HERE S this week s round-up of who has been jailed this week: -
A MEMBER of a gang that attacked a G4S security guard in a broad daylight during a cash-in-transit robbery outside a Bradford supermarket was jailed for three years and four months. Qasib Hussain, 23, of Idle Road, Five Lane Ends, Bradford, was one of three men who took part in the £12,000 raid outside Tesco Express on Bolton Road just after 1pm on July 27 last year. In November, Mohammed Farid, also 23, of Newport Place, Manningham, Bradford, admitted his involvement in the robbery and was also jailed for 40 months. A third unidentified man was part of the gang but still at large, Bradford Crown Court heard. Video footage of the robbery showed him bringing a hammer down either onto the security guard himself or his van.
Teenager Brad Aldridge, left, died following a collision in Harrogate Road, Undercliffe, in 2019 A MAN who allegedly killed his nephew and seriously injured another man in a horror crash two years ago made his first appearance in court yesterday. Lejan Lancaster-Baxter, 34, is charged with causing the death of Brad Aldridge by dangerous driving on February 3, 2019, in Harrogate Road, Undercliffe. Lancaster-Baxter, of Intake Terrace, Fagley, is also charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving to Declan Aldridge in the same incident. Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court heard it is alleged Lancaster-Baxter was driving a black Volkswagen Golf on February 3, 2019, when it was involved in a collision with two other vehicles.
Binh Nguyen A CANNABIS gardener caught with a roll of new £20 banknotes, a coffee table with tobacco on it and a key to the property has been jailed for two years and four months. Judge Jonathan Rose today rejected any suggestion that Binh Nguyen had been exploited when he agreed to take up the £1,000 a month employment at the house, demanding an up-front payment first. Nguyen, 31, of no fixed address, was the only one home when police attended at the address in Holmfield, Halifax, shortly after midday on March 26.
Bradford Crown Court heard that officers were acting on suspicions that cannabis was being grown at the address.