The following individuals were sentenced to prison time in November 2025 to date.
‘One of most prolific sex offenders ever’
Chao Xu, 33, of Glashier Street in Deptford, has been jailed for a string of offences including rape and upskirting.
The Met Police believes he is “one of the most prolific sex offenders of all time” and detectives have now appealed for hundreds of potential victims to come forward.
Xu had filmed himself “raping and sexually assaulting women who appear to be unconscious or heavily incapacitated”.
Officers said three victims of serious sexual assaults such as rape had been identified and police were seeking a further four unidentified victims.
Detectives believe the number of victims of voyeurism and upskirting to be in the hundreds, including individuals filmed without consent in Xu’s flat, at his WeWork workplace and in public spaces including London Bridge Underground station.
Xu, who has lived in the UK since 2016 and is a graduate of the University of Greenwich,
He gave guests at his university networking events a drink he called “the spring of life” containing various alcoholic substances and Chinese herbal medicines.
He placed hidden cameras in an air freshener, women’s sanitary products, a digital clock, a speaker, and under a wash basin to film his sexual abuse.
Police were first alerted to Xu’s offending after a woman reported to officers that her drink had been spiked and she had subsequently been sexually assaulted at a university networking event in June at his address.
Xu pleaded guilty to 24 sexual offences over the course of three years including rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault, upskirting, and voyeurism.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday.
Lying driver’s head-on crash
Dominic Johnson, 47, of England Way in New Malden, caused a head-on crash which left a man with a traumatic brain injury.
He is thought to have fallen asleep at the wheel of his Vauxhall Movano van while driving on the A141 in Cambridgeshire at just after 5am on June 29 in 2023.
He drifted into the opposite carriageway and collided with a Suzuki Vitara before leaving the carriageway and ending up about 100 feet away in a field.
The driver of the Suzuki, a 56-year-old man from Lincolnshire, was cut free from the car and taken to hospital with life-threatening head injuries.
Johnson suffered minor injuries and was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
A forensic collision investigator attended and noted gouge marks in the road suggested Johnson’s van had veered across the road into the opposite carriageway.
The crash was then reconstructed from the marks left on the road and clearly showed Johnson’s vehicle was on the wrong side of the road at the point of impact.
In police interview, Johnson blamed the crash on the other driver and said it was he who was in the wrong lane.
However, both vehicles involved in the crash were examined and the airbag data module was removed from Johnson’s van which revealed that at the point of impact, Johnson was steering 40 degrees to the right and he had accelerated to 50mph without braking.
Enquiries at a hotel in Coventry showed Johnson could only have had a maximum of just over four hours sleep the night before the crash.
The other driver spent two months in hospital and suffered a traumatic brain injury, numerous fractures of the skull as well as limb, pelvis, ribs and spinal fractures.
Johnson was found guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and was jailed for three years and two months.
Double murderer
Shaine March, 47, of Surrey Quays, stabbed and slashed his pregnant girlfriend to death after being released from prison for murder.
March was aged 21 when he fatally stabbed 17-year-old Andre Drummond in the neck at a McDonald’s restaurant in Denmark Hill, Camberwell, in January 2000.
Following his release on a life licence in early 2013, he was recalled to jail later that year after he stamped on the stomach of another pregnant girlfriend in July and was released again in February 2018.
Alana Adysseos, 32, was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child when she was murdered at her home in Walthamstow on July 22, 2024.
Ms Odysseos knew about March’s murder conviction and safeguarding checks had been made by probation services.
But when the defendant said their relationship had ended amicably, no further checks were made.
Hours before killing Ms Odysseos, March argued with her about whether to abort their unborn child, with the victim heard to say: “I don’t want to kill my baby.”
March has now been jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years for Ms Odysseos’ murder.
