Vengeful tenant caused up to £20,000 damage to his home A tenant caused up to £20,000 damage to his home in a revenge attack because he was being evicted for not paying the rent, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday. Garry Mulcahy sent a video of a “waterfall” flowing through the living room ceiling to his landlord pretending that he was in Ireland and a friend was staying at the property. Mulcahy, 34, admitted criminal damage at the address in Derby Street, Clayton, Bradford, on September 2 last year. While on bail, he burgled his former partner at night, drove off in her car and sent her a photo of himself naked except for a hat and glasses he had stolen when he took her bag.
. A speeding driver jumped four red lights before ignoring a fifth and crashing into another vehicle on Manchester Road, Bradford Crown Court heard today. Dawood Rana’s silver Mercedes struck a white BMW at the junction with Mill Lane shortly after midnight on November 14, 2019. The two men in the BMW needed hospital treatment after the smash which left both cars extensively damaged, prosecutor Samreen Akhtar said. Rana, 36, of Croft Gardens, Birkby, Huddersfield, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after CCTV footage showed him speeding across the city and running four red lights before the crash. He was jumping a fifth when he collided with the BMW.
Two Tarot card readers were threatened at knifepoint in their home after they were accused of fleecing a woman out of large sums of money for fraudulent spiritual readings, Bradford Crown Court heard today. An unidentified man brandished a flick knife when troubled flared at the Bradford house, prosecutor Ayesha Smart said. Before the court were Naser Riaz, 43, and his son, Mohammed Daniaal, 20, both of Jesmond Avenue, Heaton, Bradford, who pleaded guilty to affray on September 1, 2018. Miss Smart said Riaz and his unnamed accomplice were angry with the male victims who were paid for Tarot card readings, scriptural interpretations and astrology forecasts.
Richard Beech A FAILED businessman become the sixth and final member of an organised crime ring operating in Bradford to be put behind bars this month. Richard Beech was jailed for five years for laundering £5 million of drugs money for the gang. He made frequent trips between his home in Manchester and West Yorkshire to collect and deliver large amounts of cash concealed in hidden compartments under the seats of his specially modified Range Rover. He was labelled the “cash converter and banker” for the organisation led by Rashid Ashraf (also known as Mohammed Rashid) who was jailed for 18 years.
Wainwright, pictured above, was jailed during a hearing on Friday A persistent child sex offender has been jailed for two years for using a browser that concealed his online paedophilia and storing Category A indecent images of little girls. Daryl Wainwright was made the subject of a ten-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order in January last year following a 29 month jail sentence for two offences of sexual assault on a girl under 13. He was on licence when the police went to his home in Bradford Road, Brighouse, on November 26 this year and caught him with illegal images of children. Wainwright, 29, pleaded guilty to possession of two Category A indecent moving images and breach of the Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) by installing a device on his tablet that masked his internet browsing history.