In the first half of December a number of south Londoners have been sent to prison.
Here's a rundown of the criminals who will now spend Christmas behind bars.
Mark Moodie
Maureen was last seen by her family at her aunt’s birthday party at their shared home in Deptford where she had been “in a good mood, playing with the children”.
Maureen left the party to meet Moodie, a friend from work, who took her to a block of flats on Blackheath Hill where he was employed as a caretaker – she never left the building alive.
“You have never given an account of what happened between the two of you in Richmond House. No one but you knows why you killed her,” Judge Nicholas Lavender said.
CCTV footage showed Moodie moving a large communal waste bin around the basement of Richmond House.
He put her body in the waste bin and covered it with sacks of rubbish before putting it out for collection, prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward told the court.
It was then taken to a processing plant on Landmann Way in Deptford on December 8 where it was “inevitably” incinerated.
At his sentencing hearing a statement from Maureen’s mum, Jane, addressed Moodie directly.
“You are a coward and a cold-hearted murderer,” she said. “You preyed on a vulnerable and sweet girl who would never hurt anyone. You've never even given us a reason why you took her away from us.”
Gitau was jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years.
Dymtro Shcherbinskyy, 42, and Ghislain Kiamuangana, 34
They raided their first hotel on Southwark Bridge Road on January 3 last year – entering the hotel with their faces covered in the early hours of the morning.
They threatened two staff members with a gun and forced them into the back office before tying their hands and legs.
They then forced the employees to provide the combination for the safe and stole £4,000.
Over the coming weeks they then raided hotels in Canning Town and the City in a similar fashion.
Shcherbinskyy, who was identified as playing the leading role, was sentenced to 12 years’ in prison.
French national Ghislain Kiamuangana was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in total.
Read the full story - Armed robbers who raided hotels jailed after Greenwich arrest.
Ryan Johnston
The attack was witnessed by a tourist and his son who were horrified by what they saw.
The court heard that three hours before he raped the woman, Johnston had been spotted masturbating while looking into the windows of a house.
Just hours later, Johnston boarded the Piccadilly Line at Heathrow Terminal Five and walked through the carriage to a young woman who was asleep.
He then sexually assaulted and raped her while she remained unconscious.
Johnston was jailed for nine years, made subject of a sexual harm prevention order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
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Tishan Hewitt
In April last year officers saw him in a Mercedes A class which parked on Mardell Road in Croydon.
He got out an placed two full bags in the rear seats of a nearby Ford Mondeo.
The Ford drove off but when it was stopped by officers they found 20kgs of high purity cocaine with a street value of £1.8million.
Later the same day officers saw Hewitt transfer another bag into a Mitsubishi Colt on the same road as the first transfer.
The Mitsubishi drove off but was stopped in Beckenham where officers found a bag containing 14.7kgs of heroin with a street value of £900,000.
A month later, in May last year, Hewitt was seen getting out of the Mercedes before transferring a bag to a white Audi Q7 in Langley Road, Beckenham.
When officer pulled that vehicle over they found almost eight kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of £720,000.
Hewitt was jailed for nine years.
Read the full story - South London drug kingpin Tishan Hewitt jailed for nine years.
Mohammed Aminu
The court heard that on Wednesday, March 22 Aminu boarded a Route 181 bus in Lewisham High Street where he engaged a 14-year-old girl in conversation.
He then followed her from the bus and sexually assaulted her.
Half an hour later, he boarded a Route 124 bus and engaged a 16-year-old girl in conversation before sexually assaulting her.
He then followed her from the bus and sexually assaulted her.
Half an hour later, he boarded a Route 124 bus and engaged a 16-year-old girl in conversation before sexually assaulting her.
Three days later on Saturday, March 25 Aminu boarded a bus in Soho and sexually assaulted another victim after following them from a bus.
These offences all took place just weeks after he was convicted of stalking a woman at Lewisham Shopping Centre.
He has now been jailed for 30 months.
Ishmael Duncan
He is believed to have contacted close to 10,000 kids across the world attempting to coerce and threaten them into sending naked photos of themselves.
Duncan tricked 28 young victims into sending photos before blackmailing with revenge porn threats so that they would send more.
On one occasion the paedophile told a 14-year-old girl in America who had learning difficulties that he would give her $1,000 if she gave her own brother oral sex.
He has now been jailed for 18 years.
One victim said: “I was 11-years-old when you first made contact with me. At this time I was a vulnerable young girl struggling with my confidence and suffering from anxiety.
“Your online comments and compliments made me feel better about myself and made me believe that I could have a future in modelling, something which all young girls aspire towards.
“You lied to me and this led me to wanting to look a certain way on the pictures so I stopped eating.
“For months I could not bring myself to leave my home because of the thought of you finding me and telling everyone what I did.
“I was petrified that you would find me and come to my house and hurt, perhaps kill myself or one of my family members. I used to wake up in the middle of the night thinking that you were inside my house which terrified me.”
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