Luton Crown Court Sentencing Results

Liam Winters, as a director of Codicote Quarry Ltd and Anstey Quarry Company Ltd, illegally disposed of approximately 200,000 cubic metres of household and business waste, including electrical items, furniture, food packaging, wood, and metal, at Codicote Quarry near Stevenage over nearly three years. He also dumped banned and harmful materials at Anstey Quarry near Royston and a nearby shooting ground, using soil to cover waste and building a 10-metre-high embankment. The sites exceeded permitted waste limits, causing environmental harm and unfair competition to compliant businesses. He was investigated by the Environment Agency in 2017.

Liam Moriarty, 31, of no fixed address, was involved in a collision in Shefford on 6 September 2023. After suffering injuries, he was arrested and taken to Bedford Hospital for treatment. There, he assaulted Special Constable Jack Capener by headbutting him with such force that both were knocked unconscious; Capener required stitches and was diagnosed with a broken nose. Moriarty continued his violent behaviour, causing over £5,000 in damage to medical equipment and spitting in the face of another officer.

Hayley Best and Steven Buckley lied to police regarding the injuries inflicted on a one-year-old child, which included a fractured skull, brain bleed and bruising. The incident led to their conviction for causing these injuries.

Steven Buckley and Hayley Best lied to police regarding the injuries inflicted on a one-year-old child, which included a fractured skull, brain bleed and bruising. The incident led to their conviction for causing these injuries.

Mohammed Said, along with his brothers Mohammed Shamrez and Mohammed Shakeel, violently attacked vulnerable tenants at their father’s rental properties in Bedford. They used weapons including a metal pole, bolt croppers, baseball bats and a meat cleaver during the attacks as part of evictions. One victim had his leg amputated after it was left hanging at a right angle. Others were humiliated, forced to grovel and lick the shoes of their attackers. Harrowing footage includes holding a victim upside down and attacking him with bolt croppers, as well as punching and kicking another victim to the point he was left with a fractured rib. The brothers operated a brutal enforcement business of violence and intimidation targeting anyone they considered ‘undesirable’ in their properties.

Mohammed Shakeel, along with his brothers Mohammed Shamrez and Mohammed Said, violently attacked vulnerable tenants at their father’s rental properties in Bedford. They used weapons including a metal pole, bolt croppers, baseball bats and a meat cleaver during the attacks as part of evictions. One victim had his leg amputated after it was left hanging at a right angle. Others were humiliated, forced to grovel and lick the shoes of their attackers. Harrowing footage includes holding a victim upside down and attacking him with bolt croppers, as well as punching and kicking another victim to the point he was left with a fractured rib. The brothers operated a brutal enforcement business of violence and intimidation targeting anyone they considered ‘undesirable’ in their properties.

Mohammed Shamrez, along with his brothers Mohammed Shakeel and Mohammed Said, violently attacked vulnerable tenants at their father’s rental properties in Bedford. They used weapons including a metal pole, bolt croppers, baseball bats and a meat cleaver during the attacks as part of evictions. One victim had his leg amputated after it was left hanging at a right angle. Others were humiliated, forced to grovel and lick the shoes of their attackers. Harrowing footage includes holding a victim upside down and attacking him with bolt croppers, as well as punching and kicking another victim to the point he was left with a fractured rib. The brothers operated a brutal enforcement business of violence and intimidation targeting anyone they considered ‘undesirable’ in their properties.

Leon Edmund, aged 33, from Hemel Hempstead, carried out a sustained attack on a man in his 40s following an argument on a minibus after a charity boxing event in Watford. The incident occurred on the evening of Saturday, March 25, 2023, on Warners End in Hemel Hempstead, leaving the victim with permanent sight loss in one eye and multiple bone fractures.

Tudor Manolache was riding an electric unicycle along the pavement of Hatters Way in Luton on September 5, 2022, at speeds between 20 to 30 miles per hour, when he collided with 88-year-old Leonard Bailey, who was walking in the opposite direction. The victim was taken to hospital and died of his injuries a few weeks later.

Luke Flanagan, 28, was driving his Ford Transit van near Renhold in Bedfordshire on November 1, 2021, while under the influence of cocaine and using TikTok on his phone. He failed to pay attention to the road, crashing into a stationary Peugeot 2008 driven by the 55-year-old victim, who was taking her 16-year-old daughter to school. The collision pushed the Peugeot under a heavy goods vehicle, causing it to burst into flames and resulting in the deaths of both victims. Flanagan sustained facial burns while attempting to help them.

On March 7, 2016, plumbers were called to fix a boiler at David Cooper's home on Dewsbury Road, Luton, where they discovered a bag containing an illegal Russian pistol, specifically a Baikal handgun known as a Makarov pistol, and a silencer. Police executed a warrant the next day, seized the items, and arrested Cooper. Forensics analysis confirmed his DNA on the bags containing the weapon and silencer.

Mohammed Al-Amin, from Saxon Way, Great Denham in Bedford, began sexually abusing the victim when she was in her early teens. In February last year, the victim reported coercion and exploitation, disclosing she was forced into an Islamic marriage via Zoom in a language she did not understand before turning 18. She faced controlling behaviour including pressure on how to dress and behave to avoid bringing shame to Al-Amin and his family. After the relationship ended, he sent abusive and threatening messages, including threats to kill her family.

On 2 June 2022, Mohammed Hamid drove a BMW used in a premeditated ambush on Telford Way, Luton. Four masked men armed with baseball bats attacked a 17-year-old boy, causing a traumatic brain injury and severe, life-changing damage. CCTV captured the victim entering a vehicle before the attack and the BMW speeding away. Hamid later abandoned the car in Farley Hill, Luton. The victim suffered irreversible brain damage.

In the early hours of 22 January 2019, during a heated argument at their Bedford home, Shaun Thomas poured a flammable liquid over his partner’s clothes while she was sitting on the sofa and set her on fire with a lighter. The victim suffered severe burns. Police found the back door key broken off in the lock and a butane canister rigged with a firework. Thomas was convicted of arson with intent to endanger life, attempted GBH with intent, ABH, and possession of explosives with intent.

Gurdial Singh Bains, a managing agent, failed to issue a tenancy agreement to tenants at a semi-detached house in Sandy, Bedfordshire, which he managed on behalf of a relative. When he wanted them to leave, he failed to give adequate notice, attempted to change the locks, filled the stopcock chamber with cement to cut off running water, and parked his car over the water mains. Council officers and the water authority restored the supply within 24 hours.