Central Criminal Court Crown Court Sentencing Results

Juress Kika, along with Jade Braithwaite and Michael Alleyne, murdered the 16-year-old victim in Islington, north London, in the early hours of June 29, 2008. The attack stemmed from a dispute at Shillibeers bar in Holloway where Braithwaite felt disrespected. After a mass brawl, Braithwaite recruited Kika and Alleyne for revenge. They chased a rival group down North Road, isolated the victim who was trying to escape, knocked him to the ground, and stabbed him eleven times in five seconds, including a fatal wound to the heart that split his third rib. The victim, a straight-A student celebrating the end of his exams, pleaded he had done nothing wrong. Kika was arrested for the murder on June 30 while already wanted for another stabbing and robbery.

Ari Agha Mahmod, uncle of the victim, conspired with her father to orchestrate her 'honour killing' on 24 January 2006 due to her leaving an abusive arranged marriage and choosing her own partner. The victim was restrained, tortured, raped, and strangled in her parents' living room in Mitcham, South London, with her remains later buried in a pit in an abandoned house in Birmingham.

Mohamad Hama was hired by the victim's family to carry out the murder of the victim on 24 January 2006 as an 'honour killing' for leaving her abusive marriage. He restrained her in her parents' living room in Mitcham, South London, where she endured two-and-a-half hours of torture, rape, and strangulation with a bootlace, after which he stamped on her neck. He assisted in stuffing her body into a suitcase for burial in Birmingham.

Mahmod Babakir Mahmod, father of the victim, masterminded the 'honour killing' of his daughter on 24 January 2006 after she left her abusive arranged marriage and chose her own partner. He conspired with family members to have her restrained, tortured, raped, and strangled in her parents' living room in Mitcham, South London. Her remains were concealed in a suitcase and buried in an abandoned house in Birmingham.

Kevin Nunn was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend, the victim. Her body was discovered near the River Lark, close to her home in Fornham St Martin, near Bury St Edmunds, on February 4, 2005. The crime involved the killing of the victim, and Nunn was implicated through evidence, though he claims he was not involved and was assisting the police.

On January 28, 2005, Dwane Johnston, along with the twins, robbed their adoptive grandmother, the victim, at her home in Edmonton. Recently released from prison, Johnston joined the plan to steal her hoarded money. He punched the 74-year-old in the face, breaking her facial bones, and suffocated her with his forearm while the twins ransacked for cash. They fled with around £1,000, which the twins spent on purchases.

On January 28, 2005, Robert Maskell, along with his twin brother Jonathan and Dwane Johnston, robbed their adoptive grandmother at her home in Edmonton. The brothers, short on cash for their 18th birthday celebrations, planned to steal her hoarded money. They entered the house at night, ransacked drawers and wardrobe for cash, while Johnston punched her in the face and suffocated her, leading to her death. They fled with around £1,000, attempted to spend some on phone top-ups and bought items with the loot, laughing on CCTV.

On January 28, 2005, Jonathan Maskell, along with his twin brother and Dwane Johnston, robbed their adoptive grandmother at her home in Edmonton. The brothers, short on cash for their 18th birthday celebrations, planned to steal her hoarded money. They entered the house at night, ransacked drawers and wardrobe for cash, while Johnston punched her in the face and suffocated her, leading to her death. They fled with around £1,000, attempted to spend some on phone top-ups and bought items with the loot, laughing on CCTV.

Michael Morton, a wealthy architect, killed his wife the victim on or around November 12, 1997, in their Notting Hill townhouse during an argument over sending their four-year-old daughter to private school and amid their ongoing divorce proceedings. The victim, a 40-year-old violinist from Argentina, had left her Kensington flat that day and was last seen entering her husband's home. Morton reported the victim missing but exhibited suspicious behavior, including entering the victim's flat the next day using the victim's keys, which he had denied. No body was ever found despite extensive searches of his properties, vehicles, and surrounding areas. Police believe he strangled the victim in a fit of rage and disposed of the body using his architectural knowledge, possibly in the Thames or a reservoir.

Kamel Bourgass, an Algerian asylum seeker and al-Qaeda operative, murdered Detective Constable Stephen Oake during a police raid on January 14, 2003, in Manchester, stabbing him eight times after attempting to escape. He also conspired to spread poisons like ricin and cyanide across the UK, discussing methods such as smearing them on car door handles.

John Sweeney murdered two girlfriends, the first victim and the second victim, by dismembering their bodies and disposing of them in canals. The first victim disappeared in late April 1990 in Amsterdam, with her remains found in a canal in Rotterdam on May 3, 1990. The second victim disappeared on December 15, 2000, in London, with her dismembered remains discovered in Regent's Canal on February 19, 2001. Sweeney had a history of violence, including assaults on the first victim and an attempted murder of another victim in December 1994, where he attacked her with an axe and knife.

In 2000, Jane Andrews attacked her partner the victim as he lay sleeping in their shared home in Fulham, battering him with a cricket bat and stabbing him to death with a kitchen knife. The incident stemmed from a stormy relationship that began three years after her dismissal from the Royal household in 1992, where she had worked as a dresser to Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York.

Terry Hall murdered 26-year-old the victim by strangling her on July 11, 1999, in their home in New Addington, near Croydon. He had been pursuing an affair with another woman. After the murder, he stored her body in a nearby lean-to garage and joined her family in public appeals for her safe return, including shaking hands with a reporter while feigning distress. Approximately 36 hours after the plea, he drove the body to undergrowth in Chelsham, Surrey, about four and a half miles south of New Addington, where it was discovered on July 15, 1999. Hall was arrested on suspicion of murder that same day.

On August 16, 2025, in the early hours, Duane Owusu, 36, threw aspiring accountant the victim, 27, a deaf woman he had never met before, out of an overcrowded Mercedes in Romford, east London. He then punched her in a wholly unprovoked attack, causing a fatal head injury. Instead of helping, Owusu got back in the car and fled the scene in Chadwell Heath, leaving her to die at 4.30am. The incident was captured on CCTV and witnessed by his friends. Shortly after, police stopped and searched the car.

Daniel Matos, of Hounslow, ambushed the 19-year-old victim in Hanworth Park, Feltham, west London, on January 24 2024, along with Keith Preddie and Joshua Cowley. They subjected him to a brutal knife attack, stabbing him in the neck and leaving him for dead in thick grass near his bicycle. The victim was a runner for a local drug-dealing business. Matos's GPS tag tracked them cycling to the scene armed with two knives. His DNA was on a cigarette beside the body and the victim's blood was on his hoodie sleeve.

A 15-year-old victim died in April 2007 after an unsupervised seven-metre-high unstable wall fell on him while he was working as a labourer for Colin Holtom's building company at a site in Hadley Wood, north London. No safety equipment such as hard hats or protective boots was provided, only a sledgehammer and pneumatic drill. Holtom instructed the victim to prop up the leaning wall from the neighbour's garden instead of intervening himself.

Ayoub Majdouline, 19, was part of a gang that targeted the 14-year-old victim in Leyton on 8 January. A black Mercedes deliberately rammed the victim's moped, knocking him off. Majdouline, wearing yellow rubber gloves, and two accomplices stabbed the victim nine times in a 7-second attack, then fled. The victim died from his injuries. Forensic evidence including bloodied knives and gloves linked Majdouline to the crime. He was arrested on 19 January and charged.

Bamidele Fawehinmi, 33, from Haringey, treated the victim, a 55-year-old former chef, as his 'lackey' in a 'cuckoo' flat in Hackney. Over five weeks he subjected the victim to sustained violent attacks, forcing him to sleep on a mattress in a garage alongside pitbull dogs. The victim sustained fractures to ribs, chest and head plus brain injuries and was found in a foetal position. He had been dead or dying for several days before discovery. Fawehinmi transported the injured victim from Wickford, Essex to the Hackney flat. He was arrested after attempting to flee to Nigeria.

Carol Campling killed the 48-year-old victim in a brutal attack at Garenne Court, Chingford, in the early hours of 15 February 2018. She used broken bottles, scissors, and an ashtray to inflict multiple injuries that resulted in the victim's death. Both Campling and the victim had been drinking heavily and using drugs prior to the incident. Campling reported finding the victim's body in a neighbour's flat but was later convicted of the victim's murder.

Cedric Kiyago stabbed the victim, 28, to death in the communal area of a block of flats on Straight Road, Romford, on 11 July 2017. The victim suffered ten stab wounds and six deep cuts to his face, chest and abdomen, two of which were fatal. The attack followed a threatening text message sent from a phone linked to Kiyago's drug-dealing line. Both phones were traced to the murder scene, and the murder was motivated by a feud over the victim robbing drug runners, including Kiyago's operation.

In the early hours of Tuesday 16 April, Emanuvel drove his Audi A3 on the wrong side of the road at 26-28 mph directly at a group of people outside Alperton Underground Station on Ealing Road. The 27-year-old victim was struck and later died in hospital from brain injury and cardiac arrest caused by complications from a leg injury. CCTV showed Emanuvel's car rendezvousing with two other vehicles minutes before; one contained weapons and face masks. Emanuvel was arrested shortly afterwards near the Target Roundabout on the A40 and charged with murder three days later.

On May 22, 1997 he followed the 12-year-old victim from her school in Holland Park, Notting Hill, to her home in Hammersmith. At 4.30 her father arrived home and interrupted Kunowski as the rapist strangled his daughter on their living room floor. The victim was lying barefoot on the floor wearing a cardigan, white t-shirt and elasticated tracksuit bottoms. She had been garroted using a cord attached to her Virgin Atlantic flight bag which had been tightened round her neck with a pen. A post-mortem the next day found she had been strangled for as long as two or three minutes. Kunowski was linked to the crime by tufts of hair found with her cardigan and traces of his DNA on the pen and the ligature cord.

Andre Joseph was involved in the fatal stabbing of the victim on 22 April near Exeter Road and Arbour Road in Enfield. The victim suffered a single stab wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at 2.16pm. Joseph was arrested days later at a nearby address following a police investigation.

Anthony Sawoniuk was given two life sentences in 1999 for the murder of 18 Jews in his home town in Belarus during the Second World War. A former British Rail ticket inspector, he had come to the UK after enrolling with the Polish Free Army when the Nazi cause collapsed. He was demobilised in Sussex in 1947. Sawoniuk evaded justice for decades due to the Cold War; a letter he wrote to his brother in 1951 was intercepted by the KGB but not acted upon until after the fall of the Soviet Union. His trial was held at the Old Bailey. He died in prison in November 2005.

Thomas Peter murdered his wife, the victim, on August 2, 2018, after subjecting her to years of violence, emotional abuse, and adultery. On the night of the murder, the victim's daughters heard a muffled scream, and Peter claimed she had gone for a walk. They later saw smoke from the bedroom. Firefighters found the victim's body with burns, marks to the head and neck, and a flannel in her mouth. Peter had previously locked the bedroom door and lied to his daughters.

Sean Maurice repeatedly stabbed his father the victim, 52, at the family home in Bromley, south-east London on the evening of September 14, 2021. He stabbed him 30 times in the back and chest. He fled the scene but was apprehended by police. He told officers that his father had abused and raped him. He was arrested and later admitted manslaughter.

On 5 June 2018 around 3pm, the victim, aged 49, was attacked in the prison exercise yard at Woodhill Prison. Boorman punched the victim to the ground before all three launched a savage assault using homemade weapons. The attackers blocked medics from reaching their victim for 40 minutes. The victim died from severe head and facial injuries en route to hospital.

On 1 February 2018, the victim, aged three, was travelling in an Audi convertible with four adults including the victim's mother and Stephen Waterson. The victim was placed in the footwell behind Waterson's seat. Waterson pushed his electrically-operated seat back, trapping the victim beneath it with up to 81kg of pressure, causing fatal crush asphyxia. The victim was found with burst blood vessels around his eyes. Waterson and others lied to paramedics, claiming they were in a taxi. He coordinated the cover-up, attempted to sell the vehicle, and later attacked the driver to prevent him from speaking.

Vladimer Rutkovskis stabbed a 22-year-old recruitment agency worker in Ealing on 22 March 2023 after a brief conversation. He stabbed the victim multiple times in the chest, neck, and head, causing life-threatening injuries. The victim later recovered. Less than two weeks later, on 3 April 2018, Rutkovskis stabbed an unsuspecting workman in the neck and back at a building site in Horley, Surrey, during a delivery collection. The victim survived. Rutkovskis was arrested at the scene after being restrained by other workers. Police found two kitchen knives in his possession. He was subsequently linked to both attacks during a prison interview.