Here are the names and faces of the men who are have been sentenced to prison time in December 2024.
Thug dismembered man and dumped body in park
Dajour Jones (Image: Met Police) Dajour Jones, 27, subjected 20-year-old Jamie Gilbey to a “sustained and vicious” attack before cutting up his body and distributing the remains in undergrowth at South Norwood Lake and Grounds.
Sentencing him to life in his absence after Jones refused to attend the hearing at the Old Bailey, Judge Nigel Lickley KC described him as a “violent and dangerous individual”.
Judge Lickley said: “Jamie was in the prime of his life and had his entire life ahead of him. You took that away.”
Mr Gilbey was last seen alive going into Jones’s room at a hostel where they both lived in Upper Norwood on the evening of January 27, 2022.
Prosecutor Simon Denison KC previously told jurors: “The defendant murdered him there in a brutal, sustained, and particularly disturbing attack.”
Mr Gilbey’s mother Charlene Baxter told the court about the impact the murder of her eldest son has had on her family.
“My sons often ask if the bad man is coming,” she told the court.
Ms Baxter said her son “loved playing jokes on people” and was “always happy, laughing and joking”.
Jones was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years.
New Cross man lured his friend to his death
Ismaiel Kallon (Image: Met Police) Ismaiel Kallon, 21, lured his friend 20-year-old Julian Ebanks to his death in New Cross.
Julian was stabbed to death in Kender Street on August 4 last year by a man who has now fled the country.
A court heard that the fatal attack was set in motion by the stabbing of one of their mutual friends in Surrey Quays months earlier – Julian was suspected by Kallon and others of being involved in that stabbing.
Julian had not lived in London for a number of years due to concerns for his safety, but frequently returned to see family.
Prior to his death Julian confided in Kallon, who he regarded as a close friend, that he was returning to London that weekend to celebrate his brother’s birthday.
But Kallon betrayed this trust by relaying that information to those who wished to exact “revenge” against Julian, a court heard.
Kallon persuaded him to meet him in Kender Street but when Julian arrived he was ambushed by another man who stabbed him three times. Julian died in the street.
Kallon was found guilty of murder and was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.
Read the full story – ‘Caring’ man’s childhood friend lured him to fatal ambush in New Cross street
Lewisham man who raped stranger
Craig Dorney (Image: Met Police) Craig Dorney, 35, originally from Cork, raped a “Good Samaritan” while she helped him get home after she found him drunkenly passed out in a taxi in Lewisham.
She was on her way home in the early hours of June 29 when a taxi driver beckoned her over to help with a drunk man in the back of his cab.
After rousing Dorney by splashing water on his face she and the taxi driver established where he lived and she offered to get him home.
As she did so Dorney isolated her in an alley where he sexually assaulted and raped her.
At his sentencing hearing the woman said she was once confident, joyful and always trying to help others, but she now feels she is constantly looking over her shoulder.
“That night all I was trying to do was to help someone, now I don’t think I’ll ever get that back,” she said.
“I felt like my soul was broken. The intrinsic parts of what made me were snapped forever. There is such an overwhelming sense of not being the same again.”
Dorney was jailed for seven years.
Read the full story – ‘Good Samaritan’ tells Lewisham man who raped her ‘I was just trying to help’
Thugs who killed 16-year-old boy in Orpington
Joseph Barnes (left) and Aaron Conway (right) (Image: Met Police) A pair of thugs who killed a 16-year-old boy by knocking him off his moped in Orpington were jailed.
Aaron Conway, 39, of Villas Road in Plumstead, and Joseph Barnes, 41 of Byfleet in Surrey, killed Tafari Thompson-Mintah by knocking him off his moped.
Their motive was that Tafari had been in a relationship with Conway’s daughter which had broken down, leading to a series of disputes.
Conway had been determined to threaten and intimidate Tafari.
On October 9, 2023, Conway and Barnes got into a stolen car with Barnes driving and Conway in the passenger seat.
Spotting Tafari, they chased him at high speed before swerving towards him and deliberately knocking him off his scooter, police said.
Barnes was convicted of murder and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 25 years.
Conway was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Read the full story – Dad deliberately killed daughter’s ex, 16, in Orpington moped crash
East Dulwich killer
Tyrese Osei-Kofi (Image: Met Police) Tyrese Osei-Kofi, 25, of Lordship Lane in East Dulwich, was jailed for murder after a teenager he attacked in Clapham died from his injuries six years later.
Osei-Kofi stabbed Jamel Boyce in the chest and leg in Clapham in October 2016.
Jamel was treated at the scene by the London Ambulance Service, but he went into cardiac arrest due to the injury to his heart before arriving in hospital, depriving his brain of oxygen for a critical 14 minutes.
Doctors concluded he had been left in a “vegetative state” and he was transferred to a specialist long-term care facility where he required round-the-clock nursing care.
In 2017 a jury convicted him of GBH but found him not guilty of attempted murder.
But after Jamel died in 2022, aged 22, Osei-Kofi was charged with murder and was found guilty.
He has now been jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years and ten months.
Read the full story – Man jailed for murder after teen he attacked in Clapham dies six years later
Woolwich domestic abuser
Cameron Sealy (Image: Met Police) Cameron Sealy, 22, was jailed after he repeatedly assaulted a woman.
The domestic abuser pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and battery.
Judge Steven Kovats KC decided the appropriate sentence was 60 months – around 14 months.
He said Sealy had carried out a “prolonged, persistent assault using a substantial use of force”.
At the time of the attack Sealy was already serving a community order for an offence of battery.
Judge Kovats said: “Immediate custody is required to acknowledge the gravity of the repeat offending against the same victim, and also to protect that victim.”
