Three teenage girls have been sentenced to a combined total of more than 23 years in prison for the brutal murder of a homeless man in a county lines drug gang retribution attack. The trio, who can now be named as Jaidee Bingham, Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, and Mia Campos-Jorge, were convicted at the Old Bailey on 30 October 2025 for killing 51-year-old Anthony Marks.
A Savage and Sustained Assault
The court heard how the attack unfolded in the early hours of 10 August 2024. The three teenagers, who had begun working for a county lines drug operation the previous evening, confronted Mr Marks near King's Cross Station at around 5am. They believed he had information about a robbery of their drugs.
Following an altercation, Mr Marks was chased from Argyle Street to Whidbourne Street. CCTV footage captured Bradshaw-McKoy wielding a long object, believed to be a car bumper or trim. The victim was then subjected to a sustained and vicious assault. He was stamped on, kicked, and beaten over the head with a glass gin bottle.
The attack only ceased when a member of the public intervened, chasing the girls away with a cricket bat. Seriously injured, Mr Marks stumbled into King's Cross Station seeking help, where police found him at approximately 5:25am. He was taken to hospital but succumbed to his injuries more than a month later on 14 September 2024.
Smiling Selfies and Digital Evidence
In a shocking display of callousness, the teenagers posed for smiling selfies and recorded videos together on the night of the killing. These images, later recovered from their mobile phones, showed them laughing in an apartment near the crime scene. Detectives from the Met's Specialist Crime North used this digital evidence, alongside extensive CCTV tracking across London, to place them definitively at the scene and build a timeline of events.
Detective Inspector Jim Barry, who led the investigation, stated: 'This is a particularly callous murder that gives an insight into the ruthless brutality of county lines gangs. They believed they had escaped justice, even posing for selfies together and laughing about what they had done.'
Justice Served After Complex Investigation
The meticulous police work involved forensic analysis of the girls' phones, which also contained messages appearing to reference the attack. The trio were arrested in a series of operations across London in late 2024.
- Jaidee Bingham (known as 'Ghost'), aged 16 at the time of the attack, was arrested on 4 October 2024 and charged with murder two days later.
- Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy was arrested on 28 November 2024 and charged the following day.
- Mia Campos-Jorge was arrested and charged with murder on 9 December 2024.
All three were found guilty at the Old Bailey. In his remarks, DI Barry emphasised that their young ages did not excuse their violent actions as part of a drug line that brought fear to London's streets. He added that the verdict demonstrated the Met's commitment to taking the fight to criminal gangs and securing justice for victims.
The sentences handed down total more than 23 years in prison, marking the end of a tragic case that highlights the extreme violence associated with county lines drug operations.
