A murderer, paedophiles and violent attackers are among the criminals who were taken off our streets last month.
Three women and 15 men were jailed in Sussex in September.
Among those put behind bars were a woman who stabbed a man and poured bleach over his face and a male rapist who sexually abused a child for years. Both have been given lengthy sentences.
Garey Cotter and Musa Massaquoi
Officers from Hastings Neighbourhood Enforcement Team were on patrol when they spotted Garey Cotter selling drugs in Gensing Road, St Leonards.
He was arrested and keys to a house, rented out on a short-term basis, fell out of his pocket.
Officers then searched the property where Musa Massaquoi was found.
Massaquoi, now aged 21, formerly of Armfield Crescent, Mitcham, at first tried to stop officers getting inside during the incident in November 2022.
Inside the address officers found heroin and crack cocaine worth £1,500 as well as £6,500 in cash.
Massaquoi’s DNA was found on the wraps of the Class A drugs.
At Lewes Crown Court on September 2, Massaquoi and Cotter were both jailed for two years and seven months.
Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman had been to the pub hours before causing the death of a teenage passenger who was crushed by the car he was driving.
Leonie Jones,18, became trapped underneath the car after she was ejected from a faulty passenger door as Coleman reversed and turned at speed in the car park outside Dormans Youth Arts Centre, Crawley.
Leonie, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was thrown from the car as Coleman did a manoeuvre described as a J-turn.
Expert reports showed that Coleman’s car, a red Vauxhall Corsa, had a defective passenger side door which was not secure.
Coleman, now aged 23, was also over the legal alcohol limit during the incident on April 25, 2022.
He was sentenced to six years in prison and was disqualified from driving for seven years at Lewes Crown Court on September 12.
Kirolus Ramis
Kirolus Ramis punched a woman and damaged her phone before assaulting a girl.
The woman also told police that Ramis, 37, had previously damaged her phone.
Police officers were called to Goldstone Crescent in the early hours of September 4, 2022, to find Ramis had punched the woman and attacked her, causing her serious injuries.
Ramis, of Hangleton Road, Hove, pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm, common assault and criminal damage.
On Tuesday, September 10, at Lewes Crown Court, Ramis was jailed for nearly three years.
Ryan Evans
Ryan Evans was jailed for 23 years for subjecting a young mum to a horrific campaign of psychological torture and physical abuse right up until her death.
Holly Sanchez, 32, described as a lonely mother-of-five, was brutalised by Evans, a violent and controlling murderer, who slept as she lay dying next to him on a filthy living room floor.
In the final days of her life, Holly had been punched, kicked, burnt, throttled and smothered by him.
Holly’s body was found in a property in Oates Walk, Crawley, on the morning of May 13, 2023, following a 999 call from Evans.
Evans, 31, showed no emotion in Hove Crown Court on Friday, September 13, as a judge told him the sentence and reflected on the cruelty he had shown towards Holly in the final days of her life.
Jack Nepean
Paedophile Jack Nepean sexually abused two young girls.
The victims have been praised for their “extraordinary bravery” for reporting their experience to police.
Nepean was jailed for a total of 12 years when he appeared for sentencing at Hove Crown Court on September 11.
He was told he would have to serve a minimum of two thirds of the sentence before he can be considered for parole.
The court also imposed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order to restrict his future access to children and devices.
Thomas Crabtree
A predator who raped a 13-year-old after grooming him on social media has been jailed for the appalling attack.
Thomas Crabtree contacted the boy on Snapchat, using the name Will, and repeatedly sent him sexually explicit images.
He demanded to meet up with the boy, who eventually agreed.
Crabtree drove from his home in Bedford to Worthing to pick the teenager up from his home in the middle of the night on April 3, 2024.
The 35-year-old, of Sundew Close in Bedford, drove the boy to a remote area near Goring Gap in Worthing and raped him.
Crabtree then drove the boy around in his car in silence, before dropping him off in Worthing and returning to Bedford.
The victim was subjected to an ordeal lasting several hours.
At Lewes Crown Court on September 12, he was sentenced to serve ten years in prison, followed by six years on licence.
He has been put on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.
Alex Reynolds
An arsonist was handed an extended sentence to protect the public after he set two properties on fire.
Alex Reynolds will spend much of the next ten years behind bars after he was caught by police following two blazes in East Sussex, having left DNA evidence at the scenes.
The 27-year-old, from Hastings, pleaded guilty to setting two buildings alight in Bexhill and St Leonards in the past year - causing serious damage to a block of flats and an industrial unit.
He appeared before Lewes Crown Court on September 13 where the judge sentenced him to a total of nine years and three months’ imprisonment.
At sentencing, the judge determined that Reynolds should be subject to a three-year extended sentence.
This is used when an offender is deemed to be dangerous that an extended licence period is required to protect the public from risk of serious harm.
It was extended to nine years and three months, from six years and three months.
Keith Williams
A rapist who sexually abused a girl for years was jailed.
Keith Williams was finally caught after the victim confided in a family member in May 2020 who contacted Sussex Police.
The girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has been supported by specially trained officers.
Detective Sergeant Nick Green praised the victim for her courage to come forward.
At Hove Crown Court on Friday, September 20, Williams, 60, was sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison.
Williams, of Tintern Close, Eastbourne, was found guilty after trial of four counts of rape of a girl under the age of 13.
Brian Spring
Brian Spring assaulted church volunteers who were trying to help him after he soiled himself.
Spring, formerly of New Steine Mews, Brighton, went into St Mary’s Church in St James’s Street, Kemp Town, to seek assistance.
He shouted abuse at and assaulted the three volunteers who tried to help him.
In a second incident, this September 9, Spring assaulted a man working at a sheltered housing scheme in Grand Parade, Brighton, while intoxicated with Class A drugs.
Spring, 48, pinned the staff member to a wall after he was called to a disturbance at the premises.
On September 18 at Brighton Magistrates’ Court, Spring pleaded guilty to four counts of assault by beating, two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and criminal damage.
He was sentenced to six months in prison.
Romeo Dankwa and Remy Cadoret
Burglars forced their way into a house with a knife before crashing the car in which they tried to flee from police.
A court heard Romeo Dankwa, Remy Cadoret and a 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, broke into the house in Coxwell Close, Seaford, on January 7.
One of the men is believed to have had a knife and assaulted a man in the property.
Bank cards, cash and a number of electronics were stolen during the raid.
The trio attempted to escape in a car but police pursued them.
They crashed the car and they were all arrested and later charged with aggravated burglary.
Cadoret, 20, of Mayola Road, Hackney, and Dankwa, 20, of Walford Road, Hackney, were both sentenced to 42 months’ imprisonment at Lewes Crown Court on September 20.
Louis Munorrah
A dangerous thug stabbed a man after a fight.
Police were called to reports of a man with a knife at Dalewood Gardens in Crawley at around 6.40pm on February 5.
Officers discovered a 46-year-old man from Crawley with a stab wound. He was taken to hospital.
Louis Munorrah was arrested at the scene and later charged with grievous bodily harm, which he denied at Lewes Crown Court in March.
During a five-day trial it was heard Munorrah stabbed the man following an altercation at an address in Woodfield Road.
The jury found the 40-year-old guilty.
Munorrah, of Woodfield Road, Crawley, was sentenced on Friday, September 20, to three years and 11 months’ imprisonment.
Thomas Weller
A social worker was described as a “monster” as he was jailed for sexually messaging two young teenagers on Snapchat and accessing records of another teen he had a relationship with.
Thomas Weller, 33, was sentenced to two years and ten months in prison after admitting sending “truly revolting” explicit texts and looking up social work records of another young woman he wanted to renew communication with.
His sexual communication was not connected to his role as a West Sussex social worker, the court heard.
The mother of a 13-year-old girl who exchanged nearly 300 messages with Weller, who posed as a 20-year-old man, said she thinks her daughter had been “scarred for life” and has lost trust in everyone.
Darren Kay
A road rage driver left a motorcyclist with life-changing injuries after he deliberately pursued him and knocked him off his bike.
Darren Kay was angry at the motorcyclist filtering in traffic on the A259 at Ferring, Worthing.
He undertook vehicles in the outside lane to catch up with the rider during the incident on March 16 last year.
His vehicle then swerved towards the rider to knock him off.
The motorcyclist, a 34-year-old man from Lancing, sustained life-changing injuries and was taken to hospital with a bleed on the brain.
At Lewes Crown Court on September 20, Kay admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Kay, formerly of Onslow Drive, Ferring, was sentenced to three years and two months in prison. He was disqualified from driving for four years and seven months.
Marlena Meczynska-Shiibashi
A woman stabbed a man and poured bleach over him as he tried to sleep.
Marlena Meczynska-Shiibashi was angry with the man, who was known to her, and grabbed the knife and bleach before attacking him at her home in Hastings.
The 38-year-old told officers arriving at the scene following the incident on March 4, 2023: “I didn’t just stab him in the leg you know, I poured bleach in his eyes.”
The victim said he continues to have flashbacks of the incident, which has left him with anxiety and depression.
At Lewes Crown Court on September 13, Meczynska-Shiibashi was sentenced after she admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Georgina and Laura Epitropou
Two sisters stole thousands of pounds worth of perfume and cosmetics to fund their lavish lifestyle and plastic surgery.
Georgina and Laura Epitropou, aged 42 and 45 respectively, targeted duty-free stores at Gatwick Airport and made off with £80,000 worth of stock over ten months.
They booked internal UK flights in order to carry out their thefts.
At Lewes Crown Court on September 24 they were jailed for two and a half years each.
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