Guildford Crown Court Sentencing Results

Kieron Thornby was staying at his grandmother's home in Balmoral Drive, Woking. On May 13, 2023, he was alone with his grandmother's cat, Teddy Bear, and claimed that plastic boxes fell on the cat, causing injuries. However, a post-mortem examination revealed the cat suffered from severe blunt force trauma, including five rib fractures, a brain haemorrhage, haemorrhages to the lungs, neck, and jaw, and a collapsed lung, indicating physical abuse that led to the cat's death.

Raimundas Dumcius participated in a chop shop in Cranleigh, dismantling and exporting stolen cars worth over £700,000. He was caught after police obtained a warrant for the premises on October 11, and he pleaded guilty ahead of the trial.

Irmantas Lozuraitis was involved in a chop shop operation in Cranleigh, where he dismantled and exported stolen cars. He was caught in the act after police obtained a warrant for the premises on October 11, and he pleaded guilty on the first day of trial.

Gytic Kirsinikas was part of a chop shop operation in Cranleigh, where stolen cars were dismantled and exported. He was caught in the act after police obtained a warrant for the premises on October 11, and he pleaded guilty on the first day of trial.

Deividas Jakaitis led a criminal empire involving a chop shop in Cranleigh, where stolen cars worth over £700,000 were dismantled and exported. He paid for a lock-up facility in Chertsey to store stolen items. He was caught after police obtained a warrant for the premises on October 11, and he pleaded guilty on the first day of trial.

John Jones stabbed an acquaintance in the Admiral Pub in Ash on May 1, 2024, during an altercation, causing slash wounds to the victim's face. The victim was taken to hospital for treatment. Jones was identified as the suspect through eyewitnesses and CCTV footage, fled the scene, but was quickly located and apprehended by armed officers and a police helicopter.

Derek Jinman was found guilty of 15 counts of serious sexual abuse, including rape, against four victims aged between six and 16 years old. The offences occurred over a period of more than 11 years, spanning decades.

Miles Connors, 27, was connected to 48 burglaries across 13 counties in the UK in 2018, which were described as a huge conspiracy to burgle. He fled to Australia on a false passport to evade justice but was convicted of burglary and rogue trader offences there. After his deportation, he was arrested at Heathrow Airport in August 2024 and subsequently found guilty.

Edward Durlik created multiple fake online profiles, posing as an 11-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy, and a 13-year-old girl, using photos of a child known to him to gain the trust of three girls aged between eight and 14. He devised a points game to encourage victims to send increasingly explicit images and videos, and used guilt and blame to manipulate them if they stopped communicating. Police discovered 1,055 indecent images on his phone, including 258 Category A images, and found that he had distributed 471 indecent images to 39 users. He was arrested in June 2023 and charged with various offences.

Over a three-year period, Paul Sander committed multiple sexual assaults on a child between the ages of four and seven, including telling the victim not to disclose the abuse. He also indecently assaulted a 14-year-old girl and possessed over 500 upskirting images and videos of women taken between June 2015 and April 2019, along with indecent images of a child and a 17-year-old girl, all taken without consent.

Christopher Latham was driving at speeds estimated to be between 70 and 90 mph in a residential area of Caterham with a 30-mph limit and was on the wrong side of the road just before losing control and crashing his car into a wall. A woman who was in the rear of the car died, while the other two passengers were both left with serious injuries. Latham fled the scene immediately, with witnesses seeing him on his phone, but not calling an ambulance. It’s believed he was calling someone to help him secure his escape from the scene. He was arrested by Greater Manchester Police at a property in Oldham the following day.

Kudzai Obey Phiri was driving a red Fiat 500 in Knaphill when he clipped a kerb, rode up onto the pavement, and struck an 80-year-old pedestrian, causing serious injuries. He then left the scene without stopping. The incident occurred on December 6, 2023, and he was arrested and charged with causing serious injury by careless driving, failing to stop at the scene, driving without insurance, and driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence.

Edward Gratwick, aged 68 from Mitcham, south London, engaged in online communications from February 2023 to March 2025 using encrypted apps like Teleguard and Session to discuss and plan the sexual abuse of children as young as six, including drugging victims with Rohypnol and GHB. He plotted to travel abroad, including to Romania, to rape children and was arrested at Stansted Airport in March 2024 while attempting to board a flight after international partners alerted the NCA to his plans to meet and abuse a nine-year-old girl. Searches revealed over 1,300 indecent images of children on his devices, including 632 Category A images, and items intended for abuse. He claimed to be investigating child abuse but was disbelieved by the jury.

Paulo Evaristo attacked a man on Onslow Street in Guildford town centre in the early hours of December 10, 2023, by jumping into the air to deliver a flying kick to the victim's head, followed by two punches while the victim was on the floor, leaving him unconscious. Evaristo was detained by nightclub door staff until police arrived and was later arrested.

Michael Black, 52, from Crawley in West Sussex, was driving a tipper lorry while working to convert the M23 into a smart motorway. On 3 November 2019, just after 10am near Merstham, Surrey, he was making a phone call to a friend when he collided with a 1903 Knox vintage car driven by the victim, 80, and his wife, who were participating in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. The couple had mistakenly taken the slip road for the M23 instead of the A23. The vintage car, lacking a front windscreen, door, or roof, and with a top speed of 30mph, was travelling at 21mph in the third lane when hit by Black's Scania lorry. Both were thrown from the vehicle; the victim suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene, while his wife was air-lifted to hospital with life-threatening head injuries. Black claimed a 'looming' phenomenon caused him to miss the slower vehicle.

Rupesh Seth, a GP from Wareham in Dorset, travelled approximately 100 miles to Egham in Surrey in 2020 to attempt to abuse a 10-year-old girl. He used encrypted chat programmes to discuss child sex abuse and arranged the offence with a man he met online, who was actually an undercover officer. Subsequent searches of his phones revealed 41 indecent images of children, including 27 at category A level. There was no real-life victim, as the investigation involved law enforcement.

Craig Gibson stalked his victim from Spelthorne in Surrey over several months in 2021, persistently watching outside her home, following her in his car, taking photos of her car at various locations and sending them to her, and smashing several windows at her home in December 2021. This behaviour led to his arrest in January 2022 and was described as a 'fixated pattern' of threatening actions that made the victim’s life a living hell.

Fabion Parnell, 26, deliberately hit a 16-year-old boy with his car after the boy tried to escape on his moped. Parnell dragged him along the road, ran over him again, and then sped off. The incident occurred in the early hours of 9 March 2024 near Godstone Road, Whyteleafe, Surrey.

On March 15 2017, Darren McClean verbally abused the victim, a transgender female, whilst shopping at a local supermarket in Caterham. The victim was buying groceries at the self-serve checkout when McClean started shouting offensive and transphobic comments at her. She approached McClean and asked him to stop however he continued and began taking pictures of her on his mobile phone. McClean was eventually removed from the supermarket by security staff leaving the victim shaken by the attack. Following the incident, McClean posted images taken on his mobile phone onto Facebook where he continued to make transphobic and hateful comments.

Eimantas Mikalauskas was involved in an illegal chop shop in Cranleigh, Surrey, where stolen luxury cars were dismantled and exported. He was arrested after a police raid in October and later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to handle stolen goods.

Adrian Rozpara, 21, was caught on camera brandishing a one-metre-long samurai sword and shouting 'Where are you from?' during the attack on the teenager.

Billy O'Donoghue was involved in a series of burglaries at care homes, assisted living accommodation and homes of vulnerable adults across Surrey, Hampshire and south-west London. The offenders forced entry into 11 properties, often while residents were inside, and used pillowcases taken from victims' beds to carry away stolen cash, jewellery and sentimental items. CCTV captured O'Donoghue inside one property wearing a face covering, and specialist enquiries enabled officers to identify him. During one burglary in Farnborough, more than £1,000 raised for residents was stolen; during another, two pillowcases were filled with watches, perfume, jewellery and a camera. He was arrested in January 2025 and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle.

Charlie Hart was part of a gang that repeatedly targeted high-performance Audi RS vehicles in Surrey and Sussex. They broke into victims’ homes while they slept to steal keys before driving off in the expensive cars. The group was caught after police spotted a suspicious grey Audi RS4 with cloned number plates in Chipstead and pursued them on foot, recovering keys linking them to stolen vehicles.