Here are the names and faces of the men who have been sentenced to prison time in May 2026 to date.
Bexley car thief
Phillip Booth, 40, from Kidbrooke, was convicted of his hundredth offence after he stole a £28,000 Jaguar car from a driveway in Bexley.
He was sentenced to two years in prison for offences including theft of a car, possession of a knife in public and stealing an engagement ring.
In June 2024, a man returned to his home in Bexley to discover his Jaguar F-Pace had been stolen from his driveway.
He used the tracker fitted in the car to track it to an address in Lincoln Close, Erith.
From doorbell footage from nearby houses, officers recognised Booth as the person who had driven the car to the location.
Booth remained at large and went on to commit further offences.
GP boss
Christian Jennings, former practice manager at Camberwell Green Surgery, stole more than £150,000 of NHS money then sent menacing anonymous letters to a businesswoman he came to loathe on LinkedIn.
Jennings, 63, was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for fraud and stalking.
Jennings was practice manager at Camberwell Green Surgery when between 2013 and 2019 he raised false invoices and diverted genuine payments to his own bank account.
When he left the surgery in 2019, the new practice manager noticed suspicious payments and instructed a financial audit which revealed Jennings had stolen £151,841.
Whilst under investigation for those offences, Jennings went on to offend again when he developed a bizarre obsession with an accountant from Portsmouth.
Between January and August 2025, he sent six anonymous letters to Jeri Williams, who has 92,000 followers on LinkedIn and describes herself as an “accountant to the rich and famous”.
In one letter he called her a “total tramp”, while in another he included a picture of a dartboard and wrote “you are marked, darling”.
In a later letter he included a photo of her puppy and wrote “be extra careful when out with your little pup, anything could happen in that situation”.
Man stabbed at high street bank
Jason McKenzie stabbed a man inside a bank in Woolwich.
The 24-year-old stabbed the man in the back as he used a cashpoint inside a NatWest in Powis Street at around 1.30pm on June 13 last year.
The knifeman then chased the victim out of the bank branch – leaving terrified customers and staff behind.
McKenzie, from Plumstead, was given a seven-year extended sentence after he was found guilty of attempted grievous bodily harm.
The victim refused to co-operate with police and did not attend hospital, which is why the Crown Prosecution Service brought its case as an attempt.
Read the full story – Customers terrified as man stabbed inside Woolwich NatWest
Bully left woman wheelchair-bound
Gulaid Aden was given a 17-year sentence after he used a Mercedes as a weapon against his then-girlfriend.
Aden was “humiliated” when his partner found him sitting in her car with another woman in Greenwich on July 5 last year.
The 29-year-old deliberately rammed her into a zebra crossing beacon in John Harrison Way, before driving away.
Aden then returned 13 minutes later and gave various false explanations to paramedics, including that her injuries were caused when she tripped into the pole.
The victim’s life-changing injuries included fractures to three of her limbs, her back and bruising to both lungs – she is now confined to a wheelchair or using a walking stick.
Read the full story – Woman left wheelchair-bound by Greenwich bully who used Mercedes as weapon
Tech boss sexually assaulted child
Technology executive Sumesh Puthiyaveeti was jailed for sexually assaulting a child in Erith.
Puthiyaveetil, who lived locally before moving to St Albans, pleaded guilty to two charges of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13.
Woolwich Crown Court heard that the sexual assaults took place a decade ago, but the child’s attempts to disclose the abuse were repeatedly shut down by adults who refused to believe them.
When Puthiyaveetil was eventually confronted about the allegations he admitted them but said he would kill himself if the police were told, Judge Charlotte Welsh said.
The judge described it as a “tragedy” that the child was disbelieved and then emotionally blackmailed in such a way.
Puthiyaveetil, 49, was sentenced to three years in prison.
Read the full story – Technology boss who sexually assaulted child in Erith is jailed
Man attacked his pregnant girlfriend
Worcester Park man James Billimore strangled his heavily pregnant partner, causing her to go into labour.
The 34-year-old subjected the victim to sustained physical, emotional and financial abuse, controlling her movements and monitoring her through a tracking app on her phone.
He used threats and intimidation to maintain control, including telling her while she was driving: “If you don’t listen to me, I’ll crash the car and we will both be dead.”
The court heard he regularly assaulted the victim and took control of her finances, forcing her to withdraw money for him and leaving her in debt.
She became isolated from friends and family, with no social life and feeling unable to seek help.
The abuse escalated further when, the day before giving birth to her son, Billimore strangled her and punched her in the stomach.
The attack caused her to go into labour the following morning.
He then told her: “You’re not going to hospital like that,” and forced her to stay at home until a friend later took her to hospital.
Billimore was sentenced to three years in prison.
