May was the month that four schools were forced to close as three children from the same family became Wandsworth’s first confirmed swine flu victims.
The children responded well to anti-viral drugs, but worried parents across the borough were on red alert as the number of those infected with the virus grew.
Governors at Dolphin School, in Northcote Road, Battersea, took the decision to close its doors after it was revealed two of the siblings affected were pupils.
We also revealed how a violent teenage gang from Tooting responsible for more than 100 muggings were sentenced to detention.
G-Block beat up and robbed the woman during their five-month robbing spree in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth during 2007.
The boys met during Saturday morning football sessions on Tooting Bec Common, an activity ironically aimed at keeping youngsters out of trouble.
The police source said: “Lone women walking at night would be seen as a more attractive target. They were seen to be easy prey.”
And a Brazilian man who killed and dismembered 17-year-old Cara Burke from Southfields was also jailed.
Mohamed D’Ali Carvalho Santos, 21, was jailed for 21 years but Brazilian law states he is likely to be released on parole after serving just over a third of the term.
Two years were also taken off the provisional sentence of 23 years because he was under 21 at the time of the crime and did not have a criminal record.
The defendent admitted stabbing the teenager to death in July 2008 after they argued about his heavy drug use.
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