diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue351.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue351.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..84d4398c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue351.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+from ...en import English
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def en_tokenizer():
+    return English.Defaults.create_tokenizer()
+
+
+def test_issue351(en_tokenizer):
+    doc = en_tokenizer("   This is a cat.")
+    assert doc[0].idx == 0
+    assert len(doc[0]) == 3
+    assert doc[1].idx == 3
diff --git a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_whitespace.py b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_whitespace.py
index 906ad310c..8ba138b0c 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_whitespace.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_whitespace.py
@@ -42,35 +42,3 @@ def test_tokenizer_splits_newline_double_space(en_tokenizer, text):
 def test_tokenizer_splits_newline_space_wrap(en_tokenizer, text):
     tokens = en_tokenizer(text)
     assert len(tokens) == 3
-
-
-def test_leading_space_offsets(en_tokenizer):
-    '''Issue #351
-    # this works
-
-    text1 = u"This is a cat."
-    a = english_spacy(text1)
-
-    tok0 = list(a.sents)[0][0]
-    print tok0, tok0.idx, text1[tok0.idx]
-
-    tok1 = list(a.sents)[0][1]
-    print tok1, tok1.idx, text1[tok1.idx]
-
-    print "=="
-
-    # this does not work
-
-    text2 = u"   This is a cat."
-    b = english_spacy(text2)
-
-    tok0 = list(b.sents)[0][0]
-print tok0, tok0.idx, text2[tok0.idx]
-
-    tok1 = list(b.sents)[0][1]
-    print tok1, tok1.idx, text2[tok1.idx]
-    '''
-    doc = en_tokenizer(u"   This is a cat.")
-    assert doc[0].idx == 0
-    assert len(doc[0]) == 3
-    assert doc[1].idx == 3