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COURT AND CRIME NEWSLETTER
Hello! Hopefully you are having an enjoyable weekend so far as December is nearly upon us and the festive period moves ever closer!
In the world of Oxford's courts this week, a trainee teacher who shared more than 1,000 videos of newborn babies being raped has walked free.
Jacob Chouffot, of Iffley, distributed and received more than 1,000 of the most serious Category A films and photos between 2015 and 2019.
Yet despite the severity of the offences, the 26-year-old was not given a custodial sentence when appearing in Oxford Crown Court this week.
This was because the judge said he was not a direct danger to the public after Chouffot admitted 14 counts of making, possessing and distributing child abuse images.
Chouffot was arrested in November 2022 and quit his job shortly afterwards having admitted in a police interview to possessing the media which he shared on WhatsApp and Telegram.
He was then charged 18 months later in July of this year and pleaded guilty at his first hearing.
In other news, an Oxford lawyer who made up rape and kidnap allegations in an elaborate campaign of harassment against her former lover has been released from prison.
Anisah Ahmed had been given a life term and ordered to serve at least four and a half years’ imprisonment for what the judge branded as “malicious, even evil” actions.
The 37-year-old had become obsessed with victim Iqbal Mohammed after the breakdown of an affair between the pair.
She set up email accounts in victim Iqbal Mohammed’s name and bombarded herself with messages in a successful bid to get him arrested.
 Anisah Ahmed has been released from prison (Image: Thames Valley Police)
When her actions were unmasked she went on to falsely accuse him of rape and also claimed he’d tried to kidnap her.
But she has now been released from prison and has appeared on TV this week on ITV's Real Fatal Attraction.
This show sparked fresh interest in her case which appears very unusual on face value.
You may remember a court hearing was initially scheduled to take place this week for Thomas Johnson, a 19-year-old from Shrivenham who was behind the wheel when three teenagers lost their lives in a crash in the village of Marcham in June last year.
That case was originally scheduled to take place on Thursday but has now been pushed back to December 18.
We will of course be reporting on this when it does pass through the courts.
The trial of Lisa Davenport, accused of murdering her dad in Banbury, is due to start in Oxford this week.
Davenport, of Washle Drive, Middleton Cheney, is expected to take to the dock in the crown court with the trial estimated to be four to five weeks' long.
Thank you for reading and speak to you again soon!
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