Snaresbrook Crown Court Sentencing Results

Phillip Fraczek entered the block of flats on Plaistow Road, West Ham, at around 13.30 on Wednesday, 15 May 2024, tried to get into multiple properties before falling asleep on the floor. At around 14.55hrs, he was woken and asked to leave by 79-year-old the victim. Ten minutes later, neighbours heard banging noises and screaming from the flat. Police called at 15.05hrs found the victim horrifically injured, performed CPR before he was taken to hospital by London's Air Ambulance, where he died on 20 May 2024. A neighbour spotted Fraczek fleeing, alerting officers who chased and arrested him two streets away on Geere Road. His knuckles and Nike trainers were covered in the victim’s blood, confirmed forensically. As officers restrained him, he headbutted one in the jaw.

On Saturday February 15, 2025, Richard Sivanda approached a 20-year-old man and his girlfriend as they walked along Highgate Hill towards Highgate tube station in north London. He challenged the man, asking where he was from, wrongly believing he was a member of a rival gang responsible for a 2021 murder for which there was no evidence. When the couple walked away, Sivanda chased them down and stabbed the victim in the head with a pointed weapon before fleeing. The victim was left in a critical condition but reached hospital for life-saving treatment. He suffered permanent brain damage and now requires assisted living. CCTV footage placed Sivanda at the scene before and after the attack. Officers arrested him at his home address just 29 hours later. Detectives also recovered a social media video in which Sivanda boasted that he believed he had killed the victim and described the gruesome assault.

On 9 January 2024, Vasile Gorghescu lured the victim to a car park in Stratford under the pretence of selling mobile phones. He had borrowed his brother’s car and driven from Southampton. Instead of phones, he had a box of fizzy drinks to pass off as phones in a planned scam. When the victim discovered the fraud, Gorghescu stabbed him 27 times, hid the body under blankets and boxes in the car, left it in the car park, returned to Southampton, and told his brother to report the car stolen, confessing there was a body in it.

Adrian Morbey raped and sexually assaulted a young girl for almost a decade between 1989 and 1996 when the victim was aged between seven and 15. In 1989, Morbey started to intercept the victim, then aged just seven, when she was on her way home from school and would take her to various locations. The offending began as sexual assault and progressed to rape. Morbey would also shower her with over-the-top gifts and money. The victim’s mother approached police in 2018, leading to the victim's disclosure and Morbey's arrest. He denied the allegations during interview.

Carlos Boente was one of two men involved in the gunpoint kidnapping of a man outside his home in Leyton on 25 October 2018. The victim was forced into a waiting vehicle and held for about two hours while ransom calls demanding between £2,000 and £5,000 were made to a family member. He was threatened with a gun and a knife but was released with minor injuries. Detectives linked Boente to the offence through CCTV and phone evidence, and he was arrested in October 2018 in possession of the victim's phone and a replica firearm.

Gabriel Silvera was convicted of manslaughter after a 46-year-old man was injured outside Burnt Oak Underground Station shortly before midnight on 27 October 2023. The victim was taken to a central London hospital shortly after 5am on 28 October 2023 and died from his injuries on 1 November 2023. Silvera was arrested on 6 November 2023 and charged on 7 November 2023.

On 8 November 2022, the 94-year-old victim was approached in Barking Town Centre by suspects including Alexandru Muresan who distracted him by hugging him in order to steal his wallet. The suspects then used his bank cards nearby. The victim was taken to hospital following the incident, but sadly died 36 hours later.

Jordan Shaw and another man opened fire on a car in Hackney after mistaking it for a rival gang's vehicle; two children were inside but were not hurt. Shaw was also responsible for a separate incident in the Stoke Newington area in which he fired three shots and wounded a victim in the arm. He was arrested on May 31, 2023.

Joshua Fraser and another man opened fire on a car in Hackney after mistaking it for a rival gang's vehicle; two children were inside but were not hurt. He was arrested on October 4, 2023.

Joshua Oladele, along with Ali Al-Amiri and Micah Hines, armed themselves with knives and machetes, wore masks, and went out on the evening of 24 September 2023. They attacked 25-year-old the victim with sustained ferocity in Olympic Way, Wembley, inflicting 23 knife wounds, one of which was fatal. The victim was taken to hospital but could not be saved.

Ali Al-Amiri, along with Joshua Oladele and Micah Hines, armed themselves with knives and machetes, wore masks, and went out on the evening of 24 September 2023. They attacked the 25-year-old victim with sustained ferocity in Olympic Way, Wembley, inflicting 23 knife wounds, one of which was fatal. The victim was taken to hospital but could not be saved.

Micah Hines, along with Ali Al-Amiri and Joshua Oladele, armed themselves with knives and machetes, wore masks, and went out on the evening of 24 September 2023. They attacked the 25-year-old victim with sustained ferocity in Olympic Way, Wembley, inflicting 23 knife wounds, one of which was fatal. The victim was taken to hospital but could not be saved.

On the evening of 11 July 2023, Oladip Oshodi made sexual advances toward a woman known to him at his home in the Mayesbrook area of Dagenham. Despite her clear refusal, he raped her twice, subjected her to a violent beating, and administered a noxious substance. He also threatened to kill her and engaged in controlling coercive behaviour. The victim escaped by jumping from a ground floor window, collapsing in the street where members of the public called police and assisted her. She was hospitalized and supported by specialist officers. Oshodi was arrested on 12 July 2023 and remanded in custody.

On Sunday 16 July 2023, Sam Price met a woman in Romford and exchanged details with her. Within days, he began a sustained period of intimidation and abuse lasting seven days. He prevented her from leaving her home, punched her repeatedly, bit her, subjected her to various other attacks and threats, and raped her. The victim called a friend after Price left, leading to police notification. Officers collected CCTV evidence, witness and victim statements, resulting in Price's arrest on 26 July 2023 at his address in Central Park Avenue, Dagenham.

Talukdar began sexually abusing the victim in 1998 when she was just eight years old in Tower Hamlets, east London. Specialist officers began investigating in 2020. Despite having no DNA evidence or recent witness accounts, officers carried out extensive interviews with friends and family of the victim, gathered detailed medical records to show the extent of abuse, and obtained notes from the victim's counselling sessions.

Hamza Nasir, of Pembroke Road in Ilford, committed two rapes. The first occurred on January 23, 2022, when he met a woman in a car park outside a nightclub in Basildon, offered her a ride to a party, but instead drove to an alleyway near Newbury Park underground station where he raped her and fled. The second took place on March 15, 2023, after he arranged to meet a teenage girl he had befriended on Snapchat at a home in Goodmayes, where he raped her; she escaped and sought help. Nasir was identified through hotel records and Snapchat images, arrested, and linked to both crimes via DNA evidence.

Hafiz Ahmad, 29, of Redbridge, carried out a campaign of abuse against a woman starting in 2018, which included raping her on four occasions and making threats to kill. The woman reported the incidents to the police on November 13, 2020, leading to his arrest the following day at his house. The abuse involved multiple attacks, and text messages showed the woman confronting him about the assaults.

On 25 June 2023, a 34-year-old woman became separated from her friends during a night out in Hornchurch town centre. She was alone in a bar when approached by Rinor Korqa and Bujar Jashari, who took her to a car and drove away. Jashari recorded the rape of the victim inside the car by Korqa on his phone. The suspects were identified through CCTV and ANPR data after bar staff assisted police.

On 25 June 2023, a 34-year-old woman became separated from her friends during a night out in Hornchurch town centre. She was alone in a bar when approached by Rinor Korqa and Bujar Jashari, who took her to a car and drove away. Korqa raped the victim inside the car while Jashari recorded the attack on his phone. The suspects were identified through CCTV and ANPR data after bar staff assisted police.

Robert MacLennan, a 70-year-old groundskeeper at a primary school in Islington, raped and indecently assaulted a female child in the mid-1980s. The abuse occurred over approximately two years while he lived on the school site. The victim reported the offences in March 2021, leading to his arrest in April 2021. He was charged in May 2022 following witness accounts and went on trial, where he was convicted on 28 September 2023.

On 6 March 1999, Abdul Basith targeted a woman in her 20s as she tried to get a taxi home from Leicester Square. He offered to drive her despite her lack of funds. During the journey, he stopped in a small car park and assaulted her. He resumed driving, stopped again near Bethnal Green, locked the doors, and raped and indecently assaulted her despite her resistance. He then released her and drove off. The victim was found distressed and reported the incident, but the case went cold until a 2020 DNA match.

On March 4, 2023, Richard Summers, under the influence of cocaine, entered his ex-partner's bedroom in Highbury and forced her to have sex with him. He punched her repeatedly in the face and hit her over the head with a glass ashtray during the assault. The victim fought back but escaped only when Summers fell asleep. She was seen injured and in distress at a pub in Highbury Barn, leading to police involvement.

On 25 April 2019, Roderick Deakin-White, 38, battered his girlfriend the victim, 34, to death in the shower of their apartment in Crowder Street, Whitechapel, east London, using a metal 'chin up' bar after she told him she was leaving him for another man due to his cross-dressing fetish. He struck her repeatedly over the head, causing her to collapse in a pool of blood. Deakin-White then attempted suicide by wading into the Thames but was persuaded to turn himself in to police, admitting 'I'm a f***ing murderer.' Officers found the victim still in the bath. The attack followed an eight-year relationship strained by his fetish and her affair with work colleague James Saunders. A neighbour heard screams lasting 2-3 minutes.