What happened on the night that Joshua Harling died TWO men have been convicted of killing a teenager in a violent Thame last year. Nathan Braim, 20, stabbed accountant Joshua Harling on the night of July 22 last year when their rivalry came to a head in a ‘brief, but vicious’ street fight in Thame lasting one minute. After a month-long trial at Oxford Crown Court, Braim, of Broadwaters Avenue, Thame, was found guilty of murder, carrying a weapon in a public place and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, with close friend Benjamin Eyles. Elyes, 19, of Monks Hollow, Marlow Bottom, was also found guilty of the lesser charge, manslaughter, for his role in Mr Harling’s death.
Shaun Mezzone, Oxford Crown Court A PAEDOPHILE who groomed a pre-school girl with sweets and gifts before sexually abusing her in a charity shop has had his jail sentenced reduced. Shaun Mezzone took the young child into a back room of the Sobell House Hospice shop and took illicit photographs of her. When he was caught the 47-year-old of Leiden Road, Oxford, was also found to have hundreds of illegal images depicting the abuse of children. Mezzone had already admitted counts including sexual assault and making indecent images of children when he was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on July 1 last year.
Johnson was charged on August 14, 2020 following offences overnight between August 12 and 13 last year. Between 11.50pm and 12.45am, Johnson damaged a vehicle in Nowell Road, Rose Hill by jumping on it causing the windscreen to smash and denting the vehicle. He then entered a property on Kempson Crescent, Littlemore and assaulted a woman who was asleep inside the property by hitting her multiple times to the head. The victim, a woman in her sixties, sustained facial fractures, a bleed on the brain, cuts to her eye and a detached retina. Investigating officer, Detective Sergeant Neil Anns, based at St Aldates police station, said: “I am pleased the jury found Johnson unanimously guilty and thank them for hearing all the evidence during this trial.
A DRUG dealer who tried to escape arrest and left a packet of cocaine in a police vehicle has been jailed. Frank Adebisi, 23, of Torridge Drive in Didcot, pleaded guilty at Oxford Crown Court on January 22 to one count each of being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine, possessing a controlled drug of class A (cocaine), possessing a controlled drug of class B (cannabis), assault by beating of an emergency worker and obstructing an authorised person in the exercise of a Section 23 power to detain/search a person/vehicle or vessel. At 5.30pm on June 16, 2020, a car was stopped at the BP service station in Milton Heights, near Didcot, and detained for a Section 23 Misuse of Drugs Act search.