Three teenage drug runners who posed for selfies after killing a homeless man near London King’s Cross station have been jailed. Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, chased Anthony Marks, hit him with a car bonnet and stamped on him, before beating the 51-year-old with a gin bottle in a vicious county lines retribution attack.
Mr Marks suffered a head injury and died of a bleed on the brain five weeks later. Photographs and video from the night featured the laughing teenagers, then aged 16 and 17, before and after they carried out the killing. Detectives used the images to place them at the scene of the attack at around 5.25am on August 10, 2024.
Drug dealer Bingham, known as Ghost, caused the fatal injury by striking 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?” As they made off in a car with false number plates, the youths were seen on video recordings in a mood of celebration with Bingham saying: “We messed up a man today.”
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. On Monday, Bingham, from Dagenham, was locked up for life with a minimum term of 16 years after being found guilty of murder by a jury. Bradshaw-McKoy, from Brixton, was locked up for three years and 11 months, and Campos-Jorge, from Tottenham, handed three-and-a half years in custody after being convicted of manslaughter.
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 had previously heard how staff at King’s Cross station alerted emergency services after finding 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.
Following the youths’ convictions, Detective Inspector Jim Barry, of the Metropolitan Police, said it was a “callous murder” that shed light on the “ruthless brutality of county lines gangs”.
