{"id":293,"date":"2026-04-30T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/two-men-who-coerced-girls-into-twisted-self-harm-have-sentences-nearly-doubled\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:37:17","slug":"two-men-who-coerced-girls-into-twisted-self-harm-have-sentences-nearly-doubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/two-men-who-coerced-girls-into-twisted-self-harm-have-sentences-nearly-doubled\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men who coerced girls into twisted self-harm have sentences nearly doubled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_5f510e\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh, both now 24, encouraged two vulnerable teenage girls to carve names onto themselves as they wanted them to be &#8216;scarred for life&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX ImageEmbed_image-lead__Ti3qQ\" data-testid=\"leadimage\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37093689\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Charlie Johnson\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_JS390375752a.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\" Charlie Johnson had his sentence increased\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\"> Charlie Johnson had his sentence increased<cite aria-label=\"Image: Metropolitan Police\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: Metropolitan Police)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Two men who coerced vulnerable teenage girls to carve names onto themselves causing serious self-harm have had their sentences almost doubled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh, both now 24, encouraged the victims as they wanted them to be \u201cscarred for life\u201d, before sharing images of those acts in an online chatroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Johnson was <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/prisons\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">jailed<\/a> for four years in December, with his case marking the first time a jury convicted a defendant of assisting or encouraging serious self-harm under the 2023 Online Safety Act. Singh, who admitted the offence, was sentenced alongside him to two years and nine months behind bars.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"image-group\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX false\" data-testid=\"imageembed-37093693\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37093693\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Singh\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1_JS390375752b.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"Prince Singh has now been sentenced to five years jail\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Prince Singh has now been sentenced to five years jail<cite aria-label=\"Image: Metropolitan Police\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: Metropolitan Police)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<p><span data-testid=\"readmore\" class=\"ReadMore_readmore-prefix__xS44r __className_0548ba\">READ MORE<!-- -->: <span class=\"ReadMore_readmore-link__eF9pN\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37092985\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/health\/high-cholesterol-symptoms-includes-smelly-37092985\" tabindex=\"0\">High cholesterol symptoms includes &#8216;smelly&#8217; warning sign<\/a><\/span><\/span><span data-testid=\"readmore\" class=\"ReadMore_readmore-prefix__xS44r __className_0548ba\">READ MORE<!-- -->: <span class=\"ReadMore_readmore-link__eF9pN\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37092527\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/keir-starmer-heckled-protestors-visit-37092527\" tabindex=\"0\">Keir Starmer heckled by protestors on visit to Golders Green to meet emergency services<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Solicitor General referred the sentences to the Court of Appeal in February, with her barristers telling a hearing on Thursday that both were \u201cunduly lenient\u201d and should be increased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a ruling, three senior judges agreed and increased Johnson\u2019s sentence to seven years, and Singh\u2019s to five years, with both men watching via video from HMP Belmarsh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Lord Justice Jeremy Baker, sitting with Mr Justice Linden and Judge Martin Edmunds KC, said the two girls were \u201cegotistically exploited\u201d by the defendants. He said: \u201cEach of the victims were vulnerable and were deliberately targeted because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Daniel Bishop, for the Solicitor General, said in written submissions that Johnson began a relationship with his first victim in December 2023, when she was aged 16 and he was 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She would send Johnson nude photographs at his request, with Johnson also physically assaulting her. Johnson then began a relationship with the second victim, who was then aged 17, in 2024, whom he also physically assaulted and encouraged to self-harm by cutting his name into her leg, which Mr Bishop said left \u201cpermanent scarring\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The first victim then later formed a relationship with Singh, who encouraged her to cut his name and \u201clogo\u201d into her leg and send him indecent images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Mr Bishop also said that both men \u201crepeatedly sent\u201d a Discord chat group indecent images of the first victim. Johnson was convicted after trial of two counts of encouraging self-harm, two of distributing indecent images of a child and three of assault by beating, having earlier admitted two counts of making an indecent image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Singh admitted seven counts of making and distributing indecent images of a child and one count of encouraging serious self-harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">At their sentencing hearing at Woolwich Crown Court, Judge Ruth Downing said the two men were drawn together by their \u201cmutual interest\u201d in encouraging \u201cschoolgirls\u201d to self-harm. She continued that the two took a \u201cdeeply unhealthy\u201d interest in encouraging women to self-harm, and that they treated their \u201cdeliberate planned acts\u201d as a \u201cgame\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But Mr Bishop said the judge \u201cerred\u201d by making the sentences for distributing indecent image offences concurrent with the sentence for encouraging self-harm, rather than consecutive, meaning the total jail terms were \u201cunduly lenient\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kwame Sekyere, for Johnson, said in court that while the \u201cstructure\u201d of the sentence was \u201csomewhat unclear\u201d, the \u201cfinal number that the judge arrived at was not unduly lenient\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Nicholas Jones, for Singh, said: \u201cWhile this was a lenient sentence, it was justifiably so.\u201d But the three appeal judges ruled that both Johnson\u2019s and Singh\u2019s sentences for distributing indecent images should be increased and made to run consecutively to their sentences for encouraging self-harm, leading to an increase in both jail terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Lord Justice Jeremy Baker said: \u201cIt was necessary to reflect the separate and distinct aspect of the offenders\u2019 criminality.\u201d He continued: \u201cThe sentence imposed on each of the offenders was outside the range of sentences the judge at first instance might reasonably have considered appropriate and are unduly lenient.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/charlie-johnson-prince-singh-prison-37093490\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh, both now 24, encouraged two vulnerable teenage girls to carve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1_Charlie-Johnson-court-case.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}