Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between May and August
By Matt Pole
Published 1st Jan 2023, 08:00 BST
It has been another busy year for judges, juries and magistrates across Sussex.
Here we take a look at some of the criminals locked up during the summer of 2022.
All of the information below comes from either Sussex Police or our reporters attending court in person.
5. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between May and August
Monuzar Hussain Hamza, 34, a stock taker, of no fixed address, followed four girls, aged between 14 and 15, along Moat Road in East Grinstead around 3pm on February 14. He whistled to get their attention and called out to them, and as they turned around, he was exposing himself and acting indecently towards them. The girls shouted back at him in shock and he ran off, returning to a nearby hotel. The incident was reported to police, and following house-to-house enquiries and CCTV trawls, Hamza was identified as the suspect. He was arrested within 48 hours and charged with exposure. Hamza denied the offence in police interview and was remanded in custody ahead of a trial. However, he later changed his plea to guilty after an overwhelming amount of credible evidence was presented to him. At Brighton Magistrates’ Court on April 14, he was sentenced to 26 weeks’ imprisonment and ordered to pay costs totalling £442. He was also put on the sex offenders register for a period of seven years. Photo: Sussex Police
6. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between May and Augus
A rapist from Littlehampton has been jailed after attacking a woman in Lewes, police have revealed. Sussex Police said Glen Noone, 33, of Lammas Close, Littlehampton, was sentenced at Chichester Crown Court on May 11, having been found guilty of the rape of the woman at an address in Lewes. He was jailed for seven years and will be a registered sex offender for life, police said. Detective Constable Jo Barber said Noone forced himself on his victim 'in a vicious and opportunistic attack'. The prosecution, authorised by the CPS, followed an investigation by detectives from the East Sussex Safeguarding Investigations Unit. At sentencing, his Honour Judge Rennie told Noone that he had been convicted on the 'clearest evidence of rape', adding: "Your brutish actions have had a profound effect. Your victim did absolutely nothing wrong and in no way was any of what you did her fault." Photo: Sussex Police
7. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between May and August
A Bexhill man who committed a series of sexual offences against a young girl has been jailed for 18 years. Police said Keith Alan Fairbrother, 59, of Glovers Lane in Bexhill, was sentenced at Chichester Crown Court on May 9, having been convicted on April 6 after a two-week trial, of four offences of rape and three offences of sexual assault by penetration. Fairbrother assaulted the girl over a five-year period. Photo: Sussex Police
8. Locked up in Sussex 2022: These are some of the criminals jailed between May and August
Four men who were convicted of murdering student Bill Henham at a New Year’s Eve party in Brighton have been jailed for a minimum of 86 years. Bill was beaten unconscious and dropped into a recessed courtyard, within a disused building in North Street on January 1, 2020. The 24-year-old, from Henfield, suffered extensive injuries, having been savagely beaten, kicked, stamped on and struck with a wooden bannister spindle. Dushane Meikle, 28, of Amberley Drive, Hove, Gregory Hawley, 29, of no fixed address (pictured left), Lamech Gordon-Carew, 20, of Cheeseman Close, Hampton, Middlesex (pictured right) and 19-year-old Alize Spence, of Academy Gardens, Croydon, were convicted on 24 February following a 10-week trial at Maidstone Crown Court, Kent. They had all denied murdering Bill. At Hove Crown Court on May 20, all four were sentenced to life imprisonment, with Hawley and Meikle to serve a minimum 25 years, and Gordon-Carew and Spence to serve a minimum 18 years. Photo: Sussex Police