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Ex-soldier Daniel Khalife jailed for prison escape and spying for Iran
Former soldier Daniel Khalife was jailed for 14 years and three months …
Drive-by gunman who fired on mourners at wake jailed for life
A gunman who opened fire at gang rivals attending a wake was jailed …
Couple jailed for killing and dismembering woman
A double murderer who killed a woman and dumped her dismembered body …
A double murderer who killed a woman and dumped her dismembered body has been jailed for the rest of his life.
Builder Steve Sansom was out of prison on life licence …when he killed Sarah Mayhew, a 38-year-old mother-of-two, and disposed of her remains in different locations around south London.
Sansom, 45, who murdered a taxi driver in 1998, and his partner Gemma Watts, 49, both admitted murder and also perverting the course of justice by dismembering Ms Mayhew’s body.
Mrs Justice Cutts sentenced Samson to a whole-life order, which means he will never be released from prison. Watts, 49, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 30 years.
Sentencing the pair, Mrs Justice Cutts said Ms Mayhew’s “greatest misfortune was to know the two of you”.
This video has been edited to remove extreme language.
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-sansom-and-watt/
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Grandson of pie company tycoon jailed for murdering friend
The grandson of a pie company tycoon who killed his best friend in a …
The grandson of a pie company tycoon who killed his best friend in a “frenzied attack” on Christmas Eve was jailed for at least 19 years.
Dylan Thomas, 24, killed William …Bush, 23, at the property they shared in the Llandaff area of Cardiff in December 2023.
Thomas had admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility but denied Mr Bush’s murder. He was found guilty of the more serious charge following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.
Mr Bush sustained 37 stab wounds in total, including 21 to the neck, after Thomas used two knives – a kitchen knife and flick knife – in the attack.
Thomas, who the trial heard has schizophrenia, had claimed in the immediate aftermath of the attack that he was acting in self-defence.
He is the grandson of Sir Stanley Thomas, the founder of Peter’s Pies, a company based in South Wales.
Imposing a life sentence with a minimum term of 19 years, the judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, said Thomas murdered Mr Bush in a “sustained and ferocious knife attack”.
She said Mr Bush was “senselessly murdered and deprived of many, many decades of a happy and fulfilling life”.
“The sentence I will pass is not intended as a measure of the value of Will’s life, that is beyond measure,” she added.
She said the “frenzied attack” was persistent in nature and “must have terrified the deceased and caused him great pain and distress”.
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/rex-v-dylan-thomas/
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Mother jailed for 10 years over sons' house fire death
A mother whose four young boys died in a house fire after she went to …
A mother whose four young boys died in a house fire after she went to a supermarket was jailed for 10 years.
Deveca Rose, 30, was found guilty of the manslaughter …of her two sets of twins, Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four.
The four children died after a discarded cigarette or upturned tea light sparked a blaze at the family house in Collingwood Road, Sutton, south London.
During a trial at the Old Bailey, jurors were told that Rose had left the children alone in the property, where there was “rubbish thickly spread throughout the house”, while she visited a nearby supermarket in December 2021.
The front door was locked at the time of the fire and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors were either not working or were out of battery.
Rose arrived home while firefighters were still tackling the blaze, and claimed she left the children with a friend called Jade. Police concluded she either did not exist or was not at the property that day.
Passing sentence, the Recorder of London, Judge Mark Lucraft KC, said: “There are no words to describe this case other than a deeply tragic one.”
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/rex-v-deveca-rose/
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Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana locked up for at least 52 years
Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 …
Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years and told it was “highly likely” he will never be released.
The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to murdering Alice da …Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
Rudakubana also admitted trying to murder eight other children, as well as instructor Leanne Lucas and businessman John Hayes, in July 2024.
Police arrested Rudakubana inside the Hart Space venue as he stood over a body, still holding the knife.
Officers later found a plastic kitchen box containing the toxin ricin under his bed in the village of Banks, Lancashire, along with other weapons, including a machete and arrows, and a PDF file that contained an al Qaeda training manual.
The judge, Mr Justice Goose, gave him 13 life sentences and said if Rudakubana had been 18 at the time of the attack he would have received a whole-life term – meaning no possibility of release.
He said the killings had caused “shock and revulsion” to the nation and Rudakubana would have killed all 26 children at the class if he’d been able.
Rudakubana had initially denied the charges, along with further offences of knife possession, producing ricin and possessing information useful for terrorism, but changed his pleas to guilty on the day he was due to go on trial.
He was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court, but was not present for the judge’s remarks after telling his lawyer he would be “disruptive” during proceedings.
During sentencing earlier in the day he was twice ordered out of the dock after shouting that he “felt ill”.
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The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-axel-rudakubana/
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Nazi-obsessed terrorist jailed for trying to murder asylum seeker
A Nazi-obsessed man has been jailed for attempted murder after he …
A Nazi-obsessed man has been jailed for attempted murder after he stabbed an asylum seeker in a terrorist attack.
Callum Parslow, 32, knifed the man at a Worcestershire hotel as a …“protest” against small boat crossings.
The victim, Nahom Hagos, from Eritrea, said it was a “miracle” he survived after being stabbed in the chest and hand.
Parslow has Hitler’s signature tattooed on his arm and used a £770 knife he had bought online to attack Mr Hagos when he was eating in the conservatory of the Pear Tree Inn at Hindlip.
He was convicted of attempted murder following a Leicester Crown Court, having earlier admitted possessing a bladed article. Parslow was also sentenced for two offences involving malicious communications, to which he had also pleaded guilty.
During a sentencing hearing at Woolwich Crown Court, he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.
The judge, Mr Justice Dove, told Parslow: “You committed a vicious and unprovoked assault on a complete stranger Nahom Hagos who suffered devastating injuries as a result of your violence.”
The judge also said Parslow, from Worcester, was “motivated by your adoption of a far-right neo-Nazi mindset which fuelled your warped, violent and racist views”, and added: “This was undoubtedly a terrorist attack.”
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-callum-ulysses-parslow/
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Satanist neo-Nazi jailed for encouraging suicide online
A teenage neo-Nazi satanist who was caught with terrorism material and …
A teenage neo-Nazi satanist who was caught with terrorism material and encouraged suicide online was jailed for six years.
Cameron Finnigan, 19, from Horsham, West Sussex, joined a pseudo-satanist group in …late 2023 and told one girl to kill herself “for me” on video so he could share it in the group’s online chat.
Finnegan also told the group, named 764, that he was preparing to attack a homeless person living in a tent near his family home.
Police never found evidence of an attempt to kill the person, but a picture of the tent was found in a chat alongside a message from the defendant that said “I’m waiting”.
Finnigan, who is autistic, also accessed an 11-page terrorist document which provided advice on how to carry out “truck attacks”, giving instructions on the type of vehicle and ideal targets.
He was arrested in March last year before he pleaded guilty to five charges, including possessing a document for terrorism purposes and an act capable of encouraging or assisting suicide.
He also admitted to having indecent images of a child and two counts of criminal damage.
At a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey Finnigan was sentenced to a six-year prison term with a three-year extended licence period after the judge, Mr Justice Jay, said he posed “a high risk of serious harm to the public”.
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The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-cameron-finnigan/
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Boyfriend jailed for abusing partner before she took her life
An abusive boyfriend whose girlfriend blamed him for her death in a …
An abusive boyfriend whose girlfriend blamed him for her death in a suicide note after he subjected her to years of violence was been jailed for six-and-a-half years
Ryan Wellings, 30, …was found guilty of controlling and coercive behaviour and assault but was cleared of Kiena Dawes’s manslaughter by a jury at Preston Crown Court.
He was the first defendant in England to face trial for the unlawful killing of his partner after her suicide following domestic violence.
Shortly after Ms Dawes wrote her note on her phone, in which she described Wellings as a “monster”, the 23-year-old hairdresser, from Fleetwood in Lancashire, left it with a friend before she took her own life in July 2022.
Wellings was also sentenced for a further count of assault on his former friend Scott Fletcher, an offence to which he had previously pleaded guilty.
The Recorder of Preston, Judge Robert Altham said Ms Dawes was “a popular, vivacious, friendly and kind young woman”.
He told Wellings: “She pleaded with you to stop hitting her, but you just carried on. You tried to persuade her that it was her fault for upsetting you.”
Ms Dawes had attempted suicide in the past, before her relationship with Wellings, and lawyers for Wellings told the court her death was because of “multiple factors”.
The judge said the defendant was aware of Ms Dawes’s history of mental health issues, he “called her names connected with her illness” and “repeatedly told her that she may as well kill herself”.
However, he said his sentence was based on the jury’s conclusion that the defendant had “no criminal responsibility” for Kiena’s death.
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The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/rex-v-ryan-wellings/
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Prison officer jailed over sex with inmate
A prison officer filmed having sex with an inmate was jailed for 15 …
Whole life sentence for triple killer who murdered neighbour
A triple killer who beat his neighbour to death after serving a jail …
A triple killer who beat his neighbour to death after serving a jail term for a previous slaying was handed a whole life sentence.
Brian Whitelock, 57, attacked Wendy Buckney with …a kitchen knife, a broken table leg and wooden shelving during a sustained assault in her own home.
The pensioner was discovered, naked and covered in blood, in the living room of her home in Clydach, near Swansea, in August 2022.
Whitelock had previously jailed for life in 2001 for murder and manslaughter but was released from prison in 2018.
He was convicted of Ms Buckney’s murder following a trial at Swansea Crown Court.
Passing sentence, the judge, Mr Justice Griffiths, said: “This a case of the most extreme gravity.
“I have no doubt that the seriousness of this murder is so exceptionally high that just punishment requires you to be kept in prison for the rest of your life.
“Therefore, the early release provisions will not apply and you will never be considered for parole.”
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The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-brian-whitelock/
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Teens detained for life over mistaken identity murder
Four teenagers who murdered two boys in Bristol in a case of mistaken …
Four teenagers who murdered two boys in Bristol in a case of mistaken identity were detained for life.
Riley Tolliver, 18, and Kodishai Westcott, 17, along with a a 16-year-old boy, …who cannot be identified, were convicted of the murders of Mason Rist, 15, and 16-year-old Max Dixon in November.
A 15-year-old boy was also found guilty of the murder of Max after previously pleading guilty to the murder of Mason.
All four were sentenced to be detained at His Majesty’s pleasure – the juvenile equivalent of a life sentence – during a hearing at Bristol Crown Court.
Tolliver and Westcott were told they will serve minimum terms of 24 years in custody – less time spent on remand – while the 16-year-old will serve at least 19 years and the 15-year-old 16-and-a-half years.
The judge, Mrs Justice May, told them: “The boys you killed were Mason Rist and Max Dixon. They were your age. They had done nothing wrong.”
Getaway driver Anthony Snook, 45, was jailed for life at an earlier hearing and told he will serve a minimum term of 38 years.
The group wrongly believed their victims, who had gone out to get pizza, had attacked Westcott’s house, in the Hartcliffe area of the city, with bricks earlier the same evening.
Max and Mason were chased and attacked with weapons, including machetes, a bat, and a sword.
The boys suffered “instant severe blood loss” after being stabbed and died of their wounds later that night in the Knowle West area.
The fatal attack was captured by a CCTV camera on Mason’s house and lasted just 33 seconds.
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-kodi-shai-westcott-and-others/
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