Three teenagers who posed for selfies after fatally assaulting a homeless man near King’s Cross station in London have been sentenced.
Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, attacked Anthony Marks, 51, on 10 August 2024. Marks suffered a severe head injury, including bleeding on the brain, and died five weeks later.
Photographs from the night of the attack showed the teenagers, then aged 16 and 17, laughing both before and after the assault.
Bingham, a known drug dealer nicknamed “Ghost”, inflicted the fatal injury by striking Marks twice over the head with a glass bottle after he had fallen to the ground. CCTV audio captured voices shouting, “Hit him again. Kick kicking. Do it again. Have you learned your lesson yet?” Video recordings of the group leaving the scene in a car with false number plates showed them celebrating, with one saying: “We messed up a man today.”
The assault reportedly stemmed from a “punishment” attack following the violent robbery of one of the young women, who worked as drug runners. Police later pieced together the events using CCTV footage and mobile phone analysis.
Sentencing Details
Bingham, from Dagenham, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 16 years after being convicted of murder.
Bradshaw-McKoy, from Brixton, and Campos-Jorge, from Tottenham, were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 47 months and 42 months, respectively.
During sentencing at the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Dennis KC noted that Bingham had “elevated” the confrontation by using the bottle with “severe violence.”
The Attack and Aftermath
King’s Cross station staff alerted emergency services shortly before 6 a.m. after finding Marks stumbling near the main concourse with blood dripping from his head. He was taken to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, where a CT scan revealed bleeding on the brain, compounded by a pre-existing injury.
Marks later told police he had met Bingham, who complained that someone “had taken some drugs off one of the subsidiary girls and had run away with it.” Marks said he had no involvement: “I never took nothing off them.” He was then chased towards a nearby pub, where he was stamped on and struck by Bingham and the two women.
After his discharge from the hospital, Marks was transferred to prison on 13 August 2024 for breaching his licence. While in custody, he experienced headaches and slurred speech but was not referred for further scans. He suffered a seizure on 29 August and was taken to King’s College Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery but ultimately died on 14 September 2024 from bleeding on the brain caused by the assault.
Prosecutor Hugh Davies KC acknowledged that there were “missed opportunities” for medical intervention, but emphasized that Marks would not have died if not for the attack.
The Ministry of Justice has been contacted for comment.
