During the trial, in which Worden was cleared of murder, the jury heard that he walked away boasting to a group of girls: “I just smashed someone up – look at my knuckles.”
Worden has now been jailed for three years and four months after he sent sexual Facebook messages to girls he believed to be aged 13 and 14, but were actually ‘decoy’ accounts run by paedophile hunters.
Despite being told their ages, Worden went on to send sexual messages to both and to the ’14-year-old’ he sent sexual videos of himself, encouraged her to masturbate, said he’d like to have sex with her, and asked for “sexy” photos.
Lewisham train predator sexually assaulted schoolgirl
Zevenor Gordon, 24, of Glenton Road in Lewisham ,repeatedly sexually assaulted women on trains including a young girl in school uniform.
He sexually assaulted six women between December 2023 and March 2024.
All of the sexual assaults took place on trains, tubes or on station platforms and each time he ran away after.
Gordon has now been jailed for one year and four months.
Epsom drug dealer sexually abused young girl
Adam Farag, 20, of Colne Court in Epsom, exploited and sexually abused a vulnerable young girl.
The drug dealer involved the girl in the supply of cocaine and heroin for a county line by asking her to transport drugs from London to Cambridge and to store them at her home.
Police conducted a welfare check at her home in Cambridge and discovered that she was being exploited.
When Farag was arrested the next day officers found an axe which he had used in a road rage incident.
He got into a fight with another motorist in Cambridge and had used the axe and a knife to threaten the man.
‘Senseless’ murderer
Earl Morin-Briton (Image: Met Police) Earl Morin-Briton, 36, of Rosehill in Sutton, has been jailed for the murder Theo Porteous who was stabbed in an “unprovoked” and “senseless” attack at car park in Battersea.
The court heard that on August 24, 2023 Mr. Porteous was sitting in his car in the car park of a block of flats on Thessaly Road in Nine Elms.
Morin-Briton approached the vehicle and spoke to him through the open driver’s window.
Mr. Porteous exited the car and was immediately confronted by Morin-Briton, who pulled a large knife from his shorts and stabbed him three times—in the face, neck, and back.
Witnesses to the attack rushed to Mr. Porteous’s aid, and emergency services, including paramedics and officers from the Metropolitan Police, arrived promptly.
Mr. Porteous died at the scene.
Morin-Briton will serve a minimum of 27 years.
Drug dealer who claimed to make £10,000 from ‘hairdressing’
Babutunde Ososipe
Babutunde Ososipe, 31, from Bermondsey, sold cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, Valium, Xanadol, and ecstasy pills in Tonbridge.
He claimed to have earned £10,000 in cash from ‘hairdressing’ and ‘managing musical artists.’
Ososipe used WhatsApp to send marketing messages to hundreds of drug users between March 29 and November 29 2024.
He was arrested on November 29 2024, with help from the Metropolitan Police Service.
More than £10,000 in cash, a bullet, a knife, a Louis Vuitton bag, a diamond ring, a diamond necklace, and several mobile phones were seized during the investigation and related searches.
He denied involvement in the county line during police interviews and claimed that friends had lent him the jewellery and designer bag to ‘look good at the gym’ for his birthday.
Ososipe pleaded guilty to drug dealing and was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison.
Read the full story – Tonbridge drug dealer Babutunde Ososipe jailed
Gang member’s brutal machete attack
Nino-Tai Smith (Image: Met Police)
Nino-Tai Smith, 23, of Wandsworth Road in Nine Elms, drove his Mercedes into a moped rider before knifing him with a machete.
On June 10, 2021, Smith drove the stolen car into his victim on Cedars Road in Clapham. He knocked him off his moped, before jumping out to attack him with a machete.
He inflicted life-changing injuries on his 25-year-old victim over a gang rivalry.
Smith made off, crashing the car in nearby Newby Street, discarding his machete and continuing on foot.
Two days later police tracked Smith to the Patmore Estate in Battersea.
Following a chase with officers he was detained and officers found a gun in a bag that Smith had chucked away at the scene.
Smith was jailed for over seven years.
Children’s social worker and Lewisham criminal
Miles Addy (left) and Chloe Scott (right) (Image: Met Police) Miles Addy, 28, of King Alfred Avenue in Lewisham, was jailed alongside children’s social worker Chloe Scott, 27, of Whitehead Close in Edmonton, who helped him run a large-scale drug and weapons network.
The pair were sentenced following a Met Police investigation that began after a 15-year-old boy was found with drugs at Tower Hill Underground Station in December 2022.
The youngster’s phone revealed that he was working for social worker Scott, who was instructing him to sell and transport drugs.
Further inquiries led to armed Met officers stopping Scott’s car on Seven Sisters Road, Islington, on June 3, 2023.
Their investigation revealed Scott was in regular contact with Addy who was serving a prison sentence for a firearms offence.
Together, the pair were running a large-scale drug supply network, dealing cocaine across London and the south-east.
Read the full story – Social worker ran drug and weapons network with Lewisham inmate from prison
Lewisham man stabbed unarmed man to death
Shamiah McKenzie (Image: Met Police) Shamiah McKenzie, 18, of Colvin Close in Lewisham, stabbed an unarmed man to death while he sat in his car.
Abdul Jalloh, 23, died with stab wounds to his neck after being attacked while behind the wheel at New Union Close in Tower Hamlets on August 5 last year at around 4.15pm.
McKenzie was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years after he was found guilty of murder whilst Codee Godfrey, 19, of Grosvenor Wharf Road in Tower Hamlets, was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment for manslaughter.
The court heard that when Abdul was attacked, he was unable to defend himself and “vulnerable”.
Police discovered that they had been cycling the Isle of Dogs on bicycles for more than an hour looking for Abdul.
Southwark station killer
Rakeem Miles (Image: BTP) Rakeem Miles, 23, of East Street in Southwark, killed Samuel Winter with one punch at Southwark tube station.
Miles left his victim collapsed on the stairs with a fatal brain injury.
He was jailed having been convicted of manslaughter.
The court heard how, on August 22, 2024, 28-year-old Samuel arrived at the station at around 9.30pm having travelled on the eastbound Jubilee line.
Miles had also been travelling on the same train but had been in a different carriage and had not spoken to Samuel.
Samuel walked up the escalator to leave the station and brushed past Miles before continuing to walk.
Miles reached for Samuel who continued to walk ahead while Miles remained in the same spot.
Samuel passed through the ticket barriers and headed out of the exit stairs, with Miles following a few seconds later, shouting after him.
Brixton drug dealer
Anthony Boyd (Image: Cambs Police) Anthony Boyd, 28, of Akerman Road in Brixton, ran large quantities of drugs to Cambridge.
He was arrested on July 29 last year with three mobile phones and a lock knife.
Investigations into a phone linked him to the ‘Riko’ drugs line and showed he was bulk messaging dealers.
He had also regularly been travelling between London and Cambridge.
Boyd pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine, being concerned in the supply of heroin and possession of a knife in a public place.
He was sentenced to three years and nine months.