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Charged and In Court: March 2022

Some of our investigations which led to charges and/or convictions in court during March 2022.

Convictions during the month include two men found guilty of murdering a man who was found by officers seriously injured in the boot of a car, a man jailed after falsely imprisoning his flatmate and holding a knife to her neck and a gang jailed for a total of more than 50 years for a gun-smuggling plot.

Convictions

Pair found guilty of murdering Leicester man

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a man who was found by officers seriously injured in the boot of a car.


Renaldo Baptiste, 35 and Jeffery Carew, 22 were both convicted following a trial at Leicester Crown Court spanning several weeks.


A third man, Jurrat Khan, 25, was found guilty of manslaughter.



In the early hours of 12 April last year, patrol officers, who were attending a different incident, saw a red Vauxhall Astra being driven at speed and in an erratic manner on Brighton Road.


Having their suspicions about the occupants of the vehicle, they pursued the driver who ran off but was later identified as Khan. Following a foot chase, Khan was detained nearby. When officers opened the boot of the car, they found 47-year-old Anand Parmar unconscious inside and administered first aid to him.


Mr Parmar had suffered serious head and chest injuries and was taken to hospital. Sadly, despite the best efforts of all involved, he died later that morning.


As enquiries progressed into the death of Mr Parmar, it was established that Baptiste and Carew had been involved.


Baptiste, of Marsh Close, Leicester; Carew, of Marsh Close, Leicester; and Khan, of Wakerley Road, Leicester; are due to be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Friday 13 May.


Man jailed for 15 years after holding flatmate hostage

A man who falsely imprisoned his flatmate holding a knife to her neck has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.


Police had been called to a flat in Bull Head Street in Wigston by East Midlands Ambulance Service at 5.14am on Thursday 29 July last year.


They were in attendance to treat a man who had been assaulted and had sustained a broken eye socket and a knife wound to his arm.


While officers were travelling to the address, it became known that Christopher Antill, 38, was responsible for the stab wound after assaulting his flatmate.



Christopher Antill

When officers arrived at the address Antill, still armed with a knife, barricaded himself into another flatmate’s room with her and was refusing to let her leave.


Trained negotiators arrived at the scene and after three hours of speaking to Antill, he surrendered and left the room. The woman was not physically harmed.


Antill was sentenced after being found guilty of false imprisonment, blackmail and section 18 grievous bodily harm wounding with intent.


Gang jailed for more than 50 years for gun smuggling plot

Seven men who ran an elaborate plot to smuggle guns into Leicester from more than 100 miles away have been jailed.


The group transported the weapons from Manchester and London but were foiled after officers from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) were onto their plans.




In August 2020 their crimes came to an end when two members – Ahmad Laher and Kieran Matthews – were stopped by officers in Elstree Avenue, Leicester. A search of the white Mercedes they were using uncovered a sports bag containing four handguns, magazines and ammunition.


It had been established that one man from Leicester – Shyran Christian-Walters – was the intended buyer of the weapons, with the rest of the group acting as brokers and couriers for the deal.


At court, the group were sentenced for their crimes.


Men jailed for slavery and drugs offences

Drug dealers who forced a man to package up crack cocaine and heroin on their behalf have been jailed for their crimes.



The victim – who is in his 50s - was coerced into storing cash and drugs for a gang. They made threats towards him and eventually forced him to package up wraps of crack cocaine and heroin, which they intended to sell.


Their crimes came to light when police were called to the victim’s home following a report of concern for his welfare.


Following a trial, Kye O’Neill and Scott Elton were found guilty of conspiracy to require another to perform forced or compulsory labour. Jamie Wileman and Ian Diamond were found not guilty.


All four men had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply a controlled drug of class A at an earlier court hearing.

  • O’Neill, 32, of Thurcaston Road, Leicester, was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment

  • Elton, 30, of Edwards Street in Overseal, Derbyshire, was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment

  • Wileman, 28, of HMP Lowdham Grange, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment

  • Diamond, 42, of Towers Drive in Hinckley, was given a two-year suspended sentence

Man jailed following serious attack on woman in her own home

A man who attacked a woman in her own home leaving her with injuries including fractures to her eye socket, nose and ribs has been jailed for eight years.


The victim, who was known to her attacker Arfan Hussein, was at home near the Aylestone area of Leicester, on the afternoon of Wednesday 14 July last year when Hussein and two others burst into her bedroom.



Arfan Hussein

Hussein, 31, then began to attack the woman, who is in her 30s, with a butter knife trying to stab her to the head. A friend of the victim who was in the property held onto Hussein to stop him which led to Hussein kicking and stamping on the victim instead. He also punched the victim to the face.


Hussein, of Maynard Road, Leicester, was arrested on the same day of the attack. He denied causing the injuries but following an investigation, a trial was heard at Leicester Crown Court where Hussein was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent.


Motorist jailed for running over man at service station

A motorist who ran over a man at a service station on the M1 has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment.


Shortly before 11.30pm on 18 June last year, police were called to the southbound service station at Leicester Forest East following a report that a man had been struck in a car park.


He was found by paramedics with serious leg injuries and taken to hospital and on arrival, it was found he has suffered an open fracture to his right tibia and fibula.


Immediate enquiries established that the victim – a man in his 40s – had travelled to Leicester from North Wales to attend a Christian convention. The van driver – 30-year-old Marcus Knowles – had also travelled to Leicester from Blackpool. The victim said Knowles had driven the van at him before then driving off.



Marcus Knowles

He also told police that in February 2021, messages were sent by Knowles in a WhatsApp group in which he had threatened to kill him.


Knowles – of St Walburgas Road, Blackpool – pleaded guilty to one count of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.



Career criminal jailed after committing burglary while on licence


A man who was released on licence after serving a sentence for burglary has been jailed for committing a further offence.


Stefan Kirk broke into a house in Southernhay Road, Knighton, Leicester, in broad daylight in September last year.



Stefan Kirk

When the occupants returned to their home they found a bike worth more than £3,000 had been stolen.


An image of the suspect was captured on a video doorbell and circulated to officers in a bid to identify the man.


He was identified as 48-year-old Stefan Kirk of no fixed address.


Kirk, who had just been released on licence after serving a sentence for a previous burglary, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison after pleading guilty to burglary


Man jailed after admitting sexual activity with a child

A registered sex offender has been sentenced to 19 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to sexual activity with a child.


Isaac Cluley, 24, was reported to have admitted the offence in November last year to another adult who had questioned him when concerns were raised.

The teenage female victim was under 16.


Cluley, of Narborough Road, Leicester, was already on the sex offender register and the subject of a sexual harm prevention order following previous convictions for sexual penetration of a living animal.


At court, Cluley was also issued with a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and was placed on the sex offender register for 10 years.



Footage captures dangerous actions of driver before he is arrested by police


This was the footage captured as an uninsured driver being pursued by police drove at speed on the wrong side of the road and the wrong way around a roundabout.


Police footage captures dangerous actions of driver


With three police vehicles ending up being involved in the pursuit, the footage also shows the driver Lamin Conteh narrowly miss hitting one police car as he mounts a pavement.


This leads to one of the other police cars being forced to make tactical contact with the silver Ford Fiesta Conteh is driving.


Despite this, Conteh continues to make off at speed before eventually coming to a stop in a nearby car park where he is arrested by officers.


At Leicester Crown Court, the 20-year-old, of Aston Hill, Leicester, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment suspended for two years after previously pleading guilty to dangerous driving, driving without a licence and driving without insurance.


He was also disqualified from driving for two years and ordered to take an extended retest, ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work, pay costs of £350 and a victim surcharge of £156.

Charges

* For note - the below are incidents where a person has been charged with an offence. Court proceedings in relation to the allegation are still to be heard.

Three men charged with murder following A46 collision

Three men have been charged this month with murder following a fatal collision on the A46 in February.


Mohammed Patel, 20, of Braybrooke Road, Leicester; Sanaf Gulammustafa, 22, of Littlemore Close, Leicester; and Ameer Jamal, 27, of Catherine Street, Leicester, were charged in March with murder in connection with the incident which happened at around 1.30am on Friday 11 February on the A46 just before the Six Hills junction.


The collision involved a silver Skoda Fabia which left the carriageway. Two men, Saqib Hussain, 21, and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, 21, both from Banbury, Oxfordshire, who were inside the car were pronounced dead at the scene.


Three women and two men have previously been charged with murder in connection with the incident.


Man charged following stabbing in Loughborough

A 37-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following a stabbing on Wednesday 16 March.


Andrew Holders, of Ratcliffe Road, has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a knife in a public place after police were called to Ratcliffe Road shortly after 5am and found a man in his 50s with a stab wound to his neck.


Two charged following car stop in Leicester

Two men have been charged after officers stopped a car in Aylestone Road, Leicester, on the morning of Wednesday 2 March.


Maeez Pardiwala, 30, of Darley Street, Leicester and Zameer Kazi, 23, of St Peters Road, Leicester, have both been charged with possession of a controlled drug of class A with intent to supply and possession of an imitation firearm in a public place.


Burglary at Leicester jewellers – two men charged

Two men have been charged following a burglary at a Leicester jewellers.

Thomas Barney-Jones, 31, of Wagtail Close, Ratby and Eugene Alexander, 47, of Lancashire Street, Leicester, have both been charged with burglary in connection with a burglary at a store in St Saviours Road on the afternoon of Saturday 26 March.


A quantity of jewellery was stolen.



 

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