Leeds Crown Court

Notable cases

As Leeds Assizes

• Zsiga Pankotia – found guilty of murder, became the last man to be hanged at Armley Gaol in 1961.

  As Leeds Crown Court

• John Poulson – found guilty of fraud and jailed for five 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 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.