Marina War: Thameside Resident Smashes CCTV And Confronts Yacht Owner On Doorstep

Stephen & Christine Parsons

A bitter dispute between Thames side residents and a luxury marina saw CCTV cameras smashed and a yacht owner telling a court he ‘fought for his life,’ during a doorstep confrontation.

Residents of million pound homes claim motion-sensor alarms protecting yachts moored at the bottom of their gardens in Hampton  constantly wake them at night.

They have also made multiple planning objections to proposals to develop Hampton Riviera Boatyard and claim yacht owners were cashing-in by running illegal B&B’s from their vessels.

Retired construction boss Stephen Howard Parsons, 65, who lives in £1.2m Thames Cottage, Hampton Court Road, East Molesey was caught on camera smashing the cameras one night.

He pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to the security equipment owned by marina boss Myck Djurberg, 58, and yacht owner Klaus Beversluis, 50 on January 8.

Parsons was also convicted of threatening behaviour at Mr. Beversluis’s girlfriend’s home in Dorchester Road, Worcester Park the next day and causing criminal damage to the front door.

He received a twelve-month community order and must complete 80 hours community service.

Parsons was also ordered to pay £100 compensation for Mr. Beversluis’s camera and £150 for Natasha Knight’s front door.

The court made an indefinite restraining order prohibiting him contacting the couple and Mr. Djurberg.

Wimbledon Magistrates Court heard he was caught on camera smashing the CCTV with a large wooden bat at 9.45pm, including one protecting the ‘Lucy Aswell’ one of three boats owned by Mr. Beversluis. 

Klaus Beversluis & Natasha Knight

“A baton or stick was used with extreme force five times on Mr. Djurberg’s camera,” said prosecutor Lydia Marshall Bain. “The same person returns and damages the CCTV of a boat moored by the jetty.”

IT Consultant Mr. Beversluis was relaxing on another boat with girlfriend Natasha Knight, 46, who describes herself as an ‘entrepreneur’ when he received a security alert on his phone.

He called the police, but ironically ended up in police cells that night, suspected of assaulting Parsons’s neighbour, former EastEnders actor Will Chitty, as the row escalated.

However, Mr.Beversluis says he was attacked. “I had injuries caused by Will and his wife running after me and pushing me into bushes.”

On January 9 he was at Natasha’s home, along with her sons, aged 12 and 14 years-old, when Parsons turned up, accompanied by his wife Christine.

“He shouted: ‘You’ve made a big f***ing mistake’ and forced his way through the door and I tried to push back. His hands pushed the door and then his leg came through the doorway.

“I almost couldn’t believe it, it was a surreal experience. I knew him from the marina, but to see him shouting at the door was very frightening.

“He was shouting and was very, very aggressive and if he accessed the property there would have been a lot of damage to humans or property. He was rampaging.

“He has assaulted us before and threatened to throw Natasha into the river. He was using all of his force, his leg was blocking the door, I couldn’t close it.

Myck Djurberg

“Natasha’s older son, Owen, was screaming: ‘Mummy, mummy!’ It was a harrowing experience for him, he was very scared.

“Natasha also pushed against the door and we managed to exit him. The door was damaged, bent and would not close properly thereafter.

“I felt very, very shaken, very rattled and fearful that he continued to try and push himself into the house despite a child screaming inside, who he could see in front of him.”

Mr. Beversluis admitted renting out his boats, a sideline shut down by the council after local residents’ objections. “I don’t think that is illegal in this day and age,” he argued.

He said the doorstep confrontation lasted approximately sixty seconds. “When you feel like you are fighting for your life that one minute feels very long indeed.”

Mr. Beversluis suggested the CCTV destruction was in preparation for an assault on him later. “We have photographs of Mr. Parsons walking around the marina at 1.30pm that day taking pictures of where the CCTV was.

“This was so he would know where they were to damage with a baseball bat before the assault on me.”

Natasha told the court: “I just heard him screaming, bellowing. I was scared and there have been lots of threats.”

Parsons told the court he wanted to sound a personal alarm in Mr. Beversluis’s face to give him a taste of what the residents had endured, but the front door was slammed on him.

“The previous night the people in that house had shone high-powered laser lights through our windows and ran off. I was going to insist they stop harassing us at our home address.

“I said in a calm, clear voice: ‘You made a big mistake attacking my family.’

“I tried to set the personal alarm off, but couldn’t get it to work properly. The same two people have alarms at the bottom of my garden that have gone off the previous two days.

“They were so loud all three houses there were continually woken up at night.”

Parsons claimed Mr. Beversluis damaged his own door. “It was slammed in my face with great force.

“I consider myself the victim and I did not go there hot tempered or angry. 

“I wanted to sort out a long-standing problem. The people in that house were running an illegal bed and breakfast from the boats.

“The previous night they were not relaxing on their other boat, but were shining lights. He has been intent on provocation and intimidation for months.”

The court heard the local residents have made multiple complaints about the marina to the police, the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, the Environmental Agency and local MP Vince Cable.

Parsons wife Christine said: “They were shining laser lights into our living-room while we were with friends. 

“They knew where we lived and we wanted them to know we knew where they lived and to ask them to stop intimidating us.”

Magistrate Hilary Parker told Parsons: “You took with you an alarm with the intention that they should appreciate the sound of it at close quarters.

“You visited that house with the intention of causing Mr. Beversluis alarm and distress. We don’t find your version of events credible.”

Former Judo Champ Sentenced For Road Rage Assault

Lionel Hibbert

A former British judo champion has been sentenced for knocking a mini-cab driver to the ground after spitting in his face during a road rage confrontation.

Lionel Hibbert, 53, who won the title in 1992 and now teaches kids got into a confrontation after both drivers competed for the same lane in heavy traffic.

The social housing builder, of Wood Close, Kingsbury, an instructor at Pride Judo Club, Vale Farm Sport Centre, North Wembley, says he’s been the victim of a miscarriage of justice. 

He claims he only spat at mini-cab driver Zabihullah Habib’s windscreen after receiving racial abuse and used just his left arm put him to the floor in self-defence.

Hibbert was convicted of assaulting Mr. Habib in Watford Road, Wembley on March 12 and received a twelve month community order.

He must complete 150 hours community service, pay £100 compensation to the victim, £500 costs and an £85 victim surcharge. 

The incident was captured on video by a passing motorist, which Hibbert says exonerates him, but the court refused to admit it as evidence.

The victim told Willesden Magistrates Court Hibbert cut him up in the middle of busy rush-hour traffic at 5pm.

“He managed to get in front of me when he should not have been in the bus lane to do it and caused the traffic to come to a standstill as he blocked both lanes and I sounded my horn.

Zabihullah Habib

“He put his head out of the window and started swearing at me and got out of the vehicle. He was very angry, very aggressive, swearing at the same time.

“I got out to tell him he had to move, that he was in my way and he spat at me. It landed on the left-hand side of my cheek.

“I returned to my car to make a note of his registration number and asked my cousin to call the police.

“As I was trying to take a note I suddenly received a punch to the back of my head, the right side of my neck.

I fell to the ground and landed on my knees and started to feel pain and my right arm started to bleed.”

The cabbie claimed Hibbert tried to flee in a panic. “I opened his door to stop him and he got out of his car and ran after me, trying to hit me.”

Hibbert told the court he exchanged glances with Mr. Habib as they fought for road space. “He drove straight towards me and hit my wheel arch and just carried on.

“I said to him: ‘Are you f***ing crazy?’ He stood in front of my face and called me a dirty black b******.

“I was shocked and thought he was going to do something and there were a few more racial overtones. It was wrong, but I spat on his windscreen.

“He made a very aggressive walk towards me and made a bit of a lunge and I thought he was going to punch me.

“I pulled him towards me, spun him around and set him on the floor. I never punched him.”

Hibbert told the magistrates: “I represented Great Britain for over fifteen years all over the world competing.

“It was minimum force. I just grabbed him and put him on the floor before he could throw a fist at me.”

Hibbert Puts Habib On The Ground

An eye witness came forward to say Hibbert was aggressive and angry and at one point had Mr. Habib in a headlock and the cabbie’s cousin backed-up his account.

Hibbert spent over fourteen hours in police custody afterwards. “They just handcuffed me and put me straight in the van.

“I don’t see why as a big black geezer I’m pointed out as the aggressor.”

Afterwards he said: “Those twenty-two seconds of video contradicts what they say. I just used one arm to put him on the floor, I didn’t put him in a headlock.”

He plans to appeal the conviction. “Because I’m a big black man they threw the book at me to see what sticks. 

“I’m fortunate that I’m not in prison. As a martial arts instructor I don’t want a conviction for assault.

“It wasn’t even a judo move. I just span him around because I thought the two of them were going to attack me.

Six foot, seventeen stone Hibbert added: “It’s disgusting because three people can say what they like against a big black man and the only person to tell the truth all the way through is myself.”

Ex Behind Bars For Harassing Former Partner

Wimbledon Magistrates Court

An ex-boyfriend was caught on CCTV speeding towards his one-time partner in a Lidl supermarket car park to abuse her during a harassment campaign after their split.

Daniel Mills, 37, of Sutherland Avenue, Sunbury-on-Thames had also bombarded mother-of-four Stacey Young with texts and phone calls during the two-week period.

He appeared in custody at Wimbledon Magistrates Court, where he was convicted of harassing Ms Young, of Mount Road, Mitcham between November 28 and December 11, last year.

Mills was remanded in custody to appear at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court for sentencing.

The couple were together five years, he told the trial, claiming he left her on November 4, last year.

“I'd had enough of the way things were in the house, the childrens' behaviour,” he said, denying he sent texts and made calls. “I didn't have a mobile phone.”

CCTV captured him driving aggressively towards Ms Young on December 8.

She told the court he shouted through his open driver's-side window: “You fat slag. No one's going to want you.”

Mills claimed he did not shout abuse, but wanted to give his opinion on why she snubbed the funeral of one of his relatives.

“I just thought it was so disrespectful not to attend the funeral. She did not even send any flowers.

“I did not go there to threaten her. I just saw her and expressed my opinion.”

The magistrates dismissed Mills' explanation and their chairperson announced: “We don't believe the version of events put forward by Mr. Mills.

“He is able to use mobile phones to make calls and send texts, which contain numerous threats and he did verbally abuse her in the car park.”

The court heard Mills has already been convicted of other counts relating to Ms Young, including witness intimidation.

He had warned her: “You won't win the case. I don't care if I go to prison, I aint gonna stop.

“You won't be able to live in Mitcham anymore. You could have dropped all this bollocks.

“Watch what happens when I get you, you dog, you c***.”

Court Short: Bus Perv Id'd By Ugly-Patterned Garment

Convicted: Abdi Ikken

A bus sex pest, who groped two disgusted young women, was identified and arrested via the garish shorts he was wearing on CCTV.

Algerian Abdi Wahab Ikken, 41, of Sycamore Road, Dartford, even used a stolen Oyster card to make the journeys in south-east London.

He was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 17 year-old on a number 96 bus in Woolwich on August 28, last year and a second young woman on number 53 on September 25.

He was also convicted at Croydon Magistrates Court of stealing an Oyster card with £55 credit between July 1 and July 31, last year.

Ikken was sentenced to a two-year Community Order, which includes ten days of sex offenders rehabilitation.

He must also sign the Sex Offenders Register for five years and was ordered to pay an £85 victim surcharge.

When police from the Roads and Transport Policing Command raided his home they seized the distinctive shorts Ikken was wearing during the first assault and the Oyster card he used to tap-in both times.

He boarded the 96 bus outside Dartford Magistrates Court at 6.30pm and the teenager, who had been shopping in Bluewater, told the trial: “He was squished up against me and his leg was touching mine.

“I could feel the hairs of his leg on me. It just carried on until his leg stopped and he then used his hands,” added the teenager, who was wearing a summer dress.

“He put his elbow on my hip and pushed down really hard. It hurt, I felt he was trying to hurt me.”

The tearful teenager, who Ikea sat next to despite other seats being available added: “It then started with his fingers feeling my leg at the side of my thigh on my skin. I wasn’t wearing any tights.

“I was in disbelief at first. As I looked down he moved his hand around my thigh.

“I said: ‘You’re disgusting. Why are you trying to touch me on the bus?’

“I was scared. I was unaware of his intention and what he was going to do and if he was going to follow me.”

Caught On Bus: Perv Ikken

A second woman, in her twenties, was travelling towards Whitehall at 1.30pm when Ikken deliberately plonked himself next to her despite others seats being available.

“He immediately spread his legs so his right leg was touching my left leg. It felt uncomfortable.

“I felt it next to my thigh and the rest of my leg. He apologised, but then spread his legs again and I asked him to move.

“He spread his legs a third time and I felt his ankle move against mine very slowly and i felt it was deliberate rubbing against my skin.

“It went on for a while and I was feeling quite irate and said: ‘Can you keep your legs to yourself?’

“He said he did not want to because I was so beautiful and I told him: ’That’s really creepy, get away from me’

“He was grinning in what I’d say was a lecherous way.

“This was a person who knew how to sexually assault someone without it being shown on camera and it made me think he’d probably done it before.

“He spoke like he was very pleased with what he had done. I’ve been sexually assaulted before and this brought it back to me.”

When questioned by police Southwark Council cleaner Ikken, who needed an Arabic interpreter throughout the trial simply said: “It wasn’t me,” and refused to answer any questions.

Carer Denies Defrauding Disabled Accident Victim Of £5,860

A Trowbridge woman, accused of defrauding a severely disabled accident victim she was caring for of £5,860, has appeared in court for the first time.

Catherine Berry, 29, of Cornbrash Rise, Paxcroft Mead indicated a not guilty plea when she appeared on bail at Wimbledon Magistrates Court in south-west London.

She is charged with fraud by abuse of position between July 27, 2016 and July 10, last year while the carer of Stephen James Burningham, by making unauthorised withdrawals from his accounts.

The court heard Mr. Burningham was involved in a serious road traffic accident in 1992, which left him brain damaged and needing a wheelchair due to weakness to the right side of his body and also suffering shortage of breath and pulmonary issues.

His food needs to be pureed to avoid choking and the magistrates were told he is anxious about personal finances.

The prosecution say Berry, who was employed via Christies Care, withdrew up to £100 a time, which she was not entitled to.

The court declined jurisdiction and bailed Berry to appear at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court on July 3.

Her Nibbs: Failed UKIP Candidate Sentenced For Hitting Landlady With Scissors

A failed UKIP candidate, convicted of striking her landlady with a large pair of scissors during a microwave row, has been ordered to complete 200 hours of community service work.

Trainee teacher Juliette Nibbs, 41, who stood in the Kensal Green ward during Brent's 2015 council election, only polled 2.18% of the vote.

She was convicted at Willesden Magistrates Court of assaulting Imtiaz Bibi at an address in Crest Road, Cricklewood on April 11.

The magistrates ruled the offence was not racially-aggravated even though Mrs Bibi told them Nibbs shouted: “You are a Paki. You go back to your f***ing country, you f***ing bitch.”

Nibbs must also comply with a twelve-month Community Order, pay £100 compensation to the victim, £300 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.

She was ordered to pay the money at the rate of £40 per month.

The family had rented out a room to Nibbs, who has since moved out to Knowles House, Longstone Avenue, Harlesden, to help them with the rent to the owner of the property.

Assaulted: Imtiaz Bibi 

Mrs Bibi told the court an argument began over the defendant's use of a microwave oven.

“I told her I thought it was dangerous that she left the microwave running and it was something that happened previously.”

“She said: 'You are lying. It's not on,' and she made faces at me.

“She turned to her room and returned with a pair of scissors and her gestures were very strange and she made faces.

“As she was swearing at me she was waving her scissors at me. They were eight to ten inches long, the type you'd normally see being used by a tailor.

“They were heavy scissors, due to the bruises I got.

“She was at the top of the stairs and I was two steps down and the scissor blades hit my right hand by the wrist as I moved my hands in self-defence.

“It was quite painful and the x-ray showed tissues had been damaged in my thumb.

“The impact was quite deep, with bruising and swelling.”

Nibbs told the court she had no access to the kitchen facilities even though she had rented a room at the house for four years. 

Son Who Nicked Thousands From Mum Is Battling Wife To Sell Home

A middle-aged son, who nicked thousands of pounds from his mother, has been given more time to sell his matrimonial home to fund compensation before his sentencing.

Peter John-Baptiste, 54, claims his wife is being obstructive in selling the property and recently successfully blocked a sale.

He appeared at Isleworth Crown Court yesterday and was bailed to return on September 7 for sentence.

John-Baptiste, of Dudley Gardens, Harrow was originally charged with stealing £48,332.25 cash from Muriel John-Baptiste at her Trellick Tower flat in Golborne Road, North Kensington between December 1, 2015 and September 14, 2016.

He pleaded guilty last year and sentence was deferred to give him the opportunity to repay the money, but on February 21 suffered a stroke.

His property is valued between £460,000 and £480,000 and the court heard his wife took him to Uxbridge Family Court, in pursuing her own legal challenge.

She allegedly sacked estate agents prior to successful sales on three different occasions.

Scratchcard Thief Must Wait To Hear Her Fate

A late-night cleaner at Heathrow Airport, who secretly swiped £2,643 worth of Camelot scratch cards while sweeping WH Smiths, had her crown court sentencing adjourned today. 

Single mum Tracey Flitton, 39, of Birchdene Drive, Thamesmead was caught on CCTV clumsily trying to hide her face with a blue scarf, which quickly slipped off on camera.

When she cashed in the cards she collected winnings of £675.

She has already pleaded guilty to stealing the lottery scratch cards in Terminal 4 between January 12 and February 4 and acquiring criminal property, namely the winnings.

At Isleworth Crown Court today the Recorder announced: “No pre-sentence report was ordered. That’s surprising given the guidelines.”

The prosecution suggested an appropriate starting-point for the sentence would be a high-level community order.

The Recorder told Flitton: “These are your first offences and even though it is serious it does not call for immediate imprisonment.”

Flitton was bailed until July 3. “If you fail to appear that can be punishable by imprisonment,” the Recorder told her. 

She has already admitted the offence  and on that occasion prosecutor Miss Fiona Willis told Uxbridge Magistrates Court: “This matter regards theft by an employee. She was a cleaner sub-contracted via a company called Turquoise.

“She took scratch cards from the display unit of the landside store on five occasions.”

WH Smiths realised scratch cards were missing on February 8 and began an internal investigation.

“The CCTV showed a cleaner removing large quantities of scratch cards from the display in the early hours of the morning and the company she worked for identified her.”

Jamaican-born Flitton, who claims she is stressed by her wayward 15 year-old daughter, snubbed a meeting on February 9 and never returned to the airport again.

“On the first CCTV clip she is seen sweeping the floor at 2.37am and going behind the counter while still holding her broom and taking scratch cards from the display and putting them into a small bag.”

Another clip showed Flitton in the deserted store at 2.16am removing cards and not paying for them.

“In the third CCTV clip she is seen wearing a blue scarf and after taking more scratch cards at 1.52am she removes the scarf, revealing her face,” explained Miss Willis.

The next day she repeated the theft. “She pulls a wad of scratch cards from the display.”

On April 6 Flitton agreed to be interviewed by Heathrow police. “She made full admissions and said she made about six hundred pounds by cashing in the winning tickets.

“They were cashed-out at retailers in rapid succession.

“This is an abuse of trust. She had access to the shop in the middle of the night when no one else was around.”

Fat Controller Sentenced For Bus Station Gropes

A fat bus station controller, who groped the bottoms of two female drivers while embracing them between shifts, has been sentenced.  

Scott Robert Cairney, 55, asked one: “How do you like your eggs in the morning? I’ll fertilise them for you.”

He was fired from his job with Transport for London at busy Cromwell Road terminus, Kingston-upon-Thames, south-west London and now complains his life has been ruined.

The Scotsman, who has moved back to his mother’s Argyll home, was convicted of sexually assaulting both women on July 10, last year, then sexually assaulting one of them again on July 14. 

Last Friday Cairney, of Park Road, Dunoon, received an eighteen-month community order, which includes a sixty-day rehabilitation activity requirement.

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years and pay £200 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.

The former Dunoon Grammar schoolboy returned to his native Scotland after over five years in the post.

The first victim was beckoned over with her female colleague by a seated Cairney. 

“He is the controller so has some senior authority at the station,” she told Wimbledon Magistrates Court.

“He pulled me down by my left arm on top of him and squeezed my behind and moved his hand between my legs.

“It was my left cheek, he squeezed it twice and moved his hand in between.

“I pulled back and went off I was shocked and didn’t say anything to him. It caused me stress, I felt violated, someone touching my private parts.”

Her colleague said: “He opened his arms for a hug, which was not unusual and he hugged us together and squeezed my right butt cheek.

“Previously we had hugged him, that was the drill. I did not know what to think to be fair.”

The women exchanged texts afterwards with the first victim asking: ‘Did he feel up your arse? F***ing pervert. He’s a bock eyed tosser.’

The same woman was groped again four days later. “Someone came up behind me and put their arms around me like a bear hug.

“He was trying to kiss the back of my head. He let go and as I walked he grabbed my bottom again.

“I said: ‘Leave it out’ and he said: ‘What’s the matter with you?’ and I told him to: ‘F*** off.’

“He said: ‘How do you like your eggs in the morning? I’ll fertilise them for you.’

“He also said he wanted to strangle my boyfriend so he could be with me.”

Cairney denied groping the two woman. “I said: ‘C’mon over here.’ I put my arms out and the two of them leant over and I gave them a little hug.

“I didn’t touch anyone’s bottom and I certainly didn’t squeeze anyone’s bottom. That would be a disgusting thing to do.”

Regarding the second incident, which was caught on CCTV, he told the court: “I kissed her on the back of the head and said: ‘Okay sweetheart?’

“They are both lying. I did not touch their bottoms.”

He complained his life had been destroyed by the allegations. “How’s it effected my life? Where do I start?

“First of all I lost my job, my house, my car, my health. I had to move back to Scotland and to round it off I appeared in the local newspaper.”

District Judge Barbara Barnes told Cairney: “They both described how shocked and upset they were and one said she simply did not know what to do.

“The text exchange does support their account.

“The CCTV clearly shows you approaching her from behind and encircling her with your arms and kissing the back of her head.

“She extricated herself rapidly from your embrace.”

"Christian Grey Poseur" Gets 20 Years For Raping Two Young Women During Rough Sex "Adventure"

Man About Town: Gabbai

A self-styled ‘Christian Grey poseur’ who raped two young women to satisfy his desire for rough, submissive sex, has been jailed for twenty years today.

Cambridge graduate Edward Gabbai, 30, who enjoyed dominant role-playing sex like the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ title character was described as a “sexual adventurer” who averaged three new women a week. 

The entrepreneurial founder of The World Boutique Hotel Awards was convicted of raping a Swedish Tinder date, 20, and a drunken woman, 23, he picked-up late one night.

The Swedish woman had consented to adopting the submissive role in their relationship and admits she also enjoyed rough sex until Gabbai took things too far one night and had unprotected intercourse.

The drunken stranger was taken back to an address he was house-sitting and also subjected to rough non-consensual  sex, the lengthy Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court trial heard.

Gabbai, of Thornbury Gardens, Borehamwood, who has a PhD in microbiology and nanoscience, was cleared of raping a 17 year-old escort, plus two further rapes of the drunken young woman.

He received seven years for raping the Tinder date, plus thirteen years for raping the drunken woman to run consecutively and must sign the sex offenders register.

His lawyer Sarah Forshaw QC told the court: “If he saw himself as a young sexual adventurer with several sexual partners, a poseur of the Christian Grey variety, his downfall couldn’t have been starker.

“His thirst for sexual adventure with multiple women, thrill-seeking, is more in common with someone in their late-teens or early twenties.

“The convictions mean the loss of a once promising career, and a relationship. He faces financial and reputational ruin and he faces disgrace.”

Beginning Of The End: Gabbai Mugshot 

Gabbai is on suicide watch at HMP Wandsworth, where he was seen by a psycho-sexual psychiatrist for four hours, who concluded: “He was very motivated to have casual sexual relationships.”

Judge Timothy Lamb QC told Gabbai: “The psychological effect on each complainant is, in my view, ‘severe’”

Prosecutor Mr. Simon Russell Flint QC told the jury the drunken woman had never met Gabbai before and ended up in his cab during a drunken night out in Angel, Islington.

The jury were played mobile phone footage police seized from the defendant of her on her on her knees in the bathroom of Gabbai’s Battersea house sit in the midst of the rape.

“It shows a naked girl on her knees, she appears to be distressed and has been assaulted. You can hear the defendant say: ‘Tell me you will do anything I want,’ and see him slap her violently.

“The footage shows him telling her to put her arms behind her back and bottom in the air.

“She can be heard saying: ‘Please don’t, ouch, please don’t, ouch.’”

“This being rough and violent in the course of sexual activity, we say, is a common and repeating theme,” said Mr. Russell Flint. 

“Edward Gabbai likes to dominate sexually and inflict hurt and violence on those who he engages in sexual activity.”

Better Nights: Awards Chief Gabbai

The Swedish woman did initially consent to sex with Gabbai until she was raped in the bedroom of a Stoke Newington address, the jury were told.

“He picked her up and put her on all fours and started giving her orders as what to do. He pinned down her legs, pushed her down and started to become very aggressive.

“He started strangling so hard she could not breathe, bit her neck and ear so it left a visible mark, turned her head so he could slap her face and pulled her hair.

“He said: ‘That’s my favourite bit.’ She was screaming out and he continued to have sex with her.

“Facial injuries were caused by the defendant beating her up, quite frankly.”

She reported Gabbai to the police after becoming embarrassed about her parents seeing her in such a state and having to cancel her passport picture appointment at the Swedish Embassy.

“He said she liked rough sex. He said he hit her about twelve times, but at no time did she tell him to stop.”

The second complainant had been drinking in Angel and agreed to get in Gabbai’s shared Uber cab at 3.30am because she had no phone power to call her own.

However, once in the address she court heard Gabbai told her in the hallway: “You have got to let me do whatever I want to you.”

She felt vulnerable and intimidated by the “very angry” Gabbai, the court heard. “He pushed her onto the bed and slapped her on both cheeks very hard.

“She started crying immediately and he called her lots of names, like slut,” explained Mr. Russell Flint.

“He pushed down on her neck, she couldn’t breathe, was gasping for breath and she really thought he was going to suffocate her.

“She says she was hysterical, crying and unable to speak and was told: ‘If you cry out or try to go away I’ll make it worse for you.’

“She slapped her face, her bottom, her legs.”

Gabbai raped her, said the prosecutor, while instructing her to say she was only twelve years-old and announcing: ‘You’re a little twelve year-old girl.’

Later Gabbai unlocked the front door and took her phone number before she left and the young woman reported him to the police.

When examined she had thirty separate areas of injury.