Laughing teenagers pose for selfies after killing a homeless man

Three laughing teenagers take a selfie after killing a homeless man near London’s King’s Cross station.

Anthony Marks, 51, was hit by the bonnet of a car on 10 August 2024 before being chased by 18-year-old Amya Lee Bradshaw-McCoy, 19-year-old Mia Campos-George and 18-year-old Jadie Bingham.

Mr Marks suffered head injuries and a brain bleed from which he died five weeks later.

Photographs from the night showed teenage girls aged 16 and 17 laughing before and after the murder.

Courtesy: Metropolitan Police

Drug dealer Bingham, known as Ghost, fatally struck Mr Marks twice on the head with a glass bottle after he fell to the ground.

CCTV camera audio recorded male and female voices shouting: “Hit him again. Kick kick. Do it again. Have you learned your lesson yet?”

The youngsters were seen in a video recording with Bingham in a celebratory mood as they got into a car with fake number plates, saying: “We messed one up today.”

The attack was said to be a “punishment” beating after a young woman, who worked as a drug dealer, was violently robbed.

The police identified the accused through analysis of CCTV footage and mobile phones after piecing together the events.

On Monday, Bingham, of Dagenham, east London, was jailed for a minimum of 16 years after a jury found him guilty of murder.

Bradshaw-McCoy, of Brixton, south London, was sentenced to 47 months and Campos-George, of Tottenham, north London, was handed 42 months in custody after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

Sentencing at the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Denis Casey said Bingham had picked up the bottle and used it with “serious violence” to “escalate” the confrontation.

The court previously heard how staff at Kings Cross alerted the emergency services after noticing Mr Marks bleeding from the head, just before 6am.

He was in a “critical condition” when paramedics arrived and took him to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.

A CT scan showed he had bleeding on the brain as a result of the attack, in addition to a pre-existing injury, the court heard.

In a police interview, Mr Marks described the attack outside a closed McGlynn’s pub, following a row with dealer Ghost over stolen crack cocaine.

He told officers: “I met my local drug dealer, his name is Ghost, he complained. He complained that one of the smokers took some drugs from one of the assistant girls and ran off with it.

“I basically told him it was nothing to do with me, but he claims I know who those people were. I said, yes, I know who they were, but I never fired them.”

He said the ghost and two women chased him towards a pub where he was stabbed and beaten.

After being released from the hospital, Mr. Marks was transferred to prison on August 13, 2024 for violating his license after being released earlier.

In custody, he complained of headaches and slurred speech, but was not referred for another brain scan, the court was told.

On August 29, prison staff were called to his cell after he was attacked, the jury heard.

He underwent emergency surgery at King’s College Hospital, where he died on September 14 of a brain haemorrhage following a violent attack a month earlier.

Hugh Davies Casey, prosecuting, said there were “some missed opportunities” for medical intervention, but that Mr Marks would not have died had he not been attacked in the first place.

After the youths’ conviction, Det Insp Jim Barry of Scotland Yard said it was a “brutal murder” that highlighted the “ruthless brutality of County Line gangs”.

He said: “The ages of Bingham, Bradshaw-McCoy and Campos-George are particularly shocking. But the fact that they were teenagers does not excuse their violent acts as part of a drug ring that brought fear and terror to the streets of London.

“They believed they had escaped justice, even while taking selfies together and laughing about what they had done. There is a sense of justice that the authorities were able to use to place them at the scene of the crime.”