Sheffield judges sentenced them to a total of 259 years and seven months behind bars between them.
Some of these defendants acknowledged their wrongdoing through guilty pleas, and accordingly, got time off the length of their prison sentence.
Others sought to deny their crimes, and were convicted at the conclusion of their Sheffield Crown Court trials.
The shortest sentence passed down to the sex offenders included in this list is one of 34 months, while the longest sentence currently being served by these offenders is one of 20 years.
After serving their sentences, a number of these offenders will remain on the sex offenders’ register for a set period of time.
13. Peter Stone: Rapist jailed for 14 years
52-year-old Peter Stone has been brought to justice after being convicted of offences including two counts of rape, both of which were carried out last year. On the first occasion, Stone gained entry to his victim’s address, despite her door being locked, and raped her while she was asleep. He subsequently spent six hours banging on the woman’s door and when she opened her door to tell him to stop, he forced his way into her address and raped her a second time. Cowardly Stone sought to deny responsibility for the sex attacks, and the case went to trial after he entered not guilty pleas to the charges he faced. The complainant faced Stone, of Thirlmere Gardens, Doncaster, to give evidence at his Sheffield Crown Court trial, where she detailed his horrific crimes, and the distress he has caused her. He subsequently spent six hours banging on the woman’s door and when she opened her door to tell him to stop, he forced his way into her address and raped her a second time. Cowardly Stone sought to deny responsibility for the sex attacks, and the case went to trial after he entered not guilty pleas to the charges he faced. The complainant faced Stone, of Thirlmere Gardens, Doncaster, to give evidence at his Sheffield Crown Court trial, where she detailed his horrific crimes, and the distress he has caused her. Following the woman’s evidence, jurors rejected Stone’s account and convicted him of the sex offences. He was brought before the same court on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, when he was jailed for 14 years. | SYP
14. Graham Marshall: Jailed for five years, nine months
As Sheffield man Graham Marshall begins a prison sentence for a catalogue of sex offences and shocking acts of bestiality, police released this custody image of him. 39-year-old Marshall periodically rocked back and forth, and kept his head in his hands for much of this morning’s resumed sentencing hearing, as his ‘depraved’ conduct was outlined in great detail by the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC. He remained silent, however, when Judge Richardson handed down a prison sentence of five years, nine months, with an extended licence period of four years - bringing his total sentence to one of nine years, six months - after deeming him to be a dangerous offender during a hearing held on March 3, 2025. Both Marshall, along with his co-accused and former partner, Paige Reaney, pleaded guilty to a number of offences relating to bestiality relating to their pet pug Charlie, with Reaney admitting to full sex with the animal, and Marshall admitting to aiding and abetting such acts. Sheffield Crown Court heard how both defendants subjected to unnecessary suffering, along with habitual sexual activity, during a period of more than three years, running between August 2019 and December 2022. Marshall, of no fixed abode, was also sentenced for offences committed solely by him, including taking his own indecent image of a child under the age of 10, along with voyeurism relating to a hidden camera inside the private bathroom of a residence, and the possession of child abuse images of Categories A, B and C, and extreme pornography. Judge Richardson said he believed Reaney had been subject to an ‘element of coercion,’ and in the videos of the depraved acts of bestiality captured by Marshall, he could be heard giving instructions. He said: “I observed, when adjourning this case on Friday last, in a professional life in the law covering 45 years, I thought I had encountered most acts of depravity. This case is perhaps the worst example of a case of its kind that I have ever come across.” | SYP
15. Anthony Millwood: Jailed for six years
Anthony Millwood’s first sex offence conviction saw him receive a sentence of three years’ imprisonment in a young offenders’ institute in 2015 for offences of sexual activity with a child, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child following grooming. He committed all three offences the previous year, in 2024, Sheffield Crown Court heard. As part of Millwood’s sentence, he received a decade-long sexual harm prevention order, the purpose of which was to restrict his contact with children and limit his use of the internet, in a bid to stop him from committing further sexual offences. Millwood, now aged 28, breached numerous parts of the order, however, to commit his next set of offences on June 26, 2024, when he twice raped a 12-year-old girl he had been communicating with over Facebook, after the pair met up outside a branch of Primark. Millwood’s account, which has been accepted by prosecutors and corroborated through the messages they exchanged, is that the girl told him she was 17; and he only found out her true age when he was arrested. The judge, Recorder Richard Thyne KC, told Millwood, however, that as a 12-year-old child, ‘she was not capable of consenting and the offence you committed is one of rape of a child under 13’. Jailing Millwood for six years, Recorder Thyne continued: “I’m sentencing you on your basis of plea that you believed she was 17. Your lack of maturity and your previous convictions demonstrate that you have an interest in teenage girls.” In addition to handing Millwood a six year prison sentence, Recorder Thyne also imposed a one-year extended licence, bringing his total sentence to one of seven years. Millwood was also made the subject of a new sexual harm prevention order, which will remain in place until further order of the court. He was also told he must remain on the sex offenders’ register, and subject to notification requirements, until further order of the court. | SYP
![A twisted Sheffield abuser told a woman he later sexually assaulted to ‘bleed b***h,’ as he subjected her to a prolonged physical assault. Man with history of violence subjected woman to a prolonged physical attack, as well as a sexual assault He told her to ‘bleed b***h’ and said he was going to murder her Judge deems defendant to display ‘misogynistic and entitled’ attitude and pose a high risk of re-offending As he sent Ellison, aged 34, to begin a prison sentence on March 12, 2025, Judge Peter Hampton told him: “You punched the complainant multiple times to the head, saying ‘bleed b***h’. She was bleeding from her nose, head and eye." During the same episode of violence, defendant Ashley Ellison also told the complainant he would ‘murder’ her, a Sheffield Crown Court sentencing hearing heard. As he sent Ellison, aged 34, to begin a prison sentence on March 12, 2025, Judge Peter Hampton told him: “You punched the complainant multiple times to the head, saying ‘bleed b***h’. She was bleeding from her nose, head and eye. “She left…you followed her outside, you made the decision to follow her. You grabbed her by her hair, while she was on the ground. “You attempted to drag her back [inside]. You only stopped when neighbours intervened when they heard you being threatening, saying you were going to murder her.” The complainant was left with a number of injuries following the assault, including bruising and a cut to her eye, which left her with tenderness and pain when she moved her jaw. Ellison, of Stannington, Sheffield, also subjected the same woman to a sexual assault, during which he pulled down her clothing and touched her in an intimate area of her body, the court heard. Jailing Ellison for 34 months, Judge Hampton told him: “Your behaviour is indicative of someone with a misogynistic and entitled attitude.”](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2025/03/13/14/45/Ashley-Ellison.jpeg?crop=4:3&trim=&width=800)
16. Ashley Ellison: Jailed for 34 months
A twisted Sheffield abuser told a woman he later sexually assaulted to ‘bleed b***h,’ as he subjected her to a prolonged physical assault. Man with history of violence subjected woman to a prolonged physical attack, as well as a sexual assault He told her to ‘bleed b***h’ and said he was going to murder her Judge deems defendant to display ‘misogynistic and entitled’ attitude and pose a high risk of re-offending As he sent Ellison, aged 34, to begin a prison sentence on March 12, 2025, Judge Peter Hampton told him: “You punched the complainant multiple times to the head, saying ‘bleed b***h’. She was bleeding from her nose, head and eye." During the same episode of violence, defendant Ashley Ellison also told the complainant he would ‘murder’ her, a Sheffield Crown Court sentencing hearing heard. As he sent Ellison, aged 34, to begin a prison sentence on March 12, 2025, Judge Peter Hampton told him: “You punched the complainant multiple times to the head, saying ‘bleed b***h’. She was bleeding from her nose, head and eye. “She left…you followed her outside, you made the decision to follow her. You grabbed her by her hair, while she was on the ground. “You attempted to drag her back [inside]. You only stopped when neighbours intervened when they heard you being threatening, saying you were going to murder her.” The complainant was left with a number of injuries following the assault, including bruising and a cut to her eye, which left her with tenderness and pain when she moved her jaw. Ellison, of Stannington, Sheffield, also subjected the same woman to a sexual assault, during which he pulled down her clothing and touched her in an intimate area of her body, the court heard. Jailing Ellison for 34 months, Judge Hampton told him: “Your behaviour is indicative of someone with a misogynistic and entitled attitude.” | SYP