Victim Michelle Bedford, 40, was kicked between the legs so hard she was thrown into the air during the brutal attack at the hands of sick Andrew Bedford, Danielle Rollinson, Emma Daw and Lesley Johnson.

David Gordon, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court the woman was kicked, punched and had a clump of her hair ripped out by the gang – who stole £65 – in an alleyway by Pontefract's Horsefair Flats at 7.30pm on April 8.

Bedford, 31, of Lewis Walsh House, Pontefract, and Rollinson, 17, formerly of West End Avenue, Ackton, were convicted of robbery at the end of a trial.

On the first day, Daw, 19, of Primrose Grove, Selby, and Johnson, 29, formerly of Green Lane, Pontefract, pleaded guilty to the offence.

Jailing Bedford for nine years, Johnson for seven years, Daw for five years and Rollinson for three-and-a-half years, Judge Paul Hoffman said: "This was, in my judgement, a brutal and pitiless robbery."

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