Some of the biggest court cases to conclude in the UK last month
An arsonist who killed two of his neighbours when he doused the ground floor of an apartment block in petrol and set it alight in a devastating revenge attack will spend the rest of his life behind bars. He joins scores of criminals across the UK sent to jail last month.
These are some of the most shocking court cases that have been widely reported in the UK in recent weeks. The trial heard that the property in Granville Avenue was the base of a “sophisticated” operation to cultivate more than 200 cannabis plants with an estimated value of £95,000. Smith and Sebran climbed up a ladder and through a bathroom window, only to find the house occupied by the Albanian brothers.
The 45-year-old used an angle grinder to cut the pipe while drunk and under the influence of drugs in the early hours of the morning. The explosion completely destroyed Greenham’s Lancashire County Council-owned property and caused severe damage to the two neighbouring terraced properties. Claudio Campos A “thug” who punched a Sikh priest in the street “without any justifiable reason” and left him for dead was jailed for three years. Claudio Campos, 28, attacked Avtar Singh, 62, in broad daylight in Manchester city centre on the early evening of June 23.
The court heard Mr Singh had sustained a severe traumatic brain injury, a stroke causing by bleeding on the brain, multiple fractures to his cheek, jaw and eye socket. His vision has been affected and he remains in hospital requiring 24-hour nursing and medical care. Kigundu, a Ugandan national believed to have entered the UK illegally using his brother’s passport, bought 40 litres of petrol, a sledgehammer, and a “V For Vendetta” mask in the days before the fire. He also outlined his intention to kill his neighbours in a voice note, and created an email address with the words “burn them all”.
Unbeknown to them, Colombian authorities had intercepted the drugs, replaced them with wooden blocks before the plane took off and alerted the UK’s National Crime Agency . The pair were arrested after being seen entering the airport toilets with two bags and leaving without them following their arrival from Bogota, Isleworth Crown Court heard.
The judge described it as a “brutal and cowardly attack” and told the court that Sepple “gratuitously inflicted some 90 wounds on her body”. He said the pair met online when Ms Wadsworth was aged 12 and Sepple was around 15 and they had a long-distance relationship, but that Sepple had relationships with other women during this time.
Ms Wadsworth, originally from Vernon, British Columbia, was described in an earlier tribute from her family as a “kind” and “beautiful” woman. They said she had found faith with the Mormon Church and had been accepted at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Colombia. Her mother said in court: “This is a nightmare that thanks to you, Jack, we will never wake up from.”
Singleton resigned as a teacher during the course of the investigation, the NCA said. He was charged with eight offences, including taking indecent pseudo-images of a child, making indecent images and possession of a paedophile manual. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to six years in prison. He was also made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and has been placed on the Sex Offender Register indefinitely.
Ford, formerly of Bishop’s Stortford, was also found guilty of carrying out an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice, in that he “deliberately wiped his phone by factory resetting his Samsung Mobile phone”. The judge said that jurors were satisfied that Ford had wiped his phone as he “knew or suspected material relating to the offences” was on it.
Mr Lewis was taken to hospital from the defendant’s home in Chipperfield Drive, Kingswood, south Gloucestershire, but died hours later from a single stab wound to his chest. After being arrested on suspicion of murder, White told police: “I did not stab Bradley.” At a sentencing hearing, he told her: "You are a controlling person, and you are also very violent." The court heard how White had threatened to kill her boyfriend "regularly" and he had told his friends that he was scared of her and wanted to end the relationship.
Bevan, from St Helens, Merseyside, was jailed along with Paul Rafferty, 62, and Tony Hutton, 42, at Liverpool Crown Court in May for the abuse of a young girl over a two-year period from 2019 until 2021. He deliberately set out to defraud customers from the start, she said, selling cheap frozen fish as fresh at an average of three times the retail price, using vans with other, legitimate firms’ logos on the side so he could not be traced. The older the victim the more he charged, the court heard.
Mitchell was told she will serve at least 34 years in jail for killing 67-year-old Mee Kuen Chong at her London home in June last year. Two weeks after the murder, she drove more than 200 miles to the seaside town of Salcombe in Devon where she left devout Christian Ms Chong’s decapitated and badly decomposed body in the woods.
Her sentencing was broadcast live at the Old Bailey. It is only the second time cameras have been allowed into an English criminal crown court to record a sentencing, and the first in a murder case in which the defendant is a woman. Jurors heard the victims suffered “frankly horrific” injuries, and that Mrs Walker had a reasonable prospect of survival had she not been “abandoned without any assistance”, her airway restricted by a gag. By the time the victims were discovered the next day by a concerned neighbour, Mrs Walker was dead and her husband was seriously hurt.
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