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Jonathan Abora
Jonathan Gyasi Abora (born 17 June 2000) is an English criminal and convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of Israel Ogunsola in November 2018. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
He was born and lived in London, to Nigerian parents. Abora is from the Islington area.

On 4 April 2018, Israel Ogunsola, 17, was stabbed to death in Hackney, London by Abora, also aged 17 at the time. He was remanded in custody following the stabbing and convicted in November, sentenced to 18 years in prison. Abora could not be named until turning 18, due to UK law.

Andrew Adekoya
Andrew Olutimileyin O. A. Adekoya (born 3 September 1996) is an English convicted killer.

He was convicted, along with 21-year-old Ibrahim James, of the manslaughter of Jozef Boci, during London’s year of violent crime.

Biography
At the time of the murder, Adekoya was living at Maitland Close, Woolwich SE10.

On 17 February 2018, Albanian-born Jozef Boci was chased by a group of men, including Adekoya and James, tripped and was attacked, dying of his injuries six days later.

Adekoya and James were convicted in October of Boci’s manslaughter and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey later. Three other men who were arrested as part of a police investigation into Boci's death - Oluwatimilehin Oniyitan, 21, Dominic Brown, 30, and Abaraye Campbell, 21 - were all cleared of manslaughter.

Joseph Ankrah
Joseph Otinkoran Ankrah (born 20 February 1987) is an English convicted killer.

He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the manslaughter of Aaron Springett.

Biography
Joseph Ankrah is originally from Africa. At the time of the murder, he was of no fixed abode.

On 19 April 2018, Ankrah got into an altercation with Aaron Springett outside a bookmaker’s in Morden and attacked him, causing his death. Springett died in hospital from his injuries at 23:45 hrs, aged 32.

Ankrah was convicted in November of Springett’s manslaughter and sentenced to 7 years in prison.

Genu Armeanu
Genu Armeanu (born October 1972) is a Romanian convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Elizabeta Lacatusu in November 2018. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Armeanu was a Romanian national living in 6 Coleridge Road, Manor Park, E12 at the time of the murder.

On 3 January 2018, he stabbed to death his former partner Elizabeta Lacatusu as she returned home from work. Armeanu was jailed for life in June 2018 for the murder.

Majid Butt
Majid Bashir Butt (born 21 February 1967) is an English convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his mother Onees Khatoon in 2018. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018. He is also the only one to be convicted of matricide.

Biography
Majid Butt, 51, who was unemployed, lived in Gade Close, Hayes with his mother at the time of the murder. His father died in 2009.

Butt strangled his mother, 71-year-old Onees Khatoon, to death in May 2018 when she threatened to throw him out of their home. When Khatoon’s body was discovered by police, Butt was arrested and charged with her murder.

In September 2018, Butt was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Onees Khatoon.

Lucy Casey
Lucy Marie Casey (born 30 October 1974) is an English convicted murderer.

She was sentenced to life in prison on 12 November 2018 for the murder of vulnerable woman Hannah Leonard, 55, who suffered from Huntington's disease. Co-defendant James Whitaker, 29, was acquitted of murder. Casey is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Casey was living in Kilburn, London, at the time of the murder.

On 5 February 2018, Hannah Leonard, a Huntington's disease sufferer, mother and grandmother from Cork, Ireland, was murdered with a pair of scissors by Casey, aged 43 at the time. Leonard was found dead with multiple stab wounds in her flat at Bray Tower, Fellows Road, Camden, four days later.

On 12 November 2018, Casey was found guilty of the murder of Hannah Leonard and sentenced to life in prison, while Whitaker was acquitted for the murder.

Eugeniusz Ciwinski
Eugeniusz Ciwinski (born 7 September 1985) is a Polish convicted killer.

He was sentenced to 14 years in prison in July 2018 for the manslaughter of Leslie Hebblewhite, 63.

Biography
Ciwinski was a Polish national living in Coniston Road, Tottenham, at the time of the murder.

In January 2018, Ciwinski slashed Leslie Hebblewhite across the left foot at Mr Hebblewhite's home in Tottenham, then stole his bank card. Mr Hebblewhite was taken to hospital but died two days later as a result of the foot wound.

On 6 July 2018, Ciwinski was convicted of manslaughter and five counts of theft. He was jailed for 14 years on 16 July.

Merse Dikanda
Merse Dikanda (born 29 May 1994) is an Congolese-born British convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Nigerian-born model Harry Uzoka in September 2018, alongside his accomplice George Koh, 24, who stabbed Uzoka to death. A third accomplice, Jonathan Okigbo, 24, was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter. Dikanda is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Dikanda was a Congolese national who was living in England, of no fixed abode, at the time of Uzoka's murder.

On 11 January 2018, George Koh stabbed Uzoka to death in Shepherd's Bush, in a row over Uzoka's girlfriend which turned deadly. In August 2018, Koh, Dikanda and Okigbo were found guilty of Uzoka's murder. In September 2018, Koh and Dikanda were given life sentences for the murder of Harry Uzoka while Okigbo was given 14 years for his manslaughter.

Geoffrey Downs
Geoffrey Iden Downs (born 1 October 1980) is an English convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Scottish man Michael Boyle, 44. Downs is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Downs was living at Grosvenor Terrace, Camberwell SE5, at the time of the murder.

On 25 February 2018, Downs stabbed father of one Michael Boyle from Galashiels, Scotland to death at the Sir Robert Peel pub in Langdale Close, Walworth. In April, he was charged with murder along with Derek Green, 48, of Langdale Close.

In August 2018, Downs was given a life sentence for the murder of Michael Boyle while Green was given 2 years for assisting an offender.

Simone Fergus
Simone Nicole Fergus (born 13 March 1984) is an English convicted murderer.

She was sentenced to 5 years in prison for the manslaughter of her boyfriend Raul Chiriac.

Biography
She lived at Zenith Close, Colindale NW9 with her boyfriend, who was Romanian.

On 15 April 2018, Raul Chiriac, 26, was stabbed to death by Fergus after an argument. Chiriac was taken to hospital but died later the same evening. A post-mortem examination gave his cause of death as haemorrhage following a stab wound which penetrated the lung. Fergus was later arrested and charged with murder.

In October 2018, Fergus was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter.

Yigiter Gok
Yigiter Gok (born September 2000) is a Turkish British convicted killer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Daniel Frederick in 2018. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Yigiter Gok was born in Islington to parents from Turkey and living in Stoke Newington at the time of the murder.

In September 2018, Gok was jailed for 8 years for the murder of Daniel Frederick. He was one of five teenagers jailed, including three children who couldn’t be named because of their ages. He was jailed alongside Kacper Karasinski, 19.

Harry Goodwin-Sims
Harry Goodwin-Sims also known as Harry Sims (born 15 October 1988) is an English actor and convicted killer.

He was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the manslaughter of Ourania Lambrou, 80, in September 2018.

Biography
Goodwin-Sims lived at Adolphus Road, Finsbury Park, London N4. He is the son of Michael Sims and Wendy Sims, and the brother of Jack Sims. He was an actor who starred in films including in the film Strawberry Fields.

On 31 March 2018, Goodwin-Sims attacked an elderly woman, Ourania Lambrou whilst heavily intoxicated. Mrs Lambrou was found at the scene suffering from bruising to the back and wrist and was taken to a north London hospital by the London Ambulance Service. She was later discharged.

However, over the coming days, Mrs Lambrou’s condition deteriorated and she was taken back into hospital on Monday, 2 April. She subsequently died on Tuesday, 3 April.

A post-mortem examination carried out at St Pancras Public Mortuary on Friday, 6 April gave the cause of death as an intracranial haemorrhage, which was caused by the assault.

Detectives from the Met’s Homicide and Major Crime Command investigated and Goodwin-Sims was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday, 4 April.

In September 2018, Goodwin-Sims was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter.

Ibrahim James
Ibrahim Hamid J. James (born 31 December 1996) is an English convicted killer.

He was convicted, along with 22-year-old Andrew Adekoya, of the manslaughter of Jozef Boci, during London’s year of violent crime.

Biography
At the time of the murder, James was living at Plumstead High Street, Woolwich SE18.

On 17 February 2018, Albanian-born Jozef Boci was chased by a group of men, including Adekoya and James, tripped and was attacked, dying of his injuries six days later.

Adekoya and James were convicted in October of Boci’s manslaughter and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey later. Three other men who were arrested as part of a police investigation into Boci's death - Oluwatimilehin Oniyitan, 21, Dominic Brown, 30, and Abaraye Campbell, 21 - were all cleared of manslaughter.

Kacper Karasinski
Kacper Karasinski (born 3 October 1999) is a Polish/British convicted killer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Daniel Frederick in 2018. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Kacper Karasinski was a Polish national living in Hackney at the time of the murder.

In September 2018, Karasinski was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years for the murder of Daniel Frederick. He was one of five teenagers jailed, including three children who couldn’t be named because of their ages. He was jailed alongside Yigiter Gok, 18.

George Koh
George Koh (born 1 November 1993) is an Liberian/English model and convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Nigerian-born model Harry Uzoka in September 2018, alongside his accomplice Merse Dikanda, 24. Koh was jailed for a minimum of 25 years. A third accomplice, Jonathan Okigbo, 24, was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter. Koh is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Koh was a Liberian national living at Broadhurst Gardens, Camden, London at the time of Uzoka's murder.

On 11 January 2018, George Koh stabbed Uzoka to death in Shepherd's Bush, in a row over Uzoka's girlfriend which turned deadly. In August 2018, Koh, Dikanda and Okigbo were found guilty of Uzoka's murder. In September 2018, Koh and Dikanda were given life sentences for the murder of Harry Uzoka while Okigbo was given 14 years for his manslaughter.

Jesse McDonald
Jesse Oisin-Finlay McDonald (born April 1993) is an English criminal.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of transgender woman Naomi Hersi in November 2018. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Jesse Oisin Finlay McDonald was a university dropout who lived in Trowbridge, Wiltshire at the time of Naomi Hersi’s murder. He drugged his victim before stabbing her to death in a hotel near Heathrow Airport in March 2018.

McDonald met Hersi on a swingers' website when "looking for excitement", jurors were told at his murder trial. After killing her, he hid in his room as he waited for his 18-year-old girlfriend Natalia Darkowska to help clean up. McDonald and Darkowska denied perverting the course of justice. Darkowska will be sentenced on 16 November 2018.

In November 2018, McDonald was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Naomi Hersi.

Jonathan Okigbo
Jonathan Okigbo (born 25 May 1994) is an English convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the manslaughter of Nigerian-born model Harry Uzoka in September 2018. His accomplices George Koh and Merse Dikanda, both 24, were jailed for life for his murder.

Biography
He was living at Trevithic House, York Rise, Camden, at the time of Uzoka's murder.

On 11 January 2018, George Koh stabbed Uzoka to death in Shepherd's Bush, in a row over Uzoka's girlfriend which turned deadly. In August 2018, Koh, Dikanda and Okigbo were found guilty of Uzoka's murder. In September 2018, Koh and Dikanda were given life sentences for the murder of Harry Uzoka while Okigbo was given 14 years for his manslaughter.

Ronny Padilla
Ronny Padilla (born 14 January 1995) is an English convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison on 13 November 2018 for the murder of his Italian flatmate, Sabri Chibani, 19. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Padilla was living at Hopton Road, Streatham, at the time of the murder.

On 11 February 2018, Sabri Chibani, Padilla's flatmate, was found by officers, suffering from stab wounds in the driveway of a residential address. Sabri was sadly pronounced dead at the scene at 16:39hrs.

On 13 November 2018, Padilla was sentenced to life in prison for his murder.

Paul Prause
Paul Prause (born 1953) is an English handyman and criminal.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Rosina Coleman in November 2018. He is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
He was born in Ilford, Essex.

On 4 April 2018, Rosina Coleman, 85, was murdered at her Romford home by Prause, who falsely claimed to have discovered her body. He killed her for her £7,000 diamond ring which was later discovered at Prause’s home.

On 16 November 2018, he was sentenced to life in prison for her murder.

Neron Quartey
Neron Quartey (born 22 March 1997) is an English convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of youth worker Kwabena Nelson.

Biography
Neron Quartey was living in North London at the time of Kwabena Nelson's murder.

On 4 April 2018, Quartey, part of a gang, deliberately crashed his car into that of Kwabena Nelson's in Kemble Road, Tottenham, and attacked Nelson. Officers attended along with London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance and found a man, later identified as Nelson, known as Kobi to friends and family, suffering from serious stab injuries. Nelson was pronounced dead at the scene.

On 16 August 2018, Quartey was sentenced to life in prison for his murder.

Kema Salum
Kema Salum (born 23 September 1979) is a Tanzanian-born convicted murderer.

He was jailed for life in October 2018 for killing his wife, Leyla Mtumwa. Salum is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Kema Salum, aged 39, was a Tanzanian national living in Britain on a six-month visa after marrying Leyla Mtumwa in east Africa. Salum, Ms Mtumwa and their 12-year-old son lived at Kirkstall Avenue, West Green, London.

Salum became jealous when his wife went out with friends the night before the murder. Shortly before 07:00 on 30 March 2018 he began strangling her in a "violent rage" at their home in Kirkstall Avenue.

He then paused his attack, went into the kitchen, and came back with a knife. He used it to stab Ms Mtumwa in the head, neck, body and arms as her 12-year-old son screamed at him to stop, the court was told.

When Salum was arrested, he told officers he had acted in self defence. Ms Mtumwa was pronounced dead at the scene.

Initially Salum denied murder, but changed his plea during a hearing in September. He was sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison at the Old Bailey in October 2018.

Kirk Wright
Kirk Daniel Wright (born 25 July 1985) is an English convicted murderer.

He was sentenced to 5 years in prison for the murder of Julian Joseph. Wright is one of many killers convicted of murder during the London violence of 2018.

Biography
Wright lived at Egmont Street, Lewisham SE14 at the time of the murder.

On 13 March 2018, Julian Joseph was attacked by Wright on a London bus. Wright approached Joseph on the lower deck of the bus, pushed him to the floor, then kicked and stamped on him repeatedly. Police and paramedics were called to the vehicle near the junction of New Cross Road and Alpha Road at 12.20am.

Joseph remained in critical condition in hospital until his death at 2.43pm on 24 March 2018.

A postmortem confirmed he died of a severe head injury. In October 2018, Wright was jailed for 19 years for the murder.