A man has been jailed for ten years after being convicted of the rape and assault of a former partner

Afzul Miah, 42 of Victoria Avenue, E6 was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on Thursday, 9 September, at Snaresbrook Crown Court after being convicted of rape, grievous bodily harm, three counts of actual bodily harm and two counts of common assault.
A man charged with a number of assaults on members of the Jewish community in Hackney has appeared in court

Abdullah Qureshi, 28, of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court today charged with:One count of racially or religiously aggravated wounding or grievous bodily harm;Four counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault;One count of racially or religious aggravated criminal damage.
Detectives pieced together CCTV footage and financial evidence to link Adekunle Olaleye Fadare to five separate sexual assaults, four of which took place on the same day

Fadare, 39 of Upton Road, Enfield appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Wednesday, 11 August and was sentenced to a total of 25 months imprisonment after previously pleading guilty to five sexual assaults.Fadare was also handed a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will be made to sign the Sex Offenders Register.On Tuesday, 20 October […]
Detectives pieced together CCTV footage and financial evidence to link Adekunle Olaleye Fadare to five separate sexual assaults, four of …

Fadare, 39 of Upton Road, Enfield appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Wednesday, 11 August and was sentenced to a total of 25 months imprisonment after previously pleading guilty to five sexual assaults.Fadare was also handed a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will be made to sign the Sex Offenders Register.On Tuesday, 20 October […]
A man has been jailed after officers investigating domestic abuse offences found him to be in possession of two sawn-off shotguns

Edgaras Sneideris, 40 of Thomas Cribb Mews, Newham, was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, 23 July to six years and three months’ imprisonment. He pleaded guilty on Thursday, 22 July to two counts of possession of a firearm, two counts of assault by beating, making threats to kill, cultivation of cannabis and malicious […]
A cyclist has been jailed for causing a collision that led to the death of a pedestrian in Tower Hamlets last year

Peter McCombie, who was 72, died on 11 July 2020 as a result of injuries sustained when he was struck by a cyclist in Bow eight days earlier.
A drug dealer who caused fatal injuries to a man in Hackney after he punched and stamped on him has been convicted of murder

Romayne Husbands, 28 of no fixed address, was found guilty on Wednesday, 21 July, by a jury after a four-week trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court.Husbands pleaded guilty to a charge of possession with intent to supply crack cocaine at the start of the trial.He will be sentenced on a date to be confirmed.The court heard […]
A Romanian lorry driver who tried to smuggle a group of migrants, including a man suspected of child sex offences, out of the UK has been…

48-year-old Sebastian Gabriel Podar from Tuzrii in Romania was arrested as part of an National Crime Agency operation at the port of Dover in the early hours of Wednesday 2 December 2020. His truck was being monitored as part of Operation Symbolry, a long-running NCA investigation into an organised crime group alleged to be behind […]
A Romanian lorry driver who tried to smuggle a group of migrants, including a man suspected of child sex offences, out of the UK has been jailed for six years

48-year-old Sebastian Gabriel Podar from Tuzrii in Romania was arrested as part of an National Crime Agency operation at the port of Dover in the early hours of Wednesday 2 December 2020. His truck was being monitored as part of Operation Symbolry, a long-running NCA investigation into an organised crime group alleged to be behind […]
A man involved in a violent and racist robbery that left one victim unconscious and another needing facial reconstruction, has been jaile…

David Stan, 18, and a youth accomplice, who was then 15 years old, approached two men – both from South Korea and working in London – while they walked along Coventry Street in the West End during the early hours of Sunday, 19 July 2020. They threatened them and forced one of them to hand […]
A man involved in a violent and racist robbery that left one victim unconscious and another needing facial reconstruction, has been jailed for four years

David Stan, 18, and a youth accomplice, who was then 15 years old, approached two men – both from South Korea and working in London – while they walked along Coventry Street in the West End during the early hours of Sunday, 19 July 2020. They threatened them and forced one of them to hand […]
Pub owner David Bearman, 73 jailed for nine years in prison for gross negligence manslaughter and abstracting electricity

Two men have been sentenced today in relation to the death of seven-year-old Harvey Tyrrell in September 2018 The pub’s owner, David Bearman, 73 of Little Leighs, Chelmsford, was sentenced on Thursday, 15 April at Snaresbrook Crown Court to nine years in prison for gross negligence manslaughter and abstracting electricity. This comes after he pleaded […]
A prolific burglar who drove a stolen car at 70mph, at times on the wrong side of the road, as he tried to flee from police has been jailed

Lewis Thomas, 22, of Milner Road, Dagenham, pleaded guilty on Monday, 15 March at Snaresbrook Crown Court and was sentenced on Wednesday, 24 March for a string of offences including two residential burglaries in Rainham, dangerous driving and aggravated taking and driving away [TDA]. He was jailed for four years and disqualified from driving […]
A locksmith has been jailed after officers recovered £1.5million worth of Class A drugs that were concealed in an elaborate hide

Alex Guest, 40 of Boleyn Way, Ilford, was sentenced to 11 years and three months’ imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday, 30 March. He pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs (cocaine) and possession of criminal property at the same court on 30 June 2020. On Monday, 20 April 2020 […]
Eight men sentenced to over 100 years in jail following violent robberies in north London

A team of violent robbers, who even tried to rob the police officers who had them under surveillance, have been jailed.The court heard how the men were part of a gang of organised criminals who carried out a string of robberies and aggravated burglaries.All eight were sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Monday, 29 March […]
Two men have been jailed after stealing more than £40,000 in cash and perfume following a series of robberies in the West End

Alfie Atherton, 29, of Saxon Road, Tower Hamlets, and Reed Roberts, 30, of Compton Passage, Islington, were sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, 26 March. Atherton was sentenced to 10 years and six months’ in jail, while Roberts was sentenced to seven years and six months’ imprisonment. At an earlier hearing, Atherton pleaded guilty […]
A man has been sentenced for harassing and stalking a woman in Tower Hamlets

Misbah Ali, 22 of Repton Street, Tower Hamlets appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday, 8 March where, having pleaded guilty, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment [suspended] and a five-year restraining order for stalking and disclosing sexual images. The restraining order prohibits Ali from contacting or referring to the victim on any social […]
A man who was caught with more than £200,000 worth of drugs after leaving the scene of a collision in Hackney has been jailed

Shofiqul Hussain, 33 of Crescent Road, E13, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on Friday, 5 March, at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Hussain pleaded guilty at a hearing in February 2020 to multiple counts of possession with intent to supply drugs and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.