These defendants either assaulted their victims or were linked to serious attacks involving the use of a range of different types of weapons, and in some cases they caused serious harm, pain or distress to their victims.
One man poured a flammable liquid over his daughter but luckily failed to ignite it, a prisoner stabbed a fellow inmate with a toilet brush with a screw attached to the point, and another prisoner threw human waste at prison officers.
Judges have all recognised the seriousness of the offences committed by these defendants and imposed commensurate custodial terms upon the offenders.
Sentences ranged from 11 months of custody to as long as life imprisonment.
9. 9. Mark Brooks
Mark Brooks, pictured, aged 61, of Shirecliffe Road, at Shirecliffe, Sheffield, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to nine years and six months of custody after he pleaded guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm to his daughter and to threatening to kill her. The court heard on August 9 how Mark Brooks, had gone to see his daughter after a dispute and he had poured flammable liquid over her clothes and tried to ignite a lighter but fortunately it would not light. The judge – Recorder Matthew Happold – said Brooks had poured liquid from a bottle onto his daughter and he had taken out a lighter and had attempted to set it alight on two occasions. He added that Brooks had hit and kicked his daughter and threatened to kill her as she took refuge in a neighbour’s flat. Photo: SYP