These dangerous men and women have been convicted of heinous crimes including murder, rape, terrorism and illegally manufacturing a firearm.
Some of the individuals have been sentenced to life at His Majesty's Pleasure, while others have received extended sentences due to the risk they are deemed to pose fo the public.
Between them, these 15 defendants will spend decades languishing behind bars, after receiving a combined total sentence of 248 years, 8 months.
Between them, these 15 defendants will spend decades languishing behind bars, after receiving a combined total sentence of 248 years, 8 months.
9. Andrew Hague: Man jailed for life for murdering next door neighbour in 'barbaric and evil' attack using tins of Pokémon cards
A Sheffield man has been jailed for life for murdering his next-door neighbour in a ‘prolonged and brutal’ attack, in which he used makeshift weapons including a bag containing metal tins of Pokémon cards. As she sent Andrew Hague to begin a life sentence for the murder of 50-year-old Simon Wilkinson during a hearing held at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Judge Sarah Wright described the attack as being ‘ferocious and brutal’. “This was an unremitting and merciless attack upon a neighbour of yours where you took the decision during the savage assault to kill him,” Judge Wright told Hague. Hague beat Mr Wilkinson to death in an unprovoked assault outside the flats they both lived in on Fox Hill Road, in Fox Hill, Sheffield, with numerous people witnessing the savage killing on the evening of Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Judge Wright told Hague he must serve a minimum of 17 years behind bars but recommended that Hague was sent to high-security psychiatric hospital, Rampton Hospital, pursuant to sections 47 and 49 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
10. Yaqeen Arshad: Sheffield killer teen jailed for murdering much-loved dad
Judge Sarah Wright sent Yaqeen Arshad to begin a prison term of at least 14 years during a Sheffield Crown Court sentencing hearing on Monday, March 20, 2023, after jurors found him guilty of murdering 31-year-old Richard Dentith during a violent incident on Grimesthorpe Road, Burngreave in the early hours of April 7, 2022. This means Arshad could be released by the time he is 31, the same age Mr Dentith was when the teen killer fatally stabbed him in the arm during a violent confrontration on Grimesthorpe Road, Burngreave in the early hours of April 7, 2022. Describing the circumstances of the confrontation, Judge Wright told Arshad: “31-year-old Richard Dentith walked past you as you and your friend stood in a bus shelter on Grimesthorpe Road and continued down the hill...For some reason as Richard Dentith made his way down the hill you pursued him, running after him armed with a knife. “The CCTV from the mosque on Grimesthorpe Road showed that you appear to lunge at Richard Dentith as he disappeared behind a pillar. You clearly deliberately thrust the knife into and indeed through his arm possibly then making contact with his chest. He ran away pursued by you down the hill. “He fell and you overshot, but then turned round and you continued to try to attack him. He managed to get by you but had been fatally injured. He collapsed on steps outside the Earl Marshall Guest House. The stab wound to the arm had severed the brachial artery and cut part of the cartilage and so would have required at least moderate force. He suffered catastrophic blood loss from the wound and he bled to death.” A post-mortem examination subsequently concluded Richard, fondly known as ‘Ricky,’ had died of a single stab wound, jurors heard during the trial. Arshad was subsequently charged with his murder, but denied the charge; however jurors found him guilty of Mr Dentith’s in March 2023, following a 10-day trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
11. Marcus Hamlin: Sheffield man stabbed woman and teenage girl while in midst of mental health crisis
Sheffield man, Marcus Hamlin, has been given a 14-and-a-half year sentence after he stabbed a woman and a teenage girl, while in the midst of mental health crisis, during an incident in the Manor area of Sheffield. The woman and girl attacked by defendant, Marcus Hamlin, were seriously injured in the violent incident, which was carried out on August 29, 2022, Sheffield Crown Court heard. As he sentenced Hamlin, The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, described the attacker's offending as a 'series of ever-escalating violence' perpetrated against a woman and a teenage girl - complainants A and B, respectively. Judge Richardson said it must be made 'clear' from the 'outset' that there was an 'important mental health backdrop' to Hamlin's offending. Judge Richardson jailed Hamlin for nine years, six months, and handed down an extended licence period of five years after judging him to meet the requirements of a 'dangerous' offender, bringing his total sentence to 14 years, six months.
12. Sibusiso Moyo and Christopher Gill: Two jailed for over 31 years for making machine guns for gangs
Sibusiso Moyo, then aged 41 and Christopher Gill, then aged 35, were jailed at Sheffield Crown Court in May 2023 after being convicted of manufacturing the firearms after police found the deadly plastic weapons in the back of a BMW. Video revealed how police swooped on the car that Majeed Rehman, 46, an associate of the pair, had been driving on May 17 last year in Bradford. And they discovered an 'FGC9' homemade automatic sub-machine gun, magazine and bullets hidden in a supermarket bag-for-life in the rear footwell of the car. Police performed the stop on the vehicle after surveillance showed a man, later identified as Gill, get into the BMW while carrying the shopping bag. Raids on Gill's property, led by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit, found two further almost complete FGC9s in a holdall hidden in his loft. When Moyo was later arrested, evidence showed he'd been manufacturing FGC9s at his home in Hull where he had two 3D printers and parts to make weapons. Officers found tools and parts, including springs and screws, that could be used to make the guns as shown in an online manual at his address. Disturbingly, one of the weapons recovered had an image of an arm holding a curved sword with what appears to be blood dripping from its blade imprinted on its side. Evidence also showed firearms at various stages of construction in Moyo's Kitchen and garage, as well as inside Gill's home address. Moyo's DNA was also found on the weapon taken from the BMW. Sheffield Crown Court heard forensic firearms experts based at the Royal Armouries in Leeds had tested the seized items and confirmed they were viable firearms. It's thought the 3D-printed assault weapons were the first of their kind ever seized by police in the UK. Moyo, of Hull was found guilty of illegally manufacturing a firearm and a separate identity fraud offence following a trial, was jailed for 18 years. Gill, of Bradford, who was found guilty of illegally manufacturing a firearm, was jailed for 13 years and 8 months.