Results tagged “court”

Two men from Tower Hamlets have been jailed for eight years each for being part of a gang involved in a plan to steal £5million of drugs.

Aaron Morris, 22, of Fawe Street and Mark Morris, 37, of East India Dock Road, were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to supply controlled drugs.

A teenage arsonist has been sentenced to four years in prison for setting fire to a Woolwich pub during the August riots.

The 16-year-old, from Abbey Wood, cannot be named for legal reasons. He was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court today after pleading guilty to setting fire to the Great Harry pub in Wellington Street on August 8.

A Poplar man is due in court today charged with terrorism related offences.

Mohammed Abdul Hasnath of Blair Street, E14 is charged with six counts of possession of a document or record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Canary Wharf Group has agreed to reduce its $4.5billion claim against Lehman Brothers according to documents filed in the Bankruptcy Court in New York.

The claim against the collapsed bank was filed in September 2009, but with little chance of recovering the full amount CWG has decided to reduce the figure it seeks to $780million.

A second man has been charged over the murder of 24-year-old Limehouse man Kowshar Hussain.

Jonathan Joseph-Bell, 24, of Dock Street, E1, is due to appear at Woolwich Magistrates Court on Friday over the attack which took place last weekend.

A gunman who opened fire on a crowd of pubgoers in Greenwich has been sent to prison for 17 years, writes Rob Virtue.

Thomas Scott, 29, of Tourmont Road in Plumstead, had been ejected from the North Pole in Greenwich High Road in the incident last February.

A Greenwich businessman has been jailed and fined £274,000 for shipping class A drugs across the UK.

Mark Anthony Gard, 43, of Armitage Road, used a fleet of vans issued by a legitimate parcel delivery business to run a drug-delivery operation.

Like countless other employees at recession-struck businesses, Citybunker worker Rita Asmanskaja was unaware that the end was near.

Just days before the Cannon Workshops golf bar was padlocked by bailiffs, the front of house worker was arranging events for Valentine's Day.

A new domestic violence court has sentenced a man to twenty weeks in jail for beating his terminally ill girlfriend after an argument.

French national George Noel, 47, of East Ferry Road, confronted his partner after an argument and punched her in the face with such force that she was knocked backwards and hurt her back on the bath.

Residents of an Isle of Dogs estate have won a small victory over drug use under their noses.

Occupants of New Union Wharf have complained of persistent drug problems on the estate for several months, with youths dealing and smoking cannabis outside and from an untaxed car.

Police have welcomed the conviction of a man who committed a "horrendous" sexual assault on a woman returning from Canary Wharf two years ago.

Alomgir Rouf, 21, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to four years in jail and will be on the sex offenders register for life following his conviction last week.

Magistrates have banned a man from Canary Wharf after reports of harassment and shoplifting.

Emam Hussain, 27, of Shadwell Gardens, is the first person person to be banned from the area under Anti-Social Behaviour legislation.

ISLE of Dogs parents are planning public action in a bid to block the return of a headteacher accused of shutting a child in a store cupboard.

Cubitt Town Infants School head Nikki Daly is making a "phased return" to her post after an internal inquiry was completed into last March's incident.

She was arrested in May last year after a complaint by one mother, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue the case. Now a group of parents are planning to picket the Manchester Road school on Wednesday in a bid to force Ms Daly's removal.

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.

ISLE of Dogs parents will fight to block the return of a headteacher accused of putting one of her pupils in a store cupboard.

Cubitt Town Infants School head Nikki Daly was arrested in May last year following the incident last March, but was found not guilty by a crown court in February this year.

She still faces an internal inquiry over the case, but news of her possible re-instatement has enraged parents. A group of mothers began collecting signatures outside the school gates last Thursday.

A CATHOLIC priest jailed after a protest at a Docklands arms fair has vowed to continue his fight to shut it down.

Father Martin Newell spilled “rivers of blood� outside the DSEi international trade event at ExCeL London in September to depict the bloodshed caused by the arms trade.

He poured five litres of red paint onto the gangway, while fellow London Catholic Worker member Zelda Jeffers lay next to the fair’s check-in desk covered in red dye.

Fr Newell was sentenced to five days in jail last week after refusing to pay a fine for criminal damage. Ms Jeffers was sentenced to 14 days on Tuesday (March 25).

He said: “To pay this fine would be to co-operate with a system that is fuelling murder and mayhem around the world by promoting and protecting the arms trade.�