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Hamilton Spectator
29-05-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
Silks restaurant's 30th anniversary bash raises $1.7K for Red Roof
Silks Country Kitchen turned its 30th anniversary into a party on Monday, serving up free food, drinks and prize draws — while rallying the community to raise more than $1,700 for Red Roof Retreat. Guests at the anniversary open house were asked to donate to Red Roof in lieu of a cover charge and 100 per cent of it went directly to the local non-profit, which provides programs and support for individuals with special needs and their families. Jennifer Phelan, one of the sibling owners of Silks alongside Joel Dempsey, said the celebration drew an estimated 200 to 250 people throughout the evening. She said the turnout was great. 'Amazing, actually,' said Phelan. 'There were so many people.' Upon arrival, guests were greeted with live music, complimentary food, three free drink tickets and a free entry into door prize draws, which featured gift cards, tastings at Niagara Oast House Brewers, IceDogs tickets and more. A separate raffle featured bigger-ticket prizes like Toronto Blue Jays tickets, a signed Wendell Clark jersey and other items, with tickets sold for $10 each. Extra drink tickets were also for sale at three for $10. 'All that went to Red Roof,' Phelan said. Phelan and Dempsey were on site to welcome guests and reflect on 30 years of Silks in the community. Phelan said Silks intends to keep going strong: 'We're not going anywhere anytime soon.' paigeseburn@
Yahoo
20-04-2025
- Yahoo
South Londoners jailed in April so far including three murderers and YouTuber
A man who celebrated the killing of Lee Rigby in YouTube videos, three murderers and an man who stabbed his ex-partner with a tyre repair tool are among the south Londoners jailed so far this month. Here are the names and faces of the men who are have been sentenced to prison time in April 2025 so far. Jason Conde (Image: Met Police) Jason Conde, 41, stabbed his ex-partner six times with a tyre puncture repair tool then burnt his clothes in the woods. The incident took place on May 9 last year when the victim, the mother of one of Conde's children, went to his home to confront him over a parenting issue, prosecutor Gary Venturi told Croydon Crown Court. Conde claims she was 'spoiling for a fight' and was armed with a police-style baton, something the woman denies. A fight broke out instantly during which the victim felt a number of heavy blows to her body, she didn't know it at the times but Conde had stabbed her six times with a sharp point tyre repair tool. Conde stopped his attack when the woman began coughing up blood, the court heard. Conde was jailed for three years and four months. Read the full story - Orpington man stabbed mum of his child six times with tool Tyler Roberts-Emmanuel (Image: Met Police) Tyler Roberts-Emmanuel, 19, murdered 30-year-old Shaquille Graham outside Silks nightclub in Catford. Shaquille was shot dead in the back of the neck in the early hours of March 10 last year. Roberts-Emmanuel was noted by a judge to be a 'confident and outgoing person' and had run his own drug-dealing business selling cannabis for two years. She told Roberts-Emmanuel: 'There was no link between you and Shaquille Graham and therefore it is likely you were acting under the direction of others." Natasha Barrow, the victim's mother, described the 'devastation' of losing her only son. She said: 'The heinous and cowardly way he was taken away from us adds poisonous salt to an irreparable wound.' His father, Norman Harris, said his son was taken away in a 'senseless act of violence' 'We gave him life and no one else had the right to take it and him away from us,' he said. Roberts-Emmanuel was jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years. Read the full story - Teen who fatally shot man outside Catford's Silks nightclub jailed Keahn Williams (left) and Kai Nelson Palmer (right) (Image: Met Police) Keahn Williams, 20, from Coulsdon, and Kai Nelson-Palmer, 17, from Croydon, murdered 22-year-old Lucas Sutton. On April 26, 2023, Lucas was lured to an address in Croydon where he was joined by his former friends Williams and Nelson-Palmer. Whether Lucas knew the others were going to be there is not clear, but he left the flat with Williams and Nelson-Palmer to walk to a shop to buy drinks. Unbeknownst to Lucas, they had been exchanging Snapchat messages in the days leading up to the meeting with the intention of attacking him. As they returned from shop in Northbrook Road, Williams produced a knife and stabbed Lucas who was caught completely unaware. He dropped the drinks he was holding and ran, pursued by Williams and Nelson-Palmer. Williams caught up with him as he ran along Mayo Road and stabbed him again before both the assailants fled. Both men have been jailed for life - Williams will serve at least 23 years, and Nelson-Palmer will serve at least 16 years. Read the full story - Pair sentenced for murder of Lucas Sutton in Croydon Viet Tran (Image: Manchester Police) Viet Tran, 22, of Leigh Crescent in New Addington, travelled 240 miles to stab his ex-girlfriend and a man she was on a date with after tracking her using the dark web. In the early hours of August 4 last year, a Vietnamese man and woman were on a first date in Manchester City Centre when a man sprayed UV paint in their eyes to disorientate them before stabbing them both. 'At the moment I was stabbed, I had the genuine belief that I was going to die,' said the male victim. Both victims survived the attack, which at first appeared to be completely random. But detectives soon revealed that it was carried out by Tran who had been meticulously planned the trip to Manchester to carry out the attack. Tran was determined to cause harm following the breakdown of their relationship and became obsessed, police said. He paid someone on the 'dark web' to hack her phone to enable him to track her and see her private messages. Tran was jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of Section 18 and Section 20 assault. Read the full story - Croydon thug Viet Tran stalked and stabbed ex-girlfriend Royal Barnes (Image: Met Police) Royal Barnes, 34, glorified and laughed at the murder of Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby in videos posted on YouTube. In videos he hailed the murder as a 'brilliant day' and mocked the outpouring of public grief, laughing uncontrollably as he drove past floral tributes. Barnes was jailed for over five years in March 2014 for inciting terrorism overseas and three counts of transmitting a terrorist publication. He has now been returned to jail for four and a half years after breaching his notification requirements Lee Rigby was murdered by Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, as he returned to his barracks in Woolwich on May 22, 2013. Read the full story - Man who glorified Lee Rigby's murder in Woolwich jailed again Kurtis Hoyte (Image: NCA) Kurtis Hoyte, 35, from Beckenham, was jailed after his encrypted phone showed he imported half a tonne of cocaine worth £17 million. He was arrested in May 2020 after he was observed handing over five kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of £180,000 to the driver of a flat-bed truck near Beckenham Hill Station. At the time, officers seized three phones from him, one of which was an encrypted EncroChat device. It was found that he used this to orchestrate the importation of 540 kilos of cocaine over a nine-month period between June 2019 and March 2020, using the handle 'retroblade'. Hoyte has been jailed for 18 years. Read the full story - Beckenham drug dealer jailed after importing cocaine worth £17m Tzolio Kampasa (Image: Met Police) Tzolio Kampasai, 32, of Upper Norwood, ambushed a woman on her walk home in Tooting before violently assaulting and trying to rape her. He attacked the woman as she walked alone along a footpath near Tooting Bec Road on April 14 last year. After the attack, he drove to Dover and boarded a ferry in an attempt to evade police. A major manhunt was launched, and he was arrested around four weeks later when he returned to the UK. Kampasai was found guilty of attempted rape, two counts of sexual assault, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He has now been jailed for nine years. Read the full story - Tooting attempted rapist jailed after major manhunt Brockley man Jonathan Watson (centre) was jailed for street fight involving his brother Kenneth Watson (right) and Lenny Evans (left) (Image: Cambs Police) Jonathan Watson, 38, of Ivy Road in Brockley, has been jailed for a street fight in which his brother and another man were stabbed. Police received a flurry of 999 calls about a fight on Hornbeam Close in the town of March, Cambridgeshire, at around 1pm on March 18, 2023. Lenny Evans, 33, and Kenneth Watson, 43, were facing up to each other with baseball bats and started brawling when Jonathan Watson got out of a car and joined in. All three men fled when police arrived but Jonathan Watson was seen in his Audi at the end of the road and arrested. Police then received a call from the ambulance service reporting that a man who had been dropped off at a nearby filling station had been stabbed. Evans had stab wounds to his face, hand and torso, and was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital. Kenneth Watson also received multiple stab wounds to his head during the brawl. Jonathan Watson was jailed for two years and two months for affray and was given an additional four months for dealing cannabis. Kenneth Watson, of Hornbeam Close in Cambridgeshire, and Evans, of East Drive in Cambridgeshire, were both jailed for two years and two months for affray. Read the full story - Brockley drug dealer Jonathan Watson jailed for street fight Elijah Henry-Goodin (Image: BTP) Elijah Henry-Gooding, 27, was stopped by plain clothes British Transport Police officers in Richmond and found to have drugs in his underwear. They had intelligence that he was carrying a county lines phone and was regularly coming to Richmond to sell drugs at the station and nearby areas. During the search, Henry-Gooding was found to be in possession of £760 in cash and two mobile phones - one of these was a Nokia burner phone confirmed as the drugs line phone. While in custody, a strip search uncovered a large clingfilm-wrapped package hidden in Henry-Gooding's underwear. It contained 64 wraps of crack cocaine and 37 wraps of heroin. A folding lock knife was also found hidden on him. Henry-Gooding was jailed for three years and two months.
BBC News
03-03-2025
- BBC News
Tyler Roberts-Emmanuel convicted of murder of Shaquille Graham
A 19-year-old has been found guilty of murdering a man he shot at point-blank range outside a south London Roberts-Emmanuel shot Shaquille Graham, 30, in Catford on 10 March 2024, after lying in wait for him for 20 minutes outside the venue. "Mr Graham never stood a chance," said prosecutor Joel Smith KC. "He collapsed and died immediately."The Old Bailey heard how Mr Graham's murder was planned, with the defendant making a "dummy run" on a scooter in the hours before the shooting. However, the motive for the attack remains a mystery, the court was told. Roberts-Emmanuel will be sentenced on 4 April. Jurors heard how the gunman, dressed in dark clothing and a mask or balaclava, left his grandmother's house in Linden Grove, Peckham, in the early hours of 10 March and drove to Silks nightclub in circling the area, Roberts-Emmanuel lay in wait opposite the club until Mr Graham left."He got off the scooter, walked to Mr Graham, and without pause shot him through the throat," said Mr Smith."The bullet travelled up through the neck, into Mr Graham's skull where it lodged itself."The gunman then returned to his grandmother's house, the court heard."Whilst it is obvious that the killing of Mr Graham was planned, the background remains obscure," said Mr Smith. 'Gunman was a relative' The jury heard there were key strands of evidence that tied Roberts-Emmanuel to the scooter used by the gunman to travel to and from the scene was a Kaboo Wolf Warrior 11 - a model that the defendant had tried to buy the month address the gunman used as a base was covered by CCTV, and along with mobile phone evidence, this showed the defendant was there at key also showed that the defendant had made a dummy run to Silks nightclub on his scooter at 19:00 GMT on the night of the murder, said Mr the gun used in the attack was not recovered, the bullet and its casing were found and were typical of a handgun consistent with a gun the defendant was seen carrying on claimed the gunman was a relative, whom he only named as "X", who he said was using the same address as him in Peckham.
