A man accused of murdering a doctor during a mugging near Buckingham Palace was bullied as a child for being the face of Angel Delight, a court heard today.And so what?
Tom Connor, 20, allegedly battered Dr Nadim Gulamhuseinwala with a cast iron fence railing after a night out in the West End.It’s a little strange to beat a doctor to death as a result.
He described how he was 'teased and tormented' as a child when he gave evidence to an Old Bailey jury.
Connor said pupils discovered he had done photographic modelling - including being the face of the instant desert - when he started secondary school.
Was he taunting this poor soul with some whipped reconstituted dessert?
Did he resemble the man’s nemesis, the long-ago photographer who took the soul-scarring images?
Well, no. None of those things. The poor guy was minding his own business when he happened to cross the path of these two charmers:
Connor had been out with his friend William Paton - who is jointly charged with Dr Gulamhuseinwala's murder - in a bar in Bromley on July 25, the night of the attack.So, the Angel Delight gig is in the clear – it was the drugs and the booze and the sexual frustration wot did it…
He had bought 1g of cocaine for £40 and the pair had then caught an N47 night bus to London. They carried on drinking at the Strawberry Moons club until 3am and then wandered into Soho.
Connor told the jury he had been approached by a woman in the street and offered prostitutes. He claimed she had taken £105 without providing any sexual services.
It was this 'robbery' that made him go 'mental' and attack Dr Gulamhuseinwal after he saw him walking through Green Park.
'As he leaned over while on his phone I struck him down, he's got up, looked at me and as I have swung the pole he looked up so I let go of the pole.Good to know…
'It's just hit him square on the head. It hit his left cheek first and he's gone down. I saw his eyes were open, I thought he was looking at me so I got scared.
'I stamped on his head a couple of times. Then I realised what I was doing. It's not normally I do that.'
Dr Gulamhuseinwala, who worked as an associate at McKinsey's in Jermyn Street, died after suffering multiple skull fractures and brain damage.And will probably get away with that, too.
Connor, of Orpington, Kent; and Paton, also from Orpington, both deny murder and robbery.
And so another hard-working useful member of society has his life needlessly snuffed out by two people who, if there was any justice, would swing.
Perhaps we could collect all the people who were bullied as a child, and let them loose on Mr Connor? (cast iron railings supplied)
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there's a really funny joke in there somewhere but the whole thing is so depressing.
ReplyDeleteClearly anyone who was bullied as a child becomes uncontrollably violent and should be locked up for the rest of their lives.
ReplyDelete(It'd cut down on these pathetic excuses, anyway.)
I am and always have been anti-capital punishment... but its incidents like these that test my conviction (excuse the unfortunate pun).
ReplyDeleteI simply cannot imagine what goes through the minds of these people to make them believe that killing an innocent person is profitable, is in any way a good thing to do or will not lead them to serving time in prison?
What the hell are they teaching kids these days?
The face of Angel delight:
ReplyDeleteTom Connor
Not that it makes any difference, its what he did as an adult that matters.
John - what they are being taught is there are no consequences for their actions, that the rules only apply to mugs like us. So they get progressively worse until finally they do something like we see in this story and they are unlucky enough to be caught...
ReplyDeleteIf these two walk, I fear that the Milky Bar Kid will feel free to run amok with a chainsaw.
ReplyDeleteI was a bit sensitive about not having been bullied at school. Nobody seemed to care enough. Do you think I'm ripe to do a murder?
ReplyDeleteThe problem is in not having capital punishment, the problem is in not being able to defend yourself.
ReplyDeleteThe right to be armed in this situation would have saved the Doctors life, and rid the world of at least one parasite.
A straightforward robbery case. Ended in murder.
ReplyDeleteHe will probably get a caution.
"Perhaps we could collect all the people who were bullied as a child, and let them loose on Mr Connor? "
ReplyDeleteNow there's a plan!
"I'm sure there's a really funny joke in there somewhere but the whole thing is so depressing."
Indeed. You can almost fill in the story yourself from all the others you've read, can't you?
"I simply cannot imagine what goes through the minds of these people..."
It ought to be about two ounces of lead, at really high speed...
"...what they are being taught is there are no consequences for their actions, that the rules only apply to mugs like us."
Exactly! This won't have been the first time they went out on the lash and mugged someone, I'll be bound.
"The right to be armed in this situation would have saved the Doctors life..."
ReplyDeleteExcept it appears they took him by surprise.
Julia M at 05:30 in reply to me The right to be armed,,In your report, "As he leaned over while on his phone I struck him down, he's got up, looked at me and as I,,,,"
ReplyDeleteAt that point the victim could have (in a free country) defended himself with a pistol, pepper spray, taser, anything, alas current (UK) law gives us the right only to be victims of crime, a cople of shots to this cretin's chest would ensure he wold not commit any more crime, not spread his D.N.A. and cost the state no more money, instead a good Doctor has died, a contributor to society, has been replaced by a parasite costing a fortune.
S.B.S.
Like John Pickworth I've got an absolute objection to capital punishment, although on the purely pragmatic grounds that during the last 20 years at least a dozen completely innocent citizens would have been executed. I'm simply not going to sign up for anything with a clause in the small print which says the state can kill me or mine by mistake.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm morally flexible enough to suggest that people who unambiguously commit these crimes need therapy and should be put on a decent yacht and sailed close to the Somali coast. Of course, there is a risk that pirates might grab them, steal the boat and issue a ransom note, in which case we can put up a 'donate' button on a website, carry out negotiations which might last for years, and in the meantime the Somalis will have the cost of keeping them which they can do at very competitive rates compared to prisons here. A yacht goes a long way in Somali money.
So the guys get 'robbed' by some woman posing as a prostitute, and with this rage fueling their cocaine and alcohol induced trance, decide to 'get their money back' by kicking the living daylights out of an innocent man and stealing his money. Now they 'feel bad' and 'wish he were still alive'. What amazes me is that they felt so bad at what they had done, they went straight to a brothel and paid for prostitutes just to get over their anguish. Does not click. These guys are parasites of society that deserve to be locked away...forever.
ReplyDeleteI knew Tom Connor, from when he was a little boy, we were great friends and he was a genuinely, nice, kind boy with lots of hopes and aspirations. He got into drugs and the wrong crowd and that's what made him change. Cocain is a very powerful drug and can do lots of damage. And yes he is paying for it. He didn't get away with it and nore did the other boy. They both have been given life sentences.
ReplyDelete"He didn't get away with it and nore did the other boy. They both have been given life sentences."
ReplyDeleteAnd we all know, 'life mean life' now, right?
*rolls eyes*