There are bad dates, and then these men.
Most of these dangerous predators are at the start of a long stretch behind bars after being sentenced in court, but some will be free in a few years. All of them have been locked up so far this year and we are only three months in.
They have attacked and abused women for their own gain, but have been caught out thanks to their victims’ bravery.
Here are the 12 Yorkshire men you should really swipe left on if they ever come up on Tinder, Bumble or Hinge.
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Daniel Nowek
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Wanted man Nowek was finally locked up in March after he opened fire at a Bradford home in the dead of night.
A mum her two young children were asleep at the house in Coleshill Way back in October 2020 when masked Nowek arrived in the early hours and fired four shots from a Makarov semi-automatic self-loading pistol. A forensic investigation later revealed that one of the bullets fired at the kitchen window had penetrated the house and struck a wall on the opposite side of the kitchen before ricocheting and hitting the conservatory door shattering part of the glazing.
He fled to London after the shooting, but he was arrested eight days later and police found the clothes he had been wearing and the mask inside his Mercedes car. During a search of his flat, officers also found more than 200 ecstasy tablets.
Police investigating the shooting later searched a house in Neville Street, Keighley, and found the Makarov pistol used by Nowek and another full working prohibited revolver which had his DNA on it. Nowek was released on police bail but he failed to turn up as required and was not arrested again until he was found in Southampton in January 2022.
He was handed seven years in jail, and a hybrid order under the Mental Health Act, which means he will continue to be treated at the medium secure Newton Lodge unit but when his treatment is completed, he will be transferred to a prison to serve the remainder of his sentence.
Samuel Hemingway
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Drugged-up Hemingway cut off part of his own right ear and then used the bloodied piece of flesh to scrawl a message in the hallway outside his former partner’s flat.
When Samuel Hemingway’s ex returned to her home she found the severed piece of ear on her dressing table, but Bradford Crown Court heard that the 24-year-old denied he had left it in her bedroom.
He was jailed for 16 months.
Andrew Roache
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Thug Roache strangled a Doncaster woman, drove her to the side of the road and threw her into a ditch in a campaign of violent and controlling abuse.
He grabbed his petrified victim by the throat, strangled her and repeatedly punched her. She was so scared the only way she could try to get him to stop was by biting him on his nose. Overpowering her, he bundled her into his car and drove her to the roadside and flung her out of the car by her hair.
He was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Michael Kidd
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Kidd, 35, was jailed for 14 years and ordered to spend an extended licence period of five years after he violently sexually assaulting an elderly woman in her 80s while she was in her own home.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how in July of last year, Kidd preyed on his victim’s vulnerability and attacked her with ornaments, causing substantial head and face injuries. They then heard how he sexually assaulted her, biting her multiple times.
Darren Arnold
A terrified woman was forced to hide from the abuse of her partner in a pub stairway before he threw a wooden chair at her.
The woman was hiding from Darren Arnold, 40, after the pair – a couple of around two years – went to see a live band at the Cross Keys in Pontefract on January 21 last year when he accused her of “being secretive.” He then grabbed her by the throat and ripped out her right earring and attacked her again the next day by throwing a wooden chair at her.
Arnold was jailed for 10 months.
Christian Krishna Martoglio
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Sick serial rapist Martoglio raped a woman at her North Yorkshire home as she slept.
He attacked following a social gathering in 2022. North Yorkshire Police said at the end of the evening guests were allocated separate rooms but the woman woke up in the early hours of the morning to find Martoglio raping her. He was jailed for nine years and nine months.
Hassan Hussain
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Hussain first attacked his then-partner in May last year, punching her to the face, grabbing her, throwing her onto a bed and then strangling her for the first of a number of times.
A month later he turned violent again when the woman would not let him go through her phone and strangled her up until the point she could not breathe and bashed her head into the wardrobe. She fell to the floor and he picked her back up and threw her onto the bed. He strangled her again and said, ‘This is what cheats get.’ He hit her to the head.”
He was jailed for 42 months.
Joseph Valvona
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A Huddersfield woman “fought for her life” as she was stabbed eight times by her boyfriend in a jealous rage.
The woman had picked up violent thug Joseph Valvona, 26, from his night out in Huddersfield on September 9 last year and the couple made their way home. Afterwards, Valvona began questioning her and went on to punch her in the head, kick her in the stomach and slash her across the face with an eight-inch knife.
Valvona then stabbed the woman, who tried to escape. He was handed an extended sentence of ten-and-a-half-years, made up of seven-and-a-half-years in custody and an extended licence period of three years.
Leon Andrews
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Violent Andrews was jailed for two years after he whipped his then-partner with an iPhone cable and attacked her when there was no toilet paper.
Another of his assaults was captured on mobile phone footage recorded by his victim. In the clip Andrews, 20, is seen “towering” over the complainant as she cowers on a sofa and tells him to “get off” and “go away from me”. Andrews punches the woman and after demanding that she stand up he then kicks her to the face.
Calvino Barrett
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Barrett was put behind bars in January after glassing his girlfriend. He threw the glass at his partner and left her needing hospital treatment following a row at their home while he was under investigation for drug offences.
He was jailed for 28 months.
Troy Wildin
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Wildin attacked an elderly woman in a wheelchair after she withdrew money from a cash machine.
Members of the public bravely stepped in and gave when they saw what had happened. They managed to detain him before police arrived and the woman’s bag and its contents were handed back to her.
Wildin was jailed for three years and three months.
Samuel Luke Boyle
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Jealous Boyle subjected his terrified partner to violence and abuse during their relationship – even controlling what she wore.
A court heard he would stop the woman going out with friends and would not let her wear low-cut tops or tight jeans and would “constantly” check her phone. She also said there had been too many instances of violence to count. He was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
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