Central Criminal Court Crown Court Sentencing Results

On 14 March 2018 at 22:27hrs, the victim, 18, was stabbed multiple times in a walkway on Arneways Avenue in Romford, metres from his home, after being followed by a group in a car and on a moped. The group had been together earlier that day. CCTV and phone data showed coordination just before the murder. Victim pronounced dead next morning from stab wounds to lower legs.

In the early hours of 19 August 2018 outside a nightclub on South Street, Romford, Michael Fasan asked a woman for her phone number; she refused, saying she had a boyfriend. He followed her and a male friend, continued pressing for the number, and questioned the man's relationship to the woman. After an argument, Fasan was overheard saying 'my 1 is Sparks and you're in my ends', then jumped into his Ford Focus and deliberately drove straight at the pair. The male victim suffered back wounds and a cut finger, the woman minor cuts and bruises. Fasan sped off. CCTV and social media videos identified him, and DNA on the steering wheel linked him to the car. He was arrested the next day and later convicted.

Michelle Neill failed to care for her sister, a former stroke nurse, leaving her in unsanitary conditions. The victim had a stroke in January 2018 and died in October 2022 after developing sepsis from severe bed sores. Paramedics found the victim on the floor in dirty conditions, surrounded by decay and clutter, and she died in hospital shortly afterwards. Neill admitted manslaughter by gross negligence.

Robert Peters, 56, strangled the victim at their home in Raynes Park on 3 November 2017. He had planned the attack for weeks and used a dressing-gown belt. After the murder, he calmly called 999 at 8:01am, telling the operator 'There's a murder... I have.' Police and paramedics found the victim with the belt around her neck. The victim was taken to St George’s Hospital but died the following day, 4 November 2017. Peters was charged initially with attempted murder and later with murder. He pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court.

Razvan Vladescu, along with his brother and another man, beat the victim to death outside a shop in Ilford on November 12, 2017. The group, armed with pick axe handles and garden shears, attacked the victim as he bought cigarettes. The brutal assault was only stopped when paramedics drove past and turned on sirens. Vladescu was found guilty of murder and possession of an offensive weapon.

On Thursday, 21 February, around 6.45pm, Rishon Florant and Chibuzo Ukonu arrived at the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre in Brixton in a BMW. They followed the victim inside, brandished large knives, and attacked him. The victim was knocked down by a table tennis table and stabbed repeatedly, dying at the scene from stab wounds to the thigh. The attack was witnessed by children as young as 10. The pair fled and later set the BMW on fire. Florant was caught attempting to flee the country the following day.

On 11 October 2018, Fashakin and co-defendant Juskiran Sidhu shot the 22-year-old victim through the passenger window of a black Mercedes on Central Avenue, Hayes, Hillingdon. The victim was a passenger; the driver sped off but crashed into parked cars on West Drayton Road. A passing ambulance crew pronounced the victim dead at the scene. CCTV evidence showed Fashakin renting a dark grey Volkswagen in Reading on 9 October, which was present at the shooting location. Following the murder, Fashakin and Sidhu were seen dumping bloodied clothing and purchasing new SIM cards. Fashakin was arrested a week after Sidhu, at a location in Birmingham.

Philip Fracezek battered 79-year-old the victim to death at the victim's home in Soprano Court, Plaistow, east London, on May 15, 2024. Fracezek, who was drunk, had been sleeping in the corridor and trying door handles in the block of flats. The victim confronted him and asked him to leave, leading to a prolonged and vicious attack involving stamping and kicking, causing severe brain injury, spinal and rib fractures. The victim died five days later in Royal London Hospital. Nine days prior, on May 6, 2024, Fracezek had broken into the home of two young women in the Isle of Dogs and threatened to kill them.

Rakeem Green-Matthews, aged 19, was one of four armed teenagers who ambushed the victim and fatally stabbed the victim in the neck on Church Road in Harold Wood on the evening of May 7, 2021, after the victim left a shop. The attack was captured on CCTV.

On 27 April 2018, Paul Crossley attempted to push a 23-year-old man onto the tracks at Tottenham Court Road station; the victim was saved by quick-thinking passengers. Crossley then travelled to Marble Arch station and shoved a 91-year-old man onto the tracks, causing multiple pelvic fractures and a head wound that required twelve stitches. A member of the public jumped onto the electrified tracks to rescue the elderly victim, sustaining a burn in the process. Fellow passengers restrained Crossley at the scene until British Transport Police officers arrived and arrested him. After his arrest, Crossley remarked, 'I didn't get much sleep last night.' The 91-year-old victim spent a week in hospital and stated in his victim impact statement that he had lost confidence and struggles more with daily life.

On 1 November 2018, 15-year-old the victim was waiting outside a chicken shop on Randlesdown Road, Bellingham, when a black Ford Galaxy stopped nearby. Three men armed with machetes exited the vehicle. Baptiste approached the victim and stabbed him once in the left upper chest, piercing his heart. Witnesses heard Baptiste say "I got one" as the victim fell. The victim died at Kings College Hospital at 8.15pm. Baptiste fled but was arrested in Gravesend, Kent in December 2018, with a large hunting knife in his possession.

On 3 February, Neron Quartey deliberately crashed his black Honda Civic into the victim's grey Civic on Kemble Road, Tottenham. A group armed with poles and knives then attacked the victim, who either got out or was forced from his car. He suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene from hypovolemic shock, despite managing to call police and a family member. Quartey was convicted of murder after a trial at the Central Criminal Court.

Neculai Paizan, 64, murdered the victim, a 20-year-old also known by another name. She was reported missing on 11 May 2021, having last been seen on Cricklewood Broadway two days earlier. Police traced her to a shipping container on North Acton Road which Paizan used as a hideout. CCTV captured the pair entering the container on 9 May, but the victim was never seen leaving. Heavy padlocks secured the container. Forensic analysis identified the victim's blood inside the container and in Paizan's car, and her coat was recovered from a nearby skip. Her body was discovered 36 days after she vanished; a post-mortem revealed she had sustained at least 20 blows to the head. Paizan attempted to cover up the crime and gave false testimony to damage the victim's character.

In November 2020, a 30-year-old father of two was cycling in east London when a car knocked him off his bike and two men got out and shot him in the head; he died at the scene. Around 15 minutes later, a second man was shot in the shoulder around five miles away and survived. Mushin Mohamed was convicted of murder and attempted murder in 2022.

Nancy Pexton murdered her sister, the victim, on 10 June 2025 at the victim's flat in Mornington Place, Camden. She stabbed her 10 times and taped her mouth shut. Three days later, the victim's body was found after a neighbour forced entry. Pexton had visited the flat and later took an overdose; she was arrested in hospital where the stolen Rolex watch was found in her bag. She was convicted by an Old Bailey jury of murder.

Mohammed Fadla savagely attacked his friend with an axe in an unprovoked assault on 23 July 2018. He viciously struck his friend multiple times with the axe while the victim was lying in bed in a flat in Streatham. The victim suffered serious head and ear injuries and was rushed to hospital. Fadla fled the scene in a van but later handed himself in to police, claiming memory loss and mental health issues and stating he could not recall the attack.

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.

Shane O’Brien, 31, slashed the neck of the 21-year-old victim with a blade in an act of “pitiless savagery” at a west London bar in the early hours of 11 October 2015, inflicting a 37cm wound. He then calmly walked away, leaving the victim to die in front of shocked friends. O’Brien fled the UK by private plane using false documents and evaded capture for over three years until arrested in Romania and extradited. He was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey.

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.

Bartosz Malawski, 28, from Croydon, was part of a criminal gang that travelled to Tunbridge Wells from Essex to steal cannabis plants from a house in Caley Road on 4 December 2021. They were challenged by the victim, who was fatally stabbed.

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.

Callum Hands, aged 20, was one of four armed teenagers who ambushed the victim and fatally stabbed him in the neck on Church Road in Harold Wood on the evening of May 7, 2021, after the victim left a shop. The attack was captured on CCTV.