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Mother and ex-boyfriend jailed for total of 27 years over death of boy, 4
A mother’s ex-boyfriend has been jailed for the manslaughter of her young son, as she was imprisoned for allowing him to be physically abused.
Scott O’Connor, 36, was sentenced to 18 …years’ imprisonment and a five-year extended licence period, and the boy’s mother, Zoe Coutts, 35, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
Kol Page was subjected to escalating violence while in the couple’s care in April 2022, and died aged four in June 2024 as a result of the injuries he sustained two years earlier.
Prosecutors said the injuries inflicted on Kol by O’Connor were of the force “seen in a serious road traffic accident or a fall from a height onto a hard object”.
Jurors cleared the couple of murder but convicted Coutts of causing or allowing the death of a child, and O’Connor, her boyfriend at the time, of manslaughter.
Passing sentence at Southwark Crown Court, Mr Justice Johnson said O’Connor had carried out a “deliberate intentional assault” on an “innocent and defenceless two-year-old boy”.
The judge told him: “You struck a two-year-old child with sufficient force to tear internal tissues and cause catastrophic bleeding.
“You have shown no remorse, no insight and no acceptance of responsibility.”
Sentencing Coutts, the judge told her: “You must have known that the injuries were inflicted by Scott O’Connor.
“Instead of protecting Kol from O’Connor, you continued to live with him.
“Instead of taking Kol to receive the medical attention that he so obviously needed, you went to watch a football match with Scott O’Connor.”
The judge told the pair: “Each of you continues to deny responsibility, each blames the other.
“Neither of you has shown any remorse.”
This video has been edited to remove disturbances from the public gallery.
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Mother and ex-boyfriend jailed for total of 27 years over death of boy, 4
A mother’s ex-boyfriend has been jailed for the manslaughter of her …
A mother’s ex-boyfriend has been jailed for the manslaughter of her young son, as she was imprisoned for allowing him to be physically abused.
Scott O’Connor, 36, was sentenced to 18 …years’ imprisonment and a five-year extended licence period, and the boy’s mother, Zoe Coutts, 35, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
Kol Page was subjected to escalating violence while in the couple’s care in April 2022, and died aged four in June 2024 as a result of the injuries he sustained two years earlier.
Prosecutors said the injuries inflicted on Kol by O’Connor were of the force “seen in a serious road traffic accident or a fall from a height onto a hard object”.
Jurors cleared the couple of murder but convicted Coutts of causing or allowing the death of a child, and O’Connor, her boyfriend at the time, of manslaughter.
Passing sentence at Southwark Crown Court, Mr Justice Johnson said O’Connor had carried out a “deliberate intentional assault” on an “innocent and defenceless two-year-old boy”.
The judge told him: “You struck a two-year-old child with sufficient force to tear internal tissues and cause catastrophic bleeding.
“You have shown no remorse, no insight and no acceptance of responsibility.”
Sentencing Coutts, the judge told her: “You must have known that the injuries were inflicted by Scott O’Connor.
“Instead of protecting Kol from O’Connor, you continued to live with him.
“Instead of taking Kol to receive the medical attention that he so obviously needed, you went to watch a football match with Scott O’Connor.”
The judge told the pair: “Each of you continues to deny responsibility, each blames the other.
“Neither of you has shown any remorse.”
This video has been edited to remove disturbances from the public gallery.
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Woman jailed for murdering sister and taking Rolex
A woman who stabbed her film director sister to death before stealing …
A woman who stabbed her film director sister to death before stealing her Rolex watch was jailed for at least 22 years.
Nancy Pexton, 70, fatally attacked Jennifer Abbot Dauward, 69, …in her north London home in June 2025.
The victim, who also went by the name Sarah Steinberg, was found dead on the floor of her Camden flat with gaffer tape covering her mouth after a neighbour broke down the door.
Pexton was arrested five days later, and the diamond-encrusted gold Rolex was found in her bag.
Passing sentence at the Old Bailey, Judge Anuja Dhir KC told Pexton that she was sure she intended to kill her sister, given the “ferocity” of the attack.
She said: “Your actions and conduct after the killing demonstrates not only your absence of remorse but also a deliberate and callous attitude towards what you had done.”
The judge said that taping up her sister’s mouth was a “deliberate act of degradation” which was “callous, demeaning and cruel”.
She added: “This act demonstrates the depth of your animosity and hostility towards your sister.
“You took the watch because it was valuable and because you were jealous of your sister’s greater financial security.”
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-nancy-pexton/
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Teens detained for killing man they branded a paedophile
Three teenagers who lured a man they believed to be a paedophile to a …
Three teenagers who lured a man they believed to be a paedophile to a beach, then chased and killed him, were sentenced to a total of 19 years in custody.
A …16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 15 and 16, were convicted of manslaughter over the killing of Alexander Cashford in Leysdown-on-Sea, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, in August 2025.
At the Old Bailey the two 16-year-old defendants were jailed for seven years and the 15-year-old boy was jailed for five years over the killing.
The trial at Woolwich Crown Court heard the teenagers thought Mr Cashford, 49, was a paedophile and lured him to the beach before hitting him with rocks and a bottle. He was found lying face down in the mud.
Jurors were told the victim had given the girl his number after meeting her at an amusement arcade and had handed her a business card, which included a name that was not his.
The three teenagers exchanged messages with Mr Cashford, who claimed to be 30. He asked the girl, who used the alias Sienna, if she liked champagne and added that he wanted to kiss her, the court heard.
After arranging to meet by the sea wall, the older boy said he attacked the victim because he felt police “wouldn’t have done anything” if they reported him for trying to meet up with the girl.
The older boy accepted he wanted to use a bottle he was carrying to hurt the victim, but said he did not believe it would cause serious injury.
The girl and the younger male defendant said there was never a plan to hit Mr Cashford.
Sentencing the trio, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she accepted it started out as a “bit of mischief”, but turned into “dangerous misconduct which risked and ultimately took a man’s life”.
The teenagers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were acquitted of murder following a trial.
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-s-t-and-o/
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Life sentence for man who raped woman in her home
A man who raped a Sikh woman in her home while subjecting her to a …
A man who raped a Sikh woman in her home while subjecting her to a tirade of religiously aggravated abuse was jailed for at least 14 years.
John Ashby, 32, beat …the woman – in her 20s – with a stick, while also shouting anti-Muslim abuse, wrongly believing her to be of that faith.
At Birmingham Crown Court, the judge, Mr Justice Pepperall, described Ashby as a “deeply unpleasant racist and Islamophobe”.
Ashby had been on trial for rape, robbery, intentional strangulation and religiously aggravated assault, but changed his pleas shortly before the victim was due to give evidence.
He followed the victim – a stranger – as she got off a bus in Walsall in October 2025.
After the woman reached her home, Ashby, without her knowledge, also entered the property, armed with a two-foot stick he had picked up from the ground.
Imposing a life sentence with a minimum term of 14 years, the judge said Ashby, of no fixed address, had held the woman against her will “as you sexually and physically assaulted her for at least 24 minutes”.
The judge referred in his sentencing remarks to how Ashby, as the court heard on Monday, was arrested in the Perry Barr area of Birmingham two days after the attack, and when booked into a police station there, stated “you never see any Englishmen in Perry Barr anymore”.
He also said to Ashby: “On being shown a photograph of the woman during your police interview, you asked why she wasn’t wearing a hijab.”
This video has been edited to remove extreme language and graphic descriptions of sexual offences.
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-john-ashby/
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Conviction quashed for church warden jailed over murder of university lecturer
A former church warden who was jailed for life for the murder of a …
A former church warden who was jailed for life for the murder of a university lecturer had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Benjamin Field had been accused of …seducing, defrauding and trying to drive 69-year-old Peter Farquhar to suicide. Farquhar was found dead in his home in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, in October 2015.
Field was jailed for at least 36 years in 2019.
Prosecutors claimed during a trial at Oxford Crown Court that Field had driven Mr Farquhar to believe he was losing his mind to inherit his house and money, lacing his food and whisky with tranquilliser drugs to confuse him in the hope that his eventual death would look like suicide or an accident.
Before the trial, Field admitted two counts of burglary and three of fraud after fraudulently being in relationships with both Mr Farquhar and his neighbour, fellow pensioner Ann Moore-Martin, as part of a plan to get them to change their wills. He was cleared of conspiring or attempting to murder Miss Moore-Martin.
After Mr Farquhar’s death, Field inherited half his home and bought a flat in Towcester, which he was forced to sell in 2023 to pay compensation to the families of Mr Farquhar and Ms Moore-Martin, who died from natural causes in May 2017.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred Mr Field’s conviction to the Court of Appeal last year.
Field’s lawyer argued at a hearing in March that there was “no evidence” that Mr Farquhar was “forced or deceived” into taking the whisky or medication.
In their ruling, three senior judges quashed Field’s conviction and ordered a retrial, saying the jurors at trial had “not been properly directed” and the directions given to them on how to reach a verdict were “defective”.
Lord Justice Edis, who heard the case alongside Mr Justice Goose and Mr Justice Butcher, said: “The fact that the appellant secretly intended that Mr Farquhar should die did not change the act or, in law, mean that Mr Farquhar’s decision to drink whisky was not free, deliberate and informed.
“There was no evidence that the appellant had ‘administered’ the alcohol.”
He continued: “The directions effectively withdrew from the jury the question of whether Mr Farquhar’s decision to drink the whisky had been voluntary.”
The judge said that the Crown Prosecution Service should take the “unusual case” to the Supreme Court before any retrial.
Field will remain in prison “for so long as the appeal [to the Supreme Court] is pending”, Lord Justice Edis said.
Alongside the life sentence for Mr Farquhar’s murder, Field was handed a concurrent 16-year jail sentence for fraud and burglary offences.
The case was the topic of a BBC drama, called The Sixth Commandment, starring Timothy Spall and Eanna Hardwicke.
The judgment of the court can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/benjamin-field-v-r/
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Life sentence for murderer who left deaf woman to die
A killer who fatally attacked a deaf woman and left her to die was …
A killer who fatally attacked a deaf woman and left her to die was jailed for at least 16-and-a-half years.
Duane Owusu, 36, set upon Zahwa Mukhtar, 27, following a night …out in east London in August 2025.
Owusu – nicknamed “Nasty” by friends – attacked Mukhtar after forcing her out of an overcrowded Mercedes in Romford. Mukhtar had never met Owusu or his group before joining them for the evening.
They had been searching for rave they had been told about in Stoke Newington but were unable to find it and decided to head to an address in Dagenham instead.
During the car journey there, Ms Mukhtar ppeared “flirtatious” and “erratic and quite wild” on the journey, during which she sat on Owusu’s knee.
Her behaviour caused tension, particularly with two women in the car and an argument escalated into a physical confrontation after the car stopped near a garage and spilled out into the road.
The situation briefly calmed and the group got back into the car, but the dispute reignited when Mukhtar started filming on her phone.
Owusu told the driver to pull over, deciding Mukhtar should be forced out. He grabbed her phone and threw it into the road and, when the car stopped, opened the door and pushed her out.
He then kicked towards her as she lay on the floor on Chadwell Heath Lane.
Another passenger in the car stepped between them in an attempt to protect Mukhtar, but Owusu pushed her aside and struck Mukhtar with a forceful blow to the neck.
This caused her to fall backwards and hit her head and she was pronounced dead at the scene later that morning, having suffered a fractured skull and brain injury.
Owusu denied murder but was convicted following a trial at the Old Bailey.
Sentencing him to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 16-and-a-half years, the Common Serjeant of London, Judge Richard Marks KC, told him: “It was absolutely clear the only person about whom you were in any way concerned at the time was yourself.
“I accept that you did not know that she was gravely injured nor indeed that the injuries were so severe as to be unrecoverable but the point is that you couldn’t have cared less.”
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-duane-owusu/
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Ex-police officer jailed for misconduct and sexual assault
A former police officer who sexually assaulted a woman while …
A former police officer who sexually assaulted a woman while investigating a crime she reported was jailed for three years.
Patrick Banks, 42, a detective constable at West Yorkshire Police, asked …the woman to translate suggestive messages for him while groping and smelling her hair.
He also brought presents for the woman’s children, sent her messages from his personal phone and visited her when he was off duty – despite claiming he was at work.
Banks, who resigned in 2025, had been assigned to investigate after the single mother complained to police she had been the victim of a sexual assault in Leeds in April 2025.
He also had inappropriate contact with a second woman, who had also reported a sexual assault to West Yorkshire Police.
He admitted two counts of misconduct in a public office and one of sexual assault and was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court.
Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said: “It is a particularly aggravating feature of this case that you grotesquely abused your position as a police officer whilst working in the safeguarding unit of the West Yorkshire Police when you were supposed to be investigating sexual crimes perpetrated upon vulnerable women.
“You were unhampered by scruples of any kind and your serious misconduct eclipsed your professional duty.”
He added: “This form of corrosive conduct must, therefore, be punished with severity.”
Banks was also handed a seven-year restraining order, preventing him from contacting either of his victims, and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-patrick-aaron-banks/
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Double killer handed whole life order by appeal judges
A double killer who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to death while on …
A double killer who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to death while on licence for a previous murder conviction was given a whole life order after Court of Appeal judges ruled …his sentence was unduly lenient.
Alana Odysseos, 32, died outside her flat in Walthamstow, east London, after being attacked with a kitchen knife in July 2024.
Shaine March, 47, of Surrey Quays, south-east London, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years in October 2025.
Solicitor General Ellie Reeves had referred his sentence to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
In the ruling, Lord Justice Edis, sitting with Mr Justice Cavanagh and Judge Alice Robinson, said: “The sentence was unduly lenient.
“We quash it, and we quash the minimum term order that the judge made, and substitute in its place a whole life order, which means that the offender will never be released.”
March had been released from prison on a life licence in 2013 after fatally stabbing Andre Drummond, 17, in January 2000.
He initially admitted Odysseos’s manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility and denied murder, but pleaded guilty partway through the trial.
Tom Little KC, for the solicitor general, told the Court of Appeal in written submissions the couple had been in a relationship for about four months, during which time March attacked her and stopped her from talking to family and friends.
They also argued about her pregnancy, including in the hours before the murder, with Odysseos heard to say: “I don’t want to kill my baby.”
She was later seen outside the property, bleeding from multiple stab wounds and March walked away as she died on the ground, despite the efforts of police and paramedics.
Sandip Patel KC, for March, told the Court of Appeal the sentence was reached in a “fair and balanced manner”.
He also said March’s sentence should be reduced on the grounds of his traumatic brain injury, saying the trial judge Mr Justice Murray “did not give it the fullest regard”.
In the Court of Appeal ruling, Lord Justice Edis said the death of the unborn child, and the fact the attack on Odysseos was witnessed by one of her other children, were both a “serious aggravating factor”.
He also said that March’s brain injury was not a “major cause” of his offending, and the lack of premeditation had to be “highly qualified”.
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Jail for rapper whose XL bully killed ex-partner's mum
An aspiring rapper was jailed for 10 years and three months after his …
An aspiring rapper was jailed for 10 years and three months after his XL bully dog mauled his ex-partner’s mother to death.
The pet, named Bear, killed Esther Martin, while she …was at Ashley Warren’s home in Jaywick, Essex, in February 2024.
The 68-year-old was looking after two adult dogs, eight puppies and a child while Warren was filming a music video in London.
Warren, 41, was the first person charged with XL bully offences after new laws came into force.
The court heard Bear had not been walked in the four weeks before the attack.
Warren was found guilty of being the owner of a dog dangerously out of control that caused injury resulting in death following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.
He was also sentenced for two offences of possessing a prohibited dog in relation to Bear and another XL bully named Beauty, as well as a separate matter of knife possession.
Describing the fatal attack, the judge, Mr Justice Johnson, said: “I am sure that you could and should have reasonably foreseen the risk.
“As well as knowing it was prohibited, you knew it had been pent up in the house for weeks, you knew it was capable of being aggressive and you knew Esther Martin could not control it.”
Warren was also banned from owning a dog indefinitely.
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The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-ashley-warren/
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Jail for man whose attack on woman was witnessed by Barron Trump
A Russian convicted of assaulting a woman in an attack witnessed by …
A Russian convicted of assaulting a woman in an attack witnessed by Donald Trump’s youngest son has been jailed for four years
Matvei Rumiantsev, who lived in Canary Wharf, east London, …was convicted in January of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.
Rumiantsev, 23, attacked the victim at her flat in London when he became jealous of her blossoming friendship with Barron Trump after she met him through social media.
Mr Trump, 20, was in the US when he was on a video call with the victim, and called City of London Police to report witnessing the attack.
Rumiantsev later wrote to his victim, who cannot be named, from prison, asking her to withdraw her allegations.
He was convicted of the assault and of perverting the course of justice following a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court, but was found not guilty of intentional strangulation and two counts of rape.
During sentencing, the judge, Mr Justice Bennathan, said Rumiantsev was “totally unrepentant” and still blames the victim for what happened.
He said Rumiantsev “snapped” and hit the victim “multiple times over a prolonged period in the region of an hour” causing multiple injuries.
The judge added that when she managed to escape and reach a neighbour, Rumiantsev dragged her back into the flat by her hair.
He said that, during the assault, Rumiantsev answered a FaceTime call on her phone from Mr Trump.
“He [Mr Trump] saw you beating her up, and you held the phone and filmed her. An angry act to humiliate her,” the judge said.
Mr Trump was praised by Mr Justice Bennathan during sentencing for “properly and responsibly” calling UK police.
He also referred to the victim’s attempt to contact police: “I recall that in her first 999 call [to police] she said, quote, ‘Please help me. I’m going to get killed.’ I’m in no doubt whatsoever that was exactly how she felt.”
The judge said Rumiantsev should be liable to deportation. But if he is not, he would be released on licence after serving 40% of his four-year sentence.
The court also issued a seven-year restraining order, banning him from contacting the victim.
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The judge’s sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-matvei-rumiantsev/
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Hate preacher Anjem Choudary loses appeal bid over terror conviction
Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary lost bids to challenge his conviction …
Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary lost bids to challenge his conviction and sentence for running a banned terrorist organisation.
Choudary, 59, was convicted of taking a “caretaker role” in directing Al-Muhajiroun while …its founder was in jail, and encouraging support for it through online lectures to the Islamic Thinkers Society, which prosecutors said was another name for ALM.
He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 28 years in July 2024.
At a Court of Appeal hearing, Paul Hynes KC said Choudary should be allowed to challenge his conviction and the length of his sentence.
Hossein Zahir KC, appearing for Choudary’s co-defendant Khaled Hussein, also sought the green light to challenge his sentence of five years in prison with an extra year on licence for being a member of ALM.
In a ruling, Lord Justice Edis, who heard the case alongside Mr Justice Goose and Judge Alan Conrad KC, dismissed the appeal bids.
Lord Justice Edis said there was a “strong case” against Choudary, “abundantly supported” by evidence, and that his bid to challenge his conviction was “unarguable”.
He also said Choudary’s sentence was not “arguably manifestly excessive or wrong in principle”, stating the offending was of “exceptional gravity, persistence and duration”.
Dismissing Hussein’s appeal bid, the judge said the 31-year-old was “not an inert and inactive member” of ALM, and instead was “doing what he could to further its aims”.
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Maids Moreton murderer Benjamin Field launches fresh appeal bid
A churchwarden convicted of “gaslighting” then murdering an author in …
A churchwarden convicted of “gaslighting” then murdering an author in a plot to inherit his fortune launched a fresh appeal bid, claiming he “simply didn’t do” the crime.
Benjamin Field, 35, …admitted he was a “snake talker” who had duped 69-year-old Peter Farquhar into a fake relationship to get him to change his will but denied killing him.
Mr Farquhar was found dead in his home in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton in October 2015, with a bottle of 60 proof whisky beside him, with a post-mortem later putting his death down to “acute alcohol toxicity.”
Field was accused of giving Mr Farquhar the alcohol and/or sleeping pills called Dalmane so that he suffered what appeared to be an “alcoholic’s death,” leaving Field to inherit his fortune.
He was convicted at Oxford Crown Court in August 2019 and jailed for life, with a minimum of 36 years to serve behind bars before he could apply for parole.
The case later became the subject of the four-part 2023 BBC drama, called ‘The Sixth Commandment,’ which starred actor Timothy Spall as Mr Farquhar.
Following an unsuccessful appeal bid in 2022, Field’s case was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) on the basis that his conviction was arguably unsafe.
His lawyers, led by David Jeremy KC, argued that trial judge Mr Justice Sweeney misdirected the jury on how they should consider whether Field was guilty, leading to him being convicted of a murder which he “simply didn’t do.”
He said the cause of Mr Farquhar’s death was the “ingestion of whisky and/or Dalmane” and that the prosecution had no evidence that Field’s providing substances had actually caused the ingestion, rather than it being a “voluntary” act of the deceased.
However, the prosecution, led by David Perry KC, is contesting the appeal, urging three senior judges to rule that the conviction was in fact safe and ensure Field is not released.
After hearing argument from both sides, Lord Justice Edis, sitting with Mr Justice Goose and Mr Justice Butcher, said judgment would be reserved until a future date.
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