The seven south east London criminals jailed in February

One offender was jailed for restraining his housemate with duct tape, and another was jailed for stabbing his partner to death with a knife which was “so ferocious it had gone right through and out the other side”.

The offences which the News Shopper is aware of are summarised below.

Dorian Rankin

Rankin, 42, of Beulah Road in Thornton Heath was sentenced to ten years in prison after he “used a firearm to threaten and intimidate innocent members of staff”.

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On November 16, 2021, Rankin forcibly stole a gold necklace valued at around £10,000 from staff at a H & T Pawnbrokers in Walworth.

He also pleaded guilty to driving whilst disqualified May 26, 2022 on Beulah Road in Thornton Heath and for possessing / controlling identity documents on August 18, 2022.

Franklin McLeod

McLeod was jailed after stabbing his partner to death with a knife which was “so ferocious it had gone right through and out the other side”.

The offender was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 20 years, at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, February 8.

This comes after McLeod's conviction of murdering his partner, Marlene Coleman, 53, on November 9, 2022.

The court heard how McLeod, 55, and Marlene had been in a relationship for more than ten years and McLeod could be aggressive, possessive and jealous.

Ashley Lewis

Ashley Lewis, 36, formerly from Albemarle Road in Bromley and Dylan Holden, 18, of West Street in Brighton were both delivered prison sentences.

Lewis was jailed for 16-and-a-half years for the sexual assault of a young girl in Brighton.

On June 20, 2021, police were called to the Pavilion Gardens in Brighton at around midnight by a member of the public who was aiding a girl in distress who was “in a vulnerable state in the company of two men”.

An investigation was launched with CCTV footage showing the pair leading the victim into Pavilion Gardens where she was raped.

CCTV footage also captured Lewis stealing items from the victim’s bag that were later found in his home.

Holden was sentenced to six years in prison.

Sam Grigg

Grigg, a BDSM “obsessed” former Metropolitan Police officer who used duct tape to restrain his flatmate during “10 minutes of terror” has been jailed for four years.

Grigg, who was sacked from the Met after being charged, previously pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to false imprisonment and assault against Natasha Rabinowitz, who was then 23.

Three pairs of handcuffs and police-issue batons were among the items found in Grigg’s bedroom by officers, along with horror film Better Watch Out, which depicts a woman bound in rope with duct tape over her mouth.

Ernesto Elliott and Nico Elliott

A father and son from Walthamstow have been jailed for a combined total of 48 years after they robbed and murdered a man in Greenwich.

The court heard the father and son stabbed 35-year-old Nathaniel Eyewu-Ago in the heart after he chased them due to them robbing drugs and cash from him.

Police said that the pair were “were prepared to use any form of violence necessary to protect their stolen property”.

Nathan Smith

A 15-year-old girl managed to fight off a sex attacker when he grabbed her from behind and molested her in an alleyway.

Nathan Smith, 32, crept up behind the schoolgirl and sexually assaulted her, before trying to pin her to a fence.

But the plucky youngster fought him off and ran home in Ewell, Surrey, at around 7pm on Saturday May 14 last year.

Smith was jailed for six years at Guildford Crown Court on February 3, with a further four years to be served on license once he is released.

He was also put on the sex offender’s register for life after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault and common assault following a trial.