Playboy Model's Phone Smashed During Kensington Neighbour Row

"Horrified and Terrified": Galojan

A Playboy cover model’s ongoing decade-long feud with her Kensington neighbour erupted again when the ex-pin-up’s phone was snatched out of her hand and smashed to pieces, a court heard.

Estonian Anna-Marie Galojan, 43, was once voted one of the world’s most beautiful female politicians during her time with her home nation’s Reform Party.

Unfortunately, that political career ended in disgrace with a prison sentence for a €60,000 fraud, but she has resurrected herself with the Conservatives and is a member of their Campden Ward Committee within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

She gave evidence at City of London Magistrates’ Court, claiming she was punched and pushed by upstairs neighbour Silva Manuela Odette, 52, outside their address.

Both reside in the seven-block Campden House, Peel Street - social housing surrounded by £3m homes - and clashed on the afternoon of March 24 when Galojan was with friend Paul Halloran.

He supported the former model during the trial, but the neighbourly ill-feeling boiled over and he was ejected from the courtroom when Odette accused him of intimidation from the public gallery by constantly glaring at her in the dock.

In 2014 Odette was arrested at the block when Galojan called the police, but no further action was taken.

Odette claims Galojan does not even live there and keeps reporting her to management and calling the police in an attempt to have her evicted from the desirable property in the heart of an exclusive neighbourhood.

“I was standing outside, waiting for my friend to join me for lunch when the defendant came and approached us in a rude and aggressive way,” Galojan told the trial.

“She was shouting and screaming and being extremely aggressive as always and accusing me of following her, which I never did because I am terrified of her and avoid her.”

She was staying: ’Stop filming me,’ but it was the only way to defend myself. “I started filming when she approached and started screaming and shouting at me.

“She snatched my phone from my hand, took it violently and smashed it on the ground and then started to break my phone against a wall, causing the whole wall to collapse.”

Odette says the weight of Mr Halloran caused the wall to collapse as he leaned into her in an attempt to retrieve the phone.

“She punched me and pushed me twice in the chest.” continued Galojan. “It was very strong, she is very strong and was very angry.

Smashed Phone: Odette

“I was so horrified and terrified. She was extremely aggressive.

“We tried to collect what was left of the phone, but there wasn’t much left. There was nothing left.

“My friend called the police because I did not have a phone and Manuela was staring at us from the stairs, looking very proud and happy with herself.”

When cross-examined by Odette’s lawyer Hamza Adesanu, Galojan told the court: “It wasn’t the first time she has attacked me and she was arrested before.

“I never intended to provoke her and I didn’t approach her and she has an injunction to stop approaching residents of the block.

“I was shaking and crying. I had been attacked and I am not used to such aggressive behaviour.”

The trial heard Odette has complained about the ‘conduct and behaviour’ of Galojan, but the complainant replied: “She attacked me downstairs in 2014 and the police were called.

“It was not the first time or last time she has been arrested for being aggressive towards neighbours.”

Galojan was extradited back to her native Estonia in 2015 to serve five months of a twenty-two month sentence for fraud while the CEO of non-profit European Movement Estonia.

“You have a record for dishonesty don’t you? Are you an honest person?” asked Mr Adesanu.

Prosecutor Robert Simpson objected to the line of questioning, but Mr Adesanu submitted: “Her honesty is a matter of issue. Her trustworthiness goes to the heart of the case.”

The lawyer asked Galojan. “This complaint today is revenge against Ms Odette for making complaints against you, isn’t it?”

When questioned by police Odette claimed she was deliberately pushed into the wall by Mr Halloran while her hair was pulled by a ‘smirking’ Galojan.

Odette told the trial: “Since 2018 she has been filming me to get a reaction to get me evicted. She was filming and smirking and said she was in a public street.

“I got fed up and snapped and grabbed the phone, threw it on the floor and kicked it and then smashed it against the wall,” she admitted.

“The wall collapsed with the weight of Paul as she was grabbing my hair. With his weight he pushed me against the wall and the wall collapsed.

Galojan & Paul Halloran

“I never touched the lady. I took my anger out on the phone because she was filming me. That’s it, nothing else.

“I wish I could go to my home peacefully, without playing these games and smirking with the phone.

“She plays the victim and I just want a peaceful life,” added Odette, who volunteers at a community garden. “She is very good at creating stories and the distortion of reality.

“This has been going on for ten years, she is harassing me.”

Referring to Galojan and Mr Halloran she said: “Both of them are so dishonest and are liars.”

Earlier Mr Simpson told the magistrates: “The two of them are residents in the block and on the day the defendant approached the complainant in the street.

“Ms Galojan has her phone out and is filming and this defendant knocks the phone out of her hand and smashes the phone and pushes her in the chest.

“You will see a short clip of footage demonstrating the state of anger this defendant was in.”

The short clip, recorded by Galojan, was played in court, showing an angry Odette demanding the filming stops before she lunges forward to grab the mobile.

Odette was found not guilty of assault with bench Chairwoman Margaret Diane Lennan announcing: “There is a lack of credible evidence in this case and it is unproven.”

However, Odette had already pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to the phone and was conditionally discharged for twelve months and ordered to pay £500 compensation to Galojan.

Jailed: Fraudster Who Scammed 74 Year-Old Cancer Patient

A fraudster, whose heartless gang preyed on a 74 year-old cancer patient, swindling him out of £74,000, has been locked-up.

Klaudiusz Majewski, 49, provided fraudulently-opened bank accounts into which his Indian accomplices “cashed out” the proceeds of their cruel scam.

He fled to Germany when City of London Police investigated the fraud and was eventually hunted down and extradited back to the UK.

Fortunately, most of the money was traced and returned to the retired nuclear physicist, but sadly he has since passed away.

At Inner London Crown Court Majewski, of Wolsey Avenue, East Ham received two-and-a-half years imprisonment.

He pleaded guilty to:

Possession / control identity documents with intent.

Possession / control article for use in fraud.

Possession / control identity documents with intent and Possession / control article for use in fraud.

Majewski had been operating as part of an organised crime group, alongside Avinash Kakumanu, Dinesh Alavala and Ranjit Nellikondi, who were previously convicted in 2018 for their role within the scheme.

The bank accounts he provided were utilised to transfer the stolen funds into from call centre scams operating from India.

The group had been cold calling elderly and vulnerable victims, claiming to have been officers from the National Crime Agency. 

Victims were informed that their devices were being used for criminal purposes and they needed to transfer large amounts of money to other accounts.

One of the victims was a 74-year-old man, who had been diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer at the time of the offending. 

He was told to carry out a number of transactions, having believed he had been the victim of money laundering.

Detectives seized roughly £120,000 and managed to return the majority of the stolen money to the victim during the earlier stages of the investigation.

Detective Inspector Michael O’Sullivan from the City of London Police said: “The victim in this case has unfortunately passed away, but we did not give up in our relentless pursuit of justice. Majewski will now answer for his crimes.

“Although this heinous act took place many years ago, we have not forgotten and will not forget victims of fraud.”

Decorated Policeman's Career Over After Molesting Two WPC's

An award-winning Police Sergeant’s career is in ruins after he molested two female officers during his alcohol-fuelled birthday celebration with colleagues at an O’Neills pub, a court heard.

Tim Clarkson, 37, was described as taking the evening as an opportunity to “try it on” with multiple female officers as his marriage to a policewoman fell apart.

A visibly emotional Clarkson today appeared in the dock at Staines Magistrates’ Court, where he received an eighteen-month Community Order, which includes 200 hours community service work.

The court heard he has quit the Hampshire Constabulary, where he was facing certain dismissal and is £40,000 in debt and continuing to co-parent his children with his estranged wife.

Last year, he and four fellow-officers received a National Police Bravery Award after he was first on the scene and successfully disarmed a suspect brandishing a handgun and two explosive devices.

At the Gosport address on August 28, 2023 the 54 year-old suspect detonated one of the devices and pointed his gun at Clarkson, who tasered him and dragged him from the smoke-filled property.

Clarkson, of Shore House, Newton Road, Warsash, Southampton pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault at the Winchester pub on July 20, last year.

He will now also suffer the ignominy of signing the sex offenders register for the next five years at Southampton Central Police Station.

District Judge Julie Cooper said: “I am not going to name the ladies, who were also police officers at the time.

“Both offences are incidents of touching with the first lady’s hand being taken by Clarkson and placed on his penis over his clothing and pulling another lady towards him and his apparently erect penis.”

Elaborating on the first incident Judge Cooper explained: “He pulled her close to him and said quite a few sexually-related things.

“He said to her: ‘What the f*** did you have to bring your boyfriend for?’ and that he would like to take her back to his hotel and touched her on top of her clothing.

“It was Mr Clarkson’s birthday and he had clearly been drinking and the second lady was dancing when he pulled her into him and caused her to touch what she believed to be his erect penis.”

In her victim impact statement the first female officer said: “As a result of this incident I have lost my trust in supervisors and I am very wary and want to keep my distance.

“Sometimes I question myself since this happened and ask myself why I did not turn around and say something.

“He had relationship issues with his wife and this occasion was an opportunity to get drunk and try it on with multiple people.

“It was a works night out with colleagues I trusted.

“He was in a position of trust and I feel depressed, stressed and hurt.”

The second female officer said in her impact statement: “I think about what happened, going over and over the events as to why this happened.

“I did not want to make a formal complaint, but I feel really angry about what happened and I no longer enjoy the job I loved.

“I have had to start taking anti-depressants again and have had three panic attacks at home.

“I am concerned he believes he can behave like this in the future around other female officers and I would feel guilty if I did not report it as I could have prevented it for them.”

Judge Cooper also ordered Clarkson to pay £500 compensation to each victim and complete ten days of a rehabilitation activity requirement.

“The pre-sentence report sets out clearly what happed and as a result of this the marriage, that was rocky, has completely broken down and I am aware Mr Clarkson has resigned, knowing that he would have been sacked.

“He has given service, excellent service to the public and is a person of good character, but acted appallingly against two women he worked with,” said the judge.

“They were all on night out and all seemed to have been drinking, but this does not excuse his behaviour.

“To impose less than five hundred pounds compensation to each woman would be derisory.”

Cancer Expert's Internet Child Sex Shame

A consultant cancer specialist’s brilliant career is in danger of ruin after he was caught in a police sting downloading hundreds of explicit images of underage girls.

Consultant urologist Paul Sturch, 41, who treats prostate cancer, received a suspended prison sentence on Thursday and will also face professional disciplinary proceedings.

He pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children between September 9 and October 17, 2023.

The charges reflect 831 Category A - the most serious - moving and still images; Category B images and 6776 Category C.

Police raided his Thameside apartment in Hitch Quay, Wandsworth after he was identified chatting online with an undercover officer concerning his interest in girls aged four years-old and up.

Sturch, who studied at the Royal College of Surgeon, has not returned to work at King’s College Hospital, Camberwell and describes himself as: “Appalled, crushed and overwhelmed by remorse and shame.”

Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court heard his mental health deteriorated while working on the medical front-line of the Covid pandemic.

“The General Medical Council (GMC) are aware and a custodial sentence would almost certainly end his career, but not if you follow the recommendation of the pre-sentence report of a community sentence,” Simon Ray KC, defending, told Judge Anne Brown.

Earlier, prosecutor Jonathan Gold told the court: “His address was searched and he was seen attempting to tamper with or destroy a memory stick on which images were found along with a white iPhone.

“There are some aggravating features, the ages of some of the children are quite young, some are as young as four years-old.”

His KC reminded the court Sturch’s offending was purely online and did not involve physical contact with children and he still has ambitions to return to the medical profession.

“There is nothing professionally that brings him into contact with children. His speciality is very much adult men,” said Mr Ray.

“He was working to exhaustion to save lives during the Covid 19 pandemic and he has dedicated his life to the care of others.

“This frontline work on the Covid ward contributed to his mental disintegration that led to the commission of these offences.

“He takes full responsibility for his actions and offending, although he recalls little of his offending actions.

“He is a consultant urological surgeon with a speciality in prostate cancer, undertaking life-saving procedures. He has skills that are rare.

“If ever there was a case where the court can be sure offences will not be repeated its is this one.

“The effect on the defendant losing his career and everything he has worked for would be devastating. Work is his identity and it is something he has worked on all of his life,” added Mr Ray.

“If the defendant is struck-off it would be a personal tragedy and the NHS would lose a talented surgeon.”

Judge Brown sentenced Sturch to six months imprisonment, suspended for eighteen months, which includes thirty days of a rehabilitation activity requirement.

He will also be under Probation Service supervision for eighteen months, must sign the sex offenders register for seven years and was made subject to a seven-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which restricts his internet use, plus further conditions.

“There were children under obvious distress and I will not go into details in open court,” announced Judge Brown. “We must take the age and vulnerability of the children into account.

“It is not for me to second-guess the GMC. I have to decide if there is an alternative to a custodial sentence.

“I do not think it is helpful to guess what the GMC will do in the future. I don’t know their work,” said the judge.

“By the time the police came to his flat he was no longer going to work,” said Mr Ray. “The police bodyworn camera presents a powerful of where he was at the time in his life. his state and the state of his flat.”

The defence submitted medical reports revealed Sturch had a depressive disorder that led to “poor judgement and impulsivity.”

“People can function when they really, really have to, but behind the scenes they are collapsing,” added Mr Ray.