Two teenage girls who smiled and filmed themselves singing after battering a customer to death with a gin bottle and a car bonnet were given jail sentences totalling less than eight years.
Anthony Marks, 51, was found wandering around Kings’ Cross station after being attacked outside the nearby closed-down McGlynn’s pub on August 10, 2024.
He had been hit with a car bonnet before being chased down, stamped on and beaten with a gin bottle in a vicious county lines retribution attack.
He was taken to the hospital with a bleed on the brain, where it was discovered he was due to be arrested for breaching his license after being released from prison.
He was taken back to prison but died on September 14, 2024, after being returned to the hospital following a seizure.
County Lines drug dealers Eymaiyah-Lee Bradshaw McKoy and Mia Campos-Jorge, then both 17 but now 18, denied his murder but were convicted of manslaughter.
The killers posed for selfies together and laughed about what they had done.
The girls had even made a chilling video, in the back of a car fitted with false number plates, showing them laughing and singing.
Jaidee Bingham, 18, is heard saying: ‘We messed up a man today.’
Police found damning photos in Bradshaw McKoy’s Snapchat account.
One message said: ‘Loyalty will never be questioned, it’s really no joke we get in these fields together bro, if one swings the other swings, no violation is ever taken lightly!’
Bingham, known as ‘Ghost’, denied but was convicted of murder after 44 hours and 47 minutes of jury deliberation.
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She’s been jailed with a minimum term of 16 years.
Bradshaw McKoy was jailed for three years and 11 months while Campos-Jorge was jailed for three years and six months.
Detective Inspector Jim Barry said: ‘This is a particularly callous murder that gives an insight into the ruthless brutality of county lines gangs.
‘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 line that has brought fear and intimidation to London’s streets.
‘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 officers were able to use these to place them at the scene of the crime.
‘This verdict shows how the Met is taking the fight to criminal gangs and is committed to getting justice for their victims.’
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