Men who stabbed a man to death outside Dagenham Heathway station, a teen who murdered a 16-year-old in West Ham Park and an Ilford paedophile are among the east Londoners locked up this month.
Here are the names and faces of the men judges have put behind bars in October 2024.
Dagenham Heathway killers
Wazabakana Kukabu, known as Jordan, was murdered on May 5 last year near Dagenham Heathway station.
At 11.45pm Jordan and a friend were parked near the station when four people moved towards their car brandishing machetes.
One of them stabbed Jordan in the chest while he sat in the back seat.
Jordan managed to sprint away and stopped a passing car for help, but he then collapsed on the road and was pronounced dead a short time later.
Four were jailed for life after being convicted of murder.
Toulwalase Odunewu, 18, of Angel Way in Romford, and Michael Tommy-Mbogba, 21, of Arkwrights in Harlow, Essex, will serve minimum sentences of 23 years and 29 years respectively.
Two teens – aged 16 and 17 – will serve a minimum of 16 years and 23 years respectively.
Read the full story - Gang with machetes stabbed 18-year-old to death as he sat in a car
A 17-year-old
A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, stabbed 16-year-old Rahaan Ahmed Amin to death in West Ham Park.
On July 9 the killer cycled up to Rahaan and immediately stabbed him.
Detectives found the murder weapon, a long red knife, in a tree in the park covered in the attacker’s fingerprints and the victim’s blood.
Officers later found the 17-year-old's Snapchat account, which showed a collection of nine knives lined up on a bed, including a knife identical to the murder weapon.
When the police told the man about these transactions, he had no knowledge of them at all.
The teen was jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years.
Read the full story - Boy stabbed to death in park by knife-obsessed teen who bought weapons online
Cesar Cordero Conejo
Conejo was jailed for 15 years.
He was investigated after being identified as a UK-based offender obtaining child sexual abuse material and live streamed child sexual abuse from a Filipino woman.
Homeland Security in the US provided message exchanges between Conejo and a woman.
In the messages Conejo asked the woman to get the children to carry out sex acts on each other.
In further messages, Conejo indicated that he wanted to travel to the Philippines to rape one of the children himself, saying that he'd pay the woman 100 dollars a day in return.
NCA investigators arrested Conejo in July 2023 and conducted searches of his home, seizing a number of devices, including a laptop and phone.
Forensic examination of the devices revealed they contained in excess of 12,500 indecent images of children, including 4,706 in the most severe category A.
Financial enquiries showed that he had sent several Filipino women a total of £1,300 over the course of six years.
At least 16 of these payments were linked to one woman who abused children known to her, for financial gain.
A number of child victims were rescued and safeguarded in the Philippines, including three in relation to this case.
These three children would have been aged between five and 13 at the time of the offending.
The imagery obtained from the Filipino woman included category A images (the most severe) involving penetration with a number of objects, and oral rape.
The youngest rape victim was only two to three years old and was directed to perform sexual acts with others.
Read the full story - Ilford paedo paid woman to live stream sexual abuse on kids as young as two
Muhammad Choudhary
He sent night vision and thermal imaging scopes to Pakistan on numerous occasions in 2017 and 2018.
Choudhary later admitted they were intended for use by the Taliban which was launching attacks against the then-government and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
He first came to the attention of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) after the rifle scopes were seized at Heathrow Airport in 2018.
Further enquiries revealed he had bought the sniper sights from legitimate hunting suppliers in the UK.
Choudhary was jailed for seven years with an additional year to be served on extended licence.
Read the full story - East Londoner who sent rifle scopes to the Taliban is jailed
Drug smugglers
The National Crime Agency (NCA) linked four men to the huge drugs quantity after it was discovered inside a shipping container at Tilbury Docks, Essex.
Daniel Yeboah, 54, of High Street, Hackney, Kristoffen Baidoo, 48, of Stratford, Kwaku Bonsu, 52, of Arthur Road, Edmonton, and Edward Kwame Adjei of London Road, Grays, were found guilty of importing the class B drug last month.
The drug-filled container arrived to the docks from Ghana on December 19, 2019, and was searched after intelligence suggested it contained narcotics.
Inside, 2,335 packages of herbal cannabis were found hidden inside sacks of cassava root powder, weighing a total of 1.5 tonnes.
The estimated street value of the drugs would have been approximately £4.3 million.
Yeboah was handed a five year jail sentence and Adjei was jailed for four years.
Baidoo failed to appear at the trial last month, and Bonsu fled the jurisdiction prior to sentencing.
They were both sentenced in their absence, with a ten year sentence ordered for Baidoo, and a seven year sentence ordered for Bonsu.
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