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BBC News
14-07-2025
- BBC News
Knightsbridge stabbing: Three arrests over Blue Stevens murder
Three men in their 20s have been arrested in connection with the murder of Blue Stevens, who was stabbed to death in Knightsbridge on 9 of the men were arrested at an address in Hounslow on 12 July; one on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, and the other on suspicion of murder. Following their arrests, Met officers obtained a warrant to search two properties in Chiswick and recovered significant evidence. A third man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of assisting an offender, the force Ch Sup Christina Jessah said: "These arrests mark a significant milestone in this complex and unfolding murder investigation." She said detectives were keeping open minds around motive, and they were considering if this "may have been a targeted attack".She said there were increased police patrols in the Knightsbridge area as a Stevens was found with stab wounds in Seville Street at 21:24 BST on 9 July and died at the 24-year-old was from Yateley, Hampshire. His family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Airline catering firm fined £2.4million after former Gurkha, 60, was crushed to death by their forklift truck
An airline catering firm has been fined more than £2.4million for causing the death of a former Gurkha who was crushed by a forklift truck. Kumar Limbu, 60, suffered catastrophic injuries and died at the scene on April 11 2023 when he was struck from behind by the vehicle as he loaded it with goods. DO & CO Event and Airline Catering Limited has now been prosecuted for serious health and safety breaches after Hounslow Council's Commercial Health and Safety Team undertook legal action. Mr Limbu had been working for the company through an employment agency at a depot where cabin meals are prepared and packed for passenger planes that operate out of nearby Heathrow Airport. The firm pleaded guilty to two health and safety offences at the court in April before being sentenced last month. In addition to a fine of £2.45 million, the firm was also ordered to pay £47,091 in legal costs after pleading guilty to two offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the driver's vision was obstructed by the load his truck was carrying. At the time of the incident, the court heard there were no clear markings showing pedestrian and vehicle zones, no physical barriers between these zones, and no speed limit signs or site rules displayed at the entrance. Mr Limbu's daughter, Smriti Limbu, 32, said: 'Our beloved head of family Kumar Limbu had gone to do his work on a normal day but never came back home due to his employer's negligence' Staff were also not required to comply with any safety demarcations between pedestrian and vehicle areas. Mr Limbu's daughter, Smriti Limbu, 32, said: 'Our beloved head of family Kumar Limbu had gone to do his work on a normal day but never came back home due to his employer's negligence. 'This has had a severe effect on us as a family - we lost a caring husband, lovely Dad and our charm of family. 'With the efforts of Hounslow's health and safety investigation, we feel very pleased to hear the outcome and we feel like justice has been served. 'We, as a family, had believed from the beginning that there were so many health and safety breaches from his work which resulted in such a tragic incident that took our lovely Dad away from us. 'My mum still hasn't come out of this trauma, and she thinks my dad has gone to work, and will return. Her eyes are full of tears, and she is waiting for her husband. This news of justice has given her strength and belief in our system.' A former member of the Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, Kumar had served in the British Army for 15 years, before settling in the UK with his wife and two children in 2007. A trained lorry driver, he had worked at the airline catering firm for several years before the fatal accident. Speaking to MailOnline after his death, his widow Sarda Rai, 55, said: 'I'm heartbroken. I have lost the love of my life. We have spent the past 34 years together and now he is gone. 'When he went off to work, my husband said 'good-bye, see you later', but he never came home. I still expect him to walk through the door. But that's never going to happen. 'Every day I am dying inside with grief.' Councillor Raghwinder Siddhu, Cabinet Member for Community Safety, Customer and Experience and Enforcement at Hounslow Council, said: 'This sad case highlights the devastating consequences of inadequate workplace safety measures and underscores the importance of robust health and safety procedures in high-risk environments. 'I'd like to pay tribute to the hard work and dedication of our team who have worked diligently to deliver this prosecution over many months. 'This is vital work which holds unsafe workplaces to account and will help safeguard against future tragedies. 'While I welcome the result of last week's hearing, it's important to remember that no fine can bring back a much-loved husband and father and respected colleague and my thoughts remain with the family and friends of Mr Limbu.' Do & Co has been approached for comment.
Telegraph
06-07-2025
- Telegraph
Paedophile behind fake Disneyland wedding ‘had 50 false identities'
A convicted paedophile who staged a series of stunts to get close to young girls has at least 50 known aliases and is under investigation for fraud, The Telegraph can reveal. Jacky Jhaj, 39, described as a 'dangerous sexual predator', has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on fake film shoots over the past five years. He was arrested in Paris last week after spending around £100,000 to conduct a fake wedding to a nine-year-old girl at Disneyland. Jhaj previously turned a National Trust property into a film set, hired the Odeon Leicester Square for a fake premiere and created a dance school for eight to 14-year-old girls at which he turned up in a Bugatti supercar to greet them. How Jhaj financed these lavish stunts has never been uncovered. Jhaj was jailed for four years in 2016 after being convicted of sexual activity with two 15-year-old girls he had picked up after driving around Hounslow, west London. He gave the girls a lift in his Range Rover, bought them meals, alcohol and gifts and pretended to be a film producer. Jhaj now faces several counts of fraud, abuse of trust, money laundering and identity theft, French prosecutors have said. The Metropolitan Police has also confirmed, for the first time, that it has opened an investigation into ' possible fraud offences' committed by Jhaj. Court documents obtained by The Telegraph, following a recent hearing at Isleworth Crown Court, reveal that the sex offender is known to use 'multiple aliases'. The documents state: '[Jhaj] has registered 50 [aliases] with the police and has been discovered to use unregistered pseudonyms. 'He has used these aliases to book female child actors from casting agencies; to book into hotels; and to organise events attended by female children. In addition, he has attempted to give false names to the police when stopped and questioned.' The court papers go on to say that '[Jhaj] has gone to great lengths and significant financial expense to engineer situations in which he is able to have contact with female children, including those under the age of 16'. The Telegraph tried to speak to Jhaj's family members, former business partners and staff who have worked on his stunts. But no one was willing, or able, to provide an explanation for his wealth. Jhaj's family home, a neat, well-maintained semi-detached with a Range Rover Vogue parked in the drive, sits within earshot of Heathrow's southern runway, on the edge of the suburb of Bedfont. Neighbours said they now rarely see the family, who were described as being 'friendly and always happy to say hello' before their youngest son's bizarre stunts and sexually predatory behaviour became widely known. One elderly neighbour said: 'I used to see the mother and father quite often, coming and going, and they were always polite and friendly. But since all this happened they've pretty much hidden away. It's a great shame.' He added: 'The father is retired and I don't know how their boy, Jaskarn, got the money to do that stuff. It must have cost a lot to hire all those people and the locations. I've no idea where he got it from. Seems crazy.' A teenage girl, who lives close to the Jhaj home, said: 'I've spoken to his sister-in-law a couple of times and she seems really nice, but I've never seen him. It's just so weird and horrible what I've read about the stuff he was doing.' The Telegraph was unable to get an answer from the family home. It also visited a number of business director's addresses registered by Jhaj with Companies House, including an apartment block in Finchley, a recently built residential development in Docklands and a nondescript terraced house in Hounslow. The properties either appeared to be uninhabited or those living there said they did not know Jhaj and had no dealings with him. 'Mourners' for fake funeral In July 2024, Jhaj pleaded guilty to two breaches of a notification order and a breach of a sexual harm prevention order, Isleworth Crown Court confirmed. The charges related to a fake film shoot he staged in Leicester Square, London, in October 2023, where 200 children and young women were recruited to appear alongside Jhaj as fans. In April 2024, he used Backstage, an internationally renowned casting platform, to hire child actors in order to stage an elaborate fake funeral, costing £10,000, at the London Oratory. The funeral was held for Lauris Zaube, a 23-year-old Latvian man who went missing after a New Year's Eve party near an iced-over dam west of Riga, Latvia. Jhaj is said to have posed as the missing man's brother, wearing dark glasses and using the name 'Clyde'. The funeral was cancelled after the 'mourners' revealed that they were actors and began complaining they had not been paid. In October, he organised a film shoot near the O2 Arena featuring a 'controlled explosion' that destroyed a fake BBC lorry.
The Independent
27-06-2025
- The Independent
Fourth man charged after death of man who was trying to be ‘mediator' in fight
A fourth man has been charged after the fatal stabbing of a man who was trying to be a 'mediator' in a fight. Emergency services were called to the scene outside Hounslow Muslim Centre on Hanworth Road, west London, at 2.21pm on Sunday, where the 22-year-old man was found with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics from London Ambulance Service treated the man, named by the Metropolitan Police as Dara Omar, from Brentford, west London, before he was taken to hospital where he later died. A murder investigation was launched and a fourth man has now been charged. Mohammed Ali, 35, from Hounslow, is due to appear at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Saturday charged with murder, the Metropolitan Police said. Three others also charged in connection with the incident appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Thursday. They were remanded in custody to next appear at the Old Bailey on Monday. They are: Kaywan Warzier Karim, 27, of Walnut Tree Road, Hounslow, who was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon on Wednesday; Tania Hamza, 33, of Kingsley Road, Hounslow, who was charged on Thursday with violent disorder and assisting an offender; and Aziz Hama, 31, of Selbourne Ave, Hounslow, who was charged on Thursday with assisting an offender. Anyone who can assist the investigation team is asked to call 101 quoting 4387/22Jun or contact the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit to remain anonymous.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Yahoo
Fourth man charged after death of man who was trying to be ‘mediator' in fight
A fourth man has been charged after the fatal stabbing of a man who was trying to be a 'mediator' in a fight. Emergency services were called to the scene outside Hounslow Muslim Centre on Hanworth Road, west London, at 2.21pm on Sunday, where the 22-year-old man was found with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics from London Ambulance Service treated the man, named by the Metropolitan Police as Dara Omar, from Brentford, west London, before he was taken to hospital where he later died. A murder investigation was launched and a fourth man has now been charged. Mohammed Ali, 35, from Hounslow, is due to appear at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Saturday charged with murder, the Metropolitan Police said. Three others also charged in connection with the incident appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Friday. They were remanded in custody to next appear at the Old Bailey on Monday. They are: Kaywan Warzier Karim, 27, of Walnut Tree Road, Hounslow, who was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon on Wednesday; Tania Hamza, 33, of Kingsley Road, Hounslow, who was charged on Thursday with violent disorder and assisting an offender; and Aziz Hama, 31, of Selbourne Ave, Hounslow, who was charged on Thursday with assisting an offender. Anyone who can assist the investigation team is asked to call 101 quoting 4387/22Jun or contact the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit to remain anonymous.
