Child Porn Addict Caught By Police

An online paedophile, who got his kicks from watching the hardest category of child porn, dodged jail on Friday for his “utterly obnoxious” collection.

Angelo Francis, 46, of Westcott Close, New Addington was arrested after a surprise police raid at his home – identified via his computer’s IP address.

He pleaded guilty at Croydon Crown Court to twenty-five sample counts of possessing indecent images, which included 10 movies at the highest level and 181 at the next highest.

The worst movies – which had been downloaded by Francis – involved sex acts, which included animals.

Police executed a search warrant at the address on October 5, last year and seized the defendant’s computer and a laptop.

Francis (pictured) immediately admitted he downloaded the obscene material and co-operated with police throughout, claiming the raid was the best thing that could have happened to him.

He described the movies and still images as “repulsive and sickening.”

The Recorder of Croydon Warwick McKinnon announced: “If he is sent to prison he simply will not get any proper treatment to turn him around. He will turn out worse than when he moved in.”

Francis was sentenced to a three-year community order with a requirement to attend a community sex offenders work group programme.

“Pornographic and sexual abuse of children was found on your computer, plus bestiality,” the judge told the defendant.

“These are extremely serious offences. To say they are distasteful is an understatement, they are utterly obnoxious to all right-minded people.

“Some would say you would richly deserve to go to prison today.”

A five-year Sexual Offenders’ Prevention Order was made prohibiting Francis to use the internet, except for a lawful purpose and he will sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for five years.”

Race-Hate Arson Attack On Hunger-Striking Asylum Seekers Tent

Iraqi asylum-seeker protesters on hunger-strike outside a Home Office building are: "Guests in this country exercising their right to protest," a Crown Court Recorder told a racist who tried to burn down their tent.

The four men - refused leave to remain in the UK - were three weeks into a demonstration outside Lunar House, Croydon when they were abused and their tent set ablaze.

Jobless Peter Sapwell, 35, of Lansdowne Road, Croydon pleaded guilty to attempted arson and racially aggravated threatening behaviour and was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for twelve months.

Mehran Meyari, 20, his brother Mahyar, 17, Keyvan Behari, 30 - whose lips were sown shut - and a fourth asylum-seeker are determined to stay in the UK despite their applications being refused.

"Four people were exercising their democratic right by taking part in a hunger-strike outside a Home Office building," Recorder Cairns Nelson QC told Sapwell.

"They are entitled to the protection of the law when involved in lawful protest."

Prosecutor Mr. Julius Capon told Croydon Crown Court Sapwell (pictured) abused the asylum-seekers on April 21 then returned the next day at 10.30am.

"He was very hostile and made various abusive remarks. He said: 'You fucking foreigners, the country is full of you. I don't have any human rights.'

"He used his cigarette lighter to set alight the support rope on the tent.

"The victims felt there were racial undertones and were upset by what was undoubtedly an unpleasant experience," added Mr. Capon.

Sapwell also tore up one of the signs the group had to bring attention to their hunger strike.

Police were called and Sapwell told officers: "I only went back to the tent for a bit of banter."

Sapwell will also have to complete 150 hours community service.

After the attack Mehran vowed: "We were shocked and scared by what happened, but it is not the first time.

"Since we came here people have thrown glass bottles at us and shouted from their cars.

"None of this matters. We are here until someone takes responsibility, until someone listens."

Twins Bring Double-Trouble In Boozy Bar Brawl

A pair of identical twins both battered a fellow bar customer who was bitten in the face and thrown into the road after they branded him a “nuisance” for pestering girls in their group.

The victim was left with a bite mark near his eye, a perforated eardrum and bruising and swelling around his head following the attack outside Be At One, Putney High Street.

Head chef Frazer Wood, 28, and his brother Christopher Wood, 28, both of Hayward Gardens, Putney were thrown out of the trendy venue (pictured) with the victim just after midnight on September 4, last year.

Frazer pleaded guilty at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court to assaulting Brendan Perivolaris, causing him actual bodily harm, and Christopher admitted the lesser charge of common assault.

Prosecutor Miss Jennifer Newcomb told the court the brothers became “angry” in the bar and were ejected along with Mr. Perivolaris, who they were arguing with.

“Outside the victim was punched to the back of the head and a fight ensued and he does remember being bitten in the face.”

Neither twin took responsibility for inflicting the bite.

“They were clearly the aggressors and were seen both punching the victim,” added Miss Newcomb.

“Frazer was pulled away twice, but returned to the victim and punched him in the face with a clenched fist.

“He was pulled away again, but returned, flinging Mr. Perivolaris into the main road, landing face first.”

Frazer was arrested on the spot when police arrived and Christopher arrested a month later.

The first-time offenders claim they were initially acting in self-defence, but admit this became excessive.

The Wood’s accuse the victim of being a “nuisance” in another local bar towards girls in their group hours earlier and continuing the behaviour in Be At One.

Judge Nicholas Jones told the twins: “You have both lost your good character.

“You and another man were evicted in the late evening early hours of a Saturday night in an incident that involved some degree of provocation.

“You went over the top and used excessive force and this was aggravated by the two of you being involved.”

Frazer was sentenced to a twelve-month community order with 180 hours community service and was ordered to pay £150 compensation to the victim.

Christopher was fined £350 and also ordered to pay £150 compensation.

S.M.N Celeb Spot: No. 1 - Jane Asher

Spotted at Kingston Railway Station in South-West London yesterday was celebrated actress turned cake entrepreneur Jane Asher.

While Square Mile News normally concentrates on covering the courts we could not turn down the chance of some paparazzi-style news.

The former squeeze of Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and all-around 60's It Girl was just a face in the crowd of sombre commuters as she sat waiting for the 4:oopm service to Clapham Junction.

Jane, 65, may have been on her way to her cake shop in upmarket Chelsea, which has proved to be as successful as her acting career.

She has also penned three novels and and published more than a dozen lifestyle, costuming and cake decorating books.

But never mind that. All we want to know is: "What's in your carrier bag Jane?"

'Bus Baby Buggy Rage' Man Cleared

A man accused of a 'bus baby buggy rage' attack on disabled mum as they travelled on a crowded double-decker burst into tears as he was cleared by a jury today.

Electrician Wayne McCatty, 34, of Stroud Crescent, Putney (pic.bottom) tried to force a buggy carrying a small child into a tiny space and admits punching the mother and her husband in self-defence when a row broke out.

Nova Whiting-Willet, 36,(pic.top) received injuries on the packed number 85 double-decker while travelling with her three year-old daughter and husband Anders, 32(pic.top) in Kingston, South-West London on September 19, last year.

The Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court jury found McCatty not guilty of assaulting Mrs Whiting-Willet, causing her actual bodily harm, and assaulting her husband.

The defendant claimed he was abused and was forced to protect himself when Mrs Whiting-Willet told her husband: "Just hit him."

McCatty admitted he was the man captured on the bus's CCTV when giving himself up to police three months later after a media appeal.

He had boarded the Kingston to Roehampton service with his partner, her seven year-old child and younger child in the buggy at 1.45pm that Sunday afternoon.

Mrs Whiting-Willet admitted lashing out, but insisted it was only after the defendant grabbed her. "It was not hard and it was only once," she told the court.

McCatty told officers he "decked" Mr Whiting-Willet, but this was only after Nova ordered her husband to hit him.

The defendant was not legally aided and was awarded legal costs from central funds.

The jury returned majority verdicts on both counts.

Russian Celebration: Did CCTV Capture A Wanted Rapist?

Police hunting a rapist, who attacked a 22 year-old woman after giving her and her friends a lift from an East London nightclub in the early hours, wish to identify this suspect.

The victim and her three pals got into a BMW outside the club in Barking Road, East Ham on November 21, last year and she was attacked in a wooded area after they were dropped off.

The suspect parked in Romford, Essex and subjected the woman to a 45-minute ordeal on the back seat – punching her in the chest when she struggled – then dropped her off at a bus stop in Victoria Road.

He is described as Lithuanian and spoke Russian throughout the incident.

He is white, aged 25-30, around 6 feet tall, with dark brown shortish hair, blue eyes - the left one permanently half-closed, a large nose, clean-shaven and slim.

He wore a cream cardigan with dark brown wooden buttons down the front and white jeans. He may be called Darius.



The BMW is described as blue or black.



Despite extensive enquiries, detectives have been unable to trace the suspect but he is believed to have been captured on CCTV at a Russian celebration in Trafalgar Square on Sunday March 6.



Anyone with information about the suspect or who recognises him is asked to please contact Sapphire on 01708 779 685 or if you wish to remain anonymous call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Fifteen Years For Dominating Paedophile's Campaign Of Abuse

A paedophile who abused two young schoolgirls – repeatedly raping one of them for several years – was jailed for fifteen years yesterday for the “horrendous” attacks.

Donald Mead, 66, of Orbital Crescent, Watford, Hertfordshire was trusted by the girls’ immediate families and took advantage of this to ply the girls with alcohol and groom them for sex.

The rape victim – now aged twenty – was sexually abused by Mead from the age of 11 up until his arrest and the other girl – now aged thirty-four – was assaulted for two months when aged 13.

He was convicted at Croydon Crown Court on thirteen counts, which included anal rape; attempted anal rape; indecent assault; gross indecency and taking indecent images after forcing his victims’ to give evidence.

The jury told the girls, from the South-East London area were left “depressed and suicidal” and the rape victim had slashed her wrists.

She told police after Mead was convicted: “I feel that I can breathe again, that a weight has been taken off my shoulders and I do not feel scared anymore.”

The abuse started with the defendant’s seemingly innocent wrestling and karate workouts with the girl, but escalated to Mead performing oral sex on her and later raping the youngster.

Mead also pleasured himself to indecent photographs he took of her and collected pictures of girls in school uniforms.

“These thirteen charges represent your systematic, cynical sexual abuse from 1991 to 2008.” Judge Shani Barnes told the defendant.

“The effect on these two women has been devastating and the victim who was abused for two months has contemplated suicide this year.

“The rape victim’s statement to police was the most harrowing video evidence I have ever had to witness,” added the judge.

“The self-loathing you were responsible for was unbearable and the damage you have caused will last a long time.

“What you have done to these girls is horrendous.

“These families welcomed you with open arms and treated you with respect, which gave you easy access to the young girls in those families and they spoke of what a fun and wonderful person you were.

The first victim’s nightie was lifted up by Mead, who then pulled her knickers down and rubbed his penis against her buttocks and thighs.

He also penetrated her with his finger as she innocently shared a Brighton hotel room bed with Mead and his then girlfriend.

“Your next victim was a good natured compliant girl, the perfect girl for you to groom, dominate and abuse,” Judge Barnes told Mead.

The systematic rape of this victim continued for four years between the ages of thirteen and sixteen.

Mead received an indeterminate sentence for public protection – with a fifteen-year minimum and extended five-year licence period – and was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life.

City Handbag Thief Dodges Jail

A Crawley handbag thief, who preyed on a string of women in busy locations in London’s financial district, has dodged jail despite a history of similar previous crimes.

Jobless Paul Edward Regan, 47, of Puffin Road, Ifield was linked to the spate of thefts after a police officer recognised him from a CCTV appeal.

He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates’ Court to stealing a purse containing £30 from Patricia Diaz at The Liberty Bounds pub,Tower Hill (pictured) on January 17.

Regan also asked for three similar offences to be taken into consideration namely stealing a black purse containing £20 from Jennifer Fairhurst on September 30; a purse from Marjan Bos-Beuving on November 28 and a purse containing £28 from Harriet Williams on December 13, last year.

Prosecutor Miss Alexa Morgan told the court Ms Diaz was sitting with a friend in the upper level of the pub when she noticed her handbag had been moved away from her chair.

When she looked inside her purse and mobile phone were missing.

CCTV captured Regan stealing the items and he was linked to the crime plus the other thefts while being held in custody when an officer recognised him.

Regan was remanded in custody between April and June and eventually received a community order coupled with a curfew at Kingston Crown Court for other offences.

The drug addict, who lives with his mother, has thirteen pages of previous convictions, but the magistrates decided to allow the community order to continue.

Booze Binge Ends In Crack Cocaine Arrest

A recovering alcoholic, who downed fifteen cans of lager at the end of a nine-day drinking binge after splitting with his girlfriend, was caught with eight rocks of crack cocaine by police.

Jobless Jay Bull, 45, of 13 Hutton Close, Hertford was completing a seven-month residential alcohol rehabilitation treatment in Shoreditch when he fell off the wagon.

He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates’ Court (pictured) to possessing the class A drug in Lime Street on August 17 and was conditionally discharged for two years.

“He said he had recently split with his girlfriend and wanted to get wasted and that day had drunk fifteen cans of lager,” said prosecutor Miss Alexa Morgan.

Bull had been stopped and searched by suspicious police who found seven rocks in the defendant’s pocket and one in his hand.

He tested negative for illicit drugs at the police station.

Bull admitted spending £90 on the drugs.

The crack was forfeited and destroyed and Bull was also ordered to pay £85 costs.

Disabled Mum Battered To Floor In 'Bus Baby Buggy Rage' Attack

A disabled bus passenger was battered unconscious to the floor in a sickening 'baby buggy rage' attack because she wouldn't move her three year-old daughter's pushchair, a court heard today.

Nova Whiting-Willet, 36, was travelling on a packed number 85 double-decker with husband Anders, 32, and was in the crowded buggy area, where passengers had also left suitcases.

Wayne McCatty, 34,(pic.bottom) of Stroud Crescent, Putney tried to force a buggy carrying a small child into the tiny space and admits punching the couple as the row escalated.

"I told him I could not move either way," Mrs Whiting-Willet - who has auto-immune disease lupus - told Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court. "He said aggressively: 'You are going to have to fucking move'.

"He said: 'If you weren't so fucking fat you'd be able to move you fat ugly bitch.'

"I pleaded with him to stop because my daughter was crying and he said: 'What are you going to do? Eat me or something?'

"He was trying to ram his buggy into a place where there was not any room with the suitcases there," she told the jury.

"He kept making threats that he would have his boys waiting for us when we got off the bus.

"He grabbed my right arm very, very tightly. I couldn't get him off me and I remember being punched on the side of the head and being on the floor very quickly.

"He had hold of my head and was banging it against the floor and I felt him stamping on my head, shoulder, stomach and legs and kicking me in the back," added Mrs Whiting-Willet,(pic.r.) who broke down in tears several times while giving evidence.

He said: 'I'm going to fucking kill you white bitch' and remember something very sharp and very painful that took my breath away.

"I think it was several punches to my stomach."

Mrs Whiting-Willet's sunglasses, which protect her from damaging UV exposure to her immune system, were smashed during the row.

"There was glass everywhere because my glasses were punched into my forehead and my hands and face were covered in blood.

"I think I was knocked out, I can't remember. I was face-down on the floor in the foetal position."

Husband Anders(pic.l.) was further down the bus and was also punched in the face by McCatty when he tried to calm the defendant down, the jury were told.

"I had huge bruises on my forehead and all down the side of my face with huge swelling and a cut to my forehead," Mrs Whiting-Willet told the court.

"All down my right side was black from bruising plus my thigh, even my shins and I lost a tooth.

'I was kicked so hard in the stomach I started to bleed even though it was not my period and it continued on and off for three months."

No passengers intervened and they stepped over the prone victim as they exited the bus for another service.

McCatty admitted he was the man captured on the bus's CCTV when giving himself up to police three months later, but claims he struck the couple in self-defence.

He had boarded the Kingston to Roehampton service with his partner, her seven year-old child and younger child in the buggy at 1.45pm that Sunday afternoon.

Mrs Whiting-Willet admitted lashing out, but insisted it was only after the defendant grabbed her. "It was not hard and it was only once."

McCatty told officers he "decked" Mr Whiting-Willet, but this was only after Nova told her husband: "Just hit him."

McCatty has pleaded not guilty to assaulting Mrs Whiting-Willet, causing her actual bodily harm, on September 19, last year and assaulting Anders as the bus travelled up Kingston Hill.

Top Judge Sir Mathew Dodges Maximum Ban

A senior Appeal Court Judge was forced to get on his bike today after he lost his licence for 56 days for speeding through a red light - his fourth motoring offence in just eighteen months.

He could have been disqualified for six months, but convinced District Judge Daphne Wickham - the chief stipendiary magistrate for England and Wales - this would cause 'exceptional hardship' to his farming work.

Sir Mathew Thorpe, 73, of Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire admitted failing to comply with a red light in Victoria Embankment on February 3 and was also fined £250, with £250 costs.

City of Westminster Magistrates' Court heard Sir Mathew - a family law expert - had clocked up nine penalty points for speeding in November 2009; July 2010 and April this year.

An additional three penalty points were added for the red light offence making him liable for disqualification.

His Skoda Fabia was snapped by a traffic camera jumping the red light at 39-mph at 6.55am.

"I do rely on the car to get between my two places of work, but more importantly for my farming in Wiltshire," Sir Mathew told the court.

"The farm buildings are the hub of the wheel. Cattle have to be fed by driving around the hub. I work three days a week on the farm."

Sir Mathew told the court he is separated from his wife and has one part-time employee to help him, insisting it was not practical to find more staff

"It would be difficult, I can't say impossible, but in a small community I can't think of anyone qualified or suitable.

"I would want somebody who knew what they were doing on a farm."

Sir Mathew said he needed to drive animal feed a distance of one-and-a-half miles to take care of his cattle.

his lawyer Yvette Kresner said: "It is a very difficult junction. There is a large bike lane and two other lanes.

"It was a split-second decision by Sir Mathew not to cause danger to other road users and go through the lights."

District Judge Wickham - who knows Sir Mathew professionally - announced: "He is entitled to put these circumstances in front of me and six months would be a long time for the defendant to be disqualified if he was able to maintain that aspect of his life."

Dodgy Driver Banned

A web designer, cleared of driving a car while high on drugs, has been banned from the roads for six months after police caught him racing away from traffic lights and cutting up traffic.

Alexander William Daniel, 22, of Teffont Evias, Salisbury, Wiltshire was visiting friends in the capital when stopped by City of London police.

He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates’ Court (pictured) to driving his Ford Mondeo, without due care and attention, in London Wall on February 19.

A charge of driving while unfit through drugs, which Daniel denied, was withdrawn by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Prosecutor Miss Alexa Morgan told the court at was 7:25pm on a Saturday night when police began following Daniel due to the erratic manner of his driving.

“At the traffic lights the vehicle took off at speed with wheels spinning and cut in front of other traffic.

“It did the same again at the next set of traffic lights, with the defendant speeding away and braking.”

Daniel, who has eight penalty points on his driving licence, has motoring convictions for speeding and driving without due care.

He told the court he was running late for a meeting with a friend and any disqualification would hit his fledgling business hard as he lives in the countryside with his mother - a fifteen minute drive from the nearest train station without a regular bus route.

“Your life may become more inconvenient, but you will not suffer exceptional hardship,” bench chairwoman Jennifer Chapman told Daniel.

“Our first concern is public safety.”

The magistrates fined Daniel £100, with £115 costs, endorsed his licence with six penalty points and disqualified him from driving for six months.

Wine Boss's Cocaine Shame

The sales director of a wine merchants, caught for the second time this year with cocaine as he entertained clients, has dodged prison with a suspended sentence.

Robert Scott Phillips, 40, of Osborne Road, Hornchurch, Essex pleaded guilty to possessing five wraps of the party drug when his black Jaguar car was stopped by City of London police on August 16.

Prosecutor Ms Safira Afzal told City of London Magistrates Court (pictured) officers pulled over Phillips, who had two passengers with him, and immediately admitted he had the cocaine in his pocket.

The married father-of-two is currently receiving drug counselling after a similar conviction in January and the probation service urged the court not to activate a suspended sentence hanging over him.

The court was told Phillips was out entertaining clients as his Polish wife and children, aged five and eight years-old, were visiting her home country.

“You have a young family, have a leadership position in a business and the probation service have told us you are responding to the previous orders and that is what is stopping you going to prison today,” bench chairman Doug Rice told the defendant.

“It was a knife-edge decision and you were very close to going down.

“Courts do not place suspended sentences on defendants to find six months later they have stuck two fingers up at them.

“Maybe you have caught us on a good day. You are a lucky man.”

Phillips was sentenced to four weeks imprisonment, suspended for six months, ordered to pay £85 costs and placed on a six-month supervision order with a drug rehabilitation requirement.