Here are the names and faces of the men who are have been sentenced to prison time in April 2025.
Greenwich cyclist sexually assaulted women
He sexually assaulted five women in the space of three weeks, each time quickly approaching the women from behind and grabbing their bottoms before cycling off.
A court was told: “The offences are part of a pattern of offending with a consistent modus operandi where in each case he would use a bicycle to approach lone women walking or commuting in public, approaching them at speed and soundlessly, suddenly and without warning offending against them by grabbing their buttocks and squeezing it firmly.”
“He then used his bicycle to speed away and in most of these case was not able to be identified by the complainants.”
One of the victims was seriously injured when she fell over as she ran after him to take his photo, while another experienced a panic attack as a result of the assault.
The court heard that he had initially claimed these were “pranks” but later pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault.
He was jailed for 19 months and banned from riding a bicycle.
Read the full story – Greenwich cyclist jailed for sexually assaulting lone women
Greenwich gunmen who tried to kill cage-fighter
The trio travelled from Dartford to Woodford Green in 2019 in a crime that police said resembled a “Hollywood blockbuster”.
Months before the three were involved in a museum heist in Geneva, stealing a Ming Dynasty vase for which they were extradited and tried in Switzerland.
On the night of the shooting, the three “hardened criminals” travelled from their homes in southeast London to Woodford Green using a car that had been hired two days earlier by Stewart Ahearne.
While he waited in the car in Worcester Avenue, Kelly and Louis Ahearne snuck into a garden of a house overlooking the back garden of their target’s house in Malvern Drive.
At around 11.09pm, six shots were fired through the back doors and windows of the house in Malvern Drive, at least one of which struck their 45-year-old male target in his kitchen.
Kelly and Ahearne fled back to the waiting car, which drove away, leaving their victim fighting for his life.
Orpington man stabbed woman with tyre repair tool
Jason Conde, 41, stabbed his ex-partner six times with a tyre puncture repair tool then burnt his clothes in the woods.
The incident took place on May 9 last year when the victim, the mother of one of Conde’s children, went to his home to confront him over a parenting issue, prosecutor Gary Venturi told Croydon Crown Court.
Conde claims she was “spoiling for a fight” and was armed with a police-style baton, something the woman denies.
A fight broke out instantly during which the victim felt a number of heavy blows to her body, she didn’t know it at the times but Conde had stabbed her six times with a sharp point tyre repair tool.
Conde stopped his attack when the woman began coughing up blood, the court heard.
Conde was jailed for three years and four months.
Read the full story – Orpington man stabbed mum of his child six times with tool
Silks nightclub Catford murderer
Tyler Roberts-Emmanuel, 19, murdered 30-year-old Shaquille Graham outside Silks nightclub in Catford.
Shaquille was shot dead in the back of the neck in the early hours of March 10 last year.
Roberts-Emmanuel was noted by a judge to be a “confident and outgoing person” and had run his own drug-dealing business selling cannabis for two years.
She told Roberts-Emmanuel: “There was no link between you and Shaquille Graham and therefore it is likely you were acting under the direction of others.”
Natasha Barrow, the victim’s mother, described the “devastation” of losing her only son.
She said: “The heinous and cowardly way he was taken away from us adds poisonous salt to an irreparable wound.”
His father, Norman Harris, said his son was taken away in a “senseless act of violence”
“We gave him life and no one else had the right to take it and him away from us,” he said.
Roberts-Emmanuel was jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years.
Read the full story – Teen who fatally shot man outside Catford’s Silks nightclub jailed
Man who glorified Lee Rigby’s murder
Royal Barnes, 34, glorified and laughed at the murder of Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby in videos posted on YouTube.
In videos he hailed the murder as a “brilliant day” and mocked the outpouring of public grief, laughing uncontrollably as he drove past floral tributes.
Barnes was jailed for over five years in March 2014 for inciting terrorism overseas and three counts of transmitting a terrorist publication.
He has now been returned to jail for four and a half years after breaching his notification requirements
Lee Rigby was murdered by Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, as he returned to his barracks in Woolwich on May 22, 2013.
Read the full story – Man who glorified Lee Rigby’s murder in Woolwich jailed again
Belvedere gang’s Christmas Eve phone shop raid
Three men entered a Vodafone store in Newmarket, west Suffolk, wearing masks.
They pushed staff into a storage area and threatened a female employee.
Two of the men filled a large grey bag with £30,000 of stock then left the store.
The three were arrested after “swift and effective co-operation” between officers from Suffolk, Essex and the Metropolitan Police, which resulted in the men’s car being stopped where about 50 devices were recovered.
Zebo and Davis admitted burglary and were each jailed for three years.
A third man was given a suspended sentence.
Read the full story – Belvedere masked gang threatened woman in Christmas robbery
Murderers who stabbed former friend to death
Keahn Williams, 20, from Coulsdon, and Kai Nelson-Palmer, 17, from Croydon, murdered 22-year-old Lucas Sutton.
On April 26, 2023, Lucas was lured to an address in Croydon where he was joined by his former friends Williams and Nelson-Palmer.
Whether Lucas knew the others were going to be there is not clear, but he left the flat with Williams and Nelson-Palmer to walk to a shop to buy drinks.
Unbeknownst to Lucas, they had been exchanging Snapchat messages in the days leading up to the meeting with the intention of attacking him.
As they returned from shop in Northbrook Road, Williams produced a knife and stabbed Lucas who was caught completely unaware.
He dropped the drinks he was holding and ran, pursued by Williams and Nelson-Palmer.
Williams caught up with him as he ran along Mayo Road and stabbed him again before both the assailants fled.
Both men have been jailed for life – Williams will serve at least 23 years, and Nelson-Palmer will serve at least 16 years.
Read the full story – Pair sentenced for murder of Lucas Sutton in Croydon
Croydon town centre murderers
Rijkaard was found stabbed in Fellmongers Yard on April 12 last year after emergency services were alerted to a stabbing.
The court heard how Rijkaard had been making his way to see his partner after leaving a friend’s flat near Fellmongers Yard when he was attacked and stabbed thirteen times.
Walcott and Mali fled from the scene of the incident into a pub in Katharine Street, ordering themselves three pints of beer.
During the trial, the pair admitted to being present at the scene of the crime but claimed they were not the only ones responsible for stabbing Rijkaard.
Hassanatu Bah, Rijkaard’s mother, said: “Anyone who knew Rijkaard would tell you how truly special he was. He had a soul so gentle and a heart so kind that his love and care touched everyone around him.
“His dreams were big, his zest for life unmatched. He was driven by hope and ambition, and his future was filled with endless possibilities – dreams that were cruelly stolen from him.
“But let me assure you, Rijkaard’s story doesn’t end here. I will carry his torch for as long as I live. Everything he dreamed of, everything he wanted to accomplish, I would do my best to see it through. His name will not be forgotten.”
Read the full story – Pair who ordered pints at pub after stabbing man to death in Croydon jailed
Croydon stalker travelled 240 miles to stab ex
Viet Tran, 22, of Leigh Crescent in New Addington, travelled 240 miles to stab his ex-girlfriend and a man she was on a date with after tracking her using the dark web.
In the early hours of August 4 last year, a Vietnamese man and woman were on a first date in Manchester City Centre when a man sprayed UV paint in their eyes to disorientate them before stabbing them both.
“At the moment I was stabbed, I had the genuine belief that I was going to die,” said the male victim.
Both victims survived the attack, which at first appeared to be completely random.
But detectives soon revealed that it was carried out by Tran who had been meticulously planned the trip to Manchester to carry out the attack.
Tran was determined to cause harm following the breakdown of their relationship and became obsessed, police said.
He paid someone on the ‘dark web’ to hack her phone to enable him to track her and see her private messages.
Tran was jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of Section 18 and Section 20 assault.
Read the full story – Croydon thug Viet Tran stalked and stabbed ex-girlfriend
Brockley drug dealer jailed for street fight
Jonathan Watson, 38, of Ivy Road in Brockley, has been jailed for a street fight in which his brother and another man were stabbed.
Police received a flurry of 999 calls about a fight on Hornbeam Close in the town of March, Cambridgeshire, at around 1pm on March 18, 2023.
Lenny Evans, 33, and Kenneth Watson, 43, were facing up to each other with baseball bats and started brawling when Jonathan Watson got out of a car and joined in.
All three men fled when police arrived but Jonathan Watson was seen in his Audi at the end of the road and arrested.
Police then received a call from the ambulance service reporting that a man who had been dropped off at a nearby filling station had been stabbed.
Evans had stab wounds to his face, hand and torso, and was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital.
Kenneth Watson also received multiple stab wounds to his head during the brawl.
Jonathan Watson was jailed for two years and two months for affray and was given an additional four months for dealing cannabis.
Kenneth Watson, of Hornbeam Close in Cambridgeshire, and Evans, of East Drive in Cambridgeshire, were both jailed for two years and two months for affray.
Read the full story – Brockley drug dealer Jonathan Watson jailed for street fight
Sutton stalker
A woman reported that Darren Holliday had been harassing and stalking her between August 2024 and February this year.
This included “calling her non-stop”, attending her home and workplace, and phoning her work.
He pleaded guilty to stalking involving serious alarm or distress and harassment causing fear of violence.
Holliday was jailed for eight months.
Read the full story – Sutton stalker who turned up at woman’s home is jailed
Abbey Wood Co-op thief
He stole tea and coffee items to the value of £80 from Co-op on McLeod Road on January 29.
He was arrested and charged with theft from a shop and possession a knife in public.
Tomkinson, of no fixed abode, denied both charges.
However, he was found guilty of the charges by Bromley Magistrates’ Court.
He was sentenced to six months in custody.
Read the full story – Abbey Wood Co-op thief jailed for carrying Stanley knife
Predator who ambushed woman in Tooting
Tzolio Kampasai, 32, of Upper Norwood, ambushed a woman on her walk home in Tooting before violently assaulting and trying to rape her.
He attacked the woman as she walked alone along a footpath near Tooting Bec Road on April 14 last year.
After the attack, he drove to Dover and boarded a ferry in an attempt to evade police.
A major manhunt was launched, and he was arrested around four weeks later when he returned to the UK.
Kampasai was found guilty of attempted rape, two counts of sexual assault, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He has now been jailed for nine years.
Read the full story – Tooting attempted rapist jailed after major manhunt
Beckenham dealer imported £17m of cocaine
Kurtis Hoyte, 35, from Beckenham, was jailed after his encrypted phone showed he imported half a tonne of cocaine worth £17 million.
He was arrested in May 2020 after he was observed handing over five kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of £180,000 to the driver of a flat-bed truck near Beckenham Hill Station.
At the time, officers seized three phones from him, one of which was an encrypted EncroChat device.
It was found that he used this to orchestrate the importation of 540 kilos of cocaine over a nine-month period between June 2019 and March 2020, using the handle “retroblade”.
Hoyte has been jailed for 18 years.
Read the full story – Beckenham drug dealer jailed after importing cocaine worth £17m
Dealer discovered with drugs in underwear
Elijah Henry-Gooding, 27, was stopped by plain clothes British Transport Police officers in Richmond and found to have drugs in his underwear.
They had intelligence that he was carrying a county lines phone and was regularly coming to Richmond to sell drugs at the station and nearby areas.
During the search, Henry-Gooding was found to be in possession of £760 in cash and two mobile phones – one of these was a Nokia burner phone confirmed as the drugs line phone.
While in custody, a strip search uncovered a large clingfilm-wrapped package hidden in Henry-Gooding’s underwear.
It contained 64 wraps of crack cocaine and 37 wraps of heroin. A folding lock knife was also found hidden on him.
Henry-Gooding was jailed for three years and two months.
Beckenham sandwich shop burglar
He appeared at Bromley Magistrates’ Court the following day where he pleaded guilty to burglary and was jailed for eight weeks.
He also admitted failing to provide a sample for a Class A drugs test.
Last June Robinson was given a one year prison sentence after he stole from Greek restaurant Yammas in Beckenham on two occasions – stealing cash and alcohol.
During that spree he also stole from Latin restaurant Paloma on three different occasions and from Erin’s pub once.
