Sussex murderers, robbers and paedophiles jailed last month

The Argus reported how three murder trials led to killers being told they will face lengthy terms behind bars.

Brothers Iftekhar Khondaker, 34, and Irfan Khondaker, 27, from Mitcham, were found guilty of their roles in a seafront horror crash in December 2019.

Iftekhar saw red after his group fought with Suel Delgado and others along Brighton seafront with belts while drunk.

After giving 20-year-old Suel “a pasting” with his brother Irfan, the pair walked away and everyone thought the incident was over.

Iftekhar Khondaker has been jailed for life for murder in Brighton, Irfan Khondaker has been jailed for three years for assisting an offender

But Iftekhar got behind the wheel of his father’s BMW and deliberately drove straight Suel Delgado and his group of friends which included Azaan Khan and Raja Zakir Khan.

The three victims were struck at 40mph in Marine Parade, and the crash led to such catastrophic injuries that Suel later died, and the Khans suffered life changing injuries.

Khondaker was found guilty of murder and two counts of attempted murder and was jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 26 years before he can be considered for parole.

Irfan meanwhile, had helped his brother flee the scene by organising a taxi to take them back to London. He was jailed for three years for assisting an offender.

Marathon runner Raymond Hoadley, 62, was found guilty of the murder of his former wife Jackie Hoadley, 58, in Eastbourne.

He went to her £300,000 home in Broad Oak Close and attacked her while she slept.

Jackie Hoadley was murdered at her home in Eastbourne

Hoadley stabbed and choked Jackie, a prominent disability rights campaigner, to death.

It was claimed that he feared losing out financially over their separation, and wanted to get his hands on the lion’s share of their £1 million savings and investments pot.

Raymond Hoadley was found guilty of the murder of Jackie Hoadley in Eastbourne

Hoadley, originally from Dartford but formerly of Willowfield Road, Eastbourne, was jailed for life, and will serve a minimum of 26 years before he can be considered for parole.

Wayne Morris, 47, was also found guilty of murder after attacking his partner Ruth Brown at her home in Collyer Avenue, Bognor in April last year.

He battered her to death with a plastic tray while drunk and high on cannabis.

Murderer Wayne Morris, with his victim Ruth Jones.

Then after two days living with her body in the house he went on the run, but was arrested on the Isle of Wight.

Wayne Morris has been jailed for life for life for the murder of Ruth Brown

Morris, a binman of Larch Close, Bognor, was jailed for life, and will serve a minimum of 17 years before he can be considered for parole.

Domestic abuser Samuel Kirk was back before the courts for inflicting actual bodily harm on a woman in Horsham.

The 33-year-old was previously jailed for causing death by dangerous driving of a cyclist in Pulborough.

Domestic violence thug Samuel Kirk jailed for Horsham attacks

He was drunk at the wheel and hit Jennifer Hossack, 27, before trying to flee. Kirk served three years of his six year sentence for that crime before being released.

His new victim described him as a “narcissist” who had carried out degrading attacks upon her, including forcing her to the floor, ripping her bra open and pouring alcohol over her.

Kirk was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Armed robbers Dale Searle and Danny Cobbold, both 32, raided Worthing News in Rowlands Road in December last year.

Cobbold held an imitation gun to a shopworkers head as he demanded cash, while Searle vaulted the counter to steal cash and alcohol from the till and shelves.

Danny Cobbold

Searle was jailed for five years while Cobbold was jailed for five years and four months.

Kidnappers Adam Maxwell, Adam Powney, and Regan White were found guilty of a terrifying incident on their victim in Brighton.

Powney struck the man over the head with a brick as he was bundled into a car and driven around Brighton.

Adam Maxwell, Adam Powney, and Regan White have been jailed for kidnap in Brighton

The men threatened to slash the man’s arteries and leave him to bleed to death, and implied that the contents of a Lucozade bottle was acid.

Maxwell, 20, of Birkenhead, was jailed for seven years and nine months for kidnap and wounding, and also for his links to supplying drugs as part of the Scouse Greg telephone line in Brighton.

Powney, 33, of Birkenhead was jailed for five years for kidnap and wounding, while Regan White, 18, of Moulsecoomb, Brighton, was jailed for three years and nine months, starting with time in a young offenders’ institution.

Two dealers linked to Liverpudlian drug dealing gangs were also sentenced, including “Scouse Jim” James Sanders, 19, who was caught with crack cocaine “secreted in his anus” in Eastbourne.

James Sanders stuffed crack cocaine up his bum in Eastbourne to try to hide evidence of his drug deals from police

He was jailed for an extra 18 months on top of his sentence for drug dealing in Merseyside.

Meanwhile fellow gang member Kevin McCabe, 28, was also jailed for leading the drug dealing operation in Eastbourne and was jailed for four years and nine months.

Paedophile Stephen Waddingham was jailed after he was found trying to “perv” over a man’s 14-year-old daughter in a chat room.

Crawley paedophile Stephen Waddingham has been jailed for breaking his suspended sentence

The incident was less than two months after he was given a suspended sentence for possessing sickening child sex abuse images.

The 60-year-old was jailed for two years and two months.

Finally pervert white van man Steven Perry was found guilty of kidnapping an underage girl in Hastings and sexually abusing her in Bexhill.

Steven Perry was jailed for kidnap, false imprisonment and sexual assault in Bexhill

The 64-year-old was jailed for six years.