Three teenagers who posed for selfies after killing a homeless man near London’s King’s Cross station have been jailed.
Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, chased and beat up Anthony Marks, 51, on 10 August 2024.
Mr Marks suffered a head injury with bleeding on the brain, which he died from five weeks later.
Photographs from the night of the attack showed the laughing teenagers, then aged 16 and 17, before and after they carried out the killing.
Drug dealer Bingham, known as Ghost, caused the fatal injury by hitting Mr Marks over the head twice with a glass bottle after he had fallen to the ground.
Audio from a CCTV camera picked up male and female voices shouting: “Hit him again. Kick kicking. Do it again. Have you learned your lesson yet?”
Video recordings, shot as the teenagers left the scene in a car with false number plates, showed the group in a celebratory mood, with one saying: “We messed up a man today.”
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The assault was said to have been a “punishment” beating after one of the young women, who worked as drug runners, was violently robbed.
Police pieced together events and identified the defendants from CCTV footage and analysis of mobile phones.
Bingham, from Dagenham, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years after being found guilty of murder by a jury.
Bradshaw-McKoy, from Brixton, and Campos-Jorge, from Tottenham, were jailed for 47 months and 42 months respectively, after being convicted of manslaughter.
During sentencing at the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Dennis KC said Bingham had “elevated” the confrontation by picking up the bottle and using it with “severe violence”.
The court previously heard how staff at King’s Cross station alerted emergency services after they found Mr Marks stumbling near the main concourse 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, where a CT scan showed bleeding on his brain caused by the attack, on top of a pre-existing injury, the court heard.
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In a police interview, Mr Marks told officers he had he met his local drug dealer, Bingham, who “complained” that someone “had taken some drugs off one of the subsidiary girls and had run away with it”.
Mr Marks said he told Bingham the situation had “nothing to do with me”, adding: “I never took nothing off them.”
He said Bingham and the two women chased him towards a pub where he was stamped on and hit.
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On being discharged from hospital, Mr Marks was transferred to prison on 13 August 2024 for breaching his licence after an earlier release.
Prison staff were called to his cell after he had a seizure on 29 August 2024, the jury heard.
He underwent emergency surgery at King’s College Hospital, where he died on 14 September 2024 from bleeding on the brain caused by the violent attack a month before.
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Prosecutor Hugh Davies KC had said there were “missed opportunities” for medical intervention, but Mr Marks would not have died if he had not been assaulted in the first place.
The Ministry of Justice has been contacted for comment.
