Shane Frayne
A THIRD-STRIKE housebreaker was jailed for three years for a string of offences including burgling an elderly woman’s home overnight while she was asleep in bed.
Frayne got in through a window at the address in Wyke, Bradford, to steal property including a Christmas present, her phone, purse, house keys, glasses and bank cards.
Frayne, 30, of Town Gate, Wyke, was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court on a video link to HMP Leeds after pleading guilty to seven offences.
Prosecution barrister, Tayo Dasaolu, said he burgled the pensioner’s home on December 5 last year and was to be sentenced as a ‘three striker.’ He had then tried to use the bank cards he had raided from the property.
He had also burgled Pride Gym, on Abb Scott Lane, Low Moor, Bradford, on the same date by making a hole in the ceiling and getting in to steal £110 cash and equipment.
Miss Dasaolu said Frayne, who was caught on CCTV committing the offence, did £500 damage breaking into the business.
He admitted stealing household products from Morrisons on Griffe Road, Wyke, on November 1 last year; two offences of vehicle interference; and fraud by false representation by trying to use the stolen bank cards at Wyke Mini Market on Huddersfield Road, Bradford.
On December 6, he burgled the Welcome Nursery in Bramley Lane, Hipperholme, stealing £350 of property, including toys, a children’s bicycle, a computer, two lanterns and two cameras.
He broke in using a screwdriver and emptied cupboards in an untidy search of the premises, Miss Dasaolu said.
The owner of the nursery alerted the police when she arrived to find the gate open, the door ajar and the milk strewn on the lawn.
Frayne had 11 previous convictions for 35 offences, including four house burglaries.
His barrister, Jayne Beckett, said his mental health had been severely impacted by the extreme hardship he had suffered in childhood.
He had been leading a productive life with his partner before there was a huge deterioration when he was taking drugs and began offending again.
Things had quickly spiralled downwards after he had tried to seek help with his mental health. Post-pandemic, it was very difficult to get such assistance quickly, Mrs Beckett said.
Frayne was committed to sorting himself out, the court was told.
Recorder Simon Jackson KC jailed him for a total of three years.
He said he was a prolific burglar at a high risk of committing further similar offences.
Wesley Millington
A VIOLENT domestic incident in which a man smashed a window to break into a house in Shipley was shown on the BBC series Bradford on Duty, a court heard.
Wesley Millington was jailed for two years and three months after traumatising his former partner who defended herself by stabbing him twice in the leg.
Millington’s barrister, James Littlehales, said that footage taken at the address was aired on national television meaning that the defendant could not have been tried in Bradford.
He pleaded guilty to affray at the house on December 6 last year and was imprisoned after spending ten months remanded in custody.
Prosecutor, Jessica Heggie, the victim was in a short relationship with Millington who burst through the kitchen door at her home late in the evening.
They argued and he left when she threatened to call the police.
Millington, 38, of Strother Way, Cramlington, Northumberland, then demanded his bag from the address. He threw things outside the property and smashed the kitchen window.
He leant inside and hurled plates and ornaments before climbing in through the smashed pane and grabbing a knife.
Miss Heggie said that he was stabbed twice in the leg by the woman during the incident.
Millington was in breach of a 14-month suspended sentence for a causing actual bodily harm in an incident of domestic violence committed in Newcastle.
He had 22 previous convictions for 49 offences, including three for offences against the person.
Mr Littlehales said that Millington went to the house that night to talk to his former partner.
He says he was stabbed when being ejected from the property the first time. There was no dispute that there were two stab wounds to his leg and film of the incident supported his account.
Millington accepted that he broke in through the kitchen window. He was trying to retrieve the bag with his work tools in it.
He picked up the knife inside the house. It was the same one that had been used to stab him and he quickly put it down.
Millington had been in custody on remand for ten months, the equivalent of a 20-month prison sentence, Mr Littlehales said.
He was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment for the affray and 11 months of the suspended sentence was activated, making a total jail term of 27 months.
A restraining order was made for five years preventing him from contacting the woman directly or going anywhere near her address.
Ian Bailey
A CONTROLLING man with a conviction for stalking has been jailed for his second of-fence of disclosing private sexual photographs.
Ian Bailey posed a danger to young women who crossed his path, the judge locking him up for 18 months said.
Bailey, 30, of Ruskin Avenue, Heaton, Bradford, had a history of breaching court orders taken out by women he had harassed and threatened, prosecutor Alisha Kaye said.
He was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court after pleading guilty to sending a malicious communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety and disclosing private sexual photographs to cause distress.
Miss Kaye said that Bailey had previous convictions for multiple breaches of court orders, damage, assault, battery, threatening behaviour, harassment, stalking and malicious communication.
His most recent conviction was for disclosing an image of a woman’s naked breasts on Facebook after he met her online for sex and then turned nasty.
Miss Kaye said Bailey had committed the latest offences against a different victim.
He had posted photos of her in her underwear on social media, publicly calling her a dirty slag and leaving her mortified and embarrassed.
He had repeatedly texted and messaged her, threatening to set her home on fire and dig up a dead relative, and calling her a rat and a slag.
Bailey then posted an intimate photo of her body that he had stolen off her phone, the court heard.
The abuse had left her self-conscious and had affected her relationship with men.
Saf Salam said in mitigation that Bailey had fended for himself since his early teens. He struggled to form relationships and had issues with abandonment.
Most of his offending was to cause distress rather than to be physically violent.
Recorder David Gordon said Bailey quickly became controlling and threatening with the woman and then sought retribution.
She was forced to leave her home and he issued terrible threats before posting an explicit photo he had stolen from her phone causing distress and humiliation.
The woman said in her victim's personal statement that she was depressed. She had left her job and she was constantly on edge.
Recorder Gordon told Bailey it was ‘a disturbing pattern of behaviour’ and he posed a danger to young women who crossed his path.
A ten-year restraining order prevents him from having any contact with his victim or going to any address where she might be.
Recorder Gordon made an order banning the identification of the woman.
Daniel Morley
A DRINK and drug-fuelled man who assaulted and strangled his former partner and smashed her window with a vodka bottle was jailed for two and a half years.
Daniel Morley put both hands around the terrified woman’s throat and squeezed it during a prolonged attack at her Bradford home, before threatening her pregnant neighbour, Bradford Crown Court heard.
Morley, 31, of Freshfield Gardens, Allerton, Bradford, was sentenced on a video link to HMP Leeds for five offences committed on July 18 and breach of a suspended sentence order made four months earlier.
Prosecutor Nicola Hoskins said he had pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, non-fatal strangulation, common assault, criminal damage and possession of cannabis.
He was in breach of an eight-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, imposed on March 21 for breaching a non-molestation order made to protect the same woman.
Miss Hoskins said Morley and the woman had been drinking together at her home when he started shouting at her. He threw a bottle of vodka, smashing a window, and when she fled upstairs, he hurled an ornament belonging to her late mother at her. It struck her and smashed injuring her.
Morley then grabbed her throat and her arm but she broke free and ran from her address. He followed, punched her, put both hands around her throat and pushed her against a wall.
He then did it again before squaring up to her pregnant neighbour in a threatening manner.
Miss Hoskins said the incident lasted around 20 minutes and left the woman cut, bruised and with blood on her clothing.
Morley was arrested hiding in a wardrobe at the property and found to have cannabis on him.
Catherine Duffy said in mitigation that he sincerely regretted his behaviour and wished to apologise to his victim.
He had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and been remanded in custody for more than two months.
Morley had a difficult family background and had used cannabis and alcohol as a coping mechanism. He was now free of drink and drugs and planned to stay off them.
He had depression and anxiety that had got worse while he was remanded.
Recorder David Gordon said the victim had been left suffering from depression and loss of self-esteem. She was vulnerable because she was in her own home and it was a persistent attack while Morley was under the influence of drink and drugs.
The offences were aggravated by his previous convictions and the second breach of a non-molestation order to protect the same woman.
Morley, who had nine previous convictions for 13 offences, was jailed for 28 months. The eight-week suspended sentence was activated consecutively, making a total of 30 months.
A five-year restraining order bans him from contacting the woman and her neighbour and prevents him from going near their homes or workplaces.
Daniel Wills
A DRUG addict who held a large knife to the throat of a female staff member during a terrifying robbery at Greggs on Great Horton Road, Bradford, was jailed for four years and three months.
Daniel Wills grabbed the woman by the hair, span her round, marched her to the till and forced her to open it, Bradford Crown Court heard.
She thought he was going to fatally slit her throat with the big sharp kitchen knife, prosecutor Jade Edwards said.
The robbery on August 13 had led to changes in employment practices at Greggs premises in Bradford, with staff members keeping one another in their eye-line, the court was told.
It had left the victim fearful and withdrawn instead of being happy, sociable and outgoing.
Wills, 31, of Manneville Terrace, Great Horton, pleaded guilty to robbery of banknotes and possession of a knife as an offensive weapon.
The woman was at first too petrified to be able to open the till. When she succeeded, Wills snatched the cash and made off.
He was pursued on foot by a woman who challenged him and he swung the knife at a man who confronted him.
He escaped into a disused building and climbed onto the roof, giving himself up when firearms officers arrived.
Ken Green said in mitigation that Wills had been addicted to drugs for most of his life and begged on the streets and shoplifted to buy them.
He was spending £200 a day on cocaine and heroin. He didn’t have a job and resorted to crime to fund his habit.
He felt shame and disgust about the suffering he has caused. Wills had 38 previous convictions for 71 offences, including possession of a bladed article.
Recorder Tahir Khan KC said the earlier knife offence was a serious aggravating feature of the robbery, as was Wills’ long record of previous convictions.
He grabbed the woman from behind by the hair and continued to keep hold of it while putting the knife to her throat. She was clearly terrified and thought she was going to die.
The woman’s female colleague was also terrified by what she saw.
“This was extreme violence used against a vulnerable female,” Recorder Khan said.
She was still greatly affected by the ordeal, being constantly on edge and needing to be taken to and from work by family members.
Wills had brandished the knife at two people who tried to confront him when he was running away.
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