Here's who has been JAILED this week in Bradford

• A MAN was jailed for 14 years and his female accomplice for seven years after an aggravated burglary at a flat in Bradford city centre.

Jason Anderson, 38, of HMP Leeds, was labelled “a very experienced and hardened criminal” by the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Richard Mansell QC.

Anderson was imprisoned for offences of Class A drug dealing, robbery, aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article.

He was locked up for two years for supplying heroin to an undercover police officer on March 5 and 12, 2019, for three years for robbery and nine years for aggravated burglary, all the sentences to run consecutively.

Colette Walsh, 33, of Low Newton Remand Centre, was jailed for 12 months for supplying heroin and crack cocaine on April 11, 2019, and for six years for the aggravated burglary. She was also sentenced for attempted theft and using a stolen bank card.

Prosecutor David McGonigal said both defendants were involved in the aggravated burglary in the early hours of June 15 last year.

Walsh gained entry into the victim’s home at around 5.30am after offering him sexual services.

She then let in Anderson and a youth aged 17 after stealing the man’s wallet and phone.

Anderson then beat the victim with a stick while Walsh rifled through his pockets and the teenager hot him with a metal bar.

The youth, Hasad Shafiq, now 19, was last month locked up for seven and a half years for his role in the aggravated burglary and two street robberies.

When the victim’s housemates heard his cries for help they rushed to his aid, Mr McGonigal said.

Anderson then swung a large pair of scissors around, cutting one of the men on the hand.

All three intruders then ran out of the property and were arrested soon afterwards.

The victim sustained a lump to his head, a swollen cheekbone and marks to his back.

Anderson and Walsh, both long-standing drug addicts with criminal records, pleaded guilty to all the offences.

Ashok Khullar, representing Anderson, said he was working as a plasterer. He relapsed into crack cocaine use when he was laid off.

The court heard that both he and Walsh had been remanded in custody for 18 months.

Camille Morland, for Walsh, said she had taken exams in prison while on remand.

She had been addicted to Class A drugs for 15 years and knew she faced a lengthy jail sentence.

Judge Mansell said the aggravated burglary was a planned set-up. Walsh lured the man back to his home and then let in Anderson and Shafiq. They beat him with weapons while Walsh rifled through his pockets.

• A JUDGE warned that those who traffic heroin and cocaine on the streets of Bradford will go to prison as he jailed two young men caught red-handed selling drugs.

Mohammed Arif and Mohammed Khokhar, both 21, were arrested from a car containing 33 wraps of Class A drugs, £300 in cash and a rounders bat.

Arif, of Meadowbank Avenue, Allerton, Bradford, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs on December 17 last year.

He had a previous conviction for possession of an offensive weapon and, in March 2018, he was sent to a young offender institution for two years for possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

Khokhar, of Haworth Road, Heaton, Bradford, was convicted by a jury after a trial of two offences of being concerned in the supplying of Class A drugs. He had no previous convictions.

Jailing Arif for three years and four months and Khokhar for two and a half years, Recorder Simon Eckersley said only immediate jail sentences met the justice of the case.

Khokhar was driving Arif around so that he could sell the heroin and crack cocaine on the streets.

Prosecutor Rebecca Young said Arif had 17 wraps of heroin and 16 wraps of crack cocaine in his possession when he was arrested. The value of the drugs was £258.

The police also seized a rounders bat from the vehicle.

Arif’s barrister, Camille Morland, said he was repaying a debt to his drug dealer after his release from his sentence of detention for trafficking drugs. He was under pressure to repay £500 and working to clear the debt.

There was no evidence of high living and the cash the police found in the car wasn’t his.

Arif, who worked as a joiner, had now been in custody on remand for almost 12 months, much of it during the 23 hour a day Covid-19 lockdown.

Khokhar’s barrister, Jonathan Turner, said he was of previous good character and had never taken drugs.

He planned to study business at Manchester University but the conviction would hamper that ambition.

Khokhar was very remorseful and only too aware that he had brought shame on his hardworking family.

Recorder Eckersley said Khokhar was a young man with ability who had led an otherwise hard working and law abiding life.

Arif’s position was aggravated by his previous conviction for selling Class A drugs.

• A MAN aged 22 was jailed for four years for drug dealing and dangerous driving.

Danyaal Hussain was twice caught trafficking crack cocaine and heroin in Bradford, the second time when he flung the drugs from a black Vauxhall Meriva being pursued by the police.

Hussain, of HMP Leeds, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin, crack cocaine and skunk cannabis on October 13 last year. He also admitted simple possession of cannabis and possession of £3,210 criminal property.

He was released by the police under investigation and committed the second set of offences on January 3.

Hussain pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply in relation to those matters.

Prosecutor Clare Walsh said the October, 2019, offences came to light when Hussain was stopped in a blue Vauxhall Corsa on Wapping Road, Bradford, at 10.40pm.

He gave a false name and address and was found to have 74 small packages of Class A drugs with him, £890 in banknotes and £80 worth of coins.

Texts on a seized phone were evidence of street drug dealing.

A car key in Hussain’s possession led the police to a black Mercedes parked in Rochester Street, Bradford Moor. In the vehicle were three bags of cannabis, two phones and £2,200 in cash.

Hussain made no comment in his police interview.

On January 3, he was pursued by the police in the Vauxhall Meriva along Leeds Old Road in Bradford at 12.20pm.

He threw a bag of drugs from the vehicle during the three minute chase in which he narrowly missed colliding with other vehicles. He crashed into large pieces of stone on Barkerend Road and was blocked in by the police and arrested.

The front nearside tyre of the Meriva was shredded and the car had been travelling on the wheel rim, scoring deep scratches in the road surface.

Hussain’s barrister, Christopher Moran, said he had no previous convictions.

He was in debt to the wrong people at the time and felt he had let his supportive family down.

Hussain wanted to do a barbers’ course in custody to get work when he was released.

He had insight into his offending and was very remorseful, Mr Moran said.

Judge Colin Burn jailed Hussain for a total of three years and four months for the drugs offences and eight months to run consecutively for the dangerous driving.

He was banned from driving for three years.

• THREE teenagers were locked up for a "terrifying" knifepoint robbery.

Byron Bell, 18, of Wrose Road, Bradford; Mohammed Fellows, 19, of Granville Road, Bradford; and Liam Karolyi, 18, of Morrison Avenue in Rotherham, were charged by police after targeting a vulnerable adult.

The incident happened on April 11 this year when the suspects entered a flat on Aireville Road in Keighley. One of them pinned their 57-year-old male victim down on his bed and held a knife to his throat while the others stole the TV from his room. The victim suffered a cut to his neck which required surgery as a result of the incident. All three were found guilty following a trial.

Fellows was locked up for eight years, Bell for seven years and four months, and Karolyi for two years and nine months.

Detective Inspector Suzanne Hall, of Bradford District CID, said: “We are pleased with the result and the sentence which has been handed down to all three of these defendants.

“They targeted a vulnerable adult in his own home and subjected him to a terrifying ordeal, threatening him with a knife and stealing his property. The victim was left incredibly distressed as a result of the incident.”

• A FORMER employee at Buzz Bingo in Bradford was jailed for 20 months for stealing £95,600 from the company.

Christopher France pleaded guilty to the offence at the city’s magistrates’ court and was sent to Bradford Crown Court for sentence.

France, of Staincliffe Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury, stole the cash between January 13 and May 17 last year.

The case was adjourned last month until this week because there was no report from the probation service.

At that hearing, France’s barrister, Robin Frieze, said he was a man of previous good character who had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

Mr Frieze conceded that the case crossed the custody threshold because France had stolen from his employer.

Judge Jonathan Rose said only a sentence of immediate custody was appropriate.

At Leeds Crown Court

• A VOLATILE and controlling man was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 16 years behind bars after murdering a woman in Bradford, trying to burn her body and then burying it in a shallow grave.

Dale Tarbox strangled Susan Howells, 51, at a house in Independent Street, Little Horton, before he and Keith Wadsworth transported her remains to a caravan park at Station Road, Doncaster.

Tarbox was convicted of Miss Howells’ murder after a trial. He chose not to attend the sentencing hearing in front of the Recorder of Leeds, Judge Guy Kearl QC.

Miss Howells was last seen at her home in Harrogate in February 2019 and reported missing in August last year.

Tarbox, 40, was living with 63-year-old Joan Arnold but was also involved with Miss Howells who spent time at his rented home in Independent Street.

He initially told the police he had not seen Miss Howells for six months but Miss Arnold told detectives she thought Miss Howells' body had been buried behind the caravan they were renting.

During the trial, the jury heard that Tarbox was aggressive, volatile and highly manipulative.

Wadsworth, 61, his neighbour on the caravan park at Station Road, Doncaster, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender by burying the body.

The Crown said that Miss Howells was particularly vulnerable and physically disabled. Her body was stored in a wheelie bin and Tarbox then tried to burn it in an incinerator bin before taking it to the caravan site.

The murder may have lacked sophistication but there was “a determined and concerted effort” to dispose of the body.

Tarbox had many previous convictions for violence, inflicting both pain and injury on others by punching and kicking and striking. This was a murder by strangulation with a much more sinister and final intention behind it.

Wadsworth pleaded guilty on the second day of the trial to assisting an offender by burying Miss Howells’ body.

In June, 2019, he helped Tarbox to collect the body from the rented property in Independent Street and to transport it to the caravan parkfor burial.

The body was in the bin outside the property, the court was told.

Wadsworth then dug the grave and put Miss Howells’ remains into it before collecting her benefit money from the Post Office for Tarbox.

Julie Chadburn, Miss Howells’ sister, said in her victim personal statement that Susie’s disappearance and murder had a devastating impact on her family.

Her elderly parents were trying to come to terms with the murder of their daughter.

Mrs Chadburn said Susie was treated so badly by people she trusted. She was frail and vulnerable and the circumstances surrounding her death never left her.

Her sister was “discarded like a piece of trash” by being dumped in a wheelie bin.

Tarbox had shown no remorse, drawing her sister’s benefit money after her murder.

In mitigation, it was conceded that the murder and concealment of Miss Howells’ body for almost eight months had a massive impact on her family.

Miss Howells wanted to be part of Tarbox’s life and he used her. He was a large and volatile man and she died very quickly in a spontaneous attack.

In mitigation for Wadsworth it was said that he had a good work record and his job was still open to him. He was doing what he was told by Tarbox.

Judge Kearl said Tarbox was no stranger to violence, including punching a former partner in the face.

He met Susan Howells in 2012 and they became friends. He knew she was physically frail and vulnerable and relied on others for help.

He controlled the relationship just as he controlled Miss Arnold and Wadsworth.

The trigger to kill Miss Howells was not clear. She may have believed they had a personal relationship, but he was using her.

On February 19, 2019, he murdered her by strangulation. It was opportunistic and he had a quick temper. She was defenceless and he showed her no mercy. Then he heartlessly and brutally tried to cover his tracks.

“You treated her body as though it was base and worthless,” Judge Kearl said.

He hid her in the cellar and then tried to burn her in an incinerator bin. When that didn’t work he put her body back in the bin in the cellar and left the house.

In June he hired a van and he and Wadsworth collected the body and it was buried behind Miss Arnold’s caravan.

Wadsworth was exploited by Tarbox who forced him to beg for money in the street. But he callously helped to dispose of the body by digging the shallow grave and covering it over with bin backs and soil.

He was playing his part in preventing the police from commencing investigations into the murder and the lawful apprehension of Tarbox.

Wadsworth was jailed for three years and seven months.

Judge Kearl said Tarbox will not be automatically released after 16 years. It is the minimum term he will spend in prison until The Parole Board deems it safe to release him. He will remain on licence for the rest of his life.