Each of the defendants pictured here are languishing behind bars after taking another person's life.
21 killers have been sent to begin prison sentences during Sheffield Crown Court hearings held during the course of 2023.
Some of the individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment at His Majesty's Pleasure, while others have received less substantial services. A number of defendants sought to deny their guilt, and stood trial at the same court.
Others admitted to their fatal crime, and consequently, received a decrease in the length of their sentence.
One of the defendants was just 12-years-old when he killed beloved grandmother, Marcia Grant, after he ran her over with her own car. He subsequently admitted to a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Others admitted to their fatal crime, and consequently, received a decrease in the length of their sentence.
5. Xander Howarth and Thomas Hardiman
Despite the best efforts of medics who rushed to the scene, 18-year-old Adam Abdul-Basit died from his injuries outside a property on Smelter Wood Road in the Stradbroke area of Sheffield at just after 1pm on Monday, May 8, 2023. 18-year-olds Xander Howarth, of Richmond Park View, Handsworth, Sheffield, and Thomas Hardiman, of Edenhall Road, Deep Pit, Sheffield, went on trial at Sheffield Crown Court in November 2023 accused of Mr Abdul-Basit's murder, a charge they denied.
On Monday, December 4, 2023, a jury rejected their account when they found the pair, both of whom were aged 17 at the time of the fatal incident, guilty of murder.
Howarth and Hardiment were spotted on CCTV, wielding knives as they chased Mr Abdul-Basit into the front garden of a Smelter Wood Road property.
And on Friday, December 22, 2023, both teenagers were sentenced to life imprisonment, with each one to serve a minimum of xx years behind bars.
60-year-old Marcia Grant was hit by a car outside her Greenhill home, during an incident that took place earlier this year, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
A boy, who was aged 12 at the time of the incident but has now turned 13, was initially charged with Marcia's murder. Prosecutors subsequently accepted a guilty plea to an alternative charge of causing death by dangerous driving, during a Sheffield Crown Court hearing held on October 3, 2023.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in the care of Marcia, and her family, at the time of the fatal incident. During a Sheffield Crown Court hearing held on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, Mrs Justice May sentenced the boy to two years in youth custody. He cannot be named for legal reasons.
She told him that while custody is a last resort for children of his age, 'taking the car, driving the car and causing Marcia Grant’s death' is so serious that only custody can be justified.
Dereck Owusu (left) and Louis James (right) were both jailed for life in May 2023, after being found guilty of murdering Reece Radford, who was fatally stabbed during an incident on Arundel Gate, Sheffield city centre in Septmber 2022. Describing the defendants' roles in the fatal incident, Judge Sarah Wright said she was ‘satisfied’ James, of Strathmore Grove, Wath-upon-Dearne stabbed Mr Radford in the chest with a knife he brought to the scene, and subsequently disposed of in a nearby drain following the fatal incident, while Owusu, of Manor Lane, Park Hill, Sheffield kicked Mr Radford to the head ‘three or four times’. Judge Wright told the pair: “You both set about him…he found himself face up on the floor, subjected to serious violence perpetrated by both of you.” Prosecuting barrister, David Tempkin KC, said it was the Crown’s case that the ‘catalyst’ for Mr Radford, who was from the Hillsborough area of the city, becoming involved in an altercation with the two defendants was Owusu’s violence towards a young girl. "The defendants were angry with Mr Radford for becoming involved, and also because of his earlier remarks suggesting she [the girl punched by Owusu] was 'sh**ing those African b******s,' Mr Temkin told the court. Judge Wright sent the pair to begin their life sentences in a hearing held on Thursday, May 4, 2022 and fixed minimum term for James, then aged 47, at 25 years, while Owusu, then aged 40, was told he must spend at least 15 years behind bars
A Sheffield man has been jailed for life for murdering his next-door neighbour in a ‘prolonged and brutal’ attack, in which he used makeshift weapons including a bag containing metal tins of Pokémon cards.
As she sent Andrew Hague to begin a life sentence for the murder of 50-year-old Simon Wilkinson during a hearing held at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Judge Sarah Wright described the attack as being ‘ferocious and brutal’.
“This was an unremitting and merciless attack upon a neighbour of yours where you took the decision during the savage assault to kill him,” Judge Wright told Hague.
Hague beat Mr Wilkinson to death in an unprovoked assault outside the flats they both lived in on Fox Hill Road, in Fox Hill, Sheffield, with numerous people witnessing the savage killing on the evening of Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
Judge Wright told Hague he must serve a minimum of 17 years behind bars but recommended that Hague was sent to high-security psychiatric hospital, Rampton Hospital, pursuant to sections 47 and 49 of the Mental Health Act 1983.