19 notorious criminals from around the UK jailed in May

A woman who killed the one-year-old boy she was hoping to adopt and an aspiring rock star who brutally murdered a teenage girl he snatched from a bus stop were just two of the notorious criminals from across the UK locked up last month.

Other offenders facing lengthy jail terms include a man who stabbed his landlords to death after becoming paranoid about Covid during the first national lockdown and a father who killed his two-year-old son. An actress who carried out a string of sex attacks on a teenage girl with her husband, a nurse who filmed up the gowns of unconscious women patients and a disgraced former MP were also put behind bars in May.

These are some of the most shocking court cases that have been widely reported in the UK in recent weeks.

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A father who killed his two-year-old son in a “truly evil” murder was jailed for life and ordered to spend a minimum of 23 years behind bars. Lukasz Czapla, 41, was unanimously found guilty of the killing of Julius Czapla in Edinburgh in November 2020.

After he discovered the youngster’s mother was in a new relationship, Czapla shot his son in the head with a BB gun, stabbed him with a skewer-like instrument and smothered him with a pillow. The High Court in Edinburgh heard it was in an act of “revenge and jealousy” to “get back” at his former partner.

Following the verdict, Patrycja Szczesniak, Julius’ mother, released at statement through Police Scotland saying her little boy had trusted his father “completely”. She said: “Julius was murdered only for revenge. His dad wanted me to suffer, he succeeded and achieved his goal, at the cost of my beloved little boy’s life.”

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