Essex crime: The faces of the criminals jailed in the county in June 2022 – Essex Live

Each month here in Essex, we see criminals come before the courts to be sentenced for offences across the county. Crimes range from murder, to substantial drug operations, prolonged sexual offending and radicalisation. June 2022 was certainly no exception.

Selected cases will stand out; some criminals are so dangerous or violent that they need to be shared far and wide, so as many people are aware of them as possible. The people in this list are some of those, and have all been put behind bars in June.

There have been killers, grooming sexual predators, radical neo-Nazis attending survival camps, huge drug operations, and rapists. We have compiled them all into one place so that Essex residents can be aware of the violent deeds they have committed. The hearings were mostly held in crown courts in London, Basildon and Chelmsford.

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The neo-Nazi member of National Action who attended a knife survival camp

David Musins, 36, admitted his involvement with the extreme right-wing organisation after it was banned by the Government in December 2016. At the Old Bailey, prosecutor Tom Williams told how Musins, from Muswell Hill, North London, had joined Iron March, a neo-Nazi web forum, in January 2016.

In an introductory message he wrote that he was in his 20s, that he was based in London, and studied history before becoming interested in National Socialism. The court heard that once a member of National Action, Musins had attended an "outdoor camping and knife survival event" in Epping Forest, Essex, along with many other events related to weapons and graffiti with high-ranking members who have since been convicted.

Mr Williams outlined the defendants substantial involvement with NA and a number of high-profile individuals who have since been convicted. Musins was jailed for a total of three years.

The man who strangled and killed his wife while their children were at school

On the evening of May, 13, London Metropolitan Police officers, alongside London Ambulance Service, found Maria Rafael Chavex, 32, unresponsive at a property in Kingston Road, Ilford. Sadly she was pronounced dead at the scene.

London Metropolitan Police launched an investigation at the scene and determined there were no signs of disturbance and Maria did not suffer any obvious injuries. However, a post-mortem examination was carried out and revealed the mother-of-three suffered neck compressions and likely died from being strangled.

Police continued with their investigation by speaking to neighbours and reviewing CCTV evidence through which they discovered husband Muhammad Ilyas, 41, had killed Maria that afternoon while the couple's three children were at school. The couple had moved to the UK in 2019 and Maria was attending a college course to learn English at the time of her death. Ilyas was working on a market stall in Stratford.

Ilyas was found guilty of his wife's murder on June 10 this year. He is set to be sentenced in July, with the minimum sentence for murder being a life sentence.

The men who fatally shot a man and left him for dead

Mushin Mohamed, 26, of Leytonstone Road, Stratford, and a second man, Tyrelle Joseph, 21, of Banks Way, Little Ilford, were involved in two shootings in East London and Essex, which caused one of the victims to die at the scene.

On November 1, 2020, at 10.14pm, Metropolitan Police were called to reports of a disturbance in Balfour Road, Ilford. When they arrived they found a man aged 30 suffering injuries and thought had he been hit by a car. Two men then got out of the car and shot the victim, Jason Diallo, from Ilford, in the head before they got back in the car and drove away.

An eyewitness shortly after confirmed that Jason had been cycling along the road when he was knocked off his bike by the car. CCTV also showed that Jason had been deliberately knocked off his bike the vehicle, which was traveling at speed.

Despite the best efforts of emergency service, Jason died at the scene. Just 15 minutes later, at 10.29pm on the same day, police were called to another shooting around five miles away in Garvary Road, Canning Town. A 27-year-old man was found with a gunshot injury to his shoulder.

On Tuesday, June 14 2022, the trial against the two men finished and Mohammad was jailed for 35 years after being found guilty of murder and attempted murder. Joseph was also found guilty of assisting an offender, and has been jailed for seven years.

The gang that ran an elaborate and complex drug ring around Essex

Steven Mann, 38, of Boreham Road, Great Leighs, was the leader of a group that shipped Class A drugs around the county, and was the focus of a longstanding police investigation. Police first became involved in the case several years ago when they started to suspect Mann was living well beyond his legitimate means.

The crook was known to drive a multitude of supercars, including a McLaren 600LT, worth over 100,000 and a number of Rolls Royces. Mann had a number of high value assets and a very limited source of legitimate income which could not support the lifestyle he was leading.

During the investigation officers from Essex Police's serious and organised crime unit were able to link Mann to a retail premises in Witham, which he owned. It was identified as somewhere where he and his associates would meet to discuss the drug ring's activities.

As a result, officers were able to connect the 38-year-old who headed up the organised crime group, to James Lucia, Jordan Newell, Dean Newman and Billy Rice. Each of the men worked under Mann. At Chelmsford Crown Court, three of the members were jailed for a combined 18 years while two others received suspended sentences.

The thug who forced women out of their cars at knifepoint

Daniel Clark, 39, approached and threatened two women and tried to get them out of their cars in Ingrave Road, Brentwood, on June 26 last year. Within a 10 minute period, between 8.25am and 8.35am, Clark tried to "force two women to get out of their cars".

During the first incident, the victim had come to a stop at a set of traffic lights when Clark opened her door, grabbed her, verbally abused her and tried to pull her out. Fortunately, she was able to kick him away and close the door. During the incident, she described seeing Clark holding what appeared to be a flick knife which he held against her stomach.

A short time later, a second woman was sitting in her car which was parked along the same road when she saw Clark running up the road. At that point he turned around, banged on her window, and started screaming at her to open the car, threatening to hurt her if she didnt.

He managed to smash the window, causing glass to fall on the victim, and tried to open the door from the inside. During the incident, a piece of glass got into the victims eye. She was also left with a large wound to her arm. When she screamed, Clark ran off. At Basildon Crown Court this week, Clark was jailed for two years and nine months.

The 'remorseless' and 'disgusting' sex offender who abused boys for decades

"Remorseless" Andrew Dutton abused two teenage boys in the Essex town of Benfleet during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dutton, 63, of Dean Street, Blackpool, was charged with five counts of indecent assault and five counts of indecency with a child after the victims reported the incidents to Essex Police in March and April 2019.

The incidents were investigated by Essex Police's Quest team which investigates non-recent child sexual abuse. Appearing at a trial at Basildon Crown Court, it was heard that Dutton abused two 'vulnerable' teenage boys for his own sexual gratification.

As a result, he was found guilty of all charges on Wednesday, June 15, and was sentenced at the same court on Friday June 17 where he was jailed for over 17 years. The victim said: When I first came forward, I never thought I would get so far as to see my abuser sentenced.

"The myriad of lies the defendant perpetrated to try and escape justice still made being cross-examined a brutal experience. But I can say to other victims is the knowledge you are telling the truth will give you the strength to get through it."

The men who murdered their friend during a row

Officers had been called to an address in The Hides, Harlow, at around 5.40pm on November 8 last year, following reports of a disturbance. Upon arrival, officers had to force entry to get inside before finding 24-year-old Cristian-Marin Patru injured, with stab wounds to his chin, back and neck.

He was found collapsed on the floor with a 'considerable amount of blood in a number of rooms and a trail leading up a path outside to the rear gate.' Sadly, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Through further investigations, officers established a link between Cristian and a drug dealer called Jayden Drake who was running the Bobby Davro drug line in Harlow. There was also information that 25-year-old Drake had been using the address in The Hides as part of his drug activities and he had a history of carrying knives.

Drakes fingerprints were found on a number of items in one of the bedrooms as were those of another man, 19-year-old Igors Andersons. Detectives were able to establish that Drake and Andersons were at the address at the time of the attack.

They were both subsequently charged with murder. At the trial, Drake claimed Andersons had stabbed Cristian but claimed that he was looking away at the moment of the attack. Andersons claimed he had blacked out at the moment the injuries were inflicted but assumed he had caused the injuries - however, he claimed it must have been in self-defence.

But following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, the jury found both men - Drake, of Maclean Road, Bournemouth, and Andersons, of Tickenhall Drive, Harlow - guilty of murder. They are due to be sentenced at the same court in July.