A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a woman in her sleep and committing a sexual offence against her afterwards. 

Ernesta Juska, 21, entered the pleas at a hearing today (Friday 18 July) at Maidstone Crown Court, following the death of Nina Denisova in August 2024 at an address in Dartford. 

Juska stabbed Nina, who was a friend of the family, repeatedly while she was sleeping. Juska later told police that he decided to kill someone, but claimed he did not know why. 

A former NHS worker was sentenced today (Friday 18 July 2025) guilty for conspiring to create hundreds of false COVID-19 vaccination records.

Wayne Knight, 40, a Senior Healthcare Worker at North East London NHS Foundation Trust pleaded guilty to fraud by misrepresentation and money laundering related offences on 6 May 2025 and was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court.  

A group of people smugglers who hid migrants in lorries have today been jailed.

The organised crime group – consisting of Azize Benaniba, 41, Mahmoud Haidous, 53, Mohamed Bechkit, 36, Abed Karrouz, 40, Amor Ghabbari, 32, Mohamed Abdelhadi, 50, and Mohamed Bouriche, 43, – would arrange to meet migrants, normally those who had flown to the UK from North Africa on tourist visas, in north London then transport them to Kent, where they boarded lorries travelling from Dover to Calais. They received jail terms ranging from seven years and three months to 13 years and six months.

A man who raped and controlled five women over a four-year period has been sentenced to 17 years imprisonment, extended by a further five years. 

George De Bathe, 25, cut the victims off from their family and friends, controlling them in different ways, including taking over their phones and social media, dictating what they wore and ate and who they saw. He would threaten to kill himself and even controlled their sleep, demanding that they constantly replied to his messages throughout the night.