Here are the names and faces of the men and women were sentenced to prison time in July 2025.
Paedophile former Forest Hill School teacher
Former teacher and children’s charity worker Geoffrey Dolamore, 87, of Perry Rise in Forest Hill, sexually abused two young boys.
The maths teacher groomed and repeatedly sexually abused a boy he taught at Forest Hill School in the 1970s.
The abuse was not reported and Dolamore continued to teach until his retirement, when he then took up a role as director of a children’s charity in Greenwich and Lewisham.
Dolamore, who appeared to be a “pillar of society”, was eventually outed as a paedophile in 2020 when it was revealed that more recently he had abused another young boy from the age of nine.
The victim of the 1970s abuse disclosed it to police in 2022 and Dolamore pleaded guilty to 13 charges related sexual abuse he inflicted on the two boys.
He now faces the prospect of dying behind bars after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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Nurse raped woman from dating app
John Iwuh, 54, of Albert Road in South Norwood, raped a woman he met on a dating app.
The nurse had nearly 11,000 contacts on his phone — most of them women saved with the name of a dating app.
Iwuh used his job as a nurse to gain the victim’s trust after matching with her on the app Hinge.
The court heard how he persuaded her to visit his home under the pretext that he needed to prepare for a hospital shift and had limited time.
Once at his home, he tried to kiss her repeatedly and, when she tried to leave, forced her into a bedroom and raped her.
The woman, in her 40s, reported the attack later that same day using an online Met Police form.
When Iwuh was arrested, officers discovered he had filmed the rape on his phone.
Iwuh has now been jailed for 16 years.
Read the full story – Croydon nursed jailed for rape had thousands of contacts saved
Erith burglar killed man with his own stolen car
Woodger, 38, was convicted of the manslaughter of Marc Allen, 50.
The ex-soldier broke into a block of flats on Peareswood Road in the early hours of December 29, 2019, but he was disturbed by Mr Allen.
He snatched the victim’s car keys before making off in his car.
When Mr Allen tried to stop him, Woodger used the car “as a weapon” to run him over.
Neighbours found Mr Allen in the road with a severe head injury, from which he died a month later, having never regained consciousness.
Woodger had claimed he was only a passenger in the vehicle driven by an accomplice who had since died from a drug overdose.
A jury at the Old Bailey rejected his version of events and found him guilty of manslaughter and robbery.
Woodger had clapped in the dock as he was cleared of the more serious offence of murder.
He has now been jailed for 13 years.
Read the full story – Burglar jailed after death of Erith man who was ran over by Mercedes
Charlton man beat friend to death
He was convicted of manslaughter on June 25 over the death of 60-year-old Robert Dlugosz.
The attack happened on November 22, 2023, after an argument at Mr Dlugosz’s home in Erwood Road.
A woman in her 40s was also assaulted during the incident.
Officers arrived at the scene after the woman called police, saying she had fled the house after being attacked alongside Mr Dlugosz.
The first responding officer found Mr Dlugosz, alive but badly injured.
Using a translation app, the officer was able to speak to the Polish-speaking victim and get a brief account of what happened.
Mr Dlugosz said he had been beaten and identified Brzezicki as the attacker with his dying breath.
Brzezicki has been jailed for 10 years.
Read the full story – Man jailed after beating ‘friend’ to death
Teens who murdered 14-year-old
Kelyan Bokassa cried out “I want my mum” as two smiling teenagers stabbed him 27 times with machetes on a bus in Woolwich.
The 14-year-old aspiring rapper Bokassa was fatally stabbed as he travelled home on a route 472 bus on January 7.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said Kelyan had boarded the bus just after 2pm to attend an appointment at the Youth Justice Centre in Woolwich.
CCTV footage showed Kelyan went to sit on the back seat on the top deck, with a knife in the waistband of his trousers.
Ms Heer said the teenager looked around and out of the windows before taking his seat “giving every impression that he was concerned for his safety”.
The defendants, who cannot be named, boarded the bus 20 minutes later each armed with identical machetes hidden in their clothes.
The pair walked towards Kelyan “with purpose” and withdrew their blades before immediately stabbing him without uttering a word to their victim.
Ms Heer said: “Since Kelyan Bokassa was seated on the back seat, he was cornered, unable to escape as the defendants repeatedly thrust their knives towards him, smiling as they did so.”
The attack lasted around 14 seconds, with the youths thrusting the machetes towards Kelyan 27 times.
Ms Heer went on: “Kelyan Bokassa had no time to reach for his own knife, which remained in his trousers, and instead tried in vain to protect himself with his school bag.
“There were several other passengers on the top deck who fled in panic when they realised what was happening. They describe hearing intense screaming from the back of the bus and the victim shouting, ‘Help. Help. I’ve been stabbed’.
“They describe both defendants making quick, forceful movements towards Kelyan Bokassa as he tried to defend himself.”
The bus driver activated his emergency alarm just before 2.27pm and the defendants fled when the vehicle stopped at Woolwich Ferry.
Kelyan stumbled down the aisle to the stairs, where another passenger went to help him.
The boy was heard to say: “Take me to my mum’s. I want my mum,” before his legs buckled, bleeding heavily from a wound to the leg.
Members of the public flagged down a passing police car and officers found Kelyan had collapsed and his body was limp.
Despite attempts to save him, Kelyan died at the scene at 3.23pm.
Read the full story – Kelyan Bokassa Woolwich bus stabbing
Sidcup sex offender with over 200 convictions
Stephen Lumb, 66, a sex offender with 200 previous convictions, has been jailed for drunken comments to a woman outside Tesco.
He began offending in 1976 and was placed on the sex offenders register for life in 2009 after a serious sexual assault.
He has since been in and out of prison repeatedly for offences including masturbating at a bus stop in 2021.
In 2022 he was given a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) banning him from having any unsupervised contact with any woman or female child other than contact which is not reasonably avoidable in daily life.
But on July 1 this year, when Lumb was drunk outside Tesco on Station Road, Sidcup, he approached and spoke to a woman.
Lumb pleaded guilty to breaching the SHPO and being drunk and disorderly in public.
He was sentenced to eight months in prison.
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Violent Epsom Station bag thief choked woman
Bailey followed the victim from Epsom train station before attacking her from behind in April last year.
He put his arm around her neck and put pressure on her airways until she fell unconscious.
When the victim came around her bag, which contained a purse, a phone and cash, had been stolen.
Hither Green drug dealer armed with knife
Paul Crabtree, 43, of Lewisham High Street, has been jailed after a Rambo knife was found in his car.
Police were called to Bread Street near to St Paul’s Cathedral, to reports of people using nitrous oxide balloons in a car on July 2 last year.
City of London Police officers arrived at the scene and during a search, 27 wraps of cocaine and around £10,000 in cash were found in a bag which Crabtree had on him.
After searching the car, the large Rambo-style knife was found inside a separate bag along with 21 nitrous oxide cannisters.
He was sentenced to two years and 11 months in prison for possession with intent to supply class A drugs and four months for possession of a bladed article.
Crabtree was also sentenced to four years for conspiracy to burgle offences, in a separate investigation by Kent Police.
He will be serving six years and 11 months in total in prison.
Read the full story – Hither Green drug dealer jailed after knife found by police
Brixton’s Original Products shopkeeper jailed for rape
Brixton shopkeeper Bernard Williams, 77 has been jailed for rape and sexual assault.
He convinced a woman who came to his store in search of spiritual treatment of his “healing capability”, leading her to spend more than £13,000 in remedies, before telling her she needed to have sex to remove spirits inside her, the Met Police said.
Williams, known as “Papa B”, ran the Original Products store in Market Row in Brixton and was “widely known” in the community and viewed as an “elder”, police said.
Detectives suspect he may have abused his position to abuse other women and would like to speak to anyone who may have bought services from Williams at his store.
Williams was jailed for nine years.
Read the full story – Brixton’s Original Products shopkeeper jailed for rape
Charlton burglar invented son in bid to get out of custody
Bryam Moreno (Image: Surrey Police)
Columbian national Bryam Moreno, 29, sent police on a six hour “wild goose chase” when he invented a three-year-old son who he said was home alone.
At around 3pm on February 9, a couple returned home to Sandpit Place, Charlton, to find it had been ransacked by thieves who stole phones, a laptop and designer bags.
When they checked CCTV they saw two men in balaclavas walking around their flat armed with screwdrivers.
One of the burglars was identified was 29-year-old Columbian national Bryam Moreno, who had carried out a similar burglary at a £4million property in Oxshott, Surrey, just four days earlier.
Moreno was arrested by Surrey Police who discovered he had been selling the stolen items to a shop in Brixton.
Whilst in custody Moreno managed to send police on a “wild goose chase” to find a made-up son, Croydon Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Rio Pahlavanpour said: “When [Moreno] was told by police that he would be held for an additional six hours for the investigation to continue, he stated that he had a son who was three-years-old.
“He gave a date of birth which revealed the child was four-years-old and gave an address.
“This led to a six hour search including the police taking the defendant to the address. Ultimately the search revealed that there was nobody of that description at the address.”
Recorder Henry Gordon concluded that the son had been invented by Moreno in an attempt to expedite his own release from custody.
Moreno was jailed for two years.
South London drill rapper
Jyrelle O’Connor, a Mobo award-nominated drill rapper who goes by the name Loski, was found with a knife by police investigating a fatal crash.
He was arrested as police tried to find the driver who caused a crash on the M40 in Buckinghamshire on Saturday, July 12.
Only two years ago, O’Connor was jailed for seven years for having a loaded revolver while in an Uber in London.
The 26-year-old was part of the Kennington-based drill group Harlem Spartans and also a member of a south London gang, who were involved in violent disputes with other gangs in Brixton, the Met said in 2023.
He was released from prison on licence but has now been recalled as a result of the knife offence.
O’Connor was produced at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on July 14, where he was sentenced to an additional eight months in prison.
Read the full story – South London drill rapper Loski gets caught with knife
Serial Deptford shoplifter
Middleton has now been jailed for eight weeks.
She admitted stealing 15 bottles of cleaning products, J cloths and cat food alongside her accomplice Michael Lane.
She also admitted three more thefts including raiding the steak fridge at the same Sainsbury’s in Honor Oak.
Lane will be sentenced in August.
This was not the first time the pair have been convicted of shoplifting offences together.
Beckenham shoplifter
David Brent, 34, has been jailed for stealing from Boots in Beckenham.
The shoplifter was already banned from every Co-op in England prior to this offence.
He is now back behind bars again after he pleaded guilty to stealing £567 of toiletries from Boots in Beckenham on June 26.
Brent was sentenced to one month in prison.
