Here are 10 criminals jailed for serious offences in South Yorkshire since August.
They include burglars, thugs, paedophiles a kidnapper and a sex attacker.
In one case a pensioner snared by paedophile hunters turned up at Sheffield Railway Station with Viagra, believing he was meeting a 14-year-old girl for sex.
Another defendant firebombed a house - trapping a family-of-seven including two children and a baby on its upper floors.
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1. Stephen Greaves
Greaves, 74, turned up at Sheffield Railway Station with Viagra - beliving he was meeting a 14-year-old girl for sex. Sheffield Crown Court heard perv Greaves had been grooming the online decoy for weeks - sending a photo of his genitals on WhatsApp and series of sexually explicit messages. A paedophile hunter group intercepted him at the station in July 2021 him and reported his intentions to British Transport Police. He was jailed for two years and eight months. | SYP Photo: BTP
2. Murali Nadendla
Nadendla, aged 27, kidnapped his female flatmate after he "misinterpreted" their relationship. He was caught on CCTV physically restraining her for 45 minutes as she tried to leave their accommodation on Elder Street, Sheffield. However a female student intervened and alerted security staff and the defendant was later arrested. He was jailed for three years. | SYP
3. Liam Taffinder
“Prolific” Sheffield burglar Liam Taffinder - whose previous jail terms have totted up to 39 years since he was 18 - raided two houses and attempted three more on the same night, swiping a car, TV and children’s piggy bank money boxes, He hit the homes during a two-week crime spree beginning on December 29 last year, during which he broke into four homes and tried to get into another three. He was jailed for five-and-a-half years. | SYP
4. Jamal Usman
Usman, 23, firebombed a house - trapping a family-of-seven including two children and a baby on its upper floors. The was rescued from their burning three-storey terraced home in Rotherham by neighbours using ladders or clambering onto adjacent roofs or garages. Usman was understood to have been “used” by “more senior” members of a gang to torch the house with two other men, who have since fled the UK. He was jailed for six years and four months | SYP