Leeds court round-up: Cases heard this week include man who stuffed cocaine up his bum

Andrew Leeming, 38, was a passenger in a car that was stopped by police in March this year. Officers noticed Leeming fidgeting with his trousers and ordered a search, and Leeds Crown Court heard that officers then saw a bag of cocaine “protruding from his anus”.

He pushed the bag further inside his body after told being to take it out and he was taken to hospital to be examined. Police recovered drugs worth £650 and mobile phones showing he had been dealing to users, along with £160 in notes stashed in the car’s sun visor. Leeming, of Bradford, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of Class A drugs and was jailed for three years.

Below is a selection of other cases heard at Leeds Crown Court over the last week.

Paul Gummerson

Paul Gummerson was given four years in jail for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a further offence of controlling and coercive behaviour. He had also been charged with attempted murder initially but that charge was dropped when he admitted the other offences on the day his trial was due to start in October.

The court heard he had pressed a pillow to his wife’s face in April this year and in a victim impact statement read out to Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday, his wife admitted she still loves him, although wishes she could “turn it off like a tap”.

Gummerson was given a four year sentence for each of the two charges, with the time to be served concurrently. He will serve 32 months before being considered for release on licence. He was also given an indefinite restraining order that bans him from contacting his wife by any means.

Dane Lyons