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Full timeline of Simon Levy’s crimes: From first assault to guilty verdict

The sex attacker’s crime spree spanned from 2018 to 2025

The Independent UK

French Crypto Millionaires Tortured, Burned and Forced To Pay $30,000 as London Court Convicts Six Men

Six men were convicted after kidnapping and torturing two French crypto investors in London, highlighting Europe's rise in crypto wrench attacks.

International Business Times UK

Afghan Asylum Seeker Avoids Jail After Girl's Family Confronts Him at Restaurant Over Assault

An Afghan asylum seeker avoided prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in London. He was fined and placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.

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Architects accused of ignoring risks after man crushed by falling window

Mick Ferris, 53, was crushed when a window fell 26 storeys from the penthouse of The Corniche, a tower block on London’s Embankment in 2018.

Evening Standard

‘Vile’ predator jailed for sexually assaulting 13-year-old girl on train

British Transport Police arrested him 11 days later when he was seen by plain-clothes officers

The Independent UK

Predator who sexually assaulted sleeping women on Tube is finally caught after tip-off

BTP said investigators had not managed to identify him earlier because of a lack of on-train CCTV footage

Evening Standard

Asylum seeker who raped girl, 16, in south London is detained for seven years

Shahram Rasouli, 19, carried out the attack on the girl in August last year after she and a friend were convinced to go to his Salvation Army-run accommodation in Denmark Hill, south London

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Ex-HSBC banker dodged £5,900 in London train fares by using 'doughnutting' fraud

Joseph Molloy, a former HSBC executive, exploited the scam over 740 times in 11 months, saving a total of £5,911 on Southeastern train fares, Inner London Crown Court heard

Evening Standard

Husband who stabbed wife to death and manipulated their young child to maintain his web of lies jailed

Robert Rhodes had coached the couple’s child to claim he had acted in self-defence

The Independent UK

Killer who got away with murdering wife for years after manipulating child to cover up crime is finally jailed

Robert Rhodes, 52, ordered to serve a minimum term of 29-and-a-half years for murdering his wife Dawn after discovering she was having an affair

Evening Standard

Man faces life sentence for wife’s murder after child provides new evidence to therapist

Robert Rhodes had stabbed himself and inflicted a cut on the child’s arm – wounds he blamed on his wife

The Independent UK

Man found guilty of murdering wife after child reveals new evidence in rare retrial

The child told police that during contact with Rhodes he continued to give them instructions to stick to the plan

The Independent UK

Justice Secretary to set out reforms to tackle ‘courts emergency’

David Lammy will lay out reforms to overhaul the system on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Man charged with manslaughter following fatal assault in Southwark

Michael John Edwards, 43, from Nuneaton in Warwickshire was rushed to hospital but died on September 17

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Two men jailed over plot to sell meat meant for pet food – including lambs’ testicles – to shoppers

Anthony Fear and Azar Irshad have been jailed for their role in a conspiracy to sell meat meant to be used in pet food to customers

The Independent UK

Rave culture, lycra ‘nuns’ and ‘sexual healing’: Inside the evangelical cult left unchecked in the Church of England

Inspired by 80s rave culture and radical evangelical preaching, Christopher Brain and his acolytes developed a revolutionary type of worship which brought young people flocking to the Church of England. Thirty years after the ‘cult’ collapsed in controversy, its leader has been convicted of abusing vulnerable young women who ‘viewed…

The Independent UK

Jury discharged in trial of former Nine O’Clock Service priest Christopher Brain

Christopher Brain, 68, led the Nine O’Clock Service in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, between 1986 and 1995.

Evening Standard

Jury discharged in trial of former Nine O’Clock Service priest

Christopher Brain, 68, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, led the Nine O’Clock Service in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, between 1986 and 1995.

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Vicar who led rave-style ‘cult’ in Church of England found guilty of assaulting female followers

The leader of the Nine O’Clock Service, Christopher Brain, 68, has been found guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault

Evening Standard

Former evangelical priest guilty of sexual offences against nine women

Christopher Brain was the leader of evangelical movement the Nine O’Clock Service between 1986 and 1995

The Independent UK

Former Nine O’Clock Service priest guilty of sexual offences against nine women

Christopher Brain was the leader of evangelical movement the Nine O’Clock Service between 1986 and 1995.

The Independent UK

Former priest accused of leading evangelical Church of England cult says followers gave him ‘sensual’ massages to relieve tension headaches

Christopher Brain, who denies one count of rape and 36 counts of indecent assault, claims he engaged in kissing, massaging and stroking with ‘close friends’ from the Nine O’Clock Service, a court heard

Evening Standard

Former priest accused of assault says church group leadership was ‘on consensus’

Christopher Brain was leader of the evangelical movement the Nine O’Clock Service.

Evening Standard

Panel of potential jurors chosen in trial of former Nine O’Clock Service priest

Christopher Brain, 68, from Wilmslow, is accused of one count of rape and 36 counts of indecent assault against 13 women between 1981 and 1995.

Evening Standard

Chinese PhD student guilty of drugging and raping 10 women

Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted at Inner London Crown Court on Wednesday.

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