Here’s a rundown of the criminals who are now behind bars.
Christopher Gibbons
Christopher Gibbons, 40, from Carshalton, was jailed for eight years for using a podcast to encourage listeners to attack ethnic minorities.
Alongside Tyrone Patten-Walsh, 36, from Romford, he hosted a podcast series which aired their homophobic, racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic and misogynistic views.
As well encouraging listeners to commit acts of terror, investigators found that Gibbons had also created an online library containing hundreds of extreme right-wing texts and other material.
It contained more than 500 videos of extreme right-wing-related speeches and propaganda documents.
The library had nearly 1,000 subscribers, and the content had been viewed more than 152,000 times.
Read the full story – Carshalton neo-Nazi podcaster encouraged listeners to attack ethnic minorities.
Jamie Lewis
Jamie Lewis, 25, of Bensham Lane in Thornton Heath murdered dad-of-two Matt Portland by stabbing him in the neck.
Matt, 42, had tried to break up a fight in an Iceland car park on Canvey Island.
During the fight Matt was stabbed twice in the neck by Lewis, and he was pronounced dead in the early hours of Saturday morning.
After stabbing Matt in the neck, Lewis returned to the pub covered in Blood and tried to enter again.
Lewis was arrested in Croydon three days later and was charged with murder and possession of a bladed article.
A jury unanimously found him guilty of murder on October 10.
In January he was sentenced to life in prison.
Read the full story – Thornton Heath killer stabbed dad-of-two who tried to break up Iceland car park fight.
Harvey Smalling
Harvey Smalling, 20, of Eldred Drive in Orpington, stabbed an off-duty police officer outside a fast food restaurant.
The officer and a friend had asked Smalling if an uncollected order was his, to which he unexpectedly reacted in an aggressive manner.
They then left the restaurant in order to avoid any further confrontation, but Smalling followed them.
Despite trying to avoid him by crossing the road, Smalling approached and threatened them.
The pair attempted to calm him down, but the victim was stabbed in the chest with an item Smalling had taken from his bag.
Smalling fled the scene, and his victim was taken to hospital for treatment to a serious chest wound.
He has since made a full recovery.
Smalling was jailed for two years and eight months.
Read the full story – ‘Violent’ Orpington man stabbed off-duty police officer near restaurant.
Shaun Bent
In a raid of his home address officers uncovered a rucksack which contained three pistols, each containing 18 round magazines and 46 rounds of ammunition.
788 grams of cocaine and drug paraphernalia was also found by police, along with £53,000 in cash and a money counter.
Read the full story – Lewisham drug dealer had pistols, £53k cash and nearly 1kg of cocaine.
Hameed Baig
He ran a drugs line from London to Southampton.
He was arrested after police raided a flat used by Baig and his accomplices in Netley in December 2022.
Several drugs phones, cannabis and over £26,000 of cash was found stashed throughout the property.
And when Baig was searched £1,165 in cash was found inside his trousers.
Keys for a Ford Focus, which was parked nearby, were also found.
Inside the car was a large quantity of crack cocaine, heroin and cocaine, drugs paraphernalia and a pistol.
He was jailed for four years and three months.
Read the full story – Greenwich drug dealer caught with £1,165 hidden in trousers.
Ashley Singh
Ashley Singh, 39, of Widmore Road in Bromley, and his girlfriend Sophie Bruyea, 20, rifled through people’s lockers while they were working out, stealing bank and SIM cards.
They would then max out the credit cards on expensive tech and designer clothes which they sold on.
Read the full story here – Bromley man, 39, and his girlfriend, 20, stole from gym lockers to fund luxury life.
The couple used this cash to buy lavish holidays and a pedigree puppy, as well as expensive shoes and bags.
Singh and Bruyea’s spree came to an end after a local officer noticed a pattern and flagged it to economic crime specialists.
A total of 18 victims were identified in London, Sussex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Singh was sentenced to three years in prison while Bruyea was sentenced to 20 months at a young offenders’ institute, suspended for two years, a rehabilitation programme and 120 hours unpaid work.
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