Stella Dimoko Korkus.com: Four Nigerian Stowaways Charged With Affray And Jailed 7 Years In The UK

Advertisement

Advertisement - Mobile In-Article

Saturday, January 04, 2020

Four Nigerian Stowaways Charged With Affray And Jailed 7 Years In The UK

Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years.







While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense stand-off in the Thames Estuary.

The stowaways also threatened to kill crew members with metal poles when they broke free from quarantine on the 78,000-tonne Italian merchant ship on 21 December 2018. They said they would steer it to the UK.

Helicopters with specialist sailors were sent to rescue the Grande Tema’s crew and arrest the men while the ship floated off the Essex coast.

Samuel Jolumi, 27, Ishola Sunday, 28, Toheeb Popoola, 27, and Joberto McGee, 21, were all found guilty of affray after an eight-week trial in the Old Bailey. Popoola and McGee were also found guilty of making threats to kill.

All were cleared of attempting to hijack the ship.

Popoola was jailed for 31 months, while McGee was sentenced to 32 months behind bars. Sunday and Popoola were each jailed for 16 months.

They will serve half of their sentences behind bars, and may be detained for deportation proceedings.

The group was found by the captain days after the vessel set sail from Lagos, Nigeria, and placed in quarantine before they mutinied five days later.

At least one member of the group made ‘throat-slitting’ gestures at the 27-strong crew and McGee mouthed the words: ‘I kill you’.

Faeces was also smeared across the windows of the cabin that the crew had barricaded themselves into.

Popoola and McGee had previously been sent back to Nigeria after stowing away on separate ships, while Sunday is a married father-of-two who took a ‘chance’ decision to board the ship.

Popoola has stowed himself away three times previously, and has also applied for asylum, and McGee, who organised the riot, said he had dreams of becoming a footballer when he reached the UK.

by dailymail.co.uk








9 comments:

  1. Their wish was granted by the universe, they are actually now in the UK but in confinment. Chai.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Brexit Britain and these fools are trying this rubbish. What a waste of 4 years because you will be back in Nigeria in 2024 without even seeing London olodo.

    ReplyDelete
  3. This is what watching celeb lives on social media cost these people. All he saw was becoming a footballer in the UK and never how to get there and the consequences of boarding a ship by force.
    Nigerians now see their country as worse than a prison. What a shame.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Ooo Chi MO!!! Na 2020 abasi fu nbosia??? O di Egwu O. (CHISOM)

    ReplyDelete
  5. They are lucky its not Nigerian jail

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. haha, lucky you said, the way they will so rape their ass hole in that prison, they will regret their life.

      Delete
  6. Red eyes?
    To match their Tshirts I guess.

    ReplyDelete

Disclaimer: Comments And Opinions On Any Part Of This Website Are Opinions Of The Blog Commenters Or Anonymous Persons And They Do Not Represent The Opinion Of StellaDimokoKorkus.com

Pictures and culled stories posted on this site are given credit and if a story is yours but credited to the wrong source,Please contact Stelladimokokorkus.com and corrections will be made..

If you have a complaint or a story,Please Contact StellaDimokoKorkus.com Via

Sdimokokorkus@gmail.com
Mobile Phone +4915210724141