A busy month in London's courts saw a huge number of south Londoners jailed for crimes ranging from murder to armed robbery.
Here's a round up of the locals who are now behind bars.
Alfie Kibble and two youths
Gabriel Stoyanov, 21, was attacked by the youths after getting off the 181 service in Bromley late on November 4 last year.
The business management undergraduate had been out drinking with a friend and, after they got on the bus, he attempted to engage with the defendants.
The defendants got off the bus two stops later and went to the home of the 17-year-old.
They armed themselves with weapons and lay in wait for the victim outside a takeaway restaurant.
CCTV showed Mr Stoyanov come out and back away as he saw the defendants.
Alfie Kibble, 18, swung a motorcycle chain at him – but missed – and the 15-year-old lobbed a bottle before a 17-year-old stabbed the victim in the chest with a knife.
The youths ran away and Mr Stoyanov was rushed to hospital where he died the next day.
The 17-year-old boy was found guilty of murder and handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 15 years.
Kibble was found guilty of murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years and nine months.
The 15-year-old, who “lured” the victim towards his more heavily armed friends, was given a sentence of six years and eight months for manslaughter.
Read the full story - Teenagers jailed for killing stranger who ‘annoyed’ them on bus in Bromley.
22 people
A total of 22 people were jailed for their involvement in a crime group which supplied drugs and firearms in south east London.
The gang was headed by Ross Payton who employed his sister Shainie Payton, her boyfriend Darren Goodge, his uncle Lee Souter, his cousin Jamie Dennison and his friend Reece Mort.
Arrests of low-level members of the gang soon led police to higher up members.
Among those jailed were men from Mottingham, Bexley, Sidcup, Plumstead, Gravesend and Dartford.
Read the full story here - The faces of gangsters who supplied drugs and guns in south east London.
Christopher and Colin Nouse
Brothers Christopher and Colin Nouse who shot at people who were trying to steal their motorbikes have been jailed for 44 years.
On March 8, 2020, a group of people tried to steal some motorbikes from a communal car park Cooper’s Close in Greenhithe.
A resident disturbed the attempted theft and the group fled empty handed.
The bikes’ owners, Christopher and Colin, decided to arm themselves with guns in case the would-be thieves returned.
A short time later two men returned to the thieves and were shot at by Christopher and Colin.
One man received gunshot injuries to his arm.
As police rushed to the scene the brothers fled to Christopher’s home on Ospringe Close in Penge.
Colin and Cristopher returned to the scene while officers were still there and they were arrested.
A jury convicted Christopher of attempted murder and possession of a prohibited weapon, while Colin was found not guilty of attempted murder but guilty of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Christopher was jailed for 30 years and Colin for 14 years.
Jamie Gillett
Jamie Gillett, 26, of Beckenham Road in Beckenham, was jailed again after he groomed and sexually assaulted underage girls.
He was previously jailed for four years and six months in October 2018.
This came after he pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a girl under 13, engaging in sexual activity with a girl under 16 and two counts of engaging in sexual activity with a girl under 16 with penetration.
Gillett had targeted children on social media apps then engaged in non-consensual sexual activities and showed threatening, controlling and obsessive behaviour towards the victims, a court heard.
On Monday December 18 Gillett appeared at the Old Bailey for breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
Prosecutor Nikki James said Gillett was released from prison in June this year but was required to follow strict rules on his behaviour, including restrictions around his interaction with any children, possession of mobile phones or computers and use of the internet.
But by September he broke these conditions by failing to disclose a relationship he was having with a woman to police.
Gillett was arrested and when his room was searched officers found two phones.
They were aware of one of these phones but not the other.
On the second phone Gillett had downloaded Snapchat, TikTok and WhatsApp, despite having been banned from using all three.
He had also been deleting the internet search history on that phone.
Gillett pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
Gillett was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison.
Read the full story - Beckenham paedophile who groomed and sexually assaulted kids jailed AGAIN.
Mark Moodie
Mark Moodie, 55, of Nightingale Place in Woolwich, murdered 24-year-old Maureen Gitau disposed of her body in a bin then tried to smear her name in court.
Maureen was last seen by her family at her aunt’s birthday party at their shared home in Deptford where she had been “in a good mood, playing with the children”.
Maureen left the party to meet Moodie, a friend from work, who took her to a block of flats on Blackheath Hill where he was employed as a caretaker – she never left the building alive.
“You have never given an account of what happened between the two of you in Richmond House. No one but you knows why you killed her,” Judge Nicholas Lavender said.
CCTV footage showed Moodie moving a large communal waste bin around the basement of Richmond House.
He put her body in the waste bin and covered it with sacks of rubbish before putting it out for collection, prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward told the court.
It was then taken to a processing plant on Landmann Way in Deptford on December 8 where it was “inevitably” incinerated.
At his sentencing hearing a statement from Maureen’s mum, Jane, addressed Moodie directly.
“You are a coward and a cold-hearted murderer,” she said. “You preyed on a vulnerable and sweet girl who would never hurt anyone. You've never even given us a reason why you took her away from us.”
Moodie was jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years.
Rackeen Thomas
Rackeem Thomas, 18, was caught with a huge Rambo knife at Dartford station.
He was jailed for six months just 24 hours after he was caught with the weapon.
On Monday December 18 Thomas was stopped for a ticket check at Dartford station.
He failed to provide a ticket and the revenue inspector became suspicious of his nervous behaviour.
Thomas also gave officers a fake name.
He was detained but as officers prepared to search him he tried to run away.
With the help of rail staff he was tackled to the floor.
Whilst on the floor Thomas tried to withdraw the concealed Rambo knife which was in his waistband.
Read the full story - Teen caught with huge Rambo knife at Dartford station.
Dymtro Shcherbinskyy, 42, and Ghislain Kiamuangana, 34
Dymtro Shcherbinskyy, 42, and Ghislain Kiamuangana, 34, raided three hotels across the capital have been jailed after they were arrested in Greenwich.
They raided their first hotel on Southwark Bridge Road on January 3 last year – entering the hotel with their faces covered in the early hours of the morning.
They threatened two staff members with a gun and forced them into the back office before tying their hands and legs.
They then forced the employees to provide the combination for the safe and stole £4,000.
Over the coming weeks they then raided hotels in Canning Town and the City in a similar fashion.
Shcherbinskyy, who was identified as playing the leading role, was sentenced to 12 years’ in prison.
French national Ghislain Kiamuangana was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in total.
Read the full story - Armed robbers who raided hotels jailed after Greenwich arrest.
Ryan Johnston
Ryan Johnston, 37, now a resident of HMP Thameside in Plumstead, raped an unconscious woman on a Tube.
The attack was witnessed by a tourist and his son who were horrified by what they saw.
The court heard that three hours before he raped the woman, Johnston had been spotted masturbating while looking into the windows of a house.
Just hours later, Johnston boarded the Piccadilly Line at Heathrow Terminal Five and walked through the carriage to a young woman who was asleep.
He then sexually assaulted and raped her while she remained unconscious.
Johnston was jailed for nine years, made subject of a sexual harm prevention order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
Read the full story - 'Depraved' Tube predator raped unconscious woman in front of child.
Tishan Hewitt
Tishan Hewitt, 28, supplied £3.4million worth of cocaine and heroin to dealers across south London.
In April last year officers saw him in a Mercedes A class which parked on Mardell Road in Croydon.
He got out an placed two full bags in the rear seats of a nearby Ford Mondeo.
The Ford drove off but when it was stopped by officers they found 20kgs of high purity cocaine with a street value of £1.8million.
Later the same day officers saw Hewitt transfer another bag into a Mitsubishi Colt on the same road as the first transfer.
The Mitsubishi drove off but was stopped in Beckenham where officers found a bag containing 14.7kgs of heroin with a street value of £900,000.
A month later, in May last year, Hewitt was seen getting out of the Mercedes before transferring a bag to a white Audi Q7 in Langley Road, Beckenham.
When officer pulled that vehicle over they found almost eight kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of £720,000.
Hewitt was jailed for nine years.
Read the full story - South London drug kingpin Tishan Hewitt jailed for nine years.
Mohammed Aminu
Mohammed Aminu, 26, of Nightingale Grove in Hither Green, sexually assaulted teenage girls on board Lewisham buses.
The court heard that on Wednesday, March 22 Aminu boarded a Route 181 bus in Lewisham High Street where he engaged a 14-year-old girl in conversation.
He then followed her from the bus and sexually assaulted her.
Half an hour later, he boarded a Route 124 bus and engaged a 16-year-old girl in conversation before sexually assaulting her.
He then followed her from the bus and sexually assaulted her.
Half an hour later, he boarded a Route 124 bus and engaged a 16-year-old girl in conversation before sexually assaulting her.
Three days later on Saturday, March 25 Aminu boarded a bus in Soho and sexually assaulted another victim after following them from a bus.
These offences all took place just weeks after he was convicted of stalking a woman at Lewisham Shopping Centre.
He has now been jailed for 30 months.
Ishmael Duncan
Ishamel Duncan, 24, of Walnut Tree Walk in Lambeth, posed as a model agency scout to blackmail children as young as nine into sending sexually photos has been jailed for 18 years.
He is believed to have contacted close to 10,000 kids across the world attempting to coerce and threaten them into sending naked photos of themselves.
Duncan tricked 28 young victims into sending photos before blackmailing with revenge porn threats so that they would send more.
On one occasion the paedophile told a 14-year-old girl in America who had learning difficulties that he would give her $1,000 if she gave her own brother oral sex.
He has now been jailed for 18 years.
One victim said: “I was 11-years-old when you first made contact with me. At this time I was a vulnerable young girl struggling with my confidence and suffering from anxiety.
“Your online comments and compliments made me feel better about myself and made me believe that I could have a future in modelling, something which all young girls aspire towards.
“You lied to me and this led me to wanting to look a certain way on the pictures so I stopped eating.
“For months I could not bring myself to leave my home because of the thought of you finding me and telling everyone what I did.
“I was petrified that you would find me and come to my house and hurt, perhaps kill myself or one of my family members. I used to wake up in the middle of the night thinking that you were inside my house which terrified me.”
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