Cambridge Crown Court Sentencing Results

Samuel Thomas, 36, of Fenstanton, strangled his girlfriend until she lost consciousness on November 3 and during another incident, slapped her to revive her, slammed her head against a wall about four times, threatened to bite her nose off and gouge her eyeball, and refused to let her leave with their 12-week-old baby. The abuse was reported after police were alerted to an assault at his home, where injuries including a handprint on her face and bruising on her neck were observed.

Ashley Baker, 41, of Doddington, subjected his partner to seven years of controlling and abusive behaviour. This included forcing her to call him during her lunch break, forbidding her from going to the canteen, quizzing her about interactions with others, smashing a coffee table in rage and pinning her against a wall by her throat, making her wear vest tops to hide her chest, closing blinds for workouts, and trying to alienate her from family and friends. He regularly shouted, became physically violent, and controlled all aspects of her everyday life. The victim's son recorded the abuse to show police.

Leon Richardson, 22, of Cambridge, began communicating with a schoolboy via social media on October 10. The conversations started innocently but quickly became sexual, with Richardson sending explicit images and videos of himself and requesting the boy to do the same. He persuaded the boy to engage in sexual acts with his younger brother, which were recorded and shared with Richardson. This abuse continued until December 29, when the boy's parents discovered the messages after noticing his withdrawn behaviour. Richardson later confessed at a police station.

Zeeshan Ellam, aged 26, was already wanted by another police force when he was spotted driving a silver Peugeot 308 in St Ives on September 15, 2023. He attempted to evade police by ramming into a police car, driving through a car park, a small fence, and over a footpath onto Reynolds Way, causing significant damage. He handed himself in at Thorpe Wood Police Station in Peterborough on September 29, 2023.

On October 8, 2021, Asim Bashir was driving a grey BMW M8 westbound on the A47 near Wittering with his family as passengers. He attempted to overtake multiple vehicles dangerously, leading to a head-on collision with a red Ford Fiesta driven by the victim. The collision caused the victim's vehicle to go airborne, crash through a tree line, and explode, resulting in the victim's death. Bashir's family sustained serious injuries, with his four-year-old son requiring a wheelchair.

Irwin Constable, aged 25, was one of eight inmates serving life sentences for murder or conspiracy to murder who participated in a 10-hour prison mutiny at HMP Whitemoor on October 7, 2022. The group refused to return to their cells, took control of a spur area, sprayed shower gel, shampoo, and oil on the floors to make it slippery, overturned furniture to build barricades, and armed themselves with weapons made from broken table legs and kettles. They also created protective headwear against Pava spray and flashes. The national response team regained control at around 10pm.

Korie Hassan, aged 33, was one of eight inmates serving life sentences for murder or conspiracy to murder who participated in a 10-hour prison mutiny at HMP Whitemoor on October 7, 2022. The group refused to return to their cells, took control of a spur area, sprayed shower gel, shampoo, and oil on the floors to make it slippery, overturned furniture to build barricades, and armed themselves with weapons made from broken table legs and kettles. They also created protective headwear against Pava spray and flashes and retreated to Hassan's cell for a further barricade. The national response team regained control at around 10pm.

Nicholas Bridge, aged 26, was one of eight inmates serving life sentences for murder or conspiracy to murder who participated in a 10-hour prison mutiny at HMP Whitemoor on October 7, 2022. The group refused to return to their cells, took control of a spur area, sprayed shower gel, shampoo, and oil on the floors to make it slippery, overturned furniture to build barricades, and armed themselves with weapons made from broken table legs and kettles. They also created protective headwear against Pava spray and flashes. The national response team regained control at around 10pm.

Rick-Champion Champion Musaba, aged 30, was one of eight inmates serving life sentences for murder or conspiracy to murder who participated in a 10-hour prison mutiny at HMP Whitemoor on October 7, 2022. The group refused to return to their cells, took control of a spur area, sprayed shower gel, shampoo, and oil on the floors to make it slippery, overturned furniture to build barricades, and armed themselves with weapons made from broken table legs and kettles. They also created protective headwear against Pava spray and flashes. The national response team regained control at around 10pm.

Nathan Lovell, 33, from Wisbech, sexually abused two young girls between January 2021 and June 2023. He possessed over 1,000 indecent images of children on his phone, including 14 category A images, and paid nearly £5,000 for adults to abuse children worldwide. He was involved in online conversations directing and facilitating such abuses, with evidence from screen recordings and social media enquiries.

Fezhan Bahadur, 25, of Huntingdon, breached an indefinite restraining order issued in January 2022 by contacting his former partner through multiple social media platforms using false accounts from December 2023. He made threats to harm her, damage her property, stab her dad, and assault her mum and sister. He also directly threatened the victim's family and arranged for at least three people to attend their home in Huntingdonshire since April 2023, where they made threats and damaged the house and cars by throwing bricks. Bahadur was arrested at Stansted Airport on August 22, 2023, upon his return from Dubai.

Mary Casey, 34, from St Albans, drunkenly drove the wrong way down a one-way street in Cambridge in July 2022. She overtook four cars at traffic lights, sped around a corner through no entry signs, lost control, and crashed into two parked cars. After the crash, she reversed the car and hit her one-year-old great-niece, who was on the pavement, causing a bleed on the brain, a fractured skull, and fractured ribs.

Juned Miah, 33, and his wife assisted drug dealers in Cambridge to move criminal funds to and from different accounts between 2020 and 2021. The pair were found guilty at a trial in 2024. Following sentencing, a financial investigation discovered they had benefitted by £216,036.49 from their criminal conduct.

Grant Brownlow, 36, of March, began speaking to a decoy from an online child activist group in October 2020, believing the decoy to be a 14-year-old girl. He turned the conversation sexual and continued it from July 2021. On November 21, 2021, the activist group confronted him at his home and alerted the police. A search of his devices revealed five extreme images involving animals.

Darren Stapleton engaged in online conversations with undercover police officers posing as a nine-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl between October 2022 and January 2023. He expressed intentions to touch and have sex with them, agreed to meet the first officer, and sent an inappropriate photo to the second. He was arrested on February 11, 2023, at his home in Great Staughton, where devices containing 126 indecent images of children, 463 images of bestiality, and 942 other images were seized.

Jonathan Watson, 38, of Brockley, London, joined a fight in Hornbeam Close, March, on March 18, 2023, by getting out of a car and participating in a brawl involving baseball bats and two stabbings. He was arrested shortly after and was also involved in dealing cannabis.

Kenneth Watson, 43, of March, engaged in a brawl with Lenny Evans using baseball bats in Hornbeam Close, March, on March 18, 2023. He sustained multiple stab wounds to his head during the fight, which involved two stabbings and led to his arrest.

Lenny Evans, 33, of March, was involved in a fight with baseball bats in Hornbeam Close, March, on March 18, 2023. He faced off against Kenneth Watson and was stabbed during the brawl, sustaining wounds to his face, hand, and torso. Police arrested him after the incident.

On February 2, 2022, police were called to a house in Whittlesey, to assist paramedics with Daniel Parr, who was deemed a threat to himself. While officers were speaking with him, he pulled out a hidden broken glass bottle and stabbed two officers, causing two puncture wounds to one officer's face and large lacerations to the other's head and ear. Additional officers detained him and provided aid.

Ben Cooper, 23, of Hitchin, was part of a gang involved in a violent early-hours rampage starting at about 3am on Saturday, 14 May 2022, outside Lola Lo’s nightclub in Cambridge, where fights escalated using belts, leading to an attack on an innocent bystander on Downing Street who was knocked unconscious and hospitalised.

Fabio Serrano, while serving a life sentence for manslaughter at HMP Whitemoor, attacked a prison officer on October 30, 2021, after claiming his food had been contaminated. He approached the officer with a wire wrapped around his right hand and punched the officer in the chin, causing serious injuries that required hospital treatment.

Sarah Walker, ex-partner of the victim's father and mother of the victim, was involved in covering up the murder of her 17-year-old daughter after she disclosed sexual abuse by her father on 16 July 2020. The victim was sent to stay with her father's parents on 17 July, and after the murder on 18 July, Sarah received a call from the victim's father and helped concoct a story. She waited until 21 July to report the victim missing and sent messages from her phone to simulate she was alive.