A Bexley car thief, a Bromley drug dealer and an Erith shoplifter are just some of the south east Londoners jailed in September 2024.
Also put behind bars were a man who vandalised a Lee Rigby memorial in Woolwich, a paedophile pastor and an ex-Welling United footballer.
Here are the names and faces of the men who are have been sentenced to prison time this month.
Said Aitabbou
He was jailed for four months for criminal damage.
The 58-year-old was was seen ripping up flowers, smashing plant pots and throwing poppy wreaths laid at the memorial on Sunday, July 28.
The tree sits metres away from where the 25-year-old was murdered by extremists.
Local Connor Tuxford, 31, spotted Aitabbou being escorted into a waiting police van before cleaning up the site himself.
The warehouse operative said: "I went to pull out my phone as he was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed.
"He was clearly waiting for someone to notice him, for the attention.
"I was just walking back from work and I saw this guy ripping up all the flowers and smashing some jars.
"I went and cleaned up the memorial afterwards because no one else did.
"I didn't think much or anything of it but they started clapping me as I was doing it."
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Thomas Siggers
Despite wearing an ankle tag which tracked his movements 24 hours a day, between October and January the career criminal stole at least eight cars using sophisticated keyless entry tech.
One woman who watched her £40,000 Land Rover being taken from her driveway in Bexley described feeling “emotionally violated” by the theft.
When the car was found six days later it was trashed and her 93-year-old mum’s wheelchair was gone.
Another car Siggers stole was later used in a shooting in Woolwich.
Siggers was one of four men accused of partaking in the attempted execution of a man outside his own home, but a jury found him not guilty of attempted murder after he said he was not aware of the gun and thought it was a plan to steal rather than kill.
Siggers was also involved in an incident which saw an off-duty police officer threatened with a machete.
When the law eventually caught up with him he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal motor vehicles, vehicle interference, affray and theft from a motor vehicle.
Siggers was jailed for four years and 10 months.
Kiernan Hughes-Mason
The 32-year-old injured the child so badly that the victim's mother was told she would either die in the night or be severely disabled for life.
On New Year’s Eve 2020, Hughes-Mason phoned for an ambulance claiming he found the girl conscious but unresponsive.
The girl was placed in an induced coma as doctors identified 17 different injuries. She remained in the coma for 14 days.
The girl, who is now seven, still has a “personality that shines through” and “creates joy” but now has no independence, being only able to say three or four words at a time, and requiring “expensive accommodations” due to her physical and mental disabilities.
Hughes-Mason played for Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur during his youth career before playing for a variety of clubs including Millwall, Hashtag United, Leatherhead, Welling, and Grays and Barking.
He has been jailed for 14 years for grievous bodily harm with intent and child cruelty.
Neil Atkinson
The 41-year-old targeted Sainsbury’s in Honor Oak Park, Co-ops in Deptford and Brockley and BP in Lee.
Court documents show he regularly stole alcohol, chocolate, food, drinks and cleaning products.
On some occasions he would enter shops and steal whole trays of items, including on one visit to Sainsbury's where he stole 15 cans of Red Bull and three trays of pre-mixed cocktails.
Atkinson, of Tressillian Crescent in Lewisham, was jailed for 38 weeks.
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Aniekan Akpan
But the 47-year-old has been found guilty of 12 offences related to the sexual abuse of a girl beginning when she was 10-years-old.
Judge Ian Darling said Akpan subjected the victim to “all manner of touchings”.
“Tragically, she describes in her evidence that she got so used to it going on that she didn’t tell anyone. One of the reasons she said she didn’t tell anyone was that she didn’t think they would believe her,” Judge Darling said.
“She was only 10-years-old and could not have begun to understand what was going on.”
Akpan, of St James in Croydon, was jailed for 15 years.
John Harris
He was jailed for 37 weeks in April after he pleaded guilty to 39 thefts from the same BP Store in Greenwich.
As part of that sentence he was also banned from entering any BP store in south east London.
However, soon after being released from prison the 38-year-old was back to his old way but changed his target.
Between August 11 and September 13 he stole £2,837 worth of products from Boots in Greenwich.
On one raid he made off with £997 worth of skin and haircare products while another time he took £100 worth of baby milk.
He has now been jailed for 16 weeks.
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Jack Wesley
In 2012 he was jailed for a-year-and-a-half after he groomed a 14-year-old schoolboy in Essex, took him to the park and performed sexual acts on him.
Then in 2016 he was jailed for seven years after he moved to the West Midlands and began pimping out boys aged between 13 and 15 to adult men.
In June this year Wesley narrowly avoided prison after he breached a court order by befriending a 14-year-old boy he met through a local good bank, and discussing the boy’s sexuality with him.
The offending came to light when another of the boy’s relatives walked in and saw him on a video call with Wesley, who immediately disconnected the call.
She contacted the police who informed her that Wesley was a convicted sex offender.
But a judge decided not to jail him as a prison sentence would be unfair on his seriously ill mum, who Wesley acts as a carer for.
Wesley didn’t stay out of trouble and on Thursday (September 5) Wesley appeared at Bexley Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to two offences of breaching sex offenders register notification requirements relating to the creation of a new bank account.
He had previously pleaded not guilty to these charges but on the day of his trial he changed his pleas.
Further charges relating to Wesley having unsupervised contact with somebody under 16 and failing to notify police about his change of address were dropped.
Wesley, who previously went by the names Robert Bailey and Shaun Williams, was jailed for 10 weeks.
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Malik Hutchinson
Police had identified telephone numbers used in May and June 2024 to send bulk messages to drug users, including known users in the Ashford and Folkestone areas.
Detectives were able to connect the phone numbers to Hutchinson, who was subsequently arrested in London.
Drugs paraphernalia, together with quantities of cocaine and cannabis, were recovered from the scene.
Officers also seized a bag of cash containing around £3,000 and multiple mobile phones.
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Martin Jackson
He was found guilty of 98 offences, including theft and violating a restraining order.
He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and was banned for five years from entering a Boots store and a BP service station on Trafalgar Road, Greenwich.
He had stolen thousands of pounds worth of goods from these locations, despite being under a previous Criminal Behaviour Order preventing him from entering the shops.
Police officers spent hours reviewing CCTV footage after Jackson’s arrest in July.
The evidence clearly showed him stealing items such as food, alcohol, and toiletries in broad daylight.
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Joel Victorious
In the early hours of October 22, 2023, police were called to a “domestic incident” and found the victim collapsed in the street covered in blood when they arrived.
It was later reported in court that Victorious hit the victim on the head repeatedly with a hammer.
He then chased her into the road and threatened her with knives.
Her children were present to witness the attack.
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When police arrived, they found she had suffered life-threatening injuries and performed emergency CPR.
Police at the scene also provided “life-saving support” to Victorious who has stabbed himself during the “frenzied incident”.
Victorious was charged with attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey.
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