Southwark Crown Court Sentencing Results

Explore 257 verdicts at Southwark Crown Court (London). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

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Mandip Sidhu

Illegal supply of controlled drugs *

Sentence

2 years imprisonment, suspended for 24 months

Mandip Sidhu, 47, from Littleover, Derby, illegally supplied over 55 million Class C controlled drugs, including 47 million diazepam tablets, over four years. PHL stopped lawful prescriptions in July 2013 but continued acquiring millions of controlled tablets, diverting them to the black market. Forged invoices and falsified documents were used to deceive MHRA inspectors.

Admitted to five counts of illegal drug supply and one of forgery. Director of Pharmaceutical Health Limited (PHL) in Derby. Operation involved repeated and systematic breaches of controlled drug laws from May 2013 to June 2017, including forged invoices and falsified documents.

1 Jan 0001

Jan Ahmed

Fire safety offences *

Sentence

38 days custody suspended for 6 months, 100 hours unpaid work, £2,000 prosecution costs

Jan Ahmed, leaseholder of premises above a barber’s shop in Wembley, housed a family of five including three children in a cramped attic in a house of multiple occupation. The property had numerous fire safety failings including poor loft conversion, hole in landing, no fire alarm or firefighting equipment, no safe emergency exits from loft via steep unstable staircase and trapdoor without proper handle, non-fire doors with gaps, no emergency lighting, unprotected electrical mains switch box, hole in ceiling between landing and loft, and no fire risk assessment. Offences occurred in January 2015.

Pleaded guilty to 10 offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

1 Jan 0001

Junie Bowers

Conspiracy to defraud *

Sentence

11 years imprisonment

Andrew Skeene and Junie Bowers deceived around 2,000 investors worldwide through Global Forestry Investments (GFI), presenting it as a secure ethical investment scheme to protect the Amazon rainforest and support local communities, but enriched themselves with investors' savings and pensions totalling £37 million. They paid £13 million of investors’ money into their bank accounts and used an intricate web of money transfers, forged documents and invented identities to scam pensioners and savers.

Found guilty on three counts of conspiracy to defraud and one count of misconduct while winding up a company. Directors later disqualified by the Insolvency Service.

1 Jan 0001

Larry Barreto

Fraud by false representation *

Sentence

two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years, with 120 hours of unpaid work

Between 2015 and 2018, Barreto gave advice in return for a fee, without the necessary FCA authorisation, to people looking to take out residential mortgages. In the eleven cases, he dishonestly inflated the applicant’s income in their application to the lender. Barreto then paid Hussain, who created false self-employment and employment documentation including fake HMRC documents, false contracts of employment and payslips. The total value of the mortgages applied for was around £3 million.

Pleaded guilty to eleven counts of fraud by false representation, and two counts of carrying on regulated activities without authorisation. Judge Cole commented: “You are guilty of systematic mortgage fraud” and have “abused your position”. Aged 68.

1 Jan 0001

Daniel Ramzi

Theft *

Sentence

14 months imprisonment

Daniel Ramzi, 26, with no fixed address, and Abderrahim Mamma stole phones and laptops from unsuspecting victims in London's financial district. Incidents included snatching a phone from a coat pocket at a Bishopsgate fast-food joint on January 15, stealing a laptop from a bag at a licensed venue on Gracechurch Street, lifting another laptop over a barrier at Leadenhall Market caught on CCTV, and targeting a pub on Old Broad Street on January 21 where Ramzi was filmed swapping bags twice.

Admitted to four counts of theft.

1 Jan 0001

Dd

Fraud *

Sentence

Not stated

DD admitted 2 counts of fraud dating back 6 years, causing a loss of over £600,000. He informed the victims he was using their money to purchase carbon credits when in fact he was funding his high level drug misuse.

Admitted 2 counts of fraud; careful mitigation reduced the sentence to one below the Guideline figure.

1 Jan 0001

Andrew Skeene

Conspiracy to defraud *

Sentence

11 years imprisonment

Found guilty on three counts of conspiracy to defraud and one count of misconduct while winding up a company. Directors later disqualified by the Insolvency Service.

1 Jan 0001

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Southwark Crown Court, located in London, is a Crown Court that handles serious criminal cases including murder, rape, robbery, and other indictable offences. With 257 sentencing records in our database, it is one of the Crown Courts serving the London area. Crown Courts sit with a judge and jury, and have the power to impose the full range of sentences available under UK law.

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