Reading Crown Court Sentencing Results

On Saturday 24 March 2026, shortly before 8.30am, Zakaria Mohammed sat opposite a 21-year-old victim on a train. After initially exchanging small talk, Mohammed, who had been drinking and was carrying a half-empty bottle of wine, sexually assaulted the man. He then moved to sit next to him. When the train arrived at Reading station, the victim tried to leave but Mohammed refused to move, trapping him. The victim had to crawl under the table to escape, during which Mohammed repeatedly struck him over the head with the wine bottle. The victim sustained heavy bleeding from cuts to his head. Mohammed was arrested by British Transport Police at the station barriers and was found to have breached a previous Sexual Harm Prevention Order that banned him from travelling on public transport without paying for a ticket.

Michael James Fenwick targeted a woman in her seventies who was walking to get the bus home in Slough at around 12.09pm on January 24. He dragged her to the floor, causing her minor injuries, and stole her handbag. He then left the scene, changed clothing, and used the stolen bank cards at various clothing, food and drink shops along Slough High Street within the following 24 hours.

Jacob Leland, a former Russian teacher at Eton College aged 23 at the time, sexually assaulted a vulnerable male pupil in 2012. The first assault occurred after inviting the pupil and his friends to his teachers' accommodation, providing them with alcohol and cigarettes, then dismissing the friends and kissing the boy while placing his hands on his own groin. A subsequent assault involved performing oral sex on the pupil during a school trip. Leland was trusted by a housemaster to look after students.

On the evening of 18 January 2025, Muhammad Munir, aged 26 from Linden Road, Reading, and his accomplice Shahime Finch travelled from Reading to Milton Keynes, where they forced entry into an Air BnB accommodation occupied by two women in their thirties. Munir dragged one of the victims into a bedroom by her hair and threatened her at knifepoint with a screwdriver, while Finch searched the property. The women handed over £160 in cash, after which Munir and Finch fled the scene and proceeded to Northampton. In Northampton, the pair forced their way into another Air BnB where two women in their twenties were staying. Munir strangled one victim who answered the door, dragged her down the stairs by her hair, and demanded money. Both victims were taken to a bedroom, stripped, and Munir sexually assaulted them using weapons while Finch searched the property. The victims managed to escape, running out into the road wrapped in bedsheets to seek help. Munir and Finch stole approximately £1,500 in cash and two iPhones before fleeing. Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, Munir was arrested on 19 January 2025 and again on 12 February 2025, charged on 13 February 2025. At Reading Crown Court, the trial concluded on 9 September 2025. Munir was found guilty by unanimous jury verdict of one count of intentional strangulation, three counts of robbery, and four counts of sexual assault. On 18 November 2025, he was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment.

Ibrahim Ali, 36, of Percy Place, Datchet, Berkshire, carried out sexual assaults by touching on five women while working as a masseur at the Nirvana Spa in Wokingham, Berkshire. The assaults occurred between November and December 2024 during back and foot massages. He was charged with four counts in July 2025 and a further count in September 2025.

Khalid Karim, 40, carried out several burglaries over a ten-day period, including crashing a stolen car into another vehicle and being found on a victim's sofa; the crimes involved writing off two vehicles.