\n Qari Sher Mohammad(Image: Kent Police)\n<\/p>\n
\n Qari Sher Mohammad, 61, of Woodford Road in Forest Gate, sexually assaulted four children.\n<\/p>\n
\n The imam targeted the kids over almost a decade until his victims raised the alarm.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mohammad was first reported to police in 2018 when one girl revealed he had touched her while he carried out his duties at a mosque in Chatham, Kent, between March 2014 and October 2016.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was arrested and interviewed in April that year, but he was not charged due to concerns about the potential impact a trial would have on the young victim.\n<\/p>\n
\n Between May 2022 and December 2023, Mohammad sexually assaulted three further children and he was arrested on December 11 that year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police also returned to the initial victim, who was by then an adult, and she said she wished to support a police prosecution.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was charged with multiple counts of sexual touching of a child.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mohammad denied the offences but he was convicted at Canterbury Crown Court on 16 indictments.\n<\/p>\n
\n He has now been jailed for 10 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n Read the full story – Mosque leader from Newham sexually touched four children<\/a>\n<\/p>\n Gang stole dozens of cars<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n Three men from east London were jailed for stealing dozens of vehicles, alongside a man from Southend.\n<\/p>\n \n An investigation was launched in July 2024 when detectives looked into 73 car thefts and one van theft across London.\n<\/p>\n \n The group largely targeted Hyundai, Kia, Mitsubishi, and Toyota vehicles using an electronic device known as a \u201ckey emulator\u201d which can open a vehicle and start its engine without a physical key.\n<\/p>\n \n It is believed some cars may have been shipped overseas, while others were sold on with cloned number plates.\n<\/p>\n \n The total value of the stolen vehicles is thought to have been between \u00a31.1 and \u00a31.7 million.\n<\/p>\n \n The gang were all arrested and later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal motor vehicles and conspiracy to conceal criminal property.\n<\/p>\n \n Kabir Ahmed, 35, of High Street in Hornchurch, was jailed for four years and eight months.\n<\/p>\n \n Mohammed Gulzar Ahmed, 30 of Bow Road in Tower Hamlets, was jailed for five years.\n<\/p>\n \n Muhammed Imran Ali, 34, of Atherton Road in Forest Gate, was jailed for five years and 10 months.\n<\/p>\n \n Paul Barringer, 33, of Westminster Drive in Southend-on-Sea, was jailed for two years and six months.\n<\/p>\n \n Read the full story – East London men jailed after over 70 cars stolen<\/a>\n<\/p>\n Barkingside teacher sexually assaulted girls<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n Syed Shahreear Ahmed, 37, of Mossford Lane in Barkingside, pretended to be a teenage boy to pursue young girls online.\n<\/p>\n \n The teacher has now been jailed for 15 years.\n<\/p>\n \n Ahmed groomed six girls online aged between 13 and 15 during 2019 to 2023.\n<\/p>\n \n He created and sent indecent images to the girls.\n<\/p>\n \n Ahmed would then initiate a face-to-face meeting where he would seriously sexually assault the victims.\n<\/p>\n \n Police were first aware of this in May 2023 after a 15-year-old girl reported to Kent Police that she was approached by Ahmed via social media App Wizz, on March 19 that year.\n<\/p>\n \n On May 2, a 14-year-old girl also met with Ahmed after speaking with him online.\n<\/p>\n \n He tried to sexually assault her in his car, touching her thigh before she jumped out of the moving car to safety.\n<\/p>\n \n Along with reports of the two girls, a further four were identified and approached directly by police.\n<\/p>\n \n Ahmed was found guilty of three counts of rape of a child, three counts of sexual assault, one count of attempted sexual assault, two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and five counts of meeting a child for sexual grooming.\n<\/p>\n \n He had already pleaded guilty to one count of taking an indecent image of a child and three counts of making indecent images of children.\n<\/p>\n \n Read the full story – Barkingside teacher jailed after sexually assaulting girls<\/a>\n<\/p>\n Smirking man downloaded child abuse images<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n Jack Weller, 32, of Doddinghurst Road in Brentwood, downloaded indecent images of children.\n<\/p>\n \n He was then pictured smirking in his police mugshot after his arrest.\n<\/p>\n \n Weller was given a 10 year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) in October 2024 after being convicted of an offence relating to indecent images of children.\n<\/p>\n \n But less than a year later he was arrested and taken into custody for questioning.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n He was further arrested for breaching his SHPO by deleting images.\n<\/p>\n \n A full review was carried out and found nine category A images and four category B images on his device.\n<\/p>\n \n He was subsequently charged and pleaded guilty.\n<\/p>\n \n He was jailed for two years and two months and has been placed on the sex offenders\u2019 register for 10 years.\n<\/p>\nFour men jailed for car theft – top: Mohammed Ahmed, Kabir Ahmed, bottom – Paul Barringer and Muhammed Ali(Image: Met Police)\n<\/p>\n
Syed Shahreear Ahmed(Image: Kent Police)\n<\/p>\n
Jack Weller(Image: Essex Police)\n<\/p>\n