A former Redbridge borough councillor has been jailed for electoral offences and banned from holding elected office for five years
Chaudhary Mohammed Iqbal, 51 of Cecil Avenue, Barking was sentenced on Tuesday, 4 January for three counts of making false statements in candidate nomination papers, contrary to Sec 65A(1A) of the Representation of the People Act 1983, and one count of perverting the course of justice. The charges relate to false declarations by Iqbal […]
A legal representative who exchanged hundreds of calls and messages with a prisoner who was using mobile phones smuggled into jail has be…
Dene McClean, 37, of Simpson Close, Enfield N14 was sentenced to 42 weeks’ imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court He had admitted two counts of “causing the transmission of an image / sound from a prison without authority” (contrary to Section 40D of the Prison Act 1952) at an earlier hearing. The prisoner – Jonathan […]
A legal representative who exchanged hundreds of calls and messages with a prisoner who was using mobile phones smuggled into jail has been sentenced
Dene McClean, 37, of Simpson Close, Enfield N14 was sentenced to 42 weeks’ imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court He had admitted two counts of “causing the transmission of an image / sound from a prison without authority” (contrary to Section 40D of the Prison Act 1952) at an earlier hearing. The prisoner – Jonathan […]
A security guard has been jailed for raping a woman who mistook his car for her pre-booked mini-cab
Sola Austin Warikwah, 39 of Albyn Road, SE8 appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, 17 December where he was jailed for seven years for rape. He was also issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO), and was placed on the sex offenders register for life. Warikwah had previously been found guilty of […]
A Romanian tourist couple who used a child to steal a high value watch have been jailed
A Romanian tourist couple who used a child to steal a high value watch have been jailed. The pair appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, 14 December where they pleaded guilty to shoplifting and were sentenced as follows: Ilie Para, 35 of Brampton Grove, NW4 was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. Marta Para-Bloj, also […]
Duo caught with drugs worth £1 million sentenced to more than 20 years
Two men who were part of a gang producing drugs and laundering money have been sentenced following a proactive investigation by the Met’s Specialist Operations Crime Disruption Unit. The operation brought to an end the illegal activities of a four-man organised criminal gang who were involved in producing class A drugs, supplying class A and […]
An officer has been dismissed without notice following his conviction for misconduct in public office and conspiracy to acquire criminal property
A misconduct hearing was held on Thursday, 26 November for PC Kashif Mahmood, based at Central East, to answer allegations his conduct amounted to a breach of the standards of professional behaviour in respect of discreditable conduct, honesty and integrity and duties and responsibilities. On Wednesday, 5 August at Southwark Crown Court PC Mahmood pleaded […]
An officer has been dismissed without notice following his conviction for misconduct in public office and conspiracy to acquire criminal …
A misconduct hearing was held on Thursday, 26 November for PC Kashif Mahmood, based at Central East, to answer allegations his conduct amounted to a breach of the standards of professional behaviour in respect of discreditable conduct, honesty and integrity and duties and responsibilities. On Wednesday, 5 August at Southwark Crown Court PC Mahmood pleaded […]
A man has been convicted of the violent assault and robbery of an elderly woman in Westminster
Collin Reid, 41 appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday, 24 November where he pleaded guilty to robbery. On Tuesday, 7 July, the 87-year-old female victim took a bus to buy groceries at a supermarket at Tottenham Court Road. When she had completed her shopping she returned home by bus, with her trolley-bag containing food. […]
A man has been jailed for sending malicious communications to Parliamentarians
Wajid Shah, aged 27, of Connaught Road, Slough, was found guilty by a majority verdict at Southwark Crown Court following a six-day trial which concluded on 6 October. Returning to the same court today (20/11), Shah was jailed for two years for six counts of sending a letter/communication or article conveying a threatening […]
A man has been jailed for life after he was found guilty of the murder of Brighton man Abdul Deghayes
Adbul, 22, was found critically injured in a car that had crashed in Elm Grove, Brighton, at 9.30pm on Saturday, February 16, 2019. He had been stabbed eight times by 37-year-old Daniel Macleod of Gypsy Road, Lambeth, London, in an attack in Hanover Court that was witnessed by his friend.He was taken by ambulance to the […]
Dominic Chappell Former BHS owner jailed for evading tax of £584,000. He has been jailed for six years
Dominic Chappell, who bought BHS for £1 in 2015, has been found guilty of evading tax of £584,000. He has been jailed for six years. A criminal investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed Chappell, 53, of Winterborne Clenston, Dorset, deliberately evaded VAT and Corporation Tax payments for his personal services company, Swiss Rock […]
Dominic Chappell Former BHS owner jailed for evading tax of £584,000. He has been jailed for six years
Dominic Chappell, who bought BHS for £1 in 2015, has been found guilty of evading tax of £584,000. He has been jailed for six years. A criminal investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed Chappell, 53, of Winterborne Clenston, Dorset, deliberately evaded VAT and Corporation Tax payments for his personal services company, Swiss Rock […]
Man jailed for knife point robbery of a lone woman using a ten inch knife
A man has been convicted of a knifepoint robbery on a lone woman, as she walked home in the early evening after going out to do some food shopping. The victim was walking from Queensway to St Petersburgh Place in Westminster in March. As she made her way along Moscow Road, she became aware she […]
A burglar who kicked a police officer causing her to fall down a flight of stairs in the West End has been jailed for three and half years
Andre Bailey, 38 of no fixed address, appeared at Southwark Crown Court via video link from custody on Friday, 16 October where he was sentenced after pleading guilty to burglary. Bailey had previously pleaded guilty to assaulting an emergency worker at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 18 September and was sentenced for both offences […]
A person has been convicted in relation to an incident in which a flag was burned at a protest in June
Astrophel Sang, 19 of Ravenhurst Street, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted arson at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today, Wednesday, 4 November. Sang will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on a date to be confirmed. It follows an incident on the Cenotaph, Westminster, during a demonstration on Sunday, 7 June.
A woman has been found guilty of deliberately misleading electors in Hackney during the 2018 local government elections
Following a trial at Southwark Crown Court, on Friday, 11 September Diana Danescu, 28 of The Drive, South Woodford, E16, has been found guilty of 16 offences contrary to Section 65 (1)(b) of the Representation of the People Act (RPA) 1983, causing or permitting a false signature to be included on a nomination form. The […]
A man who stabbed a prayer leader in the neck in an unprovoked attack at a central London mosque has been convicted
A man who stabbed a prayer leader in the neck in an unprovoked attack at a central London mosque has been convicted. Daniel Horton, 30 of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of a bladed article in a public place at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, 12 October. […]
