
Southport killer Axel Rudakubana charged with assaulting Belmarsh prison staff
Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been charged with three assaults on prison staff at Belmarsh
Sun 2 Aug 2026 · 09:13 GMT

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been charged with three assaults on prison staff at Belmarsh

A 40-year-old man is fighting for his life

The member staff suffered a fractured eye socket in the attack at Whitechapel station

Despite commuting serious crimes he received no punishment

The former officer from Maidstone has had her sentence doubled by the Court of Appeal after being released

Here's a round-up of potential witnesses and suspects sought by police in connection with alleged crimes in Bradford and the wider district.

A teenager who knifed a man to death during a mass violent disorder on a Bradford street will be sentenced tomorrow (July 31).

Chris Hemming stabbed his ex-partner Cheryl McKenna to death in Redditch, before calling 999 to confess

Three men used a sledgehammer to break into a jewellery shop in Richmond, London in January.

A member of the public earlier raised the alarm after he was observed “behaving oddly” in the street nearby en route to the secondary school holding a petrol can with a hammer tied to his belt.

The drama unfolded in a busy trading estate

Joshua Cain also slapped her in the face multiple times

Stephen Ridgeway was threatened with a kitchen knife when he was attacked

The Met has been found guilty of race discrimination after a judge ruled its promotion freeze for officers under investigation disproportionately affects black officers, who are 81% more likely to face misconduct probes.

Suffolk police ceded investigation into James Loubeau to the US military, leading to court martial acquittal
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'This was an absolutely tragic attack that resulted in a man losing his life'

A stalker has been jailed over a paint bucket trap, set only a few months after he was released from prison

Carlton Brooks was previously sent for prison for making indecent images of children in 2010

Police have named the man charged with murder following the stabbing of a man in Clapham over the weekend

The 45-year-old followed the victim down the station escalator and claimed his repeated attacks were 'consensual'

Detectives are yet to make an arrest and are now releasing CCTV footage in connection

The victim came to hospital with a severe stab wound and could not be saved

The 22-year-old victim was taken to hospital but later died of his injuries

One man was stabbed 13 times while the other was stabbed in the chest several times

Police have slammed those responsible for the 'unprovoked, violent and sustained attack' against two 16-year-old boys that could have had fatal consequences

Tye Hunt, 23, used the platform to coerce young girls into sexual activity

Karam Majdi, 27, travelled to East Croydon in 2017 and raped the schoolgirl in what the judge described as an 'opportunistic' and 'vile' attack that left the victim's thighs black and blue.

Iain Richardson has been added to the sex offenders' register

A support worker who preyed on the vulnerable youths he was hired to protect - raping a 15-year-old in a care home kitchen and showing a sexual video to a 14-year-old has been jailed for 11 years

Isabel Rose was convicted of trying to extort £100,000 from the UK banker and perverting the course of justice.

Greek Street in Soho is a popular street for tourists

A woman challenged the man and followed him until he left the station

The first shot smashed through the windscreen of the victim's car, narrowly missing him, before the second shot through the driver's side window hit him in the chest

Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove Jihad Al-Shamie on a trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at a military base.

Musse Ali, 68, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Hilkiah McLeggan

Tyreece Clarke-Jones appeared to mock police after he escaped from HMP Sudbury in May

Mohammed Ramirez (left), aged 26, of Kenilworth Road, Aston and Sebastian Kandrac (right), aged 20, Armed with machetes, the gang raided homes, threatening residents inside, punching one and stealing cars

Mohamed Samak, 44, claimed to detectives that his wife Joanne, 49, had knifed herself in the chest and stomach at their home in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire.

Members of the public bravely chased the armed suspect away from the victim

Police have launched an appeal to find the man pictured as part of the ongoing investigation

He put his hand on the girl's bottom when she and her family were in Leadenhall Market

36-year-old Durkan pled guilty to 19 charges of voyeurism

Joshua Kerry is accused of entering the former Tory minister and Brexit Party MEP's Dartmoor home through the open front door and murdering her as she ate lunch in her kitchen.

The victim was taken to hospital with a head injury following the attack on November 21

He attacked her after asking her to check his schoolwork and precisely being found being a knife in school

Emmanuel Avogo, then 16, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years after he murdered accountant Adam Khan, 26, in a machete attack in Humberstone Road, Luton, on 31 August last year

Witnesses are urged to come forward

The appeal follows the death of Elijah Seriki, 23, in Hackney Downs

Syed Hussain Ahmed is understood to have been suspended by the Labour Party

Paramedic Ella Johnson was verbally abused while helping a patient in Shepherd's Bush.

The man boarded at an East London station before exposing himself

Tedros Menges, 22, returned to the shop with a saw after realising he had left behind his mobile phone during the initial robbery

The boy is accused of stabbing two others in the neck with a knife but has denied both charges

Police spotted the 17-year-old while driving along Empire Way in Wembley

Daniel Sean James, 46, is said to have murdererd 24-year-old Kirandeep Kaur, after breaking into her own home in Hayes, west London.

A manhunt has begun after a prisoner convicted of attacking two women escaped while being taken to hospital.

The pair, both 17, convicted of arson with intent to endanger life almost a year after they attacked Indian Aroma in Ilford with machetes.

She was told not to inform any family members or friends

Meanwhile, a vigil was held outside Dungannon police station opposing East Timor gang violence and in support of the victim

A man charged with murder and attempted murder over the double stabbing is due to appear in court today (Tuesday, July 14)

ebastian Vernon has been sentenced to six months in prison. The 45-year-old struck on late-night Tube and National Rail trains

A forensics team is reportedly at the scene of the stabbing this afternoon

The man exposed himself to the lone woman on a London Underground train before launching the attack

Police believe church deacon John Grant, 77, may have preyed on other victims after sexual assaults on young men while working in north London

Richard Clayton has now confessed to murdering his mother after refusing to answer questions and even pretending to be asleep during interviews with police officers
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The prosecutor told the court that experts found the 'random, nonsensical and frenzied nature' of the killing supported Safi being 'acutely unwell'

Drummer Lee Rigby was beheaded in Woolwich in 2013

Wayne Palmer, 22, of Weston Road in Ealing, inflicted life-changing injuries on the victim, a man in his 30s, at an address in High Wycombe after confronting him on the street, claiming he owed him money for drugs.

The plot was foiled after the robber nicked himself and left blood whilst jumping over a fence

She had been on her way home from school

Momade Jussab attacked the woman while she and most other passengers were asleep

Zayd Saheb and Zakariye Mohamed conned elderly people out of their life-savings

Donavan Soloman, 37, of Avenue Road, Beckenham, and Lee Moise, 38, of Croyland Road, Edmonton, targeted the store, while wearing balaclavas and gloves

Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of drugging and raping 10 women - but police believe he may have had many more victims

The incident took place on a train leaving Paddington station last month

The man used encrypted messages to arrange the drug deals

The crime happened at about 9pm on March 3 on a Metropolitan line train

He has been given a lengthy prison sentence

Caleb Wallace, 18, of Beam Avenue, Dagenham; Hayat Umar, 18, of Stern Close, Dagenham; and Joshua Amoaka, 18, of Cornflower Road, Chelmsford.

George Austin-Bohan is on trial accused of rape and several other sexual offences

Drug dealer Obina Ezeoke killed Annie Ekofo, 53, and psychology student Bervil Ekofo, 21, in a flat in East Finchley, north London, on September 15 2016. The then 28-year-old was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 40 years in 2020 after an unprecedented five trials over four years.

Shakeil Thibou, 20, stabbed Cher Maximen, 32, in the groin as her young daughter was close by on August 25 last year.

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Adejuwon Oyekan, 32, stabbed 54-year-old Jason Thompson 44 times at his home on July 11 2023, two days after returning from the Spanish island.

Lewis Benjamin, 30, and Jamal Ali-Richards, 29, had tried to hide his body following his death in Benjamin's flat on Sunday, October 15, 2023.

Ismail Uradde - who has a criminal history of attempted abduction and sexual assault - was jailed for a decade

The stab victim has been named by detectives as they continue hunting the knife gang

Jacob Harket, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to robbery, while Naas, of Jamaica Road, Southwark, was found guilty of the same offence.

Two of the men were jailed, while a third was handed a community order

Corin Harper-Davis was given a hospital order after medical experts said he was suffering psychosis

Carson Grimes abused children as young as five in a reign of terror over youngsters in London and Luton

George Kamau pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm following an incident in March last year.

Police have released images of two men they would like to speak to

Police have released an image of a woman they believe may have information

Police have released an image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the incident

He had claimed he acted in self defence but police used CCTV and forensic evidence to lead to his conviction

MyLondon's Callum Cuddeford reported on a Prison Service release in error before the issue hit headlines with the accidental release of Epping paedophile Hadush Kebatu. The Government is in big trouble if they can't get a grip on this soon.

Anyone who recognises him is urged to come forward

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Warren has been brought before a court after a MyLondon investigation named him as a suspect linked to a series of gruesome cat deaths across South London earlier this year

The victim was forced to log out of his iCloud account

The trio will be sentenced in October for killing Conor Kinlan.

The British Transport Police is now hoping to identify two men in connection

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to

Detectives are now hoping the public can identify the man caught on CCTV in just a pair of patterned shorts walking through a Tube station

The British Transport Police has released an image of a man they need to identify in connection

Top Boy actor Micheal Ward has been cleared of all rape and sexual assault charges after a jury returned unanimous not guilty verdicts.

Waseel Shikel and Azad Ahmed drove the two teenagers to remote locations before Ahmed raped one girl. Afterwards the vulnerable teens were given cash, drink, and drugs

Daniel Watkis beat Junior Coleman, 43, to death on the evening of Wednesday, July 9, at the former Brockley Social Club on Brockley Road in Lewisham, where both were sleeping rough.

Judge calls investigation a ‘catalogue of incompetencies’ after attempted sex assault near Buckingham Palace

Anthony Williams, 33, is accused of a mass stabbing on a train from London to Cambridgeshire and separate attacks, including at a DLR station

The Met Police have worked with the victim to create an e-fit of the wanted man which has been circulated with thousands of officers trying to catch him

The victim was sitting on a bench when he was attack by an unknown man, Met Police said

He raped her after a New Year's Eve party in an attack similar to a previous one he was cleared over.

The incident happened at the Liverpool Street London Underground barriers at 11.30pm on Friday, May 3

Adam Mejri used a fake identity to pretend to live in a flat near Grenfell Tower to claim funds.

THIS is the harrowing moment cops and medics battled to save the lives of two teens reportedly disembowelled with a machete in a 30-strong gang fight

BTP has released a CCTV image of a man investigators need to identify in connection

Mr Kissi, 40, was sentenced on Thursday at Snaresbrook Crown Court for deceiving and stealing from a bank in London.

Officers made the grisly discovery of the bodies of a woman and two children yesterday in Great Denham, near Bedford, where homes cost an average of £935,000.

Arafath Ahmed was driving a silver Audi on the A23 southbound near Warninglid, West Sussex, when he lost control at high speed on August 10, 2024.

A convicted London Underground sex offender has been jailed after threatening to stab British Transport Police officers because details of his crimes and custody photo were made public.

A CCTV appeal has been launched to identify a man police need to speak to in connection

Simon Levy and his alleged victim Sheryl Wilkins are seen in the car park where her body is found.

The killing came amid a background of violent incidents arising from rivalry between two Enfield gangs

Isaiah Adio-Weathers, 23, of Evelyn Street in Deptford, Amari Auguste-Francois, 21, of Malpas Road in Hackney, and Ellis Shakiem, 23, of Denmark Road, Southwark have all been charged with charged with murder

Mahroy Stephenson, 30, is still wanted on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent after the alleged attack on Soho Road in Handsworth on Friday.

He impersonated a caretaker and approached a group of four children at a lido

These men have been wanted by West Midlands Police for months in connection with alleged offences including robbery and assault

Ariana Rose stole thousands of pounds worth of valuables while house-sitting in Warwickshire

"This is not just a business to me; it is like a home. It is my whole life and has my whole life inside"

The emergency services were called to a residential road last night (July 1)

A man was reportedly attacked while trying to get his mobile phone back, the British Transport Police said

Images have been released of three men police would like to speak to

This killing was an attack against a background of street violence between two East London gangs, the prosecutor said

Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 68, has been charged with sexual offences against seven women

He was jailed for 22 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court

The 41-year-old will now spend an indefinite time in hospital

Muslims and Jewish people were the most targeted religious groups

He was arrested at his home in Bromley and police have never recovered the stolen goods

Emmanjuel Nyamutenha and Desmond Bonato, both aged 19, were jailed for nine years and six months.

The duped victim crashed his car as he bled out trying to escape

The Metropolitan Police has begun its next stage of clamping down on crime in Croydon town centre

The Londoner was deemed unfit to stand trial

A police dog handler was taken to hospital after Anthony Chieke, 56, reversed his car into them

Detectives want to speak to the man pictured urgently to the udnderground attacker

Osei Kuffour had 'every intention of ending her life in a callous and violent manner'

Muhammad Choudhary, from east London, was identified after rifle scopes were intercepted at Heathrow Airport

A convicted double murderer has been jailed for “horrifying” indecent images ahead of his sentencing for killing a couple and dumping their remains in suitcases near Clifton Suspension Bridge

Muhammed Cabdiqaadir, 25, has been charged with murdering Rinneau Perrineau, aged 19, who was stabbed last Tuesday afternoon (October 21).. A second 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail

Ioan Pintaru who stabbed an 11-year-old girl in a random knife attack in Leicester Square will not face trial for her attempted murder

Harry Pitman, 16, was attacked and stabbed in the neck when he was celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends

Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly released from prison, arrested again in North London, then deported to Ethiopia

Haseeb Bhatti, 23, was stabbed and killed in Dagenham in April 2024. Frankie Burletson, 25, of Arden Crescent, (right) and Swayf Amana, 27, of Brittain Road,

Deonte Mowatt-Slater, 16, was stabbed in the neck and chest by Francie McCarthy before crashing his moped into a lamppost and dying

Passengers intervened to prevent Muslih Alotaibi from escaping

Apapale Adoum, 39, must serve a minimum of 21 years in prison

The haul was discovered in Grays in the summer

Khalid Abdulqadir, from Camden, is accused of violent disorder and causing grievous bodily harm.

Police have released an e-fit image of the man they are looking for in connection with the attack

Aderahman Boumzough, 25, convicted of murder of 15-year-old Rene Graham, as shocking footage shows him trying to kill another person moments after

David Drury was jailed alongside gay partner Daniel Sellers after pleading guilty to multiple offences

He was arrested at Gatwick Airport and was detained in custody

Anyone who recognises him is urged to come forward

The victim was forced to log out of his iCloud account

Detectives believe the number of victims of voyeurism and upskirting to be in the hundreds, including individuals filmed without consent at his WeWork workplace and in public spaces including London Bridge station

The group hijacked a minicab and "unleashed a crimewave" in Croydon, south London. 1 of 2 Romario Gordon, 22, fled to The Gambia on July 3 2021, two days after the fatal stabbing of Camron Smith, 16

Police are describing it as a 'complex investigation' and are urging anyone with information to come forward

The after school patrols uses local knowledge, training, and community ties to prevent conflict and protect Croydon's young people. LOL

The 45-year-old was exposed by his youngest victim - a 15-year-old boy

Tracey Smith tried to summon Ellie Reeves, Lewisham West and East Dulwich MP, to court after sending her 22 emails and 10 voicemails calling her “transphobic” and accusing her older sister – Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves – of physically assaulting her at a buffet bar.

Peter Augustine has been jailed for 23 years for murdering John Mackey

A Anthony Williams, 32, accused of a mass stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire and separate attacks earlier that day and the day before faces a trial next year

A man stabbed in Wembley later died in hospital

The victim was taken to hospital with a head injury following the attack on November 21

Jatinder Singh, known as Vicky Singh Sangha, assaulted the woman shortly after boarding the train at Liverpool Street