'Semi-Detached Rage' Pensioner Sentenced

An 81year-old pensioner, who punched next-door's builder twice in the face in a suburban 'semi-detached rage' attack and violently struck his neighbour with his grandson's rounders bat when work started on their shared chimney, has been sentenced.

Mounting ill-feeling concerning noisy works boiled over just three weeks after the new family moved into the quiet road and the blows left the Polish contractor with blood pouring from his nose and mouth.

Retired John Payne, (pic.top) of Oaks Avenue, Worcester Park, Surrey pleaded guilty to assaulting Lukasz Nochowicz (pic. mid.l.) and Jaspal Sidhu (pic.mid.r.) on October 11, last year.

"We was quite friendly until he started all this building lark," he told Croydon Magistrates' Court yesterday. "Twenty years I've lived there and I've never had trouble with anyone.

"The builders have been working from eight in the morning to eight at night. Me and the wife have been listening to them banging and crashing about at all hours."

Prosecutor Mr. John Gardner said the Sidhu family had just moved into the adjoining property (bottom l.) and immediately began renovations after introducing themselves to Payne and his 79 year-old wife with a box of chocolates.

"Before the assaults Payne came over and said there was a lot of noise taking place and Mr. Sidhu shut his front door because he was being shouted at by the defendant.

"Mr. Sidhu had taken his family out for the day when Payne approached Mr. Nochowicz, who was standing by a skip and asked: 'What's going on?'

"He did not reply to the defendant and returned to the house, but Payne forced open the front door with a kick, barged past and began running upstairs.

"Mr. Nochowicz grabbed his arm and Payne turned and punched him twice with his right hand to the nose and mouth."

The builder rushed to the sink in pain and later told police: "I was shocked and bleeding heavily from the nose and mouth."

Mr. Sidhu was telephoned and immediately returned home and knocked on Payne's front door.

The victim told police: "He had a red bat in his left hand and raised the bat and struck me with it on the right side of the face.

"I believe if I had not moved I would have suffered a far more serious blow to my head. He then hit me again on the right side of the body near my rib cage."

Mr. Sidhu feared he was about to be hit for a third time and kicked Payne, who fell backwards onto the floor.

"Police were called and Payne was arrested," explained Mr. Gardner. "He told them he was fed up with the noise.

"The box of chocolates the Sidhu's gave them was unceremoniously hurled over the fence after this incident."

Miss Clodagh Callenam said: "Mr. Payne is rather set in his ways and was clearly upset by the noise and found it difficult to deal with because he is set in his routine.

"He believes you are not allowed to carry out works on your home at the weekend and found this grating, grating, grating on his nerves. It was the only thing going on in his life."

The defendant also believed his permission was needed for work on the chimney separating the properties to begin and heard the upstairs breast being demolished.

"He was at the end of his tether at this disruption in his life and he wanted to get upstairs to see if the chimney breast was being worked on."

The Sidhu's also plan building an extention to the rear of their property.

Payne added: "I hardly touched him and he came flying at me with a karate kick."

He was conditionally discharged for two years and ordered to pay £85 costs.

The magistrates decided not to order Payne to pay compensation to the victim's as usually happens in fear it would "exacerbate" the situation.

Wealthy Benefit Cheat Who Faked Death Jailed

A benefit cheat psychologist who faked his death in Moscow, where his wife financed a boob job with proceeds from the scam, was jailed for two years and eight months today after fleeing to Thailand under a bogus identity.

Father-of-two Stephen Kellaway, 54, (pic.l.) pocketed £43,662 in a "cynical and selfish" housing benefit fraud despite building up a £1m portfolio of five properties with his Russian wife Nelli, 42.

He obtained a Republic of Ireland passport in the name of a dead seven year-old boy and ended up in Bangkok while Nelli (pic.r.) was prosecuted for the fraud and received a suspended sentence.

The couple travelled to the Russian capital in 2008, leaving behind the family home in Ashburnham Road, Richmond, and after receiving breast enlargement surgery Nelli presented a death certificate to the British Embassy.

It claimed her husband had died at Paveletsky Railway Station, Moscow on October 7, 2008.

At the time Hammersmith and Fulham Council were investigating the couple and had once successfully prosecuted Kellaway for claiming £5,523 housing benefit on a home he owned in Coningham Road, Shepherds Bush and failing to declare ownership of another four properties.

Nelli claimed her husband's ashes were in an urn she returned to the UK with, but it is believed they were the remains of a Moscow tramp.

Two years later Kellaway was exposed in Bangkok with a new Thai bride, but had visited his elderly parents in Southwick, Brighton three times while 'dead' using the new identity.

He has also stayed in touch with privately-educated children Stephanie, 11, and Maximilian, 9, and financed his new life with income from his £100,000 a year rentals.

However, after being mugged and losing his passport Kellaway ended up sleeping in Bangkok Airport and trying to stay one step ahead of the local authorities after overstating his tourist visa.

He pleaded guilty to three counts of making unlawful money transfers by deception and using a false identity document, namely the passport.

Judge Shani Barnes told Kellaway at Croydon Crown Court: "A cynical and selfish plan came between you and you struck at the very heart of the benefit system.

"There are thousands of people in need and people like you steal from them and from taxpayers, which undermines and demolishes that system.

"These were well thought out and professional offences and were persistent and intelligent."

Proceedings will follow under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

G.P. Accused Of Groping Receptionist And Patient

A G.P., accused of groping his receptionist, also fondled a young patient's breast while examining the woman's two year-old daughter, as she sat on her lap, a jury were told today.

Dr. Ayoola Makanjuola, 53, also joked the young mum, who he also groped during a previous appointment, was cool under pressure while placing her hand between his legs, Wood Green Crown Court heard.

The G.P., of Page Street, Mill Hill has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexually assaulting the 25 year-old patient on various dates between October 27, 2008 and January 20, last year at his surgery in Bell Hill, Bicknoller, Barnet.

He also denies six counts of indecently assaulting his 43 year-old receptionist between March 31 and June 4, 2002 while they worked alone at an isolated Borehamwood out-of-hours surgery.

Prosecutor Mr. David Markham said: "The man in the dock is a G.P. who has abused his position of power and trust by sexually touching two females in his workplace.

"It is a feature that this defendant exceeded the professional boundaries with each complainant and failed to control his urges and made no secret of his attraction to each female."

The patient was a mum-to-be when she saw Dr. Makanjuola (pictured) on October 27, 2008. "The examination involved him rubbing her nipple and she was left feeling something inappropriate had happened," explained Mr. Markham.

The patient insisted her nurse friend chaperoned her on all future appointments, but the doctor's behaviour continued she he next saw her.

"The friend was taken aback by a remark from Dr. Makanjuola that the two women were lesbians and that he would be the patient's next boyfriend."

The patient next saw the doctor because of flu symptoms. "He put one of his fingers down into her bra," said Mr. Markham.

"Her friend was concerned about the examination because he was not listening to her back or asking her to breathe in or out.

"He also remarked that she would be his next girlfriend and that she looked good," added the prosecutor. "The touching of her breast was not part of a medical examination, but sexual."

She was next forced to see the G.P. alone because her toddler daughter was ill.

"The examination of the child took a sinister course. As Dr. Makanjuola listened to the child's chest her mother felt her breast and nipple being touched. He was playing with one of her breasts while he examined the child.

"Because of neck pain from a car accident he asked her to lay on the couch so he could examine her. He took her hand and placed it on or around the area of his penis and she will tell you she could physically feel the doctor's erection.

"He laughed and joked that she coped well under pressure."

The patient reported the G.P. to police the next day and he was arrested on February 10, but denied al the allegations.

His former receptionist also made a statement to police, complaining she was similarly groped while working alone with Dr. Makanjuola a decade earlier.

"He remarked to her that she had a 'sexy body' and asked if she had a boyfriend and when she last had sex," Mr. Markham told the jury. "He made it clear he was sexually attracted to her.

"He approached her from behind as she was working and touched her breasts and on another occasion grabbed her arm and directed it towards his penis.

"He also grabbed her from behind and pulled her towards him so she could feel his penis was erect and placed his hand in the area of her vagina."

The receptionist complained to the General Medical Council, but after a hearing in 2003 Dr. Makanjuola was cleared of the allegations.

She told the jury: "He told me he thought I was sexy and asked if I was married and said he liked my bottom. He said I did not have big breast, but found me sexy and would tell me he had a hard-on."

Once the doctor sandwiched her between himself and the glass main door, she said. "He pressed himself on me and asked if I could feel his hard-on.

"Once, when I was sitting at reception, he came over to pick up some paperwork and put his hand over my pubic area and went away with a smirk.

"He would come from behind me and catch me unaware and put his hand on my breast."

The trial is expected to last two weeks.

City Bank Worker Sentenced For Raiding Accounts

A HSBC employee raided two accounts at the City branch he worked at out of over £4,000, claiming he had the customers' permission to dip into their accounts whenever he wanted to.

Mark Adam Shipp, 22, of Adelaide Close, Worthing, West Sussex used his staff number and password to transfer sums into his own account and was exposed by an internal probe.

He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates' Court to stealing £2,950 from Noor Diab between June 28 and August 9, last year and stealing £1,350 from Mirco Relling on August 15.

Yesterday he was conditionally discharge for twenty-four months and ordered to pay £85 costs after magistrates read a probation report.

Prosecutor Mrs Varinder Hayre told the court: "Mr. Shipp was working at the HSBC branch in Queen Victoria Street and on the second of September, last year there was a complaint from a customer that an unauthorised payment of nearly thirteen hundred pounds had been debited from his account.

"Enquiries revealed Mr. Shipp had used his staff number and password to transfer the sums to his personal account, but the defendant initially said there had to have been a mistake.

"Further investigations revealed three further payments had been credited to Mr. Shipp's account from another customer's, again using his staff number and password."

On September 27 Shipp was quizzed by HSBC investigators.

"He claimed he had the verbal authority from the second victim to transfer money from her account," added Mrs Hayre.

"The fraud team met with her and she said she had never given authority to take money from her account."

The bank reported Shipp to police, who questioned the defendant twice.

"Again he said he had an arrangement and was allowed to take as much money as was needed and pay it back whenever he could.

"During the second interview Mr. Shipp said he did not know why he did it and was not that sort of person and had learned his lesson.

"He told police he had lost his job and was now an estate agent and did not want to jeopardise his new job.

"All monies have been reimbursed by Mr. Shipp to the bank," said Mrs Hayre.

Tenant-From-Hell Jailed For £58K Sub-Let Scam

A notorious tenant-from-hell, who defrauded a string of landlords in a two-year £58,000 serial sub-letting scam, which involved family homes being divided into bed-sits of mass occupation was jailed today.

Zimbabwe-born Rose Chimuka, 32, (pictured) duped owners of six South London properties into believing she was a respectable married mother-of-three, but as soon as she was handed the keys fitted locks to internal doors and rented them room-by-room.

Chimuka, of The Drive, Walthamstow pleaded guilty at Croydon Crown Court to eleven counts of fraud committed between July 1, 2009 and June, last year by falsely representing she intended to reside at the addresses and falsely representing she was the landlady, with intent to gain.

She was sentenced to four years and three months imprisonment and the prosecution will pursue confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

"She was a systematic fraudster out to make a gain for herself on a systematic large scale," said prosecutor Mr. Julian Jones. "She perpetrated a widespread fraud in South London in relation to the sub-letting of houses.

"These are not legitimate business arrangements because none of the money, except with some small exceptions, has gone back to the property owner and some of these frauds were committed while on bail for previous ones."

The houses involved are at: 5 Montague Avenue, Brockley; 299 Sydenham Road, South Norwood; 306 Green Lane, Norbury; 5 Grange Park Road, Thornton Heath; 4a Northampton Road, Croydon and 18 Penwortham Road, Streatham.

Further counts totalling approximately £27,000 were dropped after the prosecution lost contact with the tenants they needed to call as witnesses.

Chimuka used the aliases Rose Manzimay, Mary Manzimay, Amanda Nadacunda and Rose Nadacunda and used four different names to identify her supposed husband, who she claimed often worked away from home.

"The prosecution say that in each case there were common features," explained Mr. Jones. "There were false representations to landlords and letting agents that she intended to live at the properties even though she had no intention to do so.

"She also falsely represented to tenants she was the landlady of the properties and entitled to let the rooms when she was not."

The largest loss was suffered by Magda Szlenkier, who let her £800,000 family house in Brockley via Medics on the Move, when work took her to live in Hong Kong and Chimuka rented it to fifteen tenants.

"Chimuka came to the house alone, but we talked about her husband and schooling for her three children. I was very encouraged and was pleased to have a family rent my home where three of my own children had been born," said Mrs Szlenkier.

"After signing the tenancy agreement Chimuka placed ads in local shops advertising the rooms for rent and let them to a number of people and collected their deposits," said Mr. Jones.

After suffering twelve months with no income, plus legal and repair costs the prosecution estimate her loss at £42,119.

She has won a £15,000 civil judgement against Chimuka, but it is not known if any of this has been paid.

Some of the other landlords, who complain letting agents were only interested in collecting their commission, were shocked to discover from their local council their properties were now HMO's (Home of Multiple Occupation).

Every room was maximised for profit by Chimuka who turned lounges, dining rooms and living rooms into bed-sits.

Some landlords found their properties strewn with rubbish and in a filthy condition when finally reclaimed and often in need of repair and redecoration.

"Initially landlords and tenants who asked for police assistance were told it was a civil matter, but it is now presented as a criminal case because the prosecution say when you look at the whole picture the systematic criminal fraud emerges," said Mr. Jones.

Chimuka was arrested at least seven times and quizzed by police in Kennington, Battersea and Croydon before criminal charges were eventually brought.

During questioning the defendant consistently denied acting dishonestly, claiming she was a legitimate tenant struggling to meet the rent and only sub-let to satisfy the financial demands of her landlords.

One month after her first Crown Court appearance Chimuka rented 18 Penwortham Road, using an unsuspecting victim's bank details to secure the property.

"A card number was used on a faxed form to Foxton's belonging to another man giving authority to pay, but he had never given any permission," said Mr. Jones.

High-Rolling Broker Jailed For Fraud

A Bentley-driving mortgage broker, who enjoyed a champagne lifestyle in a £1m house, has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for a property scam.

Olakunle Okubote, 50, (pictured) of Broughton Avenue, Finchley, North London was targeted by the Territorial Policing Payback Unit.

He was identified in 2008 by the London Crime Squad and a financial investigation into him and his company - ‘First Channel’ – followed.

The mortgage broker assisted criminals to obtain mortgages, providing them with false documents and information.

He secured cash discounts on new builds, which he kept, with the knowledge of the conveyancing solicitors, which ranged between £10,000-£20,000 on each property.

The lenders and borrowers were unaware, resulting in the borrower obtaining a mortgage larger than the purchase price. 



He concealed his activities by transferring funds between bank accounts in various names and identities.

The documents were verified by other brokers, believed to be an attempt to conceal his involvement.



Okubote received £15,000 after securing a mortgage for Michael Kolawole, who received 18 years in America for drug trafficking.

Akin Olojo, 28, of Foyle Road, Tottenham was arrested by the Territorial Support Group, based in Finchley, in possession of about £2,000 cash. 



TSG Payback Unit started financial enquiries into Olojo's financial affairs and discovered that he had mortgages in two different names, one of which contained false employment and identity documents, brokered by Okubote.



Hertfordshire Police arrested two others in a connected prosecution, who had a mortgage brokered by Okubote.



All of these investigations were joined, and enquiries were undertaken into the mortgage broker's affairs. 



The conveyancers have been independently dealt with by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. 



Okubote, Kolawole and Olojo were convicted after a five-week trial at Wood Green Crown Court.

Kolawole, 51, of Winchester Close, Walworth received12 months and was ordered to pay £2,000 costs and a confiscation order is ongoing.



Olojo received a suspended sentence and was ordered to pay £2,000 costs and a confiscation order is ongoing.



Further civil proceedings are underway to remove all the other available assets from Okubote, whose assets are restrained.



Detective Sergeant Jason Aldridge said: “Olakunle Okubote was a confident criminal.

“I am pleased that the prosecution team were able to successfully conclude the criminal proceedings.

“We plan to take away all their available assets through confiscation and civil recovery to ensure that every available asset is taken away from these individuals.”

Cleaner Pocketed £41,000K Benefit Handout While Working

A cleaner, who pocketed up to £797 per fortnight secretly working during a £41,000 income support scam, was jailed for three-and-a-half months yesterday.

Single mum-of-two Nina Johnson, 51, of Gascoyne House, Gascoyne Road, Homerton, East London began claiming on June 22, 2004 as a lone parent not in employment.

However, it was discovered she had been working since September 18 the same year without declaring the income to the Department of work and Pensions.

This resulted in an overpayment of £41,743, which for the past year Johnson has been repaying at the rate of £10 per week.

She was questioned on July 9, 2010 and denied she had a job, claiming she was simply covering for a friend who was on holiday.

Johnson used her own name, national insurance number and date of birth to secure employment.

"People who take benefit they are not entitled to are stealing from the taxpayer," Recorder E. Arbuthnot told the tearful first-time offender at Southwark Crown Court (pictured).

Dealer Stole OAP's Antiques In £800K Swindle

A heartless antiques dealer – who fleeced elderly victims of their treasured possessions in an £800,000 scam – has been jailed for six years.

Jamie Goatley, 34, (pictured) of Mayfield Crescent, Brighton targeted pensioners all over South-West England, even persuading one gent to release the equity in his house.

He pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to ten counts of theft and fraud involving eight victims in Sussex, Wiltshire, Dorset and Gloucestershire.

Goatley posed as a legitimate antique dealer, offering to sell items on behalf of the victims, but either paid them nothing or a fraction of the price he received.

Officers from Westminster Economic and Complex Crime Unit began investigating Goatley from 2009 and he was arrested a total of four times, continuing to rip-off victims while on bail for similar offences.

Police also began a detailed financial investigation and froze many of the defendant’s assets.

Detective Sergeant Shaun Reardon said: “Goatley targeted some very vulnerable victims and had no qualms about using their treasured possessions to make large sums of money for himself.

“I hope this result gives his victims some comfort and they feel reassured that a custodial sentence of this nature means he will not be able to target anyone else in this way.”

G.P. Denies Catalogue Of Sexual Complaints Involving 9 Patients

A respected GP was allowed to subject nine female patients - aged 8 to 40 - to sexual abuse over a period of ten years despite a string of complaints at his South London surgery, a jury were told yesterday.

Senior practise partner Dr. Markandu Ragupathy, 61, the surgery's child protection leader, "Used his position of trust to satisfy his own sexual gratification and curiosity," said prosecutor Mr. Toby Fitzgerald.

From the mid-90's until 2007 the GP,(pic.top) of Den Close, Beckenham, was employed at the Torridon Road Medical Practice in Catford,(pic.bottom) where eight of the complainants say they were sexually assaulted.

"He would say there was a misunderstanding or miscommunication and this was accepted by the senior partner at the practise," Mr. Fitzgerald told Woolwich Crown Court.

"The defendant remained free at the practise to sexually assault other patients and believed the practise would accept any explanation and for some years he was correct in thinking this."

Dr. Ragupathy has pleaded not guilty to fifteen counts of indecent assault; one count of attempted indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault between 1995 and 2005.

"These assaults were carried out during what he purported to be medical examinations, but were for his own sexual gratification and often involved the patients breasts and vaginal area," added Mr. Fitgerald.

"The Crown say there was no clinical reason to carry out the examinations at all or they were carried out in a way that was not clinically justified."

Patient A, 40, went to the GP with a chest cough. "The defendant moved his hands around to her breasts and massaged them with the palms of his hands," said the prosecutor.

She returned, complaining of stomach cramps and thrush. "He asked her to open her legs and he put his finger inside her and started to move it around in a circular motion. She felt he was touching her in a sexual way."

Patient B, 16, saw Dr. Ragupathy with breathlessness. "He put the stethoscope on her left breast and massaged the breast with the stethoscope. She felt disturbed by how the defendant behaved."

Patient C, 20, saw the GP for a sore throat and later suspected tonsillitis. "The defendant touched her breast while listening to her chest with a stethoscope.

"During the second appointment he lifted her jumper and bra, exposing her left breast and lifted it with his hand and repeated with the right breast and said: 'Your chest if fine'."

Patient D, 8, had a chest infection when she attended an appointment with her mother.

"The defendant touched her inner thighs and between her legs and there was no good reason for this. He simply took his chance to touch her this way."

Patient E, 13, an asthmatic smoker saw the GP with a chest infection. "He would put his stethoscope on her nipple and caress her nipple."

Two years later she saw him again while pregnant and with flu symptoms. "The defendant locked the door and began to feel all over her breasts."

Patient F, 30, was wheezing when she saw the doctor. "He placed the stethoscope on her right breast and asked if she was in a relationship."

Patient G, 30, had a thigh rash. "The defendant pulled her knickers to one side. He just took the chance, which he saw as a sexual opportunity."

She returned with bruising inflicted by her boyfriend. "The defendant put his hands inside the waistband of her jeans and pulled them towards him and asked: 'What colour knickers have you got on?"

Patient H, 36, was three months pregnant when she saw Dr. Ragupathy for the first time.

"He announced he needed to check her breasts while holding out his cupped hands. He said he needed to check if she was able to breast feed,"

Patient I, 40, had a rash and was visited at home by the defendant, who was also employed by an out-of-hours service.

"The defendant asked her to sit on his lap so he could listen to her chest and later made a comment about making a woman of her.

"He then went to his car for some medical cream and rubbed it into her chest."

Dr. Ragupathy was arrested and questioned in March and December 2010.

"He denied sexually motivated contact with his patients," added Mr. Fitzgerald.

The trial is expected to last five weeks.