Wednesday 11 July 2012

Fleeing Robbery Victim Killed By Express Train


A terrified young man - desperately trying to flee two teenage mobile phone muggers - was chased onto railway tracks as he dialled 999 and struck by a 100mph express train, a jury were told today.


Apprentice electrician Lewis Ghessen, 22, had run into Harrow and Wealdstone station at 8.40pm and sprinted along the platform, telling the operator he feared for his life and was being pursued by "mad guys," Isleworth Crown Court was told.


Dominic Morris, 19, of Leavesden Road, Watford and a 16 year-old Harrow youth have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and attempting to rob Mr. Ghessen on September 25, last year.


"He ran onto the tracks because he was trying to escape these two defendants, because they were trying to rob him," said prosecutor Mr. Julian Evans.


Mr. Ghessen, from Paddington, (pictured) was already celebrating his twenty-third birthday, which was the next day, and had been drinking and smoking cannabis and had taken ecstasy and amphetamine in the hours before his death.


After celebrating a christening at the Royal British Legion Club, Queens Park, Mr. Ghessen took a rail replacement bus to the station, and during the journey hugged fellow-passengers, tried to kiss girls, talked football with strangers and revealed he had a wrap of white powder.


After leaving the bus he went to a chicken takeaway shop in the nearby high street.


"These defendants had seen the victim in the high street and he was in possession of two mobile phones," explained Mr. Evans. "Having seen these two phones these defendants targeted him and planned to rob him.


"They approached him in the high street and there was some sort of confrontation when they tried to rob him. The victim ran to the station to try and get away and he tried to get into a car stationary at traffic lights.


"He went into the station to avoid getting robbed and these defendants pursued Mr. Ghessen to rob him.


"Mr. Ghessen crawled beneath the ticket barrier that guards access to the station platform and went into the station itself and ran up the stairs to the bridge that provides access to the platforms.


"As he went up the stairs at speed he appears to have stumbled and dropped one of those phones, picked it up, and continued up the stairs and then down to platform six," added Mr. Evans.


"These two defendants went into the same entrance and pursued, followed Mr. Ghessen into the station, not out of concern for his welfare, but because they were trying to rob him.


"These two defendants were acting together, supporting each other. They entered the station thirty seconds after the victim and they both ran up the same stairs Mr. Ghessen had run up, now a little closer behind.


"They looked out of the window that provides a view to the tracks below and having seen him running down platform six they continued their pursuit and ran down the same stairs and platform Mr. Ghessen had been fleeing along."


By now terrified Mr. Ghessen called 999. "During that call he told the operator he was being chased by 'mad guys' and said he did not want to lose his life.


"He said several times he did not want to get robbed and told the operator he nearly got hit by a train and was now on the tracks.


"He called a friend, but this call ended abruptly because he was hit and killed by an express train travelling at approximately one hundred miles per hour.


"That caused the victim severe and serious injuries consistent with a high velocity impact, a glancing blow.


"The prosecution case is that the victim ran onto the railway tracks because he was trying to avoid these two defendants who were trying to rob him, having pursued him up those stairs," added Mr. Evans.


Trial continues……….

Tuesday 10 July 2012

"I Did Not Want Any Trouble" Claims Teen Accused Of Murder


A teenager, accused of murdering a partially-sighted car crash victim who was stabbed to death during a late-night row, has told a jury the knife belonged to the deceased, who was the aggressor.


Jordan Kelly-Flattery, 19, of West Close, Hitchin admits stabbing 36 year-old Stondon man Graham 'Snowy' Snowden (pic.bottom) at the house in Milestone Road in the early hours of January 8, but denies murder.


He told Croydon Crown Court a group, including the deceased and his drinking-pal Shane Howard, had gathered at the house.


"It was alright at first. We were all laughing and joking and listening to music," said Kelly-Flattery (pic.top).


"I saw Shane get out a wrap of white powder and the man he was with, Graham, got out a card and they both sniffed it.


"This man, Graham, then tried to stand up and it looked like he was going to fall over so I pushed him back down and said: 'Relax. You're going to fall over'.


"He tried to get up again and I pushed him down again and said: 'You're going to hurt yourself, you're drunk.'


"They both stunk of alcohol and were still drinking.


"He got up, wobbled a bit, and got in my face and said: 'I'm a big man, you can't push me down' and slapped me in the face.


"I was a bit shocked and in fear. I did not want any trouble," explained Jordan-Flattery.


"Shane walked out of the front door and I was pulled into the corridor by Graham. He put his hand out and twice said: 'Are we cool?'


"I put my hand on his hand and said: 'Yes' and as soon as I put my hand on his he punched me to the side of the face and to my stomach, which winded me and I fell to my knees.


"He tried to swing his foot towards me, like a kick, and was struggling to pull something out of his waistband.


"As he did it dropped to the floor and at that point I was scared for my life because I noticed it was kitchen knife.


"The man went for the knife, but I was trying to go for the knife as well because I had a feeling I was going to be stabbed.


"I managed to get my hand on the knife and he came and attacked me again and I pushed him.


"He swung a punch at me and I pushed him again and he fell against the bannister of the stairs.


"I looked at my hand and saw there was blood on it and realised what I had done," added the defendant. "I said: 'I've stabbed him'."


Trial continues………….

Monday 9 July 2012

Accountant Accused Of Stealing £166K To Bankroll Spendy Wife


An trusted accountant "systematically stole" £166,000 from his employers, claiming he needed the money to fund his post-natal depressed wife's feel-good spending spree, a jury has been told.


Ian Lodwick, 55, of Station House, Askenham Road, Westcott, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire was in full control of the company's banks accounts, knew all the online passwords and kept the firm's chequebook in his desk.


He was employed by Isleworth chartered surveyors Michael Richards & Co. from 2000 until he left amicably in January 2010, but financial discrepancies were discovered by a new firm of accountants when they carried out an audit.


"The Crown say Mr. Lodwick was stealing from his employers, transferring money he was not entitled to to his account and misled the partners of the firm into writing him cheques he was not entitled to," prosecutor Mr. Tyrone Silcott told Isleworth Crown Court (pictured).


"It all went into Mr. Lodwick's or his wife's bank account."


Accountants Glazers completed an audit after the defendant's departure and after discovering a £43,000 shortfall invited Lodwick in to explain.


"He said in that meeting he had received unauthorised payments and that his wife was spending a lot of money and was suffering post-natal depression."


Lodwick denied taking any more, but a probe revealed £166,642 missing from the company's bank account.


"During his time as an accountant with the company Mr. Lodwick was the only person with access to the partnership's number two bank account," explained Mr. Silcott.


"He was the only person who knew the online passwords and money was transferred electronically to other accounts held by himself and his wife.


"It is no more complicated than somebody having their hand in the till."


The jury were told the defendant also tricked the company's two partners into signing cheques payable to himself.


"The allegation is he systematically stole from the company and concealed this by making false entries on the account ledgers and moved money between the ledgers to make it more difficult to trace."


Lodwick had pleaded not guilty to stealing £43,023; £11,975; £24,505; £11,748; £30,676 and £13,777 on various dates between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2010.


He has also pleaded not guilty to defrauding the company's partners out of fifteen cheques, totalling over £30,000 between April 1, 2006 and February 28, 2010.


The trial is expected to last two weeks.

Sunday 8 July 2012

Dentist Acquitted Of Beating Wife


A dentist, accused of domestic violence, has been found not guilty by a jury of three attacks on his ex-wife - including one, which broke her jaw.


Described as a physically abusive "caveman" during the week-long trial Khalid Faiz, 47, of South Eden Park Road, Beckenham can now put the case behind him.


As well as a criminal conviction he faced being struck off by his profession if found guilty.


The court heard evidence from 44 year-old Hina Yakub, a cargo executive with the Emirates airline, who was screened from the defendant that she was a battered wife who kept up the pretence of a happy marriage, despite the violence inside their suburban home.


Faiz, however, described her to police as "violent and emotionally unstable."


He was found not guilty on two counts of causing actual bodily harm to Hina on March 13 and June 29, 2010 and causing her grievous bodily harm on July 23.

Saturday 7 July 2012

Prodigal Son Returns And Raids Disabled Dad's Accounts


An ex-publishing executive, who ended up back at the family home after his career and relationship fell apart, has been jailed for raiding his disabled pensioner father's bank accounts of £66,000 and similarly taking £1,600 from his new girlfriend.


Andrew David Metcalfe Mitchell, 42, even intercepted his father's bank statements as he recovered from a stroke and hip fracture - scanned, forged and printed them - successfully covering up his year-long theft spree.


The first-time offender, of Kendra Hall Road, South Croydon pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation between October 1, 2009 and November 21, last year, namely using his 69 year-old father Martin Mitchell's bank accounts for his own purpose.


Mitchell (pictured) similarly pleaded guilty to fraud between May 21 and November 21, last year, namely falsely representing he was entitled to make debits to girlfriend Susan Lamey's bank accounts.


Croydon Crown Court heard yesterday that Mitchell, who has a seven year-old daughter, moved back in with his dad at Chestnut Court, Wallington as his "unofficial carer."


On November 20, last year his local HSBC branch contacted Mr. Mitchell snr.


"His account was now emptied and so were his other accounts with the Nationwide and Santander," said prosecutor Mr. Andrew Ramsubhag. "His entire savings of sixty-six thousand pounds had been withdrawn over the course of a year.


"Mr. Mitchell junior had been intercepting his father's bank statements, scanning them into his computer, and altering them to show he was in funds when in fact he was pilfering from them.


"He was making cash withdrawals at ATM's, using his father's cards, and it started as soon as he began living with his father.


"The defendant's girlfriend contacted police and told them she had her cards stolen by the defendant, which were then used to withdraw from her account and purchase a ticket to leave the country and flee to France."


Mitchell was persuaded to return to the UK and gave himself up at Wallington Police Station on November 21, last year.


"He told police he was in debt up to twenty-five thousand pounds, which was a long-term drugs debt to a dealer who had been in prison and then released," explained Mr. Ramsubhag. "The rest was living expenses and buying gifts for his daughter online."


Mitchell's lawyer Mr. Robert Conway told the court: "These offences were truly shameful and disgraceful and nobody knows that more than Mr. Mitchell himself. This is someone who had monetary pressures and took it upon himself to commit this fraud.


"He moved back to provide full care to his father and is somebody who has gone from a successful publishing career to being unemployed."


The court was told recreational drug debts from raves fifteen years earlier were demanded by old acquaintances, resulting in Mitchell also turning to drink.


"This is someone whose life imploded around him and was under increasingly huge financial pressures," said Mr. Conway.


"He has suffered the guilt and shame of this and knows it will hang over him for the rest of his life.


"He has seen these relationships with those closest to him, his father, sister and girlfriend, utterly destroyed.


"He attempted to take his own life. This once successful family man took an overdose and slashed his wrists in December, last year."


Recorder Mukul Chawla QC jailed Mitchell for twelve months, telling him: "You have lost your good character, but more importantly the trust of those that are closest to you and I expect that is a shame that will never leave you.


"You abused the position of trust you had taken on in relation to your father. He was reliant on you to look after him.


"Worse than that is you not only abused that position, but you compounded what you did by falsifying bank statements, which must have left your father with a further sense of betrayal."

Friday 6 July 2012

Photographer-To-The-Stars Cleared Of Race Assault


A National Portrait Gallery photographer - who has worked with a string of famous politicians and celebrities - was acquitted yesterday of a race-hate attack on a pregnant hajib-wearing mum during a supermarket check-out row.


Celebrated portrait photographer Cinnamon Heathcote Drury, 41, of Holland Road, West Kensington pleaded not guilty to the racially aggravated assault of Mounia Hamoumi in Tesco's, Warwick Road, on November 30, last year.


It took the Isleworth Crown Court jury only fifteen minutes to unanimously find her not guilty after a four-day trial.


Hathcote Drury told the court she was the victim of an assault by the alleged victim and sustained injuries to her shins and the side of her face.

Thursday 5 July 2012

Teen Denies Late-Night Stabbing Was Murder


A teenage knifeman, stabbed a partially-sighted car crash victim to death in a Hitchin house during a late-night row, before calmly taking his way out of a police check while on the run, a jury were told this week.


Jordan Kelly-Flattery, 19,(pic.top) of West Close, Hitchin admits stabbing 36 year-old Stondon man Graham 'Snowy' Snowden at the house in Milestone Road in the early hours of January 8, but denies murder, claiming he was acting in self-defence and used the deceased's dropped knife.


Prosecutor Mrs Ann Evans told Croydon Crown Court: "This story put forward by Mr. Kelly-Flattery is far from the truth and the reality is that he had this knife conveniently to hand so when he lost his temper his instinctive reaction was to grab for the knife he was carrying and stab Mr. Snowden, who did not have a chance to defend himself."


The court heard Mr. Snowden (pic.bottom) had very poor eyesight, walked with a cane and according to a consultant neurologist suffered from delayed reactions, which would have been exacerbated by alcohol, after a serious car crash six years ago.


On January 7 he went on an all-day drinking binge with pal Shane Howard and after leaving the Venue, Bancroft Road the friend took Mr. Snowden to a nearby house to continue partying, after exchanging texts with the defendant.


They arrived at the house, owned by Lisa Harris, just after 1am and inside were Kelly-Flattery - known as 'Faze' - and a friend of his nicknamed 'Screech'.


All five hung-out in the living room, but trouble started when Mr. Snowden tried to get up.


"The defendant pushed Mr. Snowden back down on the sofa and he took offence at this and an argument erupted between the two men," explained Mrs Evans.


Harris ordered Mr. Snowden and his friend to leave, but tragically the confrontation continued.


"Mr. Howard walked out of the house, but as he did so, he heard arguing again and turned around to see Graham with his back to the stairs and the defendant punching him to his body.


"As he rushed back in to help him blood was pouring from Mr. Snowden and Lisa Harris saw the defendant with a knife and heard him say: 'Screech. I've stabbed him'."


Kelly-Flattery fled via the living-room window and an ambulance was called, bur Mr. Snowden was pronounced dead on arrival at Lister Hospital.


The defendant sought help from a friend, whose parents run the Long Arm and Short Arm pub in Lemsford, and from there he took a mini-cab to Welwyn Garden City and was quizzed by passing police as he stood outside a Total petrol station in Stanborough.


"The police officers described the person they stopped as calm, sober and chatty," explained Mrs Evans.


Kelly-Flattery returned to the pub, borrowed clothing from his friend, Ashley Cabrita, and with his help hid his own clothes on the edge of Brocket Hall Golf Course.


The defendant confessed to Mr. Cabrita where he dumped the knife and police later recovered it - stained in Mr. Snowden's blood - from a wheelie bin in the front garden of a house in Westmill Road.


Kelly-Flattery gave himself up to police on January 10 and refused to answer questions.


"You will hear it said on behalf of the defendant that during the argument a knife fell out of Mr. Snowden's pocket," Miss Evans told the jury. "The defendant will tell you he managed to push Mr. Snowden away and only then he realised he had stabbed him."


The cause of death was a 7cm stab wound just below the base of Mr. Snowden's neck, which pierced his aorta - the largest artery in the body. A second stab wound, which went through his left arm was described by the pathologist as a possible defence injury.


The trial is expected to last two weeks………..

Wednesday 4 July 2012

Celebrated Portrait Photographer Accused Of Race-Hate Attack


A National Portrait Gallery photographer - who has worked with a string of famous politicians and celebrities - branded a muslim family "suicide bombers" during a race-hate attack on a pregnant hajib-wearing mum in a supermarket check-out row, a court heard today.


Celebrated portrait photographer Cinnamon Heathcote Drury, 41, also called the family "terrorists" during the confrontation at a busy West London Tesco's before pushing the mum-of-three, who was due to give birth in three months, to the floor, the jury were told.


She has eleven permanent portraits in the gallery's collection, including London mayor Boris Johnson and Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman, and has worked with celebs such as actor Terence Stamp.


Ironically the row began when Heathcote Drury (pictured) offered to help the woman unload her shopping trolley after the complainant's husband said he was too busy looking after their children.


"You took objection to that inequality didn't you?" prosecutor Miss Nermine Abdel Sayed asked the defendant at Isleworth Crown Court. "Coupled with the woman wearing full islamic dress you waded in and instigated the whole incident."


"When your offer of help was rejected you became more confrontational and you very quickly lost control and were shouting at them," suggested the prosecutor.


"Your tone was aggressive and you used the words 'suicide bomber' and 'terrorist' and told them: 'I am a British citizen. I don't know where you are from.


"You went to the woman and pushed her."


The court also heard Heathcote Drury told the family: "You're probably claiming jobseeker's" but she denied this and the allegation of using any racist language.


"Many of those words were made up, they have misheard it for their purpose," insisted the tearful defendant. "I am the only one who was assaulted. I am the only one with injuries."


Heathcote Drury made an assault complaint to police, claiming she was tripped, kicked and punched by the wife, but this was not pursued by the investigating officers.


"You played the victim in order to get out of trouble, trying to direct attention onto them and away from you," suggested Miss Abdel Sayed.


When arrested at the Warwick Road store in Kensington Heathcote Drury replied: "Unbelievable" and told officers: "This is absolutely incorrect. I was the one who was verbally abused then assaulted."


She told the jury trouble began between herself and the husband when she offered to help the couple unload their trolley. "I told him that is what feminism is all about, women helping women, and he told me to 'get lost.'


"I said we live in a society in Great Britain where rights are equal and if you need help you can ask for it and she said: 'Mind your own business.'


"The husband came over and said: 'You f*** off' then came over again and I thought he was going to jab me with something in his hand."


A security guard broke up the row, but the prosecution say Heathcote Drury then approached the complainant and pushed her to the floor.


However, she claims she was tripped by the woman as she tried to get away from the row. "I stumbled very badly forward and I felt a shooting pain in my left shin.


"The woman was looking at me an smiling. She had wished me to fall flat on my face to humiliate me.


"She took a step forward and took a swipe at my head with her right fist and got me on my right cheek."


Heathcote Drury, of Holland Road, West Kensington has pleaded not guilty to the racially aggravated assault of Mounia Hamoumi on November 30, last year.


The trial continues…………

Tuesday 3 July 2012

"Caveman" Dentist Accused Of Busting Wife's Jaw


A physically abusive "caveman" dentist, who made his jealous new bride's life hell, broke her jaw as she tried to force the family car into the path of oncoming traffic, a court heard.


Dentist Khalid Faiz, 47, and 44 year-old Hina Yakub, a cargo executive with the Emirates airline, kept up the pretence of a happy marriage, despite the violence inside their suburban home.


"They were a high-flying couple and to the outside observer they were doing very well," prosecutor Mr. Roger Daniells-Smith told the Croydon Crown Court jury yesterday.


"They were prosperous and apparently happy, but behind closed doors it was a different scene.


"As soon as they got married things started to go badly and rapidly downhill and the marriage effectively lasted one year. The downfall was domestic violence."


Father-of-three Faiz, of South Eden Park Road, Beckenham, who has a dental surgery at Southborough Lane, Bromley claims his ex is "violent and emotionally unstable."


He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of causing actual bodily harm to Hina on March 13 and June 29, 2010 and causing her grievous bodily harm on July 23.


The court heard just six weeks after their marriage - the second for both of them - Faiz attacked his new wife in the matrimonial home.


"He lost his temper and started slapping and punching her in the face, knocking her to the floor," explained Mr. Daniells-Smith.


"He sat on her, continued punching her, and then placed his foot on her chest, injuring her breastbone, and making it difficult for her to breathe. He effectively stamped on her.


"They put a brave face on it that nothing was going on when visiting his family, but Hina was struggling to breathe and did not eat anything.


"Her in-laws thought she was aloof, but she was in terrible pain and then went to hospital and lied to the doctors, telling them a weight had fallen on her chest at the gym."


The second assault also took place at the family home. "The defendant lost his temper and struck her," said Mr. Daniells-Smith.


"He was also grabbing her by the arms, causing her bruising, and bent the fingers on her right hand back."


Again Hina failed to report her husband to the police. "She was concerned about the shame and humiliation it would bring on the family."


By July she was convinced her husband was having an affair.


"She decided to confront him and burst into the dental surgery unexpectedly," said the prosecutor. "She grabbed the phone Mr. Faiz was using and left.


"He chased her and put her into his car to drive her home and as they were driving she grabbed the wheel and turned it into the oncoming traffic.


"He struck her in the face, he broke her jaw. Blood was splattered all over the inside of the windscreen.


"When they got home he dragged her upstairs by the hair, smearing blood on the walls, and hit her again. It was caveman stuff.


"She grabbed all of the tablets she could in the house and took them, attempting suicide," said Mr. Daniells-Smith. "She rang all the members of her family, including her mother and twenty-two year-old daughter to say goodbye."


Police found Hina wandering the streets and she later reported the assaults.


When quizzed Faiz claimed she was prone to epileptic fits and had injured herself in falls.


"He said she he was driving she was trying to kill them both and he had no choice, but to strike her."


Trial continues………….

Monday 2 July 2012

Two Plotters In Boiling Water Torture Kidnap Plan Caged


Two members of a kidnap and ransom gang behind the abduction of a successful East London garage owner, who had boiling water poured on him during a three-day ordeal, have been caged.


Father-of-two Sukjinder Seyan - boss of 'Prestige Car Specialists', Balmoral Road, Forest Gate - needed skin grafts to his legs after his rescue by Scotland Yard's Kidnap Unit and is scarred for life.


Ashley Fields, 22, (pic.l.) of Crescent Road, Dagenham and 27 year-old Safeer Rahman (pic.r.) of Tumulus Way, Colchester, Essex denied involvement in the plot, but were convicted by a Croydon Crown Court jury.


Fields was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and Rahman eight years after they were both found guilty of conspiracy to kidnap, false imprisonment and blackmail on or before January 10, last year.


"To put it bluntly he was tortured," prosecutor Mr. Roger Smart told the jury at the start of the two-week trial. "The motive was one of sheer greed.


"They thought it would be easy money to take a local businessman and brutally harm the hostage until a substantial amount of money was exchanged for his release."


The court was told mobile phone records link both defendants with the rest of the gang and Rahman - who knew the victim - was the job's "inside man" providing information on Mr. Seyan.


"This group of people thought long and hard about what they were doing," explained Mr. Smart. "There was reconnaissance and one failed attempt before they regrouped on another day.


"They had a stronghold where they kept Mr. Seyan, they had equipment there, held him there and made him call people to get money and brutally assaulted him.


"Mr. Seyan was held for three days and was badly burned by boiling water being poured over him on a number of occasions.


"He has had to undergo surgery to graft skin over the burns and is permanently scarred as a result."


The victim was held at 29 Express Drive, Ilford by other members of the gang who have already been convicted and neither Fields or Rahman is accused of physically harming him.


Fields' role is alleged to be as a "look out" and general assistant to the plan and Rahman was with the victim minutes before he was abducted - allegedly feeding information to his co-conspirators.


Other gang members, armed with a fake police warrant card, approached Mr. Seyan on January 8, last year and bundled him into a vehicle while demanding £350,000 from his safe.


At the 'stronghold' he was pushed onto a mattress and a blanket was thrown over his head, before the gang boiled a kettle of water and poured it over Mr. Seyan's leg and ankle.


He was gagged and bound with tape before a second kettle of boiling water was poured over his left leg and the next day more boiling water was poured over his left arm.


On January 9 Mr. Seyan's wife received a £50,000 ransom demand and immediately called the police who tracked the victim's location via mobile phone signals.


The gang also phoned the victim's girlfriend, demanding the same sum, and frustrated by a lack of progress poured boiling water over his back.


Mr. Seyan was rescued by police, back-up by armed officers, as he sat in a car with his captors outside Arthur Wallis House.

Sunday 1 July 2012

Man Stabs Ex-Wife And Mum-In-Law To Death


A man who stabbed his ex-wife to death on an East London street and then travelled to her home, where he killed her mother and set the property ablaze, has been jailed for life.

Sergei Zolotovsky, 44, of Gareth Drive, Edmonton was convicted of murdering Svetlana Zolotovska, 40, and Antonia Belska, 70, and will be locked-up for a minimum of thirty years.

He plunged a knife into Svetlana’s neck, chest and abdomen in Stansfield Road, Canning Town at 7.30am on August 12, last year.

Zolotovsky then went to his ex’s home in Leamouth Road, East Ham, where he also fatally stabbed Antonia, who had been visiting her daughter from her native Latvia.

Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Kelly, of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said: “Zvetlana’s family have been devastated by Zolotovsky’s actions that night.

“They will never get over their loss but I hope that they can derive some comfort from seeing Zolotovsky being brought to account for his actions.”


After police responded to the stabbing of Svetlana they visited her home, where a fire was raging in an upstairs room, and found the injured defendant in the loft. 


A family member said: “Our family has suffered indescribable grief as a result of the cruellest murder of the closest and most loved members of our family.

“We have suffered extreme emotional stress. We are still grieving and remembering the loss of our loved ones every day.”

Saturday 30 June 2012

Croydon Armed Robbers Hunted


Flying Squad offices hunting gun-tooting robbers, who raided a Croydon store, have released these CCTV images of two of the suspects.

Three raiders entered JK Gold and Fashion House, London Road, at 1.00pm on January 10.

Two of them were armed with handguns and they threatened staff – robbing them of cash and a mobile phone.

Officers are asking anyone with information as to the identity of the two men to contact the Flying Squad in the strictest of confidence on 020 7232 6530 or to remain anonymous, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.