Leeds Crown Court

Leeds Crown Court, more accurately the Crown Court at Leeds, is a venue of the Crown Court in West Yorkshire, England. The buildings are situated on Westgate in Leeds city centre, adjacent to Leeds magistrates courts.

Leeds Crown Court from Park Street

Notable cases

As Leeds Assizes
Nick Griffin leaves Leeds Crown Court

As Leeds Crown Court
  • John Poulson – found guilty of fraud and jailed for five years (later increased to seven years) in 1974.
  • Gary Hart – found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving in connection with the Selby rail crash and jailed for five years in 2001.
  • Nick Griffin – acquitted of incitement to racial hatred in 2006.
  • Wearside Jack – The Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer.
  • Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan – found guilty in December 2008 of the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews, child neglect and perverting the course of justice. The pair were each sentenced to eight years in prison in January 2009.
  • Murder of Ann Maguire – 16-year-old Will Cornick was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in custody in November 2014 for murdering his teacher in April of that year.
  • Colin Gregg – Heir to Greggs bakery chain and former headmaster, jailed for 13½ years (later reduced to 8½ years by the Court of Appeal) in 2017 after being found guilty of sexually abusing four boys over a period spanning more than 30 years. He had been sent for retrial in Leeds after a jury at Newcastle Crown Court failed to reach verdicts the previous year.[1][2][3]

References
  1. "Greggs heir jailed for abusing boys". BBC News. 30 March 2017.
  2. Southern, Keiran (30 March 2017). "Colin Gregg sentenced to 13-and-a-half years' prison RECAP: Former teacher is jailed for abusing boys".
  3. "Greggs heir has sex abuse sentence cut". BBC News. 19 December 2017.
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