Three teenagers who took selfies following the brutal killing of a homeless man close to London’s King’s Cross station have been locked up.
Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, hunted down and savagely attacked Anthony Marks, 51, on August 10, 2024. Mr Marks sustained a severe head injury causing brain bleeding, from which he died five weeks later.
Images from that evening showed the grinning teens, then aged 16 and 17, both before and after they carried out the fatal assault. Drug dealer Bingham, nicknamed Ghost, inflicted the deadly blow by smashing Mr Marks over the head twice with a glass bottle after he had collapsed to the pavement.
CCTV audio captured male and female voices screaming: “Hit him again. Kick kicking. Do it again. Have you learned your lesson yet?”.
As they fled in a motor with fake registration plates, the youths were captured on video footage in celebratory spirits with Bingham declaring: “We messed up a man today.”
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The brutal attack was described as a “punishment” battering after one of the young women, who operated as drug runners, was viciously mugged.
Officers reconstructed the events and identified the accused through CCTV material and mobile phone analysis.
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On Monday, Bingham, from Dagenham, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 16 years after a jury convicted him of murder. Bradshaw-McKoy, hailing from Brixton, was sentenced to 47 months behind bars, while Campos-Jorge, from Tottenham, received a 42-month custodial sentence after being found guilty of manslaughter.
During the sentencing at the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Dennis KC stated that Bingham had escalated the confrontation by grabbing the bottle and using it with “severe violence”.
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The court had previously been told how King’s Cross station staff alerted emergency services after discovering Mr Marks staggering near the main concourse, blood dripping from his head, just before 6am.
Paramedics found him in a “critical condition” upon arrival and rushed him to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.
A CT scan revealed bleeding on his brain as a result of the assault, compounded by a pre-existing injury, the court was informed.
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In a police interview, Mr Marks recounted being attacked outside the shuttered McGlynn’s pub during a dispute with the dealer known as Ghost over stolen crack cocaine.
He relayed to officers: “I met my local drug dealer, his name’s Ghost, he has a complaint. He’s complained that one of the smokers had taken some drugs off one of the subsidiary girls and had run away with it.
“I told him basically it’s got nothing to do with me, but he claims that I know who the people were. I said, yeah, I know who they were, but I never took nothing off them.”
He claimed that Ghost and the two women had pursued him towards the pub where he was trampled on and struck.
Upon his discharge from hospital, Mr Marks was moved to prison on August 13, 2024 for violating the terms of his licence following an earlier release.
While in custody, he reported headaches and slurred speech, but no further brain scan was ordered, the court heard.
On August 29, 2024, prison staff were summoned to his cell after he suffered a seizure, according to the jury.
Emergency surgery was performed at King’s College Hospital, where he passed away on September 14, 2024, due to a brain haemorrhage resulting from the violent assault a month prior.
Prosecutor Hugh Davies KC acknowledged that there were “some missed opportunities” for medical intervention, but emphasised that Mr Marks would not have died if he hadn’t been assaulted initially.
Following the convictions of the young offenders, Detective Inspector Jim Barry, from Scotland Yard, described it as a “callous murder” that exposed the “ruthless brutality of county lines gangs”.
He stated: “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.”