“I bought this house when it was only 300k and now it’s worth 2m, why should I have to leave because I can’t afford a tax???” - so you’re saying you’ve made over a million quid in profit off a house just by it existing and you’re now complaining that’s getting taxed a bit

Henrietta Oyibo was still on bail after drunkenly crashing her car and assaulting officers two-and-a-half years earlier.

The incident at Grays police station erupted after she was wrongly accused of breaching her bail.

www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2557798...

Yesterday's sentencing was the busiest I've ever seen a court, four families each permanently scarred by a horrific chain of events that began with illegal drugs - as do, I would estimate, the large majority of violent cases I cover, including domestic violence.

The family of Kieran Shepherd, said the judge, are also serving 'a life sentence' of their own, the 'devastating impact' on their own lives detailed yesterday in heartbreaking impact statements.

www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2556640...

It is not only O'Keeffe who has been sent to prison.

Two of his friends, Harrison Carpenter and Joseph Dawe, helped him chase down Kieran Shepherd.

They have been jailed for a combined 21.5 years for manslaughter.

www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2556542...

I was the only journalist present for O'Keeffe's testimony. I sat through every minute he was in the witness box.

I wrote this article after he was convicted, reflecting on his live evidence.

www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2545084...

But the prosecution suggested he had revelled in his gangster image, filming himself showing off illegal weapons, including a zombie knife.

I got the CPS to release the clips. They, and his feeble explanations for them, were likely key to his conviction.

www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2556200...