Crime

AN 18 year-old who took part in a late-night street robbery has been sent to a young offenders institution.

Abdi Sheik, of Tudor Road, Hayes, was given a ten-month detention and training order for the robbery on two young teens that took place in Uxbridge Road, Uxbridge, in September last year.

Sheik and another man, who has yet to be identified, threatened the 15 and 17 year-old boys and robbed them of their mobile phones before running off, leaving the victims shaken but unhurt.

Sheik was arrested two weeks later and charged with the robbery. He was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on January 29.

If anyone has any information about the second person involved in this incident, please call Hillingdon CID on 0208 246 1568.

A group of climate change demonstrators admitted to staging a three-day protest at a power station at Oxford Magistrates Court yesterday (February 1).

Among the protestors were Aimee Georgiou-Lornand, 18, of Hudson Road, Hayes, who was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £70 costs.

Oscar Cooper, 19, also of Hudson Road, had previous protest-related convictions and was given 60 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £70 costs.

A KEBAB shop owner whose pest-ridden premises were discovered by council inspectors has been given a suspended sentence and banned from running a restaurant for six months.

Aman Ullah, 40, of Angel Way, Hayes, admitted to three charges of breaching food hygiene regulations and was sentenced to three months imprisonment suspended for two years after persistent sanitary failings at Kings Kebabish, in Botwell Lane, Hayes. The restaurant has since closed.

TWO TEENAGERS from Hayes are amongst the twenty protestors due to appear in court following a protest at an Oxford power station.

Aimee Georgiou-Lornand, 18, and Oscar Cooper, 19, both of Hudson Road, Hayes, face charges of aggravated trespassing along with 18 other climate change protestors after gaining access to Didcot Power Station in the early hours of October 26 2009, with the aim of making the facility inoperable.

They came down from the station's chimneys on October 28 and were arrested.

All twenty defendants, comprised of eleven men and nine women, have been released on bail and are due to appear at Oxford Magistrates Court on February 1.

TWO ten year-old boys accused of raping a young girl in a park have been committed to Crown Court.

The two boys are alleged to have carried out the sexual attack on the girl in College Way, Hayes, in October.

They were each subsequently charged with two counts of rape on the advice of the Crown Prosecution service in December.

The pair appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on January 28 for committal, and are due to appear at Isleworth Crown Court on February 9 for a plea and direction hearing.

They have been released on conditional bail, and are not allowed to go to certain places unaccompanied by their parents, to speak to witnesses or to contact each other.

A HAYES man has been handed a 15-month jail term after fraudulently claiming over £17,000 in benefits.

Joao Pedro Lando, 31, of Guiness Close, claimed housing and council tax benefit whilst failing to disclose student support grants and loans he had received. He also collected income support whilst in paid employment.

The total amount of benefits he claimed in a five year period, from 2002 to 2007, totalled £17,942.30.

THE HAWKS BMX club has been rescued from the brink of ruin after its burgled bikes were recovered, although police continue to hunt for the thieves.

BMXs belonging to the club were found in a garage on Friday evening (January 22), after police received a tip off and sought a search warrant for a property in Juniper Way, Hayes.

33 of the club's bikes, a generator and protective gear used by the young members that regularly attend the BMX sessions were taken from their facilities container next to the cycle track at Lake Farm Country Park in Dawley Road, Hayes, on January 12.

Police are appealing for information after a a 'large amount of money' went missing from a football ground's premises on the Sunday before Christmas.
The burglary happened between 4.30pm and 6.30am on December 20 and 21 at the Hayes Gate Football Club in Springfield Road, Hayes.

TWO SIBLINGS from Hayes have been slapped with heavy fines after stealing more than £18,000 in benefits.
Ashok Kapoor, 58, a tutor from Cranford Drive, and Madhu Kapoor, 50, of Coronation Road, each faced four charges relating to obtaining benefit by deception at Harrow Crown Court on December 18.
Ashok Kapoor was found to have been overpaid by more than £11,000 after claiming Income Support and Incapacity Benefit despite owning properties and having savings. He was ordered to pay a confiscation order of £1444 and a fine of £1000.
Madhu Kapoor was ordered to pay a confiscation order of £3871 and a £2000 fine after investigators at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) found that she had claimed more than £7000 in Income Support without declaring properties she owned.
They also face substantial legal costs and repayment of the benefit money they received. They have been warned that they face jail if they do not pay the penalties.

A 29-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for two years and five months for burglary.

Ian Thomas McCallum, of Yeading Lane, Hayes, broke into a residential property in Hillingdon on August 18 this year. Police were called to the scene at 4.30pm.

McCallum admitted the offence when he appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court the following day, before being committed to Isleworth Crown Court and being sentenced on December 4 this year.