They are all now serving time behind bars.
Of the 16 men and women jailed, the shortest sentence passed down during these Sheffield Crown Court hearings was one of 21 months, whilst the longest one stretched to 20 years.
Each of these defendants was sentenced during hearings held at the court between mid-February 2025 and mid-March 2025.
Some of these defendants acknowledged their part in the crimes they were charged with by entering guilty pleas, and receiving a reduction in their sentence for doing so.
Others, however, refused to take responsibility and were found guilty during trials held at the same court.
5. Katie Evans: Doncaster prison officer jailed over "intimate" relationship with inmate
Mother-of-one Katie Evans, aged 26, wept in the dock at Sheffield Crown Court as a judge described how she was "corrupted" not long after she started work at Doncaster Prison in South Yorkshire when she was 21. As well as starting an intimate relationship with the prisoner, Daniel Brownley, Evans had more than 140 phone calls with him, moved money around bank accounts for him, and supplied him with information the prison held on him, The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, said. The court was told last week that Evans admitted to having had an "intimate" relationship with Brownley but prosecutors said it was not clear whether she accepted this was sexual. The judge heard she had boasted to an ex-prison officer that she had performed a sex act on the inmate and the defendant referred to herself as "your queen" when talking to Brownley. Judge Richardson said the sentence of 21 months should have been longer but, "purely as an act of mercy", he reduced it to take into account the effect it will have on Evans' relationship with her young daughter and the difficulties she will have in prison as a former officer. The judge also outlined the issues prisons are currently having with accommodating inmates serving short sentences. But he said the offending was "so serious that only an immediate sentence of imprisonment is appropriate in this case". Evans, of Hatfield, Doncaster, admitted misconduct in a public office at a previous hearing. | SYP
6. Graham Marshall: Police release custody image of Sheffield man who coerced partner into bestiality with pug
As Sheffield man Graham Marshall begins a prison sentence for a catalogue of sex offences and shocking acts of bestiality, police released this custody image of him. 39-year-old Marshall periodically rocked back and forth, and kept his head in his hands for much of this morning’s resumed sentencing hearing, as his ‘depraved’ conduct was outlined in great detail by the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC. He remained silent, however, when Judge Richardson handed down a prison sentence of five years, nine months, with an extended licence period of four years - bringing his total sentence to one of nine years, six months - after deeming him to be a dangerous offender during a hearing held on March 3, 2025. Both Marshall, along with his co-accused and former partner, Paige Reaney, pleaded guilty to a number of offences relating to bestiality relating to their pet pug Charlie, with Reaney admitting to full sex with the animal, and Marshall admitting to aiding and abetting such acts. Sheffield Crown Court heard how both defendants subjected to unnecessary suffering, along with habitual sexual activity, during a period of more than three years, running between August 2019 and December 2022. Marshall, of no fixed abode, was also sentenced for offences committed solely by him, including taking his own indecent image of a child under the age of 10, along with voyeurism relating to a hidden camera inside the private bathroom of a residence, and the possession of child abuse images of Categories A, B and C, and extreme pornography. Judge Richardson said he believed Reaney had been subject to an ‘element of coercion,’ and in the videos of the depraved acts of bestiality captured by Marshall, he could be heard giving instructions. He said: “I observed, when adjourning this case on Friday last, in a professional life in the law covering 45 years, I thought I had encountered most acts of depravity. This case is perhaps the worst example of a case of its kind that I have ever come across.” | SYP
7. Jamil Talukder: Horrified mum caught carer sexually abusing her severely disabled child on nanny cam installed in his bedroom
Jamil Talukder, aged 23, is beginning a three-year prison sentence, after he pleaded guilty to a string of sex offences - including inciting a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity - carried out against two young boys. Kate* is the mother of Albie*, who is one of the boys abused by Talukder. She has spoken of the shock she felt when, after being in place for just one night, footage taken from the ‘nanny cam’ in Albie’s bedroom showed his carer, Talukder, sexually abusing him. “I had to watch the footage back before I could go to the police. I had to go through it, I had to watch my own son being abused, he was terrified, he didn’t understand what was happening” said Kate. Kate says she, and her family, have been ‘through hell’ since the abuse carried out by Talukder was uncovered. “He was in a position of trust, that in itself is the most shocking part of it.” “He was entrusted in my family’s home, he’s been present during birthday parties…it is absolutely disgusting that he could do something like that, that he could treat my family like that…he’s targeted a vulnerable family.” Albie’s family was spared the ordeal of a trial when Talukder pleaded guilty to all six charges he faced, including two counts of an offender 18 or over causing/inciting a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity; two counts of making indecent photographs of children and two counts of assaulting a boy under 13 by touching. Talukder was brought before Sheffield Crown Court on Thursday, February 27, 2025, when he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. | SYP
8. Trevor Lockwood: Brave Barnsley woman waives right to anonymity as abuser who raped her as she slept is jailed
Kimberley Dyson, aged 41, says she wants "other victims of sexual abuse to see experiences of sexual harm and abuse are nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about." It comes after Trevor Lockwood, 44, was found guilty of four counts of rape following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court in October 2024. He was sentenced at the same court on February 24, 2025 where he received a 13 year prison term. He will also be on the sex offenders' register for life. The court heard how Lockwood, of Ballfield Lane, Barnsley, was in a relationship with Kimberley between 2003 and 2014. In 2022, Kimberley bravely reported to South Yorkshire Police that, during the relationship, Lockwood had raped her on a number of occasions after she had gone to sleep. Kimberley would wake up in the middle of the night to find Lockwood forcing himself on her and engaging in sexual activity she had not consented to. She would tell Lockwood to stop what he was doing, but he would ignore her pleas and forcibly continue. Lockwood blamed his behaviour on his drug use and often claimed he did not know why he did what he did. In a statement provided to South Yorkshire Police, Kimberley said: "Today's sentencing hearing has been a long time coming. I feel very passionate about my decision to waive my anonymity. Despite years of feeling deep shame around the abuse I experienced, I am finally learning to accept that none of this was my fault. | SYP