A man who carried out a series of random slasher attacks in Brixton leaving one woman dead and the mastermind of a lucrative extreme body modifications enterprise who cooked human testicles to eat in a salad were among the notorious criminals sent to jail in the UK in May. Other offenders locked up last month include a primary school teacher who stabbed her partner to death before burying his body in the garden, a Moroccan asylum seeker who murdered a pensioner in the street in “revenge” for the Israel-Hamas conflict and a debt-ridden woman who murdered her disabled mother-in-law by setting fire to her bed. A struck-off solicitor who exploited the Grenfell Tower tragedy to submit fraudulent immigration applications, a woman dubbed the 'Ticket Queen' who ran a multimillion-pound touting business and a gang who carried out what is thought to be the largest benefit fraud scheme seen in England will also spend several years behind bars for their crimes.
READ MORE: The violent and cruel men every woman in Greater Manchester should know the faces of Read more court stories from the Manchester Evening News here. Lengthy sentences are handed to some of the worst offenders each month. These are some of the most shocking court cases that have been widely reported in the UK in recent weeks.
Cliff Mitchell Former police officer Cliff Mitchell was found guilty of rape (Image: Met Police) A former Metropolitan police officer was described as “the devil” and “a pathetic excuse of .
