Faces of 10 defiant smiling South Yorkshire criminals who received jail terms
By Jon Cooper
Published 11th Sep 2022, 04:45 BST
Police and judges have helped to wipe the defiant smiles of these ten criminals’ faces.
They all received time behind bars for offences ranging from assaults to arson and threatening behaviour.
Below are some of the more serious and dreadful cases to have passed through Sheffield Crown Court recently where some of the victims have been left traumatised.
Offenders have been involved in stabbings, an arson attack, controlling and coercive behaviour as well as threatening behaviour and aggravated vehicle taking.
One knife-wielding thug stabbed four victims on a Sheffield estate during a reign of terror and another convicted murderer had his sentence extended after he attacked an officer at a Young Offender Institution.
Offenders have been involved in stabbings, an arson attack, controlling and coercive behaviour as well as threatening behaviour and aggravated vehicle taking.
9. 9. Robert McGregor
Pictured is Robert McGregor, aged 40, of Ochre Dike Walk, Wingfield, Rotherham, who was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to 44 months of custody after he pleaded guilty to shoplifting matters, robbery, assault and going equipped to commit a crime after an incident at Cortonwood Shopping Centre, at Barnsley.
The court heard in April how Robert McGregor, was at Cortonwood Shopping Park with two other males with bags full of loot as they were approached by staff from a Morrisons supermarket who retrieved the bags.
Neil Coxon, prosecuting, said as a sales assistant was walking away with the bags she saw McGregor and fell to the ground as he grabbed the bags but as McGregor was pinned down by a member of the public he squeezed this man’s testicles.
Mr Coxon added that once McGregor was detained he was found with wire cutters and bags containing goods from Marks and Spencer, TK Maxx and Smyth’s toy store.
The court heard McGregor has 58 previous convictions including 139 for offences including dishonesty, fraud, shop theft and violence. Photo: SYP
Pictured is Emar Wiley, aged 19 at the time of his latest sentencing in January, after he pleaded guilty to wounding with intent after he stabbed a prison officer in the head.
Wiley, of Mason Lathe Road, Shiregreen, Sheffield, was originally incarcerated after he had stabbed and murdered Lewis Bagshaw on the Southey estate in July, 2019, and he received a life sentence in July, 2020, and was locked up at Wetherby Young Offender Institution, in West Yorkshire.
But just two months after being sentenced and ordered to serve a minimum of 16 years behind bars he stabbed a custody officer in the head. He was sentenced to an extra 32 months of custody. Reporting restrictions were lifted allowing young Wiley to be named when he was initially sentenced for the murder. Photo: SYP