Serial West London attacker convicted

News | Tue 4th Jul, 2017

Following a two week trial at Isleworth Crown Court, Philip Ogun, who attacked 8 different females on 3 separate days in and around the Shepherds Bush and Ravenscourt Park areas of West London was convicted on Friday 30^th June 2017 of 20 counts (including knifepoint robbery, threatening another with a knife, Causing another to engage in sexual activity, and child abduction). On 23^rd December 2016 he stole from a female within the female toilets at McDonalds in Shepherds Bush and thereafter brandished a knife.  Hours later on the same day he attacked a lone female within the female toilets at the Hilton Hotel on Holland Park Avenue. On 12^th January 2017 he attacked again at the Hilton Hotel within the same female toilets followed by a series of serious attacks upon females on the streets around Ravenscourt Park on 17^th January 2017 between 06:45 and 07:40.

Philip Ogun will be sentenced on 8^th September 2017.

James Thacker successfully prosecuted the case on behalf of CPS London (North).