Some of the biggest court cases to conclude in the UK last month
A mother and her partner who murdered her teenage son during a campaign of torture were just two of the worst offenders sent to jail in the UK last month.
The rickshaw’s driver Tanzir Ahmed, who is in his 30s, was seriously injured while Ms Strickland was killed in the collision in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, in the early hours of July 10. Mr Ahmed had stopped in New Kent Road so Ms Strickland and her friend Jade Redford, who was not harmed in the crash, could use the cash machine of a branch of Tesco Express.
Agnieszka Kalinowska and Andrzej Latoszewski A mother and her partner were jailed for life with a minimum term of 39 years for murdering her son during a campaign of “horrific and prolonged torture”. Sebastian Kalinowski died of an infection caused by “untreated complications of multiple rib fractures”, after weeks of what prosecutors described as “cruel assaults and abuse” at the hands of his mother Agnieszka Kalinowska, 35, and her long-term partner Andrzej Latoszewski, 38.
Jurors heard that, on the morning of Sebastian’s final day, August 13 2021, he went through “the routine of being assaulted by both defendants”. The court heard CCTV showed Latoszewski taking Sebastian out of the bedroom at 8.25am, before carrying him back around 15 minutes later, “naked, clearly wet and unconscious”. Emergency services were called to the defendants’ house by Latoszewski after Sebastian had been unconscious for around two and a half hours, the court heard.
The prosecutor told jurors: “The officers went into the bedroom. On the bed they found the lifeless body of Tony Bird. He was naked. He was lying on his side. His knees were tucked up and his legs were crossed. Black electrical flex was bound tightly around his left wrist and around his left ankle." During the hearing, a pre-recorded video was played in which James asked why the defendants targeted him and whether they now “feel bad”. He said: “When I was stabbed by these people I remember crying out for my mum and pleading for them to stop. I do not remember much and I could not communicate for six months after the attack."
A price was agreed with a potential buyer but the victim visited the property with a drain surveyor and spoke to neighbours, who said they thought the house was tenanted and not for sale. He contacted police following the visit in June 2022 and officers discovered that many documents Smith had provided to the letting agent were fraudulent.
He was convicted of grievous bodily harm with intent in relation to the attack on the mother-of-two, and handed a discretionary life sentence with a minimum term of nine years for that and two other offences in 2000. Craig served almost 19 years in prison, but was then arrested and charged with murder in June 2021 after Ms Kirk’s death at the age of 61 in August 2019.
Matthew Fisher A man who murdered his wife and dumped her body in woodland six months after she gave birth to their child has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years. Matthew Fisher, 30, strangled primary school teacher Abi Fisher, 29, before leading police and her family on a “wild goose chase” by claiming she left him and their daughter in the middle of the night, Leeds Crown Court was told.
Andrew Burfield A “bully” who claimed he accidentally killed his ex-girlfriend when throwing an axe has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years for her murder. The family of 33-year-old Katie Kenyon appealed for others with concerns about controlling relationships to contact police following the sentencing of her killer Andrew Burfield, 51, who murdered and buried the mother-of-two in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, on April 22.
Burfield's sentence is now being challenged as unduly lenient under a scheme which means anybody can appeal against a sentence if they believe it to be unfairly low. The Attorney General’s Office will review that request and decide whether to send it to the Court of Appeal, who can make a decision about the sentence.
The prosecution told the court that Parks physically assaulted her "by repeatedly punching her to the face as she lay in bed, then strangled her to death". The court heard that forensic evidence indicated that the defendant sexually assaulted his victim. Sentencing him, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said: “You dodged justice for nearly 30 years, now justice has caught up with you.” She later said: “This was a notorious and universally appalling crime, both because of your history and the doubly fatal consequences of what you did.”
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