Results tagged “Old Bailey”

A blaze which killed an 82-year-old man in his Shadwell home was started by the victim's own son.

Aaron Bhasin, 53, of Chapman Street in E1 pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday morning to charges of manslaughter over the incident in March this year.

Three men who staged robberies netting them £55,500 in Tower Hamlets and Newham have been jailed at the Old Bailey.

Robert Agius and Edmundas Bacelis, both of Cartwright Road, Dagenham, have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment each, while Zilvinas Sklerius, of Dersingham Avenue, Manor Park, received two years and four months.

A man has been jailed for four years after stealing a mobile phone and breaking his victim's nose in an attack outside a pub.

Aaron Hart, 20, of Hurry Close, E15, set upon a 33-year-old man who was walking past the Bay Tree Public House in Stratford on January 22 this year.

The two men charged with the murder of Vitalijs Janovics in Bermondsey have been remanded in custody until November 4.

Kai Taliana and Khaled Ait-Said, both aged 18, were refused bail at the Old Bailey this afternoon. Mr Janovics was stabbed to death outside Bermondsey Underground station in the early hours of July 22.

Two 18-year-old men have been charged with the murder of Vitalijs Janovics on July 22.

Kai Taliana of Vauban Estate, SE16, and Khaled Ait-Said of Guinness Court, Mansell Street, E1 appeared at Croydon Magistrates Court last Saturday. They were remanded to appear at the Old Bailey tomorrow.

A pair of gun wielding robbers who held-up convenience stores in south-east London have been sentenced to a combined total of 16 years in prison.

Karlington Appleby, 33, and Venrese Hanshaw, 39, both from Tamar Street in Charlton carried, out seven armed robberies in seven weeks.

An odd-job man accused of killing a great grandmother in Charlton denied he was susceptible to violent attacks.

Daniel Franklin, 34, of Felixstowe Road in Abbey Wood, is on trial at the Old Bailey charged with stabbing to death 88-year-old Irene Barrett at her home overlooking Charlton Athletic's football ground in May last year.

A housebound great-grandmother was stabbed to death by her neighbour's son, a court at the Old Bailey heard.

Daniel Franklin, 34, is accused of killing Irene Barrett in a "vicious and prolonged assault" at her home in Valiant House, Charlton, on May 15 last year.

Two brothers have been sent to prison for killing their father in a hammer attack following an argument in October.

John and Robert Heath of Oban Street, Poplar, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday for sentencing over the killing of Charlie Heath.

Police called to an out of control party left the scene just half an hour before a 20-year-old was stabbed to death, a court heard.

David Cauchi-Lechmere, from Bow, was killed following an attack on July 11 last year by a gang carrying weapons including an axe, a hammer, shears and knives.

The woman who was convicted of attempting to murder East Ham MP Stephen Timms has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 15 years.

Roshonara Choudhry, 21, pictured here moments before attacking Mr Timms at constituency surgery at the Beckton Globe, had been found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.

A Polish man has been convicted of the murder of Greenwich pensioner Edward Highwood.

Marcin Orlowski, 21, killed Mr Highwood on July 17 last year at his home in Hollymount Close. The 79-year-old victim, who was a well-known figure in the gay community, died from head injuries sustained when Orlowski hit him at least 10 times with a heavy vase.

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder of a young father in Greenwich.

Michael Bowden was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday of murdering Paul Martin in the early hours of March 29 last year. He was sentenced this morning.

A FORMER care worker has been found guilty of the murder of an 83-year-old woman 14 years ago.

An Old Bailey jury unanimously declared unemployed Edward Ross, who turned 40 today, as the man who savagely beat pensioner Helen Mercer in her own bedroom in Leyton back in 1994. He was arrested last year after a "cold case" investigation linked his palm-print to bloody marks left over her bed.

Judge Gerald Gordon is scheduled to sentence Ross this afternoon. For more information on the two-week case, see here and here.

A FORMER care worker has stood in the dock for days accused of the murder of a frail 83-year-old woman 14 years ago.

But this week, the defence pointed the finger elsewhere, naming Matthew Norman, then a 15-year-old “troublemaker� as the possible killer.

THE BRUTAL murder of a frail 83-year-old woman has finally been brought to trial.

It was 14 years ago that elderly Helen Mercer was beaten at her home and left for dead by an unknown attacker.

But West India Dock Road man Edward Ross appeared at the Old Bailey charged with her murder this week, after improved DNA and fingerprint technology led to his arrest.