The attackers posed for selfies after the attack on a homeless man – Met Police/Central News
Three teenagers laughed as they posed for selfies after killing a homeless man near London’s King’s Cross station.
Anthony Marks, 51, was hit with a car bonnet before being chased, stamped on and beaten with a gin bottle by Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, on 10 August 2024.
Mr Marks suffered head injuries with brain haemorrhage from which he died five weeks later.
Photographs of the night showed the teenagers laughing, who were then 16 and 17 years old, before and after they committed the murder.
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Drug dealer Bingham, known as Ghost, inflicted the fatal wound by hitting Mr Marks on the head twice with a glass bottle after he had fallen to the ground.
Audio from a CCTV camera captured male and female voices shouting: “Kick again. Do it again. Have you learned your lesson yet?”
Eymaiyah-Lee Bradshaw McKoy sentenced to 47 months for manslaughter – Met Police/Central News
As they left in a car with fake number plates, the youngsters were seen on video recordings in a celebratory mood with Bingham saying: “He left a man today.”
It was said that the attack was a “punishment” beating after one of the young women, who worked as a drug pusher, was violently robbed.
The police pieced together the events and identified the accused from CCTV footage and mobile phone analysis.
On Monday, Bingham, from Dagenham, east London, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years after being found guilty by a jury of murder.
Mia Campos-Jorge was locked up for 42 months – Met Police/Central News
Bradshaw-McKoy, from Brixton, south London, was sentenced to 47 months and Campos-Jorge, from Tottenham, north London, was jailed for 42 months after being found guilty of manslaughter.
Sentencing at the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Dennis KC said Bingham “escalated” the confrontation by picking up the bottle and using it with “severe violence”.
The Court had previously heard how King’s Cross staff alerted the emergency services after finding Mr Marks stumbling near the main part, with blood dripping from his head, shortly before 6am.
He was in a “critical condition” when paramedics arrived and took him to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.
A CT scan showed bleeding in his brain caused by the attack, in addition to a pre-existing wound, the Court heard.
Jaidee Bingham was a drug dealer known as ‘Ghost’ – Met Police/Central News
In a police interview, Mr Marks described being assaulted outside the closed pub McGlynn’s, during a row with the dealer Ghost over stolen crack cocaine.
He told the officers: “I met my local drug dealer, called Ghost, he has a complaint. He complained that one of the smokers had taken some drugs from one of the subsidiary girls and ran away with it.
“I told him basically that it has nothing to do with me, but he claims that I know who the people were. I said, yes, I know who they were, but I never took anything from them.”
Anthony Marks was found in a ‘critical condition’ by staff at King’s Cross. He later died – Met Police/Central News
He said that Ghost and the two women had taken him out to the pub where he was stamped on and beaten.
On his release from hospital, Mr Marks was transferred to prison on 13 August 2024 for breaching his license following an earlier release.
In custody, he complained of headaches and slurred speech, but was not referred for another brain scan, the court was told.
On August 29, prison staff were called to his cell after he had a seizure, the jury heard.
He underwent emergency surgery at King’s College Hospital, where he died on 14 September from bleeding on the brain caused by the violent attack a month earlier.
Bradshaw-McKoy and Campos-Jorge both found guilty of manslaughter – Central News/Met Police
Hugh Davies KC, prosecuting, had said there were “some missed opportunities” for medical intervention, but Mr Marks would not have died if he had not been assaulted in the first place.
After the convictions of the youths, Det Insp Jim Barry, of Scotland Yard, said it was a “called murder” which shone a light on the “ruthless brutality of the county’s gangs”.
He said: “The ages of Bingham, Bradshaw-McKoy and Campos-Jorge are particularly shocking. But the fact that they were teenagers does not excuse their violent actions as part of a drug ring that brought fear and intimidation to the streets of London.
“They believed they had escaped justice, even posing for selfies together and laughing about what they had done. There is a sense of justice that the officers could use to put them at the scene of the crime.”