Surrey criminals jailed in January including thieves who stole high-value cars

The first criminals of 2025 have appeared in Surrey courts including brothers who stole high-value cars. The pair have been caught following a police investigation last year. Another case include a former school business manager who was ordered to pay back GBP380,000.

SurreyLive have rounded up the criminals jailed so far across the county.

Car thief brothers jailed

Two brothers have been jailed after stealing high-value cars and a bag of golf clubs. A police investigation was launched after two vehicles, an Audi A4 and an Audi Q7, were stolen from a driveway in Cobham[1] in June 2024. A month later, one of the vehicles failed to stop for police while on false plates.

The car crashed and the occupants, identified brothers Timmy,37, and Jonathan Casey,41, fled the scene. Officers located a stolen Jaguar in Guildford[2] in October 2024. While conducting enquiries, they spotted the Caseys in an alleyway carrying golfing equipment that they did not believe belonged to them.

Further enquiries led to evidence of their involvement in the theft of the Jaguar, the two cars from Cobham in June and the theft of another car, which had been stolen from Esher[3] in September. Jonathan Casey, of Fisher Rowe, Bramley, was jailed for three years and two months for one count of conspiracy to commit the theft of a motor vehicle, encompassing four separate thefts, and one count of conspiracy to steal from a motor vehicle, as well as one count of dangerous driving and one count of driving whilst disqualified. Timmy Casey, 37, of 7 Harms Grove, Guildford, was sentenced to two years and eight months for one count of conspiracy to commit the theft of a motor vehicle encompassing four separate thefts, and one count of conspiracy to steal from a motor vehicle.

Both had pleaded guilty to all the offences at an earlier hearing. They were jailed on January 7 at Guldford Crown Court.

Man spat at, kicked and made threats of sexual violence towards Surrey Police officer

Nasaruddin Biror was jailed for 27 months when he appeared at Guildford[4] Crown Court on Thursday, January 2. Biror, of no fixed address, was convicted of multiple assaults, including three separate assaults on police officers, fraud and possession of a bladed article.

Officers were called to deal with Biror after they received reports of him being drunk and disorderly in Woking[5] on April 25, 2024. He insisted he did not want to cause trouble and just wanted to go home. Officers made the decision not to arrest him.

Biror then proceeded to spit at the three officers, kicking one of them and making threats of sexual violence towards her. Biror was also convicted of two further assaults and threatening a person with a knife on May 3. Additionally, he was convicted of four counts of fraud relating to fraudulently using a bank card.

Former school business manager order to pay back GBP380k

Debra Poole, 63, was sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment after she was found guilty of one count of fraud by abuse of position and three counts of fraud by false representation following a trial at Kingston[6] Crown Court in March 2023.

The former school business manager who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds was ordered to repay GBP380,000 back to the school when she appeared at a confiscation hearing at Kingston Crown Court on January 14. Poole was the School Business Manager for Hinchley Wood Primary School in Esher and was in charge of the school bank accounts at the time the offences were committed. During her trial, the court heard how she abused her position as signatory of the wraparound care club's bank account between October 14, 2011 and October 10, 2018 by transferring funds, writing out cheques to herself and then cashing the cheques.

This amounted to a total of over GBP490K over the seven-year period. In February 2009, Poole, who also oversaw the documentation used for changes to staff pay, submitted a Variation in Pay Form to Surrey County Council[7] payroll team, in which she increased her pay scale from level E to F. Two years later, in November 2011, Poole submitted further paperwork increasing her pay scale from level SP9 to SP10.

She was also in charge of managing the invoices and finances for Woody's, the school's breakfast and after school clubs, and claimed that between June 1, 2016 and September 10, 2018 she was working 30 hours a week as their administrator. The confiscation hearing was told that the total benefit from Poole's criminality was GBP535,770.82. An uplift to cover inflation was applied to this figure, giving a total benefit figure of GBP708,267.02..

The court agreed that the available amount Poole had access to, and therefore should pay, was GBP380,884.28, including the sale of her house. If she does not pay the money within three months, Poole will either have to apply to extend the deadline or serve a default prison sentence of three years and eight months. If the default sentenced is invoked, Poole would still need to pay the confiscation order.

Former Hampshire doctor jailed

This case happened not to far from Surrey.

A former Hampshire doctor who travelled 7,648 miles around the country to carryout "unsanitary and dangerous" circumcisions has been jailed. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, was a practising doctor in Hampshire[8] when he started visiting homes by appointment to carry out circumcisions on children. Some of his procedures caused "gratuitous pain and suffering" to the children and left them "screaming" in agony, Inner London Crown Court[9] heard.

Siddiqui was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison on Wednesday, January 15. He admitted 25 offences[10], including 11 counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, six counts of child cruelty, and eight counts of administering a prescription-only medicine to young and vulnerable patients while ignoring basic hygiene rules and performing non-therapeutic male circumcisions. Siddiqui was suspended and later struck off the register but continued to carry out circumcisions at family homes, using unsterilised tools and leading to a number of young children having to be taken to hospital following the procedure, including one boy who "almost died", the court heard.

The charges relate to 21 boys and are dated between April 2014 and January 2019. From June 2012, Siddiqui ran a private mobile circumcision service and sourced anaesthetic while working in paediatric surgery at the University Hospital SouthamptonNHSFoundation Trust. He travelled around the UK and by appointment performed non-therapeutic male circumcisions on patients aged between one-month-old and 15-years-old.[11]

In 2015, Siddiqui was struck off the GMC register after a panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found him guilty of failures in performing non-therapeutic male circumcisions in the homes of four children, one of whom "almost died" as a result of the procedure, prosecutor Ben Douglas-Jones KC told the judge. The boy, only referred to in court as Patient A, was rushed to hospital after he received an injection of Bupivacaine, an anaesthetic used to numb an area of the body during surgery, to which he had an adverse reaction.

Children's home predator plied boys with sweets and drinks before abusing them

Clive Peter Niblett, 73, n has been jailed for historical sex abuse at a children's home in Surrey. A court heard Niblett plied his victims with sweets and drinks before abusing them.

Niblett committed the offences in the 1970s while he was working at Palmerston House children's home in Romsey, Hampshire, and later while he was the live-in manager at the Burbank Children's School in Woking. They involved five victims who were aged 10 to 15 at the time. His offending came to light after he pleaded guilty in 2016 to sexual offences against a young boy between while he was working at Burbank and a second young boy while he was working at Palmerston House.

He was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for six offences of indecent assault on a male under the age of 14, buggery, and attempted buggery, which took place in the mid-1970s. Compensation claims made by the two victims led to further victims coming forward, and an investigation was carried out into allegations made by five of these victims when they were at Burbank and Palmerston House between the 1970s and 1980s. Niblett would ply his victims with gifts, including drinks, sweets and cigarettes, before sexually abusing them.

Niblett, now 73, was jailed for 12 years at Guildford Crown Court on Friday, January 17, after being found guilty of 13 charges including two counts of indecency with a child, nine counts of indecent assault, one count of buggery and one count of attempt buggery.

County line drugs gang sentences total 34 years for West Surrey and Hampshire dealing

The sentences handed to a county line drugs gang which was operating in West Surrey and Hampshire have totalled more than 34 years behind bars. The convictions for the six men conclude months of investigation by officers into the network which was being operated from the Stratford area for several years. In March 2023, police executed a series of warrants at addresses across London, Surrey and Hampshire resulting in nine people being subsequently charged and remanded.

After being presented with the evidence against them, all those charged eventually pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, namely crack cocaine and heroin. Their sentences are as follows:

• Ross Bannister, 30, from Greenwich, was sentenced to nine years and four months for being Concerned in the Supply of Class A drugs and a further 27 months for possession of criminal property to run concurrently.
• Billy Cross, 25, from Basildon, was sentenced to nine years and four months for being Concerned in the supply of Class A Drugs and 15 months for possession of criminal property to run concurrently.
• Abraham Musoke, 29, from Bexley in London, who acted as a courier in the network, was given six years and nine months.
• Local controllers Paul Skabarntsky, 29, of no fixed address and Jamie Smith, 31, from Greenwich, each received three years and one month whilst Liam Neylon, 27, from Farnham, received three years and nine months for offences in Surrey and a further two and half years for similar offending in Suffolk.
• Three 'runners', Noella Facer, 50, from Farnborough, Hampshire, Dean Pearce, 28, from Alton, Hampshire, and Kerry Pearce, 59, from Alton, Hampshire, each received two-year suspended sentences.

Drug dealer jailed after police find cocaine and GBP2,000 cash during search

A drug dealer has been jailed after he was found with cocaine stuffed inside a sock and more than GBP2,000 in cash in his car when he was stopped during police patrols in Surrey. The 22-year-old will face 18 months in prison after being arrested in September 2024.

Alpay Seydali had his vehicle stopped as part of proactive police patrols in Woking[12], upon searching the vehicle and his persons, officers discovered a total of GBP2,270 in cash. Further inspection of Seydali's car, led police to find a concealed black sock inside an air vent which had individual bags of cocaine stuffed inside. On January 17, 2025 the man, of no fixed address, was sentenced to a total of 18 months in prison at Chichester Crown Court.

The judge ordered the thousands-worth of seized cash found in Seydali's possession to be forfeited.

'Miracle' drunk M25 driver did not hurt anyone during morning rush hour

A man has been banned from driving for more than two years after being spotted weaving across the M25[13] during the morning rush hour. The driver has appeared in court after reports he was seen slumped over the steering wheel of a blue Vauxhall Astra as it drove slowly on the motorway near Leatherhead[14]. Fast thinking members of the public used their vehicles to slow traffic and managed to bring the car to a stop between junction 8 (Reigate[15]) and junction 9 (Leatherhead).

They then took the keys from driver Amos Chirimutu while they waited for police to arrive on 28 May 2024. When Surrey Police[16] officers arrived, they found Chirimutu, alone, sitting in the driver's seat, and smelling strongly of alcohol. There was a near empty bottle of whisky on the floor near his seat, and what appeared to be fresh vomit on the front passenger seat.

A police spokesperson said Chirimutu was arrested and had to be helped out of the vehicle. He was also so intoxicated that he was unable to provide his details or a breath sample. A blood sample was obtained at a hospital several hours later, and was found to have 319 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, four times the legal alcohol blood level.

Chirimutu, 42, (DOB 28/7/1982), of Maidstone, was given a six week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, when he appeared at Maidstone Magistrates' Court last week.

References

1. ^ Cobham (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
2. ^ Guildford (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
3. ^ Esher (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
4. ^ Guildford (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
5. ^ Woking (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
6. ^ Kingston (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
7. ^ Surrey County Council (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
8. ^ Hampshire (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
9. ^ Inner London Crown Court (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
10. ^ admitted 25 offences (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
11. ^ NHS (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
12. ^ Woking (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
13. ^ M25 (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
14. ^ Leatherhead (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
15. ^ Reigate (www.getsurrey.co.uk)
16. ^ Surrey Police (www.getsurrey.co.uk)