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Two double killers were handed lengthy jail sentences of at least 42 years in October. Yostin Andres Mosquera and Shaine March were among the criminals jailed in the UK last month. Mosquera has been locked up for killing a couple and dumping their remains in suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge, while March killed his pregnant girlfriend while on licence for a previous murder. Also among the offenders put behind bars in October were an Afghan migrant who threatened to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and a homeless man who bludgeoned a woman to death after she let him stay in her house. Others jailed last month include a dad who murdered his premature baby in a special care baby unit and three Nazi-worshipping extremists who planned terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues. A couple who killed their toddler grandson after weeks of abuse and a migrant who murdered at random after being refused asylum were also handed prison sentences. Lengthy sentences are handed to some of the worst offenders each month. These are some of the most shocking court cases that have been widely reported in the UK in recent weeks. James Clacher faked his own death and then fled the country in a bid to escape justice after he raped two women. The 57-year-old has now has been jailed for eight years after he was convicted in September for the rape of two women in August 2019 and September 2020. In May 2022, while facing his trial, he was reported missing from Airdrie in North Lanarkshire and later traced to Spain, where he was extradited back to Scotland. At a sentencing hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Cubie said the “similarities are striking” between the two cases of rape, which both took place in the victims’ homes after they met on dating apps. Lord Cubie said: “These attacks took the victims by surprise, they were confused about how to respond.” He noted that in one case, Clacher told a “despicable lie” about his brother having a heart attack after carrying out one of the rapes, with the intent of pressuring the complainer into “backing down”. The judge said Clacher had used both victims for his own “self-serving” needs. Lord Cubie said Clacher, a former Army reservist, used his survival experience to try and escape the consequences of his actions. The judge described his attempt to escape justice by going abroad as “cowardly”. Clacher’s car, a Suzuki Swift, was found at the Loch Long car park in Arrochar, Argyll and Bute, in 2022. The defendant, from North Lanarkshire, sought to convince the authorities that he had taken his own life. However police launched an appeal to locate him and he was later traced to Nerja in the Costa del Sol. Spanish Civil Guard arrested him while he was working out on a beach in the town, almost exactly two years after he disappeared. The judge sentenced Clacher to eight years in prison, with a further extended part of the sentence including two years on licence. The sentence was backdated to the time of his arrest in Spain in May last year. Seven members of grooming gang have been locked up after two victims suffered “incessant abuse” in Rochdale. The men received lengthy jail sentences for committing various sexual offences against the then schoolgirls between 2001 and 2006. Both victims were treated as “sex slaves” from the age of 13 “amid deeply troubled home lives” as they were given drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, places to stay and people to be with. Soon after, they were expected to have sex “whenever and wherever” the defendants and other men wanted, in filthy flats, on rancid mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways and disused warehouses. One victim told Minshull Street Crown Court that she was living in a local children’s home when she was preyed on by Mohammed Zahid, 65, a stallholder at Rochdale Indoor Market, who went on to abuse her on multiple occasions in a “campaign of rape”. Zahid – widely known as 'Boss Man' – thought he was “almost untouchable” as he brazenly visited the care home to pick her up and later drop her off, the court heard. She said she presumed various agencies knew what was going on as police regularly picked her up after social workers labelled her a “prostitute” from the age of 10. Zahid went on to introduce the girl to fellow market traders Mushtaq Ahmed, 67, and Kasir Bashir, 50, who were all born in Pakistan. He also introduced the second victim to another defendant, Roheez Khan, 39, who saw Zahid rape her in a flat in Rochdale and then went on to rape her himself. She was separately groomed by taxi driver Mohammed Shahzad, 44, who raped her, along with his taxi driver friends Naheem Akram, 49, and Nisar Hussain, 41. Judge Jonathan Seely said both victims had suffered “incessant abuse” and as children had been targeted by “gangs of sexually predatory men”. READ MORE: Seven predators locked up for 174 years after two girls groomed and raped in Rochdale READ MORE: Decades on, they watched as the men who stole their childhoods faced justice - now they get their lives back Zahid, of Station Road, Crumpsall, was jailed for 35 years after he was convicted of raping both victims on multiple occasions. Jurors also found him guilty of offences of indecency with a child and procuring a child to have sex. Ahmed, of Corona Avenue, Oldham, and Bashir, formerly of Napier Street East, Oldham, were jailed for 27 years and 29 years after they were found guilty of multiple counts of rape and indecency with a child, in relation to one of the victims. Bashir was sentenced in his absence after he absconded while on bail before the trial got under way. Shahzad, of Beswicke Royds Street, Rochdale; Akram, of Manley Road, Rochdale; and Hussain, of New Field Close, Rochdale, were all convicted of multiple counts of rape against one of the victims. Both Shahzad and Akram were jailed for 26 years and Hussain was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Khan, of Athole Street, Rochdale, was jailed for 12 years after he was found guilty of a single count of rape. An English Football League assistant referee was jailed for a string of child sex offences involving teenage girls. The offences spanned three years between November 2021 and October 2024 and involved three girls aged 15. Gareth Viccars, 47, previously pleaded guilty to 16 counts, including sexual communications with a child, meeting with a child following sexual grooming, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and engaging in sexual activity with a child. Viccars, of Shackleton Place, Oldbrook, Milton Keynes, was jailed for 13 and a half years with a further three and a half years on extended licence at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Judge Caroline English said the referee "preyed upon young women that were vulnerable". She said that despite Viccars’s guilty pleas and expressions of remorse, there remained a lack of acknowledgement from the defendant that he had "a sexual interest in female children". Prosecutor Charlotte Newell KC told the court Viccars had met his victims online through messaging app Snapchat, telling one girl that talking on WhatsApp was “too risky”. Ms Newell read out the transcript of a voicenote sent by Viccars to one of his victims, where he referred to her as “little girl” and himself as “daddy” and “teacher”. Ms Newell added of the victim: "She says effectively that she was lonely and she just wanted someone to talk to. He, it seems, was aware of that and abused it – turning the communication sexual." The court heard he had abused another of his victims over a period of several years, had taken her to football matches and told others he was “mentoring” her. A scrapbook chronicling the two’s “relationship” that was made by the teenager and given to Viccars was handed to police and formed part of the evidence against him, the prosecutor said. After the sentencing, the Metropolitan Police said they believed there may be other victims of Viccars as he had been “spamming hundreds of girls on Snapchat”. A father who murdered his premature baby in a special care baby unit will spend a minimum of 20 years behind bars. Daniel Gunter, 27, inflicted catastrophic injuries to the head, neck, legs and jaw of 14-day-old Brendon Staddon at Yeovil District Hospital in Somerset on March 5 last year. Hospital staff discovered Brendon fatally injured in his cot after his mother, Sophie Staddon, 21, told nurses he was cold at about 4am. The baby, who was born at 33 weeks’ gestation and weighed 1.83kg at birth, was carried to the resuscitation area but did not respond to treatment and was pronounced dead at 4.59am. His parents, who left the unit to smoke outside the hospital while doctors and nurses worked on their son, were arrested a short time later. Gunter was convicted of murder following a three-week trial at Bristol Crown Court, while Staddon was acquitted of causing or allowing Brendon’s death. The judge, Mr Justice Swift, told the court: "Brendon sustained multiple injuries to the front of his head and face, chin, nose, eyes and cheek, to his skull, to his neck, his torso, his left hand, legs and feet – fractures caused by twisting and pulling – and significant internal bleeding. Put in simple terms, very severe force was brought to bear on Brendon. His skull was shattered and his neck was broken. "One way in which these injuries could have occurred was if Brendon had been held by his legs and swung forcefully, causing his head and neck to move excessively and his head to impact multiple times on a blunt object or surface." He found the murder was one of "excessive violence", given the extent of Brendon’s injuries and the way they had been inflicted upon him. Mr Justice Swift also ruled that the killing was pre-meditated, with Gunter inflicting the fatal injuries without alerting nurses who were at a nearby station at the time. READ MORE: Man found guilty of murdering premature baby son in hospital Medical experts described Brendon’s injuries as “akin to a fall from a multi-storey building”, the court heard. Andrew Langdon, representing Gunter, said his client had a very low IQ and was "immature for his age". He described Gunter’s childhood as "disruptive" and said he had been excluded from school after running away. During his trial, jurors heard how Gunter repeatedly ignored the advice of nurses – taking Brendon out of his incubator without asking, overstimulating him and removing his nasal gastric tube. Family members witnessed Gunter shouting and becoming angry at Brendon, as well as handling him roughly, in hospital. Before Brendon’s birth, Staddon and Gunter were told authorities planned to remove the baby from their care when he was born. Toddler Ethan Ives-Griffiths died after being subjected to weeks of abuse at the hands of his grandparents Michael and Kerry Ives. Two-year-old Ethan was dangerously dehydrated and severely underweight, with visible marks and bruises, when he collapsed with a catastrophic head injury at their home in Flintshire, North Wales, in August 2021. Michael, 48, and Kerry, 46, of Kingsley Road, Garden City, denied killing their grandson, but they were found guilty of murder and child cruelty after a trial at Mold Crown Court heard Ethan had been subjected to physical and emotional abuse in his grandparents’ home. Imposing life sentences, Mr Justice Griffiths told Michael Ives he would serve at least 23 years’ imprisonment before he could apply for parole, while his wife was jailed for a minimum of 17 years. Ethan’s mother, Shannon Ives, 28, of Rhes-y-Cae, near Holywell, who had been staying with her son at her parents’ home, was found guilty of causing or allowing his death and of child cruelty. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The court heard that Shannon knew her parents were violent as she had suffered at their hands while growing up. The judge told the sentencing hearing: "Ethan Ives-Griffiths was a two-year-old with an independent spirit. His mother and his grandparents hit him, but when they did, he was defiant and even laughed. Even though he was only a toddler, he was a brave and resilient boy with a strong character. He already had qualities which in an adult could make for greatness, but the people hitting him didn’t like the little boy standing up for himself. They decided to break him." READ MORE: Grandparents GUILTY of murdering grandson, 2, found beaten to death at home READ MORE: 'His life was taken from him by his own family, before it had even started' Mr Justice Griffiths said Shannon was "complicit" in the cruelty against the toddler as she knew her parents were hitting the child but did not tell social services. "She did not cause his death but she was active in allowing it," he told the court. When Ethan was examined by doctors after his death, he was found to have abdominal injuries likely to have been caused by blows in the days before his collapse. Other injuries included bruises that were consistent with grip marks on his leg and face. Experts said Ethan would have died of dehydration within days had he not suffered the head injury, and at the time of his death, he weighed just 10kg, the court was told. Three men were jailed for their roles in violent disorder outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex. Martin Peagram, Dean Smith and Stuart Williams pleaded guilty to violent disorder at earlier hearings and were jailed at Chelmsford Crown Court on October 6. It is the first sentencing for violent disorder outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, where multiple demonstrations have been held after asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu sexually assaulted a woman and 14-year-old girl in the town. The 38-year-old Ethiopian national, who arrived in the UK on a small boat days before the incidents in July, was jailed for 12 months at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court in September. He was mistakenly released from prison weeks later, before officers tracked him down to Finsbury Park, arrested him and returned him to prison. Outlining the violent disorder case, Gordon Carse, prosecuting, said: “This case is about the disorder arising from the high profile protest in Epping outside the Bell Hotel on July 17 this year.” He said the protest was the third in a series, with the first two on July 12 and July 13 having been “relatively peaceful”. The court heard that police estimated around 500 protesters attended at the height of the incident on July 17, with a flat bed van carrying a sign that said “protect our kids”. Mr Carse said 50 counter protesters arrived and police “worked to maintain public order and keep the two groups separate” but “police officers were subjected to sustained attacks for over four hours”, with officers being “pushed, punched and kicked”. Judge Jamie Sawyer said painter and decorator Williams, 36, “got onto the roof of the Bell Hotel and attempted to ring the bell thereon”. The defendant, of Thornwood, Epping, also kicked out at an officer and got onto the roof of a school for children with special needs. The judge said roofer Peagram, 33, of Loughton, kicked a police carrier, kicked out at officers and threw a can at police, while Waitrose worker Smith was seen punching an officer’s shield and pushing and shoving officers. Williams was jailed for two years and four months. Peagram was jailed for two years and two months and Smith, 51, of Epping, was jailed for one year and 10 months. He told the defendants: “Each of you, what you did went beyond protest and that became criminal when you acted as you did.” He said he was “satisfied this was racially motivated at least in part”. Two “cowardly” teenagers have been locked up for killing a 15-year-old boy in a gang-related machete attack months before his friend was also stabbed to death. Daejaun Campbell cried out “I’m 15, don’t let me die” after he was ambushed in Woolwich, south-east London, on September 22 last year. His friend and aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa, 14, nicknamed Grippa, had featured in a YouTube music video entitled Gotta Eat, in which he was seen crouching beside a floral tribute to Daejaun. Then on January 7, Kelyan too was fatally stabbed by two 16-year-old boys with machetes on a bus in Woolwich. Both boys’ killings had been linked to street gang culture with Daejaun described as being exploited and groomed by older youths. Following a trial at the Old Bailey, Imri Doue, 18, from Woolwich, was found guilty of Daejaun’s murder, having admitted having a machete. His co-accused Marko Balaz, 19, from Abbey Wood, south-east London, was convicted of Daejaun’s manslaughter and admitted drugs offences. Judge Sarah Munro KC detained Doue for life with a minimum term of 21 years and handed Balaz 11 years in custody. Judge Munro said Daejaun had been “sucked in” to a life in which carrying a knife was the “norm” and the defendants took away his chance to turn away from his “criminal behaviour”. The court had heard how Daejaun was targeted for a “gang check” when he was spotted near a house the defendants were visiting. As he was attacked, he screamed for “help” and threw a large knife which hit a metal fence and broke apart. Daejaun fell to his knees in the street having suffered two stab wounds and six superficial cuts. Earlier this year, two 16-year-old youths were detained for at least 15 years and 10 months after pleading guilty at the Old Bailey to Kelyan’s murder. Daejaun and Kelyan’s murders, though not directly related, bore striking similarities and have resulted in pleas by their families to end the “senseless killings”. A 42-year-old teaching assistant has been jailed for the manslaughter of her two-year-old daughter. Alice Mackey pleaded guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility after she drowned Annabel in a village pond just 300 metres from the family home in Kingsley, in Hampshire, on September 10 in 2023. The youngster was taken to hospital in a serious condition but died the following afternoon when the life support machine was switched off. The court heard how Mackey took Annabel from their house to a nearby pond and held her under the water until she stopped struggling. She then phoned 999 and told officers and doctors that she had found Annabel in the pond and that someone must have taken her from their house. Sentencing Mackey at Winchester Crown Court, the judge, Mr Justice Saini, said that she was under the "delusional" belief that "the best way to protect her (Annabel) from a bad mother was to kill her". He told her: "You falsely believed she was not flourishing under your care and, in fact, was suffering under your care." He added: "You considered in your deluded state that this was some form of mercy for Annabel." READ MORE: Mother jailed for drowning two-year-old daughter in village pond close to home The defendant had entered a not guilty plea to a charge of murder which the court heard was acceptable to the prosecution. Reports by two psychiatrists showed that Mackey was suffering from a condition that meant she was "substantially impaired so unable to make a rational judgement" at the time of the incident. The court heard that Mackey had suffered postpartum (post natal) depression and anxiety following the birth of Annabel and had been prescribed anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medication. The judge jailed Mackey for four years. A fraudster who dubbed himself 'the Kardashian of Cheshire' was jailed for six years after he conned people out of thousands of pounds in a luxury handbags scam. Jack Watkin, 26, used an "outward persona of someone wealthy and well connected" to dupe his victims, who included several friends and even his own father. He persuaded them to loan him large sums of money to invest in the purchase of Hermes handbags which were then to be sold on for a profit. Such bags were only allowed to selected registered customers and, because of their exclusivity, the bags often attracted a resale value far more than the original price, Chester Crown Court heard. The investors were left out of pocket as Watkin used their cash to fund a luxury lifestyle which included running up a £140,000 bill at London’s Dorchester Hotel. Watkin’s victims included friend Hannah Jakes, who he admitted defrauding of £98,500, and Christine Colbert, owner of Prestbury Village store Dress Cheshire, who was defrauded of £43,800. READ MORE: The entitled rich-kid fraudster who fleeced millionaire clients over the handbag money can't buy READ MORE: The imaginary world of 'Cheshire's Kardashian' He also defrauded his father Jason Watkin – described in court as a “chief executive officer of a large company” – of £24,500. Watkin, of Alderley Edge, had no job and no income but spent £1.2 million between April 2019 and October 2021 before he was made bankrupt. He pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud totalling more than £195,000. In a separate case, he was found guilty by a jury of possessing and making indecent images of children, which were found on his phone by investigators after his fraud arrests. He was sentenced to four and a half years in jail for the fraud offences and an additional 18 months for the indecent images. Nathan Cooper was high on drink and drugs when he crashed a motorcycle into a group of teenage girls as they were filming a TikTok video of themselves in a park. Hampshire Constabulary said that one of the girls screamed at him to stop as he was “showing off” by riding so close to them that they could “feel the wind” in Test Park sports ground in Millbrook, Southampton, on June 23 last year. A court heard how Cooper drove straight at the girls and tried to go through the middle of the group before colliding with two of them. One girl, aged 13, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the incident. Cooper, 40, of Rye, was jailed for four years and three months. at Southampton Crown Court after pleading guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving, drink driving, drug driving, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Analysis of Cooper’s breath and blood showed that he was over the drink-drive limit and the specified limit for cannabis. Police staff investigator Mark Furse, who led the investigation, said: “These girls were terrified by Mr Cooper’s continued attempts to frighten them. They screamed after he got really close to them on one occasion but even then he continued to show off, before finally losing control and injuring two young girls. No sensible person would behave this way and it is a miracle nobody was killed.” An Afghan migrant who threatened to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on TikTok has been jailed for five years. Fayaz Khan, whose real name is Fayaz Hosseini, made the threat last October – in a video that Mr Farage and a High Court judge described as “pretty chilling”. Khan, who arrived in the country on a small boat, was found guilty of making threats to kill following a trial, after previously pleading guilty to attempting to enter the UK illegally. Mr Farage attended the sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court with security guards and sat in front of reporters. Khan shouted at Mr Farage as he was taken down to the cells after the hearing – accusing him of wanting to “use me because you want to be prime minister”. Jurors heard that on October 12 last year, Mr Farage uploaded a video to YouTube titled “the journey of an illegal migrant” which highlighted Khan and referenced “young males of fighting age coming into our country about whom we know very little”. READ MORE: Migrant with AK-47 face tattoo who threatened to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage Prosecutor Peter Ratliff said Khan responded with a video two days later which was played to the jury, in which he said: "Englishman Nigel, don’t talk s*** about me. You not know me. I come to England because I want to marry with your sister. You not know me. Don’t talk about me more. Delete the video. I’m coming to England. I’m going to pop, pop, pop." Mr Ratliff said he made “gun gestures with his hand” and was pointing to an AK-47 tattoo on his face to “emphasise he wasn’t joking”. The judge told Khan: "Your video was not more abuse, it was a threat to kill with a firearm and it was, as Mr Farage put it, ‘pretty chilling’." A Home Office spokesperson said: "We welcome this sentence. Threatening violence against anyone, particularly an elected member of Parliament, is never acceptable." A robber shot a man at point-blank range in a row over a missing stolen BMW motorbike. Joshua Eno shot Rico Andrews, 21, in the chest in Battersea, south-west London, on October 5 in 2023, the Old Bailey was told. Judge Philip Katz KC jailed Eno for life for the murder with a minimum term of 30 years. The court previously heard how a shout of “that’s karma” was heard after Eno shot Mr Andrews and made off on the back of a moped driven by fellow robber Tyrone Attwood. Emergency services were called and Mr Andrews was pronounced dead at the scene. Prosecutor Brian O’Neill KC had told jurors the killing was over a missing BMW motorbike that had been stolen by Eno and Attwood during the course of a robbery at the BMW Battersea dealership earlier that day. "That motorbike had been stolen from where they had parked it following the robbery. Believing that Rico Andrews had stolen it from them, they sought him out and went to confront him," Mr O'Neill told the court. "In the course of that confrontation, Joshua Eno produced a firearm and shot Rico Andrews in the chest at point-blank range." Eno, 25, was arrested outside a probation office days later and a large hunting knife was found in the waistband of his trousers, which he later admitted possessing. The defendant, from Tooting, south-west London, denied murder, claiming the victim was accidentally shot with his own gun in the midst of a struggle. Previously, Eno was convicted of the robbery at the Battersea BMW dealership. The court was told he had also admitted the theft of a Harley Davidson motorbike on the same day. Attwood, 34, from Battersea, was acquitted of Mr Andrews’s murder following a trial last year. He was convicted of the BMW robbery following a retrial and jailed for seven years. The ringleaders of an organised crime gang, which stole more than £2 million worth of high-value cars from outside people’s home across three counties, have been jailed. The gang of 12 criminals, headed by George Berry and Benjamin Cross, both from Southampton, stole 107 vehicles mostly from driveways while their owners were asleep. The cars, stolen from addresses in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire between February and October 2023, were then taken to a “chop shop” to be stripped for parts. The stolen vehicles included Land Rover, Range Rover, Jaguar, Mercedes, Audi, Bentley, Lexus, Hyundai, Citroen and Ford cars as well as motorcycles and Ford vans containing thousands of pounds worth of tools, according to Hampshire Constabulary. A force spokesman said the gang used signal boosters to trick keyless ignition vehicles, making it seem as if the vehicle’s key fob was next to the vehicle and allowing it to be unlocked. They also used ‘signal jammers’ to prevent the vehicles from being locked in the first place, with the owners not realising their key fob had not worked. Berry, 32, has now been jailed for 56 months at Southampton Crown Court for conspiracy to steal motor vehicles, conspiracy to handle stolen goods, and possession of criminal property. Cross, 25, of the Bursledon area, was jailed for 64 months for the same charges as well as perverting the course of justice. A third man, Bradley Paddick, 22, of Southampton, was jailed for 36 months for conspiracy to steal motor vehicles and conspiracy to handle stolen goods. A mother smothered her autistic son then tried to kill herself after struggling to cope. Claire Button, 36, killed her five-year-old son Lincoln Button and left a note that said “he does not fit in the world and where he doesn’t fit I don’t either”, a trial at Basildon Crown Court heard. Button, of Windstar Drive in South Ockendon, Essex, who had struggled with her mental health and tried to seek help, denied her son’s murder on December 15 last year but was found guilty by a jury. She has been jailed for life with a minimum term of nine years for his murder. Judge Samantha Leigh described the trial as “one of the hardest I’ve heard in almost 30 years”, and said that at trial Button was described as a “loving, caring mother to her son”. She said that Lincoln “was, as a result of his autism, very challenging indeed”, was non-verbal and had outbursts and meltdowns. She said on the day of the incident Lincoln had a meltdown at a supermarket where he was “obsessed” with the sliding doors. The court heard that when Button returned to the family’s flat with Lincoln she decided to end her own life and his. The judge said Button “had on a number of occasions sought help” as she struggled with her mental health in the months before and on the day had “called an ambulance but was told there was a 10-hour wait”. The judge said Button killed Lincoln then overdosed on pills and cut her wrists. “If it hadn’t been for her husband returning home when he did there’s no doubt she would have died as well,” she said. Three Nazi-worshipping extremists were jailed for up to 11 years for planning terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues. Christopher Ringrose, 35, Marco Pitzettu, 25, and Brogan Stewart, 25, – who are not believed to have met in the real world before they appeared together in the dock – were preparing to use more than 200 weapons they had amassed, including machetes, swords, crossbows and an illegal stun gun, Sheffield Crown Court heard. Ringrose had also 3D-printed most of the components of a semi-automatic firearm at the time of his arrest and was trying to get the remaining parts. Stewart was jailed for 11 years, Ringrose for 10 years and Pitzettu for eight years by a judge who said she believed they all continued to adhere to their extreme right-wing ideology. The judge, Mrs Justice Cutts, outlined how the online group the trio belonged to were preparing for an attack on an Islamic Education Centre in Leeds before they were arrested by counter-terror police. In May, a jury rejected claims the defendants were fantasists with no intention of carrying out their threats and found Ringrose, of Cannock, Staffordshire, Pitzettu, of Mickleover, Derbyshire, and Stewart, of Tingley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, guilty of a charge of preparing acts of terrorism and charges of collecting information likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism. Ringrose was also convicted of manufacturing a prohibited weapon. The judge said the trio’s ideology was “laid bare” in a 374-page dossier of internet activity put before the jury. She said: “These pages were filled with hate towards black and other non-white races, especially Muslim people and immigrants, with ideas of white supremacy and racial purity together with a belief that there must soon be a race war.” The judge said she did not believe a terrorist attack was “imminent” and the group had not decided exactly what they were going to do. She said: “Mercifully your plans and preparations were being monitored and were ultimately thwarted by the authorities. For that reason, they did not advance as far as I am satisfied they would otherwise have done. I do however find that a terrorist attack was likely in the not too distant future.” A teenager has been locked up for eight years after admitting sexually abusing 37 girls online, in a case which a judge said “highlights the dangers of children having unsupervised access to social media”. Cory Jones, 19, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after pleading guilty to 69 offences including blackmail, causing a child to engage in sexual activity and distributing indecent images. Judge Jeremy Jenkins said he believed Jones, described as socially isolated and “a loner”, had been “corrupted” by watching pornography. The teenager contacted 37 children aged between 10 and 16, gaining their trust before asking them to send explicit photos and videos of themselves, over a two-year period. When some of the children refused further requests, he blackmailed them into sending more sexually explicit images, saying he would publish previously sent images on social media. Jones, of Ynyswen, Rhondda Cynon Taf, also sent sexual photos and videos of himself to the children. After his arrest, there were 172 indecent images of children found on his phone. James Wilson, prosecuting, told the court the victims felt “sick”, “betrayed” and “creeped out” when Jones demanded explicit images. One victim, aged 12 at the time of the offences, said in a statement: "When this first happened to me, it made me feel very nervous and upset. I was worried that people would find out what I had done and treat me differently." Sentencing Jones, Judge Jenkins told him: “I have no doubt in my mind that you have been corrupted by watching pornography. You have a completely distorted view of loving relationships and matters sexually.” Jones was sentenced to eight years in jail and will serve a minimum of five years and four months before being released. He will also be on the sex offenders’ register for life. Karl Davies groomed a school girl before repeatedly sexually abusing her and encouraging her to cut herself. The 42-year-old father-of-two, from the Wirral, admitted 17 offences relating to a school girl aged between 13 and 14. He showed “no pity and no mercy” for the “catastrophic” impact on his victim and had a “monstrous sense of sexual entitlement”, Manchester Crown Court heard. Davies first made contact with the girl on Snapchat in June 2023, threatening and coercing her into sending him indecent images and videos of herself over the next year. Using several aliases to stay in contact, he then picked her up from school in “broad daylight” to sexually abuse her in his car on four occasions in the summer of 2024. Davies also encouraged his victim to video herself committing acts of self harm and bought her razors to facilitate this, the court heard. Judge Hilary Manley jailed Davies for 20 years for his “depraved and sadistic” crimes. She deemed that the defendant met the conditions for an extended sentence, which means he will remain on licence for five years on top of his custodial sentence. READ MORE: The 'depraved, sadistic' man who targeted child for sex - and encouraged her to self-harm READ MORE: Husband, dad, depraved sadistic predator Davies' sentencing marks the first time a person has been convicted for encouraging serious self-harm to a child under Section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023. Judge Manley said: “To encourage a vulnerable young girl to inflict harm on herself for your sexual gratification really does plumb the depths of abhorrent behaviour.” She added: “Your offending displays a monstrous sense of sexual entitlement and a sinister desire for control.” A man who ran a teeth whitening salon was convicted of series of rapes and sexual assaults against seven women. Ricky Stubberfield, 31, of Plymouth, carried out the attacks in the city over a period of 11 years, between 2013 and 2024, on women aged between 16 and 27. Plymouth Crown Court heard some of the assaults took place at the Essex Smiles salon in the city, during a period when Stubberfield was the co-owner and manager, between 2022 and 2024. A number of the women were contacted by Stubberfield, of Plympton, on Instagram and offered free treatment in exchange for posting promotional content about his business. The court heard how Stubberfield abused some of the women when they were in the chair with a mouth guard in to receive treatment, while on one occasion he exposed himself to a mother and her young child by the salon counter. Stubberfield was convicted of eight counts of rape, nine counts of sexual assault, four counts of assault by penetration, one count of making indecent images of a child and one count of exposure. Judge Robert Linford described Stubberfield’s offending as “utterly remorseless predation”. He handed Stubberfield, who was convicted of 23 sexual offences following a trial, a 26-year prison sentence and a further six years on extended licence. A double murderer will spend at least 42 years behind bars for killing a couple and dumping their remains in suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge. Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, killed civil partners Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year in their flat in Scotts Road, Shepherd’s Bush, west London. Mosquera, who was staying with the couple, “decapitated and dismembered” them, froze parts of their remains and took the rest to the Bristol landmark, Woolwich Crown Court heard. A jury at the court unanimously convicted Mosquera of both murders earlier this year, and he later pleaded guilty at the same court to three counts of possessing child pornography. READ MORE: Double murderer who dumped remains in suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge jailed for at least 42 years Sentencing him to two life sentences for the two murders, which will run concurrently to each other, Mr Justice Bennathan told the defendant he had committed "premeditated and thoroughly wicked crimes". The judge also jailed the defendant for 16 months for possessing at least 1,500 category A photographs or pseudo-photographs of children, including videos, 750 category B images and 4,000 category C images. That jail term will run concurrent to the life sentences. A woman tried to kill her elderly mother on a hospital ward using pillows and a knife. Susan Hardwick, 65, told medical staff at Doncaster Royal Infirmary (DRI) “I want to kill her” as they tried to drag her off Joan Hardwick, who was 89 at the time. Doncaster Crown Court heard that Hardwick, who appeared in the dock using a wheelchair, later told staff her mother “had no quality of life”, but prosecutors said Joan Hardwick was being prepared for discharge to a care home, “was not at death’s door” and “has remained well since”. On the day she was due to be discharged, staff on the ward were alerted to a “commotion” and a cry for help, the court heard. The health care assistant who was first on the scene said the defendant was pushing pillows “forcefully” down on her mother’s face. As they struggled to pull Hardwick back, she told them: “I want to kill her.” Hardwick, of Beech Road, Armthorpe, admitted attempted murder following a lengthy process to decide whether she was fit to plead. She has now been jailed for three years. The defendant, who has cerebral palsy, a likely underlying learning disability and who is being treated for cancer, sobbed loudly throughout her sentencing and as she was wheeled out of the dock to begin her sentence. The judge, Mr Justice Goss, said it was a “difficult and troubling case” which was unlike any he had encountered before in his career. The judge said the defendant appears to have misunderstood her mother's situation, thinking she was being sent back to another hospital, where her treatment had been poor. He said: “There’s no evidence of your mother requesting or implying that she wanted to die. On the day of the offence she was expecting to go to a care home and not to the hospital with which you had an issue.” A horse-riding instructor and his showjumper girlfriend were sentenced after having sexual activity with a teenager during a threesome. Guy Simmonds, 37, had sexual intercourse with both his partner, Lauren Jarvis, 26, and the girl in January last year. Jarvis willingly took part and touched the victim sexually, and afterwards the pair agreed to keep quiet about it. Both Simmonds and Jarvis were found guilty following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court of a charge of engaging in sexual activity with a child aged 15. Judge Lucy Crowther branded Simmonds a “sexual predator” as she jailed him for five years and three months with a further three years on extended licence. “I find that you were the ringleader of this and loved the attention of the much younger Lauren Jarvis and the child,” she said. Simmonds, of Acacia Avenue, Undy, Monmouthshire, was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for life and made subject to a restraining order and sexual harm prevention order for 15 years. The court heard Jarvis, of Allt Yr Yn Court, Newport, was susceptible to “suggestibility and pressure” and due to her low intelligence was incapable of living on her own. She was handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for a year and ordered to complete 15 days of rehabilitation work. She was also placed on the sexual offenders register for 10 years and given a restraining order for five years. A Romanian gang “ruthlessly” exploited vulnerable women after plying them with drugs at brothels in Dundee. Five gang members have been convicted following a trial, involving 10 victims, which lasted six weeks and came after a police investigation launched in 2021 to target suspected human traffickers operating in the Tayside area. Mircea Marian Cumpanasoiu, Cristian Urlateanu, Remus Stan, Catalin Dobre and Alexandra Bugonea were found guilty of a range of offences including rape following the trial at the High Court in Glasgow. Ringleader Cumpanasoiu, also known as “Mario”, was found guilty of 15 charges including running brothels and pleaded guilty to a further three charges: attempting to pervert the course of justice; knowingly living off the earnings of prostitution; and possession of a knife. Prosecutors said the 38-year-old, described in court as a “smirking, winking pimp”, supplied drugs to, and raped multiple women, as well as being involved in sexual coercion. He was given an extended sentence comprising 20 years in custody and four years of supervision upon release. Urlateanu, 41, was sentenced to 18 years in custody followed by a two-year extension period of supervision. He was found guilty of nine charges including rape, assault, living off the earnings of prostitution and the supply of cocaine. Bugonea was found guilty of raping the same woman on various occasions at a flat on Bright Street. Stan was found guilty of eight charges, including trafficking a woman into prostitution with his co-accused, Cumpanasoiu, and rape. Dobre, 45, was found guilty of five charges including the gang rape of one woman alongside Urlateanu and Stan. Stan was jailed for 12 years, Dobre for 10 years and Bugonea for eight years. A "depraved" man who spiked two women’s drinks in a nightclub before sexually abusing them has been jailed for nine years. Kenan Baki, 46, drugged both women after meeting them at a nightclub in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in September 2023 and went on to abuse one and rape the other. During a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, prosecutors played CCTV which they said showed the 46-year-old throughout the course of the evening as he searched for women. The Crown Office said that after approaching the first woman, he slipped an unknown substance into her drink and then sexually assaulted her while she was under the influence of that drug before she was led away from him by concerned members of the public. He then went on to engage a second woman in conversation before taking her to his nearby barber shop in the early hours of the morning. Additional CCTV footage showed the woman quickly losing consciousness before Baki carried her into the back of the shop where he raped her. He was convicted of two charges – one of rape and one of sexual assault – following the trial and has now handed an extended sentence comprising nine years in custody and two years of supervision upon release. Fiona Kirkby, procurator fiscal for High Court sexual offences, said: "Kenan Baki poses a significant danger to women through his sexually-depraved and predatory actions. The prosecution case showed he pursued these two women before intentionally drugging them so he could take advantage of their vulnerability." Baki’s name has been added to the sex offenders’ register indefinitely and a non-harassment order was also granted for an indefinite period. A migrant who had been refused asylum was jailed for murdering a bank customer at random. Somali national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur paid 400 euros - around £352 - to travel to the UK on a small boat last year. The 47-year-old had claimed asylum in October 2024 shortly after arriving in the UK, but his application was rejected by the Home Office because he had arrived "voluntarily". Nur, of Western Road, Derby, appealed the decision and on May 6 he called charity Migrant Help saying he was "going to kill 500 people”. He later suggested he was going to target "doctors, police or people working at the Home Office". Derby Crown Court heard that less than two hours after the phone call he attacked Gurvinder Singh Johal with a black-handled kitchen knife at a Lloyds Bank branch in Derby. Mr Johal, who was 37 and known to friends as Danny, was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency services were alerted at around 2.35pm. Jailing Nur for life with a minimum term of 25 years, Judge Shaun Smith KC told the defendant the murder was a "brutal and callous act". He added: "It was a real-life horror film for everyone connected to Mr Johal and everyone who had the misfortune of witnessing your wicked act." The court heard Nur was known to police in Italy, Germany, The Netherlands and Luxembourg when he arrived in the UK, including for offences such as assault and robbery. Nur, who pleaded guilty to murder, was also arrested just two months after arriving in the country for violence and public order offences, after allegedly shouting "f*** the English" and calling members of the public "white racist bastards" before headbutting a construction worker. The judge described the murder as a "very public killing" and said whether he will be deported is a matter for the Home Office. Markel Ible made a "cruel and calculated" bomb hoax call to a synagogue four days after the fatal terror attack on Yom Kippur in Manchester. Prosecutors said the 32-year-old “intended to sow panic and fear” when he called Sinai Synagogue in Roundhay, Leeds, on October 6, claiming to have left a bomb there that was due to go off the following day. The call, made from an unknown number, came four days after the attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, which left Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, dead. READ MORE: Man, 32, who made 'cruel' hoax call to synagogue in wake of Manchester terror attack jailed The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ible, a UK national, of St Martins Gardens, Leeds, was charged the day after the call was reported to police. At Leeds Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to making a bomb hoax call and he has now been jailed for 10 months Ann Graham, senior crown prosecutor for CPS Yorkshire and Humberside, said: "Markel Ible was acutely aware of the consequences of his actions, which were intended to sow panic and fear. The timing of his offence in the wake of the devastating attack in Manchester just days before makes it all the more disturbing." A former police officer posed as a paedophile hunter and blackmailed an indecent images suspect, whom she had arrested, to fund her gambling addiction. Pc Marie Thompson, 29, used a fake email address to demand £3,500 from the man, and falsely told him she had been unable to find the perpetrator when he reported it to her. Thompson pleaded guilty to blackmail and perverting the course of justice and has now been jailed for 40 months. Leeds Crown Court heard Thompson was the officer in charge of a South Yorkshire Police investigation into the man, whom she arrested in October 2022 on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. He was interviewed and released under investigation, pending further examination of his digital devices. The court heard that the man then told the police he had received an email from a ProtonMail address demanding £3,500 be paid into a bank account, with an account number and sort code provided. The email was signed “Paedophile Hunters” and said that the payment would “ensure that information remains between you and us”. READ MORE: Police officer said she couldn't find 'paedophile hunter' who blackmailed a suspect - but it was her all along Thompson, who worked in Doncaster, told the man she would investigate the matter, but falsely endorsed the crime report to say that he did not want to pursue a complaint. The court heard she told “a number of lies” in her pocket notebook entries, including changing the mobile number she used to text the man’s partner to conceal the fact that it was her own personal phone number. After Thompson left the team in March 2023, her caseload was transferred and the officer who inherited the man’s case discovered her lies. In mitigation the court heard Thompson suffers from a severe gambling disorder and was in considerable debt at the time. Thompson was deemed unfit to serve as a police officer after her guilty plea and she resigned from the force on October 16. A homeless man bludgeoned a "trusting and generous" woman to death with a mallet two days after she invited him into her home. Victoria Adams, 37, was found dead at her flat in Hammersmith, west London, on February 9 after police were called to a report of a man attempting to break in to the property. She was found face down in a bedroom with a black bin bag over her head which was covered by a pillow. Apapale Adoum, 39, pleaded guilty to her murder and was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years. The Old Bailey heard that Adoum had met mother-of-four Ms Adams on February 6 at a homeless shelter. That day, police responded to reports of screams from her home and Ms Adams said she had been attacked by drug dealers. Two days after inviting him to stay in her home in Coulter Road, Adoum attacked her with a mallet with severe force. Ms Adams suffered at least 10 separate injuries to the back and side of the head. Prosecutor John Price KC said the defendant had a history of violence and was carrying two knives and a screwdriver when he was arrested at the scene. Sentencing Adoum, Judge Nigel Lickley KC told him: “Victoria Adams was murdered in her own home. She had taken you in and offered you shelter.” Adoum had “betrayed the kindness and good nature of Victoria Adams”, armed himself with a hammer, and subjected her to a “brutal and savage” attack when she asked him to leave, he said. A hockey coach stabbed his interior designer wife six times and then claimed she had taken her own life. Mohamed Samak, 43, will spend at least 21 years behind bars for murdering 49-year-old Joanne Samak. Samak was found guilty by a jury after he argued that Joanne had stabbed herself in the chest and stomach after he woke up at around 3am on July 1 last year at their home in Chestnut Spinney, Droitwich Spa. Prosecutors said Samak, a former Egyptian international hockey player and coach who worked with the Wales under-18s team, killed his wife because he was suffering financial problems and had become interested in another woman. The defendant told the trial his wife took her own life and was struggling with alcohol and mental health problems, although friends and family said they had no concerns about her drinking or her mental state, and that she had things to look forward to. Describing the events of the night Joanne died, Samak told the jury he was woken up by a scream from his wife and went out on to the landing at their home to see her in the corner stabbing herself. But when he called the emergency services at 4.10am, more than an hour after neighbours say they heard a 10-second scream, he told the call handler he had gone to the bathroom and decided to check on his wife, who slept in a separate bedroom, and found her slumped on the bed with a knife in her stomach. He told the trial he had lied at first because he panicked and feared he would be blamed for her injuries. Jailing him for life, Judge James Burbidge KC said Samak’s actions were “wicked beyond comprehension” and he had destroyed the lives of Joanne’s family. He said: "The emotion you disclose is either feigned or emotion based on self-pity. I cannot accept you are remorseful because you still deny responsibility and put Jo’s loved ones through the trauma of two trials." A man who murdered his wife in a "brutal" New Year’s Day knife attack will spend at least 21 years in prison. Mompati Dodo Isaacs murdered 33-year-old Keotshepile Naso Isaacs – known as Naso – at their home in North Berwick, East Lothian, in the early hours of January 1 last year. The 39-year-old stabbed his wife nine times in the head and neck in what was described as a "sustained" knife attack. Police went to the house shortly after the assault after being alerted by concerned friends, who had received phone messages from the victim. During his trial, Isaacs had claimed his actions had been “provoked” by his wife’s behaviour, and were linked to his mental health problems. However the judge told him his claims of diminished responsibility had been “rejected” by the jury, who had found him guilty of murder following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. Handing him a life sentence, the judge said Isaacs’ words and actions immediately prior to the murder showed he had been motivated by "jealousy and anger". Lady Ross told him: "New Year’s Day normally is a time for thinking about new beginnings and the future. But in the early hours of January 1, 2024 in the family home in North Berwick, you brought Naso’s life to an end. In doing so you attacked with horrible and sustained violence." The court heard that the couple's children and another family member had been asleep in the house at the time. An "evil" double murderer stabbed and slashed his pregnant girlfriend 23 times after being released from prison on licence. Shaine March has been jailed with a minimum term of 42 years for murdering Alana Odysseos, 32, who was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child, at her home in Walthamstow on July 22 last year. Previously the court had heard how police were alerted by members of the public in Lynmouth Road who found Ms Odysseos outside her home wearing a nightie and dressing gown and clutching her right side. Bleeding from multiple stab wounds to her body, she pointed at the defendant standing nearby and shouted: “Shaine stabbed me, he stabbed me. Help, help.” March, 47, walked away as Ms Odysseos died on the ground outside her address despite the efforts of police and paramedics, jurors heard. She had suffered stab wounds to her chest, stomach, pelvis, shoulders, buttocks, right arm, thighs and lower legs. Jurors in his trial were not told that March had been convicted of murder before after he fatally stabbed 17-year-old Andre Drummond in the neck at a McDonald’s restaurant when he was 21. Following his release on a life licence in early 2013, he was recalled to jail later that year after he stamped on the stomach of another pregnant girlfriend in July and was released again in February 2018. March also had convictions for assault and criminal damage in 1995. The court was told Ms Odysseos knew about March’s murder conviction and safeguarding checks had been made by probation services. But when the defendant said their relationship had ended amicably, no further checks were made. Hours before killing Ms Odysseos, March had argued with her about whether to abort their unborn child, with the victim heard to say: “I don’t want to kill my baby.” March, of Surrey Quays, south-east London, admitted her murder on the seventh day of his trial after an expert no longer supported his claim of diminished responsibility.
