Woolwich Crown Court Sentencing Results

On December 10, 2024, a 16-year-old boy spotted Abdul Kieta attempting to climb his garden fence on John Street, Rochester. When the boy tried to ride away on his bike, Kieta, with Orion Parks, Raheem Ruhambira, and a 17-year-old accomplice, gave chase and brutally stabbed the teen multiple times before fleeing, leaving a knife behind at the scene.

On December 6, 2023, a ULEZ camera was installed at the junction of White Oak Gardens and Willersley Avenue in Sidcup, southeast London. Later that day, Stephen Harwood-Stamper, 63, of Horsham, West Sussex, drove to the location and used an angle grinder to cut down the pole supporting the camera. The camera was later destroyed by an improvised explosive device, but this was not linked to the defendant. He was interviewed by counter-terrorism police and apologised in a letter to the court for the public shame caused to his family.

Simon Hancock, a 47-year-old van driver from Dartford, drove 20 miles to Maidstone on February 19, 2025, with the intention of meeting and sexually abusing a teenage boy he had groomed online via apps including Snapchat. He sent obscene images of himself to the minor, knowing they were underage, and offered to teach sexual practices. Upon arrival, he was observed circling a car park next to Mote Park, leading to police intervention. He reversed into an unmarked police car and was detained. A kitchen knife and two phones were seized, one containing indecent images of children.

Mark Weatherley returned to his address in Sidcup, on 29 June 2025, during a police response to a disturbance. He became threatening and abusive towards two female Met police officers, resisted arrest, and violently attacked them by punching and stamping, knocking both unconscious and causing severe injuries including multiple facial fractures, a broken nose, and other wounds. More officers intervened to stop the assault and arrest him. In custody, he remained aggressive and expressed no remorse, stating the officers deserved the attack.

Ismael Watson was arrested in London in September 2024 after failing to comply with notification requirements imposed when he was released from a five-year sentence for terrorism offences. He failed to provide his home address or contact details for four separate mobile numbers to the authorities. Watson had previously been convicted in 2017 for attempting to enter Syria to fight with Islamic State in 2016.

Robert Talland, 59, from Waltham Abbey, managed his children's neo-Nazi band Embers Of An Empire and was a leading figure in the Blood & Honour network. He organised a gig at the Corpus Christi Club in Leeds on September 21, 2019, where performers incited racial hatred through songs with lyrics such as 'hope you’re ready to die' and 'we’ll send them back in a box', prompting the audience to make Nazi salutes. The event featured neo-Nazi symbolism and was a memorial for Ian Stuart Donaldson. He also ran Rampage Productions, distributing CDs with racist and antisemitic content. The family was arrested on October 1, 2020, after a year-long investigation.

Troy Frith assaulted a man in the car park of Sainsbury’s Local in St John’s Road, Tunbridge Wells, after becoming impatient while waiting for a family to remove a child seat from a car. Despite other parking spaces being available, he punched the victim once, causing serious head injuries. The incident occurred on April 27, and the victim was taken to hospital.

Geoffrey Dolamore, a former teacher and children's charity director, sexually abused three young boys between 1970 and 1972. He abused his positions of trust in relation to two of the victims, grooming them and preying on their vulnerabilities, and sexually assaulted them on multiple occasions. He also made indecent images of children.

Martin Asolo-Ogugua, a 23-year-old bus driver from Banfield Road, Southwark, fell asleep at the wheel after consuming cannabis the night before. On August 3, he mounted the pavement on Watling Street near Halcot Avenue in Bexleyheath, colliding with two children, one of whom was the 9-year-old victim on her bike. This resulted in the victim's death after she was rushed to hospital. The victim's family sustained minor injuries by jumping out of the way.

Fitzgerald Carty attacked a victim at a petrol station in Lee High Road, Lewisham on 25 January 2025, grabbing him around the throat and attempting to stab him with a large knife. A police officer intervened, disarmed and restrained Carty until further officers arrived. The victim, aged in his 40s, was not injured. Carty knew the victim and the attack stemmed from a previous dispute.

On February 28, 2022, the victim was leaving Strood railway station via an underpass to Station Road while on his mobile phone with his children. Louis Carter, a stranger, accosted him with verbal abuse that escalated into threats as they walked towards Commercial Road. The victim punched Carter in self-defence, leading to a violent struggle in which Carter bit off a significant portion of the victim's ear before fleeing. The incident was captured on mobile phone footage by two children and CCTV from the railway station. Carter was arrested on May 18th.

The 23-year-old from Kingston, South West London, serving in the British Army, collected sensitive information including a handwritten list of names of personnel from the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service, some of which he forged, and passed it to Iranian agents for cash payments. He told handlers he would stay in the military for 25-plus years for them. In September 2023, he escaped from HMP Wandsworth by clinging to the underside of a food delivery truck and was caught days later on a canal towpath by a plainclothes detective. He had contacted MI5 and MI6 to become a double agent but was ignored.

On December 10, 2023, Ruhambira and three others attacked a 16-year-old boy at his home in Rochester, chasing and stabbing him multiple times after he tried to flee on his bike. Victim hospitalized in London for three days.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon breached a High Court order made in 2021 by knowingly repeating false allegations against the victim, a Syrian refugee who had successfully sued him for libel. The breaches included publishing a film titled Silenced containing the libellous claims, repeating the allegations in interviews between February and June 2023, and playing the film at a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in summer 2023. These actions violated an injunction stemming from a 2018 incident where the victim was assaulted at school, and Yaxley-Lennon falsely claimed the victim had attacked girls, leading to the original libel case.

On 15 April 2021, a woman buying a property in Hertfordshire was tricked by fraudsters into transferring £70,500 to a business account controlled by Kimberley Abdul via a fake email from her solicitor's office. Abdul then moved the funds to another account and made purchases totalling more than £900 with some of the cash.

Antony Gjergji was arrested on 4 January 2024 as officers executed a search warrant at a property in Gravesend. Officers located a false wall leading to a basement containing over 1,000 cultivated cannabis plants.