A stalker who set fire to a woman’s kitchen and a sex offender who targeted two children are among those jailed in Suffolk this week.
1. Kim Basu
Kim Basu, 45, formerly of Springfield Road, Chelmsford, was jailed for 16 months after breaching court orders designed to prevent him from approaching lone women on public transport.
Basu boarded a train from Norwich to London Liverpool Street without a ticket while drinking vodka and approached a lone woman, speaking to her for more than half an hour and commenting on her gym attire.
When he got off the train at Ipswich, Basu kissed the woman on the cheek.
Ipswich Crown Court heard Basu had recently been released from prison after being recalled for sexual assault and had previously been convicted of assisting in managing a brothel.
He admitted five breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and three breaches of a Criminal Behaviour Order.
A probation report said Basu was “not manageable” in the community, and he was sentenced to 16 months in prison.
2. Samuel Creed
Samuel Creed, 26, of Ipswich, was jailed for 12 months after targeting two children in Sudbury and involving them in his sexual interest in feet and footwear.
Ipswich Crown Court heard Creed approached two girls in Sudbury town centre and followed them while asking questions about feet and footwear.
He asked one girl to remove her shoe before sniffing her foot and later obtained both girls’ phone numbers and sent them sexual messages.
Creed was sentenced for two counts of sexual communication with a child, two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, burglary and breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
The court heard he had 40 previous convictions for 85 offences, including six sexual offences.
He was sentenced to 12 months in custody followed by a three-year extended licence period and ordered to pay £228 compensation to the victim of the burglary.
3. Robson O’Donnell
Robson O’Donnell, 26, of Dukes Meadow, Beccles, was jailed for six years following a week-long campaign of stalking and property damage against a woman.
O’Donnell damaged a mirror and window at the woman’s home in Beccles before setting fire to her kitchen three days later.
On the same day, he damaged the woman’s Fiat 500 and intentionally shared intimate photographs of her without her consent.
O’Donnell also assaulted a police officer in Beccles and continued contacting the woman from a withheld number after being released on bail.
He was sentenced for arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered, stalking involving serious alarm or distress, two counts of criminal damage, sharing an intimate photograph without consent and assaulting an emergency worker.
O’Donnell was sentenced to six years for the arson offence, with the sentences for his other offences ordered to run concurrently.
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