Burglars, drug dealers and a trio of sporting brothers are just some of the people from southeast London and north Kent who have been jailed in 2019.
The New Year has seen News Shopper report on a range of convictions in just the first couple months as we roll into March.
These are some of the cases we have covered so far in 2019.
Kersan Euell
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READ: Catford thug jailed for fly-kick attack on policewoman in Merton
Kersan Euell, of Penerley Road in Catford, Lewisham, was sentenced to prison after he was filmed viciously kicking a policewoman in the head.
PC Lorraine McGinty was hit in the back of her head and another officer, PC John Collins, suffered a fractured rib during the assault.
Euell was arrested three days after the attack before being sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison at Kingston Crown Court.
The Sodje brothers
Bright, Efe and Stephen Sodje
READ: Sodje Sports Foundation fraudster brothers jailed
Three sporting brothers, which comprise two former footballers and an ex-rugby player, were convicted of siphoning off money from their own family’s charity.
Bright, Efe and Stephen Sodje set up the Sodje Sports Foundation (SSF) in 2009 to help provide sporting facilities for young people in Nigeria.
But after the charity held a gala dinner at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester for the SSF and the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, raising nearly £11,500, none of the money raised went to the organisations.
Ziyad Al-Daher
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The “dangerous offender” from Brockley was jailed for 10 years after he was involved in a gang which stole luxury watches in violent robberies.
He was one of eight men sentenced to a total of 54 years after they nicked watches worth a combined £280,000.
Al-Daher was sentenced for nine offences.
David O’Shea
READ: Eltham burglar jailed after targeting elderly residents
The “prolific” burglar targeted empty homes during the day before stealing valuables inside the properties.
O’Shea, 35, of Southend Crescent, Eltham, was sentenced to prison after admitting to 10 counts of burglary and one count of attempted burglary at Woolwich Crown Court in February.
Several of the victims were elderly.
Florenc Kola and Naised Sotra
Florenc Kola and Nasied Mitro
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The two drug dealers from Lewisham were caught by police with a kilo of 92 per cent pure cocaine in a Primark bag in Rochester.
Kola and Sotra were among three who all pleaded guilty to charges at an earlier hearing before Kola and Mitro were each handed six-year prison sentences.
A third man involved, Shpati Hakili, of Woodstock Road in Rochester, was also jailed.
Massa Oyegbalo
READ: Burglar who claimed he was delivering leaflets near Swanley jailed
The burglar broke into homes near Swanley while pretending to deliver leaflets, but was caught after he was seen acting suspiciously by an off-duty officer.
Oyegbalo targeted two properties in Eynsford Rise and then tried to flee the scene by boarding a train at Eynsford station.
But, unfortunately for him, he didn’t know the off-duty officer had already raised the alarm before he was arrested at nearby Swanley station.
Teddy Bignall
READ: Bromley burglar jailed for six months
The 33-year-old, of no fixed address, was convicted of five counts of burglary within the Petts Wood and St Mary Cray areas in January.
He was sentenced to serve 26 weeks in prison and, on top of that, was ordered to pay a victim surcharge.
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