Kallan Hunt 35

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A thug who gloried in violence and had sex with an under-age girl less than half his age has been given a 24-year extended prison sentence.

Kallan Hunt, 35, invited a friend to watch him give another man a lengthy beating that lasted  30 minutes and left the victim with a bleeding eye in a shattered socket, bleeding on the brain, a fractured nose and other injuries, said Andrew Petterson, prosecuting.

He beat up the victim both before and after his friend was present in an attack that the victim later told police lasted “an eternity”. Hunt also sent the teenage girl a blow by blow account of what he was doing, with pictures of the victim’s injuries.

He told the victim that if police arrived, he would kill him and left him so terrified the victim was initially reluctant to seek medical help and wouldn’t give officers a statement until he was sure Hunt would be remanded in custody, said the prosecution barrister.

Hunt was on bail at the time for being one of a gang of six masked men, some of whom were armed, who burst into a second victim’s Selby home in March 2022 to steal his drugs and money.

The second victim fought back and stabbed one of the gang to death, a Leeds Crown Court jury heard. Hunt was not one of the armed men.

Judge Tom Bayliss KC declared Hunt to be a dangerous offender.

“You humiliated him quite gratuitously,” he told Hunt about the attack on the first victim. “You were boasting of the violence you had inflicted on him, you were glorying in your violence.”

He gave Hunt a 24-year sentence of which he will serve up to 19 years in prison, plus five years extended parole on release, put him on the sex offenders’ register for life and made a restraining order to protect the first victim, also for life.

Hunt, formerly of Selby and of Dunhill Road, Goole, pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the first victim. He denied a charge of aggravated burglary at the home of the second victim, but was convicted by a jury at Leeds Crown Court last month.

Hunt’s  barrister Andrew Stranex said he had always been “polite and respectful” with him and wanted to work with professionals to address his offending behaviour. He had expressed remorse and regret to a probation officer about the aggravated burglary following his trial.

The judge told Hunt: “In front of me you are polite and co-operative but there is a different side to you.”

Mr Petterson said the girl was high on drink and drugs when she and Hunt were together.  She asked him for cannabis and he gave her some before they had sex.

Hunt was at the first victim’s house in March 2025 when the host received a phone call telling him about the sexual encounter shortly before and that police were likely to come to his house.

Hunt overheard the discussion and threatened to stab the first man before police arrived. He took the householder’s mobile phone and every time the victim tried to leave hit him.

He punched him repeatedly to the face and elbowed and kneed him to the face.

The victim needed surgery to repair his eye. Hunt left the house before police arrived and was arrested later.

The judge commended seven of the police team that worked on the aggravated burglary case.