A drunken dad who walked away and abandoned his autistic son when he was killed by a motorist as they walked along the M62. He was jailed for manslaughter, dangerous driving and refusing to provide a sample for alcohol analysis. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police)
A hammer-wielding masked raider who was part of a gang that smashed their way into a Leeds home and demanded drugs. He was jailed for the terrifying break-in at the home in Harehills. (Photo: WYP/Google)
A ‘brazen’ thief who burst into a number of Boots stores armed with hammers and crowbars during a two-week spree, stealing a staggering £28,000 worth of perfume. He targeted shops in Kirkstall, Guiseley, Otley, Thorpe Park and Birstall 12 times throughout October. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police/Google)
A teenage right-wing extremist found guilty of plotting a terrorist attack on a mosque in West Yorkshire. Joe Metcalfe was 15 when he made the preparations to target a mosque in Keighley, which included writing out a manifesto, making contact with a gun seller and writing out a detailed plan. (Photo: Crown Prosecution Service)
One of two dealers caught with more than £30,000 worth of drugs in their tent at this year’s Leeds Festival. The 18-year-old was arrested at Bramham Park in August and never went home, being held in prison since. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police)
Taylor and 20-year-old Hague attempted to run off when approached by security and police at the festival. They are the last of an initial batch of six suspects who were caught at the music festival. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police)
A convicted double murderer threw boiling water in the face of a cell neighbour at HMP Wakefield, leaving him in “excruciating pain”. He attacked the man without provocation and left him with burns to his face, eyelids and chest. (Photo: WYP)
The ringleader of a gang of Leeds drug smugglers who imported £1.5 billion worth of cocaine and crystal meth in boxes of frozen chickens. He admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and methylamphetamine. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police)
Stephen's sister Cherie-Anne Rayner and her partner Liam Harrington used their Beeston home to weigh and re-package the drugs. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police)
Harrington admitted assisting an organised crime group, while Cherie-Anne Rayner admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and methamphetamine. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police)
Budden would accompany her partner, who is yet to be sentenced, on drug runs. She also let him use her home at The Crescent, Dewsbury, as a drug warehouse from where officers seized 58 kilos of cocaine, valued at £5.8 million. She admitted assisting an organised crime group. (Photo: Google)
A drug runner for the group who was trusted to collect large quantities from a warehouse in Redditch in the West Midlands to where it was imported. He was stopped by police with three large holdalls containing 75 kilos of cocaine and later admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine. (Photo: Google)
Another courier who was stopped on the M6 and found to have 40 kilos of cocaine, estimated to be worth £4million. He admitted possession with intent to supply cocaine. (Photo: West Yorkshire Police)
Two people have been arrested and nearly 200 road-related offences were reported as Wiltshire Police targeted drivers in the Trowbridge area during two days of action this week.
UPDATED with new details: The inmate who attacked Derek Chauvin, the onetime Minneapolis police officer convicted in 2021 of murdering George Floyd, stabbed the former cop 22 times according to multiple reports. Chauvin is serving a sentence of 22 and a half years in prison. The details were released in charging documents obtained by AP …
The former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd was stabbed 22 times by an ex-mafia member in prison. Derek Chauvin, 47, was attacked by another inmate in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday, November 24. Former gang leader John Turscak has been charged with murder one week after the attack.
This isn’t some ghoulish competition, where any empathy shown to dead Israelis leaves less available for Palestinians, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry and forced them into what could have become a mass grave: a moving van soon to be covered with 6 feet of dirt.
A recent court filing warned that credible threats from the former president’s attacks posed an ‘ongoing security risk’ for the judge, his staff and family