An 'enthusiastic employee' of a major Sheffield drugs operation and a group of revenge-seeking men who attacked teenage boys with machetes have also been put behind bars.
The 15 criminals pictured here have all been jailed during Sheffield Crown Court hearings held over the last few weeks for shocking crimes including murder, rape and grievous bodily harm.
Sheffield judges have sent each of the defendants pictured here to begin sentences at His Majesty's Pleasure, with terms ranging from 22 months to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 20 years.
Some of these individuals acknowledged their wrongdoing by entering guilty pleas to the charges they faced, while others were found guilty after a jury trial at the same court.
Some of these individuals acknowledged their wrongdoing by entering guilty pleas to the charges they faced, while others were found guilty after a jury trial at the same court.
5. Bartosz Bella
Bartosz Bella, 40, repeatedly abused and manipulated his two victims aged 12 and 16 for a period of four years. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Bella controlled and forced his victims to engage in sexual acts with him in return for gifts and would beat them if they did not do what he demanded. Bella, from the Manor area of Sheffield, first appeared before Sheffield Crown Court in December 2022 and was found guilty by jury of three counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two counts of sexual assault. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on five further charges. Bella was remanded in custody and appeared before the same court this month for a re-trial in relation to the five charges - three counts of sexual assault of a child under 13, one count of assault of a child under 13 and one count of assault by beating. On Friday, February 9, 2024 - the fourth day of his re-trial - he pleaded guilty to all five charges and was sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison. | SYP
Featuring on Crimewatch twice after committing sexual offences in Rotherham and Cornwall, Darren Oldham, 35, of Middleton Road, Banbury has been jailed. On 29 January 2022, Oldham sexually assaulted a teenage girl in Rotherham after plying her with drugs. The brave girl reported to the police that after being given cannabis to smoke, she was awoken to find Oldham sexually assaulting her. Months later, while on holiday in Cornwall, Oldham again sexually assaulted a 14 year-old girl after meeting her and her friend for the first time near to a beach. After giving the girls cannabis and alcohol, Oldham sexually assaulted the intoxicated victim after being left alone with her. Oldham fled the scene and showing no remorse for his actions actively evaded police. A hunt for him began and on 8 November 2022 he was arrested and charged with two counts of assault of a female over 13 (but under 16) by penetration and one count of sexual touching of a child over 13 (but under 16). Oldham pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing and was sentenced on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at Sheffield Crown Court to nine years in prison, extended by three years on licence and a restraining order not to contact the victim. | SYP
Sheffield Crown Court heard how 21-year-old Lewis Stacey deceived the young girl over Snapchat messages by using a false name and convincing her he was 15-years-old. The victim initially met Stacey in June 2022, and during the meeting he raped her twice. Stacey then arranged to meet the girl again in a park in July 2022, where he led her into some bushes and raped her again. Stacey, of Richmond Hall Road, appeared before Sheffield Crown Court on 6 October 2023, where he pleaded guilty to four counts of rape of a child under 13. On Thursday, February 8, 2024 he was sentenced to eight and half years in prison, given a fifteen year restraining order restricting him from contacting the victim, and handed and given an eight and half years sexual harm prevention order starting upon his release from prison. | SYP
In February 2023, information was received by police reporting that cannabis was being grown at a property on Pye Bank Road in Pitsmoor. Officers executed an early morning warrant at the address and located an extensive cannabis factory within. Officers monitoring the property from outside quickly became aware of a man smashing his way through the roof tiles from the attic. The man, later identified as 21-year-old Ronalda Cera, pulled himself up onto the roof through the shattered tiles and ran across the roofs of the neighbouring properties along the street before escaping arrest. After going on the run, Cera was arrested by officers in the Page Hall area on 15 March. An extensive cannabis cultivation was found across a number of rooms within the Pitsmoor property, including the cellar, upstairs landing, attic and two bedrooms. Officers seized over 450 cannabis plants and around 11 kilograms of dried cannabis, as well as a range of cannabis cultivation equipment. At a Sheffield Crown Court trial on 1 February 2024, Ronaldo Cera, 21, of Pye Bank Road, was found guilty of producing a Class B drug. On February 1, 2024 he was sentenced to 24 months in prison and the court ordered him to be deported to Albania on conclusion of his sentence. | SYP