DRUNKEN man who threatened to burn down two women’s homes in Saltaire was jailed for 30 months.
Judge Andrew Hatton said Nathaniel Reeton, 36, of Victoria Road, Saltaire, had been heavily intoxicated when he was involved in ‘a catalogue of extremely unpleasant offences’ on December 28 last year.
After a trial at Bradford Crown Court in June, Reeton, a renderer, was found guilty by a jury of making a threat to burn down one woman’s home even after he had been arrested and put into the back of police van.
At the end of the trial he was acquitted on five other charges but he had already admitted two offences of criminal damage and a further charge of making a threat to burn down a second woman’s home.
The court heard Reeton had smashed windows in a caravan and been filmed on a mobile phone kicking a car.
Richard Walters, prosecuting, submitted that both of those incidents had been motivated by revenge.
Judge Hatton said Reeton had been involved in a ‘protracted and unseemly episode of behaviour’ and he ordered him to pay £1,000 compensation for the damage to the caravan and car.
Reeton, who has already served the equivalent of 16 months on remand, was also disqualified from driving for a total of 31 months.
He was banned by an indefinite restraining order from posting any comments about the complainants in his case on social media, including as WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat.
Aneeze Williamson was brought to Bradford Crown Court from HMP Leeds to be sentenced for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, causing actual bodily harm, dangerous driving in a police chase across Bradford, and an affray.
Prosecutor Caroline Abraham said the first offences in time were the dangerous driving on July 23, 2020, failing to provide a specimen and driving uninsured and without a licence.
Williamson, 29, of West Royd Drive, Shipley, was seen at the wheel of a white Ford Focus in Bradford at 3.50pm. He had three passengers on board and the car was in a state of disrepair.
He failed to stop for the police and led them on a four-mile high-speed pursuit on roads including Bowling Old Lane, Ripley Street, Wakefield Road and Shipley Airedale Road.
Miss Abraham said he drove on the wrong side of the road and the wrong way round a roundabout, drifted right across the carriageway and struck the kerb in the car that was ‘rocking in the road’ at one point. He was arrested after hitting two vehicles.
Williamson’s next offence was an affray on August 14, 2020. It was committed with others, including Lee Hayton, 35, who lives at a separate address in West Royd Drive. He was today spared an immediate prison sentence for the ‘one-off’ incident.
Miss Abraham said a series of fights broke out in Bingley town centre late at night. CCTV showed the defendants attacking a man who did not report the offence.
Then, at 4am on January 26 last year, Williamson launched an alcohol and cocaine fuelled attack on his then partner.
He tried to strangle her, threw her to the floor, kicked her in the head and stabbed her legs with a curtain pole. She sustained multiple injuries that included swelling and bruising to her head and wounds to her legs.
He then attacked a young man at a separate address, hitting him with his fist and an antique firearm and smashing up his property. The victim’s injuries included a broken nose and cut to the top of his head.
Williamson had 33 previous convictions for 53 offences, including matters of violence and dishonesty.
His barrister, Jeremy Barton, said he had pleaded guilty to all the offences.
While in custody, he had done everything he could to address his offending behaviour. He had gained 11 certificates for a range of courses, including domestic violence and drugs.
He was testing negative for all illicit substances and he had signed up to be a ‘listener’ on 24-hour call to help other inmates. All this showed that he was trying his best to change his ways.
Williamson had ADHD and other health issues and he was now taking his medication and engaging with services to assist him.
“These are big steps forward,” Mr Barton said.
In mitigation for Hayton, it was stated that he was the first defendant to plead guilty to the affray and that reflected his very genuine remorse.
It was a ‘one-off’ while he was out celebrating the birth of a child. He didn’t usually drink and accepted that he should have known better.
The offence was more than two years old the delay had caused him a lot of stress and worry. He was a hardworking roofer and the father of five children.
Recorder Tahir Khan QC said Williamson had committed three sets of offences, the most serious being the wounding with intent. He had taken into account the good work he had done in prison when sentencing him.
The Section 18 was a serious assault; Williamson had tried to strangle the woman and then attacked her with a pole. He was jailed for four years, with 18 months to run consecutively for attacking the young man.
He was jailed for eight months to run concurrently for the affray.
But the dangerous driving was very serious. It was fortunate that no one was injured. He was jailed for 12 months to run consecutively, making a total sentence of six and a half years, and banned from driving for three years and three months.
Recorder Khan made a restraining order without limit of time banning him from contacting the woman.
Hayton was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with 150 hours of unpaid work. He must attend up to ten rehabilitation activity days and an accredited programme called Resolve.
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