Central Criminal Court Crown Court Sentencing Results

Joshua Cowley, of Hounslow, ambushed the 19-year-old victim in Hanworth Park, Feltham, west London, on January 24 2024, along with Daniel Matos and Keith Preddie. 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. They cycled to the scene armed with two knives. After the attack, Cowley went to his home with Keith Preddie.

On 11 October 2018, Sidhu and co-defendant Philip Babatunde Fashakin 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. Following the murder, Sidhu and Fashakin were captured on CCTV dumping bloodied clothing and purchasing new SIM cards to evade detection. Sidhu was arrested on 30 October at a Birmingham hotel using a fake ID.

On 26 June 2017, police were called to White Horse Road, East Ham, after a stabbing near the Gresham Road junction. the victim, 34, had been drinking with others in Central Park earlier that day. Tensions from a previous dispute escalated when the victim and Keith Nelson crossed paths that evening. Nelson went home, armed himself with two knives, and returned to attack the victim and a second victim. He stabbed the victim in the chest, causing a fatal injury, and also wounded the other man before fleeing. Nelson was arrested on 28 June 2017 and subsequently charged with murder.

Keith Preddie, of Feltham, ambushed 19-year-old the victim in Hanworth Park, Feltham, west London, on January 24 2024, along with Daniel Matos 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. They cycled to the scene armed with two knives. After the attack, Preddie went to Joshua Cowley's home.

Kelvin Amoako, 18, from Ilford, Greater London, 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 multiple times. Stewart called 999 shouting to Amoako to stab the victim.

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. Jordan Worrie rode past the victim on a moped, got off, made slashing movements, and chased him into the walkway. Two others followed armed with knives. The group fled in the same moped and car. CCTV and phone data linked them. Victim pronounced dead next morning from stab wounds to lower legs.

Joshua Kerr, aged 19, 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. Kerr delivered the fatal wound. The attack was captured on CCTV.

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.

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. Two of the males followed into the walkway armed with knives. The group had been hanging around together earlier that day on the moped. CCTV and phone data showed coordination. Victim pronounced dead next morning from stab wounds to lower legs.

Tyler Moore was convicted of the murder of the victim. On 19 November 2019, the victim was lured to a block of garages in Hurstleigh Gardens, Redbridge, where he was ambushed by a group who had carried out reconnaissance and used stolen vehicles. The victim was attacked with knives in an alleyway, sustaining multiple stab wounds. He tried to flee but collapsed on Fullwell Avenue and was pronounced dead at the scene from a stab wound to the neck. The attack was a revenge act for the attempted murder of another man two months earlier. Moore, along with other defendants, played a role in the pre-meditated attack, which involved extensive planning and the use of stolen cars. Phone data and CCTV linked him to the location selection and movements. He was convicted on 7 July 2022 and sentenced at the same court.

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.

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.

Svenson Ong-a-Kwie and his associate ambushed and stabbed the 17-year-old victim in the back with a knife plunged all the way through during a planned attack in Harold Hill, mistaking her for their target. The attack was callous and casual violence. The victim screamed until she could scream no more. He was a well-established drug dealer operating in a background of violence.

Syed Fahad, of Salisbury Avenue, Barking, was one of three acquaintances of Warrick Carson convicted of the murder of the 23-year-old victim on the night of 17 May 2018 near his home on Harts Lane in Barking. The planned and co-ordinated attack involved chasing the victim barefoot down Crows Road and stabbing him 18 times with Rambo-style knives after he was attacked from a white BMW.

William Kydd, 54, of Gabriel Close, Feltham, murdered 74-year-old the victim at her home in Mays Road, Teddington. Emergency services attended a deliberately set fire at around 1am on 21 August 2018 and discovered the victim's body. A post-mortem found she died from smoke inhalation and a head injury after a brutal attack. Forensic evidence showed four separate seats of fire and internal doors deliberately closed. CCTV captured Kydd leaving the property minutes before the fire was reported. He had access to ignition tools and never contacted the victim after the murder. Arrested on 25 August 2018 and re-arrested on 28 November 2018, he was charged with murder the following day.