Inner London Crown Court Sentencing Results

Sergiu Chiriac was convicted of 12 offences including rape, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, coercive and controlling behaviour and child cruelty. His offending stretched across four years, between 2021 and 2025, against a woman in her 20s and her two-year-old child. The investigation began when a relative of the victim contacted police after she arrived at their home badly hurt, with severe swelling to her head, black eyes and bruising across her body. Officers later found signs of disorder including visible blood at the property. Chiriac had attacked both victims without warning, shouting abuse, stopping the woman from leaving and threatening her with a knife. He was initially charged with ABH, criminal damage and child assault, and was later charged in September 2025 with multiple counts of rape, coercive and controlling behaviour, child cruelty and witness intimidation.

Ayodele Jamgbadi missed a train at Ilford station in east London in December 2024 and began kicking a wall on platform three. A Transport for London worker and two colleagues approached to calm him, and Jamgbadi punched the worker in the face near the temple, causing him to fall and hit his head on the concrete platform. The victim died two days later from a severe traumatic brain injury. Jamgbadi was arrested on 5 December 2024 and told police, 'I punched him in the face. I literally punched him in the face.'

Ruckling Ramsay posed as a taxi driver and picked up a 19-year-old woman in Brighton city centre in the early hours of 3 July 2022. He pressured her into sniffing a white powder before driving her to remote locations, including Shoreham Power Station and the South Downs, where she was raped and sexually assaulted multiple times, one attack at knifepoint. The victim managed to text a friend, who tracked her location and picked her up after she escaped. Ramsay was traced through his vehicle registration and arrested; condoms, lubricant and other evidence were found in his Mercedes. His phone data showed him driving around Brighton and searching for solicitors afterwards. The case was later linked to a similar attack in Brixton in January 2024, with DNA and vehicle tracking evidence.

On May 31, 2025, Simon Ghebremedhin, 34, of Streatham, attended the flat of the 26-year-old victim in Croydon. Following a dispute, CCTV showed him lashing out violently, smashing his own phone and banging on the door. The victim let him in, where he stabbed her once. She escaped the flat and collapsed outside, where she was found unconscious by a passer-by. Ghebremedhin followed her out, then returned inside and inflicted a knife wound on his own abdomen to fabricate a self-defence claim. Police and emergency services arrived just after 9am, the victim was declared dead at the scene from the stab wound, and Ghebremedhin was hospitalised before being arrested on suspicion of murder. Evidence, including CCTV and specialist analysis, confirmed the self-inflicted nature of his injury and exposed his deception.

Peter John murdered his brother the victim by bludgeoning him with a garden fork and walking stick, inflicting multiple puncture wounds to the leg and head. The attack took place on the night of Sunday, 2 March 2025, at their shared home in Hackney. John woke up on Monday, 3 March 2025, found his brother dead, and walked to Stoke Newington police station where he confessed to the murder via a 999 call. Officers confirmed the death at the scene, and CCTV footage supported the investigation.

Beibit Baimolda murdered the 42-year-old victim by stabbing him 16 times to the face and torso in his home in Chingford, on 6 May 2024. The attack occurred after they had socialised and returned from a local pub. Baimolda was arrested at the scene and a knife was recovered near the body. Forensic evidence, including blood pattern analysis, disproved his self-defence claim.

Gogoa Lois Tape strangled his 25-year-old girlfriend, the victim, in Hackney, east London, on April 6, 2024. He drove her body around before confessing to his brother hours later. Tape's mental health had deteriorated from 2023, with paranoia and jealousy, and he had been warned to abstain from cannabis, which he had used since 2014. Their young daughter was left motherless as a result.

Hope Rowe, 33, of Aldgate, London, stabbed the victim, 31, to death with a knife during an argument at a child's birthday party in the early hours of 15 September 2024 at a property in Stepney Green, east London. She hid the knife in her handbag and attacked in front of terrified guests, including children. After the incident, she drove away with her partner, Leigh Holder, and was heard in a voicemail saying it was 'good' she had killed the victim. She was arrested later that day.

Rakeem Miles punched the victim at Southwark station on August 22, 2024, after the victim accidentally brushed past him on the escalator. The victim, a 28-year-old AI engineer and physiotherapist who volunteered for charities, suffered a critical brain injury and died two days later. Miles fled the scene immediately after the attack.

Zhenhao Zou, a 28-year-old Chinese PhD student, drugged and raped 10 women in London and China over several years. He kept a trophy box containing victims' belongings, such as a key, earrings, a black dress, and hairbands, and filmed nine of the rapes while the women were unconscious. He used drugs like GHB (1,4-Butanediol) and other substances to facilitate the assaults, and had a luxurious lifestyle with expensive items like a Rolex watch and designer clothes. The crimes had devastating and long-term effects on the victims.

Police Constable Sam McGregor, 33, raped a woman in London in May 2021. He deliberately targeted the victim when she was in a vulnerable situation, and she woke up to being raped by him. When interviewed, he initially denied having sex with the victim but later changed his story to claim consensual sex when confronted with forensic evidence.

Ian Hamilton committed violent sexual offences against 11 women and girls over a 23-year period from 1976 to 1999. The victims provided similar accounts of his behaviour, including rapes and indecent assaults, some occurring while they were asleep. He was frequently violent, fracturing one woman's leg and refracturing it after plaster removal, cracking another's cheekbone with a punch, biting another's nose leaving a scar, and fracturing the eye socket of one victim's boyfriend. Search terms on his laptop at arrest in early 2024 matched victim descriptions. Initially charged after three victims came forward, more reported after his remand into custody.

Sabin Manda murdered the 27-year-old victim during a dispute over drugs on Sudbury Heights Avenue, Greenford, on 11 March 2024. Manda attacked the victim in an unprovoked manner, as captured by CCTV footage, despite his claim of self-defence. Following the incident, Manda evaded capture by going off the grid, but was located and arrested through extensive police enquiries.

Brwa Shorsh pushed a total stranger, a 60-year-old postman, off a platform at Oxford Circus Tube Station on 3 February 2024, into the path of an oncoming Victoria Line train. The victim was on his way home from work and had walked past Shorsh who was sitting on a bench, when without a word, explanation, or provocation, Shorsh leapt up and shoved him off the platform and onto the live train tracks. The victim managed to stay on his feet and a passerby helped him to climb back up onto the platform just as a train pulled into the station. Shorsh ran off before police arrived but was arrested that same day.