A Harrogate woman has received a suspended jail sentence for a two-year benefit fraud in which she failed to declare the proceeds from a property sale. Vanessa Boyd, 49, acted out of “sheer greed” by failing to disclose to the Department for Work and Pensions that she...
A dog walker was trampled by a cow in a farmer’s field, causing horrific injuries including seven broken ribs and a perforated bowel which required emergency surgery. Former army officer Janicke Tvedt, then 55, lost consciousness following the attack on farmland near...
A Harrogate teenager has been jailed for an attempted knifepoint robbery in which he lunged at the victim with a serrated blade after warning him: "Don’t think I won’t take your life". The named victim and his female friend heard the “click” of a folding knife after...
A Harrogate paedophile, who downloaded more than 30,000 indecent images of children and offered to sell sexual images of young people online in return for Bitcoin and Amazon gift cards, has been jailed for two years. Stuart Witham’s “vast” collection of images...
A notorious Harrogate man waged a relentless stalking campaign against his ex-partner in which he harried her on social media, strangled her and left a crushed-up Viagra tablet outside her home in the hope that her dog would eat it. John Christian Lister, 33, couldn’t...
A “lone-wolf terrorist” who plotted to blow up a hospital and a RAF base near Harrogate had been experimenting with firework gunpowder and fertiliser inside his garage, a jury was told. Mohammad Farooq, 28, a clinical support worker, planned to carry out an Islamist...
A man accused of plotting a terrorist attack on RAF Menwith Hill near Harrogate did so because it was a designated Islamic State target, a court heard. Mohammad Farooq, 28, is accused of preparing pressure cooker bomb attacks on the US spy and radar base and a Leeds...
A would-be “lone wolf terrorist” plotted to blow up part of a hospital and an RAF base near Harrogate, a court heard today. Mohammad Farooq, 28, a clinical support worker, downloaded material from extremist Jihadi groups and online guides on how to make a bomb, then...
An 18-year-old has pleaded guilty to obstructing police on duty following an incident outside McDonald's in Harrogate yesterday. Alfie Stevens, of Coates Street, Bradford, appeared before York Magistrates Court today. He was charged with obstructing a constable in the...
An “obsessed” Harrogate man has been jailed for yet another breach of a restraining order designed to protect his former partner with whom he was “fixated”. Carl Ingles, 44, made the victim’s life a “complete misery” for years, York Crown Court heard. Ingles, who held...
A professional boxer from Harrogate has been jailed for more than seven years for wounding a man by biting his ear in a bar. Guy Kitching, 21, an unbeaten middleweight, was found guilty of wounding with intent this week following a trial at York Crown Court. The...
