September 2024: The criminals who were jailed in Bradford

Below you will find seven men who have been locked up in September.

*To read each full court report, click on the underlined defendant's name

Hamza Khan

A bigamist who threatened to kill his wife and children and burn down the family home was jailed for three years.

Khan (Image: West Yorkshire Police) Addressing 42-year-old Hamza Khan at Bradford Crown Court, Mr Recorder Sam Green KC said he was “a terrible bully” who had punched, slapped, and bit his wife “like a wild animal” leaving her “terrified”.

Peter Dzudza

A child rapist from Slovakia was jailed after he carried out a shocking sexual attack on a vulnerable elderly woman while she was in a private cubicle at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Dzudza (Image: Police) A court heard today (Tues) how drug-using schizophrenic Peter Dzudza, 28, had been “staying” in the hospital because he was “homeless and cold”, but while he was there earlier this year he targeted his victim as she was sleeping.

Liam Crosby

A man from the Bradford district who groomed a vulnerable transgender teenager online and offered them money for indecent pictures and videos is beginning a lengthy jail term.

Crosby (Image: Police) Liam Crosby was handed an extended sentence of six years plus a further three years on licence after being judged to be a high risk to children.

Crosby, 31, of Harewood Rise, Keighley, claimed to be an online vigilante hunting paedophiles and continued to deny that he had a sexual interest in children despite being convicted at trial of multiple sexual offences.

Yousef Camara

A man from Bradford who sexually assaulted a woman as she slept in her bed was jailed for more than five years.

Camara (Image: West Yorkshire Police) Yousef Camara was found guilty of the attack, which took place at an address in the Bradford district, following a trial in July this year.

Garry Sinclair

A man caught with cocaine - estimated to have a street value between £5.7m and nearly £7m - in his car was jailed for 10 years.

Sinclair (Image: West Yorkshire Police) Garry Sinclair was transporting 57kg of the drug when he was targeted by police on Valley Road in Bradford on October 5 last year.

The 37-year-old has now been locked up for a decade following sentencing at Bradford Crown Court. 

Zaheer Khan

A repeat danger driver was given the longest jail sentence a judge could give him, but the Bradford dad will be back on the streets after less than a year behind bars.

Khan (Image: West Yorkshire Police/Google Street View) Recorder Nicholas Worsley KC issued a severe warning to Zaheer Khan after hearing how he drove a red Audi A1 at high speed over a pedestrian crossing near Bradford Royal Infirmary during a late night police pursuit in January.

Robert Holden

A disgraced former ward councillor who secretly filmed dozens of victims over a 14-year period was locked up on Friday.

Holden (Image: West Yorkshire Police) Robert Holden was jailed for six years and two months at Bradford Crown Court today for 31 counts of voyeurism and seven of computer misuse.

Holden, an ex Conservative councillor for Ryburn on Calderdale Council who ran a computer repair business, installed hidden cameras in the bathroom, bedroom and living areas of his homes to secretly film his victims.