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Honeytrap thieves jailed for killing men they had drugged
A couple who drugged men seeking sexual services in order to steal from them were jailed for killing two men and poisoning others.
Adina Mihai and Madalin Dumitru admitted the manslaughter ...of Gary Mouat, 37, from Oxfordshire, and Malcolm King, 80, from Gloucestershire, in 2025 and 2024 respectively.
The pair also each admitted two further counts of administering poison to two surviving victims.
Mihai, 31, and Dumitru, 30, were both sentenced to 17 years in prison at Oxford Crown Court.
Mihai, who posed as a sex worker, and her partner Dumitru, arranged to meet men paying for services she had advertised online at their homes.
The court heard four had their alcoholic drinks spiked with the powerful sedative gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) so the pair could steal from them.
Two men died as a result, while two others survived.
Sentencing, Mrs Justice Brunner said the amount of GBL, commonly referred to as a date rape drug, given to the pair's victims was "haphazard".
She told them: "If you had stopped for a moment to consider the risks, as you should have done, you would have realised that you were creating a high risk of serious injury or death every time you administered that drug.
"If you had done the most cursory research you would know that GBL can be extremely toxic."
The judge added: "You left each victim alone in a state of deep unconsciousness, and a moment's thought could and should have led to the realisation that they might never come round."
Honeytrap thieves jailed for killing men they had drugged
A couple who drugged men seeking sexual services in order to steal ...
A couple who drugged men seeking sexual services in order to steal from them were jailed for killing two men and poisoning others.
Adina Mihai and Madalin Dumitru admitted the manslaughter ...of Gary Mouat, 37, from Oxfordshire, and Malcolm King, 80, from Gloucestershire, in 2025 and 2024 respectively.
The pair also each admitted two further counts of administering poison to two surviving victims.
Mihai, 31, and Dumitru, 30, were both sentenced to 17 years in prison at Oxford Crown Court.
Mihai, who posed as a sex worker, and her partner Dumitru, arranged to meet men paying for services she had advertised online at their homes.
The court heard four had their alcoholic drinks spiked with the powerful sedative gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) so the pair could steal from them.
Two men died as a result, while two others survived.
Sentencing, Mrs Justice Brunner said the amount of GBL, commonly referred to as a date rape drug, given to the pair's victims was "haphazard".
She told them: "If you had stopped for a moment to consider the risks, as you should have done, you would have realised that you were creating a high risk of serious injury or death every time you administered that drug.
"If you had done the most cursory research you would know that GBL can be extremely toxic."
The judge added: "You left each victim alone in a state of deep unconsciousness, and a moment's thought could and should have led to the realisation that they might never come round."
Double killer and serial sex offender gets whole life order
A serial sex offender was handed a whole life order for the murder of ...
A serial sex offender was handed a whole life order for the murder of two women and the violent rape of a third.
Simon Levy, 40, will spend the rest of ...his life behind bars with no opportunity of parole.
Passing sentence, Judge Mark Lucraft KC described Levy as someone who “ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction”.
Addressing the defendant at the Old Bailey, the judge said Levy was being sentenced for a series of attacks upon “vulnerable women”.
“You are clearly someone who ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction,” he said.
The judge added: “You are someone who appears to have a morbid fascination with sex, rape and crime.”
Levy was found guilty of murdering grandmother Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and mother-of-four Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August that year.
He suffocated both women in sexually motivated attacks, with Ms Valencia-Trujillo found in a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in south-east London, and Ms Wilkins behind a car park wall near Tottenham High Road, north London.
The killings came after he subjected a third woman to a brutal sex attack in January last year in the same car park where Ms Wilkins’ body was later found.
The surviving victim, who suffered a broken collarbone, told police at the time that she had been raped and knew where her attacker lived, but she was not formally interviewed until after Levy had killed twice.
The jury also found Levy guilty of two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent and the non-fatal smothering of the third woman.
Judge Lucraft sentenced Levy to two further life sentences, with minimum terms of 12 years, for the two rapes, to be served alongside the whole-life orders.
The judge said an offence of GBH warranted a four-year jail term, and it would have been a two-and-a-half year term for intentional smothering.
However, he imposed no separate penalty for those crimes because the actions had been taken into account when deciding the sentences for the rapes.
This video has been edited to comply with reporting restrictions and to remove a disturbance in court.
Jail for son who kept mum's body in freezer while collecting her benefits
A man who kept his dead mother in a chest freezer in the living room ...
A man who kept his dead mother in a chest freezer in the living room of the family home for nearly three years and continued to collect her pension and ...benefits was jailed.
Christopher Phillips, 60, was arrested after the body of Sylvia Phillips, 89, was found by officers in February 2026 at Poplar Crescent, Porthcawl.
She had died in March 2023.
Two days after her death, Phillips bought a chest freezer from AO.com, placing it in the dining room of the semi-detached home. She remained there until her body was discovered by police who carried out a welfare check requested by her GP.
The court was told that the local medical practice had made repeated attempts to contact her but were denied access by her son.
When police went to the house, Phillips said his mother had moved to London and did not want to undergo medical tests.
Phillips received a total of £78,190.92 in state pension, pensions credit, attendance allowance, winter fuel payments, cost-of-living payments and housing benefit payments, which would have ceased had the death been reported.
Sentencing Phillips to two years and four months, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke said he had "deliberately concealed" his mother's death and "took steps to give the impression that she was still alive".
"You continued to collect her prescription and lied to medical professionals and eventually the police," she added.
"Rather than notify the authorities and make arrangements for her lawful burial, you purchased a chest freezer on March 10th and concealed her body within it," she said.
IN FULL: Disgraced funeral director jailed for 20 years
A funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave ...
A funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers was jailed for 20 years.
Some 35 bodies and more than 100 sets ...of ashes were found by police raiding Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull in March 2024.
Robert Bush, 48, admitted 67 offences, including denying 30 people a decent and proper burial, theft from 12 charities, and fraudulent trading over a period of almost 12 years.
Sentencing him at Hull Crown Court, Mr Justice Hilliard told the former undertaker he had "caused anguish and pain on a scale beyond comprehension".
The court heard Bush defrauded nearly 200 families out of £562,117 and had acted out of "financial greed".
Hilliard warned that unless a body was one of those recovered by police in 2024 and properly identified, no-one who had used Legacy's cremations services "at any time can be absolutely certain they received the ashes of their loved one".
"He must have a heartless side to him - which allowed him to treat the living and the dead in the way he did, and he was very confident he would get away with what he was doing."
The judge added: "I don't think I have ever known offences affecting so many people and so deeply."
The court was told relatives of 46 people who were cremated between 2017 and 2024 were given the wrong ashes and the loved ones of another 11 never received any.
"How betrayed they now feel," said the judge.
"Husbands and wives, partners, parents, children, grandchildren, now discovering that they are left with nothing, or in some cases we heard, an empty plastic bag or a teaspoonful of ash which the police managed to recover for them."
A triple killer who murdered and dismembered the bodies of two of his ...
A triple killer who murdered and dismembered the bodies of two of his friends before strangling a third man to death in prison while awaiting trial was told he will ...spent the rest of his life behind bars.
James Desborough, 40, was already serving a minimum of 19 years for the murder of prison cellmate Steven Kempster.
He was on remand awaiting trial for the killing of 57-year-old Claudio Aquilino and Daniel Coleman, 43, at the time.
Following a trial at Winchester Crown Court, he was convicted of murder and handed an additional two life sentences with whole life orders.
Aquilino and Coleman met Desborough at Newquay's Sandy Lodge homeless shelter, where police are now reviewing the unexplained deaths of two other men and two women.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Saini described Desborough as "a highly dangerous individual who had no regard for the life of those you think are worthless".
This video has been edited to comply with reporting restrictions.
Four people convicted over the deaths of two men in a high-speed car ...
Four people convicted over the deaths of two men in a high-speed car chase had their appeal bids refused.
Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, were killed in February ...2022 on the A46 in Leicestershire, after being ambushed in a car park in Leicester by a group including TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari and her mother Ansreen Bukhari.
Ansreen Bukhari, 49, was convicted of the murder of Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin in February 2022 alongside her daughter, Mahek Bukhari, and two other men.
She was jailed for 26 years and nine months, but at a Court of Appeal her barrister Christopher Millington KC claimed the sentencing judge had failed to appropriately take into account the coercive and controlling behaviour she had suffered at the hands of Hussain.
A panel of three judges dismissed the claim, saying that the sentence was justified.
Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulammustafa and Natasha Akhtar, who were all in one of the cars which had pursued Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin, had been convicted of manslaughter.
They sought to appeal their convictions, with Rajiv Menon KC for Jamal and Balraj Bhatia KC for Gulammustafa and Akhtar, arguing that while they were convicted of unlawful act manslaughter - which requires an unlawful action to take place which caused death - the trial judge had not identified this "base" offence in the questions jurors had to consider.
However, three judges dismissed their appeals.
In a judgment handed down remotely after the hearing, Lord Justice Jeremy Baker, who heard the case alongside Mr Justice Bryan and Judge Simon Hirst, said: "We consider that in the context of this case, where there was no question but that those involved in the plan were intent on inflicting unlawful violence upon Saquib Hussain, these questions appropriately set out the matters which the jury had to consider.
"The jury would have been well aware that the common plan which was being referred to was the plan to attack Saqib Hussain when he arrived at Tesco's car park, in order to kill him, or to cause him to suffer either really serious bodily harm, or some lesser degree of harm."
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