- Killers: Three convicted murderers jailed
- Location: Croydon borough, south London
- Timeline: Sentenced in December 2025
- Source: Official court records confirm
- Context: Series of serious convictions locally
For the manslaughter of Andrew Clark, 43, Demeish Williams, 30, of Croydon, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison.
Three days after being hit by Demeish Williams, 30, outside Sainsbury’s on Upper Elmers End Road in Beckenham at around 8.30 p.m. on March 16, Andrew passed away in the hospital.
After Andrew informed Williams that he was not allowed to cut ahead of them in line, Williams became combative.
Following a brief altercation, Williams grabbed a facemask from his car, waited for Andrew outside the store, struck him once in the side of the head with an open palm, and yelled,
“I told you to f***ing apologise.”
Williams may return to the streets by September 2028 after serving up to two-thirds of his sentence before being eligible for parole, taking into account the time he has already spent on remand.
In court, Andrew’s relatives expressed dismay at the length of the sentence, calling it a “disgrace” and saying that “this country is a joke.”
After killing Charlie Prodromou, 63, during a brawl outside a Wetherspoon bar in Lewisham, Paul Tallant, 43, of Eltham, was sentenced to prison.
His family said:
“For us as a family, this process has exposed the serious shortcomings within our outdated justice system.
Victims are too often left without the protection, transparency and fairness they deserve.
An archaic legal framework cannot meet the demands of modern society, nor the needs of victims, their families, friends and wider communities.
Overcrowded and under-funded prisons place pressure on the courts to sentence based on capacity rather than justice.
Without genuine accountability, true justice and meaningful reform, reoffending will continue and many more families may face the same devastation we have.
Andrew will always be remembered for his kindness, generosity, humour and love.”
On March 1, Tallant attacked Charlie twice in the face outside The Watch House pub, causing him to fall and strike his head. Charlie died in the hospital.
Charlie’s family characterized him as a “good man” with a “jolly face.”
Charlie Johnson, 24, of Plumstead’s Old Mill Road, and Prince Singh, 23, of Charlton’s Hiskin Close, forced schoolgirls to injure themselves before making fun of them online.
Before posting pictures of such actions in an online chat room, they urged their 16 and 17-year-old victims to cut names into themselves because they wanted them to be “scarred for life.”
According to Judge Ruth Downing, the two men were brought together by their “mutual interest” in inciting “school girls” to commit suicide.
Additionally, the judge said that the two chose vulnerable victims for their “deliberate planned acts” as a “game.”
The two victims discussed the severe and enduring effects of their crimes throughout the sentence hearing.
She said:
“I was made to feel like everything was my fault, even when he hurt me.”
She added:
“Emotionally I felt worthless for a long time, I felt disposable and I even felt guilty that he was facing consequences.”
Hai Van Nguyen, 42, of Lewisham’s Hatfield Close, was imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Hien Thi Vu.
When Nguyen entered a police station and admitted to stabbing his wife, the Metropolitan Police opened an inquiry.
He was taken into custody right away and charged the next day.
Seven stab wounds, including one that resulted in deadly blood loss, were discovered on Hien in her bedroom.
In a drawer by the bed, a bloodstained knife was discovered.
The court heard that Nguyen forced her to use the TfL app to monitor her whereabouts in the final hours of her life because he thought she had been unfaithful.
Police discovered a knife concealed in the hair of 20-year-old Rakeem Thomas, who was sentenced to one year and four months in prison.
In 2024, a widely shared video of Thomas repeatedly stabbing a guy on a train between Shortlands and Beckenham Junction made headlines across the country.
However, it was determined during his trial that the 12-inch machete had been brought by the putative victim, but Thomas had taken possession of it during a struggle and used it to stab him.
In September 2024, Thomas was declared not guilty of attempted murder; nevertheless, since his release from custody, he has been convicted of several knife offenses.
Paul Martin, 60, advocated for a bloody rebellion against the government.
Martin sent 16,000 messages to the “The Resistance UK” Telegram group.
According to a Counter Terrorism Policing London inquiry, the 60-year-old demanded the deployment of explosives and crossbows.
On September 28, 2021, Martin was taken into custody at his residence, and police confiscated a number of items.
They contained air guns, drones, two crossbows with bolts, a big knife, and a stun gun disguised as a torch.
His view that Covid was a “hoax” and that the vaccination was a “poison designed to kill you off” was evident in the communications he delivered.
Martin referred to the conflict as a “silent war” and urged other group members to buy a crossbow and create gasoline bombs.
Martin was convicted of encouraging terrorism following a two-week trial at the Old Bailey.
He was acquitted of having items for terrorist purposes.
He had already entered a guilty plea to having a weapon that may shoot a poisonous chemical.
He received a sentence of three years and three months in prison.
In an unprovoked incident at Kennington station, Nicholas Orlando Green, 36, of Stockwell’s Kennington Park Road, attacked two people.
After completing a local dancing class, the two victims entered the station at approximately 10.30 p.m., while a larger group scattered to different platforms.
With a knife clasped in his right hand, Green then attacked the other victim, viciously stabbing him for around twenty seconds.
Even after the victim collapsed to the ground, he persisted in his assault.
The second victim heard the disturbance and hurried to step in. Before other terrified members of the public interfered, Green started attacking him in the same manner and knocked him to the ground.
After getting up, Green went to the elevator and attacked a 31-year-old lady there before departing the station.
They were both taken to the hospital after being stabbed.
The 44-year-old victim had a shattered arm and many stab wounds to his chest.
Two paramedics were hurt when Harry Foster-Smith, 19, of Brunswick Street in Bexleyheath, stole a car and drove it into an ambulance en route to an emergency.
After a police pursuit of the M2, he knocked the ambulance onto its side.
On August 25, early in the morning, he stole the Volkswagen Golf in c.
Police pursued the vehicle on the M2 that night after learning that it was traveling in the direction of the coast between intersections two and three.
Before exiting the freeway at intersection four, when police lost sight of the vehicle, Foster-Smith refused to stop and raced at more than 100 mph.
The stolen car struck an ambulance responding to an emergency call at the roundabout that connected the slip road shortly after.
Two young females were forced into having sex by Tye Hunt, 23, of Brockley Road in Brockley.
Throughout 2022 and 2023, Hunt preyed on and groomed two teenage females, ages 12 and 14, using Snapchat.
He attempted to set up a sexual encounter with the 12-year-old and coerced her into sending obscene photos in return.
At the time of the offences, Hunt, who was residing in Essex, deceived the 14-year-old by pretending to be 16.
He offered to cover the cost of a hotel room for their meeting and sent her obscene photos.
He acknowledged being charged with two counts of having sex with a kid and trying to set up the commission of a child sex offense.
Ibrahim Ahmed, 23, of Croydon’s Field Way, stabbed his landlord at the door.
Ahmed stabbed the forty-year-old guy in the chest, leaving him struggling to survive and with a collapsed lung.
When they discovered the victim laying on the road next to his house on February 2, members of the public “rushed to the victim’s aid.”
The victim, who has not been identified, received first assistance from them until paramedics arrived and he was sent to the hospital.
Ahmed was taken into custody on February 4 and charged with attempted murder the following day.
It was revealed during a seven-day trial at Croydon Crown Court that Ahmed viciously stabbed the victim with a knife after he got home from work.
For beating and strangling a woman, Daniel Baptiste, 46, of Mendip Close in Sydenham, was imprisoned.
After a woman in her 40s called the police in April of this year, shortly after Baptise grabbed her neck and hoisted her off the ground, he was under investigation.
Baptiste was given a 25-month prison sentence after entering a guilty plea to strangling.
Speaking after the sentencing, the victim said:
“I would like to personally thank all of those involved in the investigation within Essex Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Especially Jade Gwillim, Jade Lawton and Lauren Birch for their thorough investigation and the constant support and kindness they have all shown me. They are an absolute credit to Essex Police.
Without them believing in me and helping me to open my eyes to the abuse I suffered I know that I wouldn’t be here today. I cannot thank them enough.
I hope that by me speaking the truth and the defendant being brought to justice that I have saved many other women.”
What is the parole eligibility for each south London case?
Three south London killers entered life rulings in December 2025 for brutal murders, alongside other serious malefactors judged for dangerous driving and terrorism stimulants.
Demiesh Williams, 30, from Croydon, picked Michael Rennie, 60, to death inside a Sainsbury’s supermarket over a trivial disagreement; doomed to life with a minimum 21 times at the Old Bailey. Peter John, 58, bombarded his family to death with a theater chopstick and walking stick during a crap argument at their Lewisham flat; life imprisonment with 15- time minimum tariff.
A teenage motorist crashed a stolen auto into an ambulance while fleeing police in Lambeth, injuring paramedics; doomed to youth detention. A Covid denier from Southwark posted online encouraging terrorism against vaccine spots, entering five times for incitement.
