Selfies and a chilling video showing three teenagers laughing and singing on the night they killed a homeless man helped police place them at the scene and secure their convictions.
Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, targeted 51-year-old Anthony Marks on August 10 last year in what police described as a vicious county lines retribution attack.
Marks was struck with a car bonnet before being chased down, stamped on, and beaten with a gin bottle, causing bleeding on the brain.
Officers found Marks with severe facial and arm injuries near King’s Cross Station at around 5.25am.
He died in hospital on September 14, five weeks after the assault.
Disturbing photos from that night show the trio — who can now be named as they are all over 18 — posing for selfies both before and after the fatal attack.
Detectives from the Met Police traced the attackers using CCTV, identifying suspects across London and linking them to a drug gang through forensic analysis of mobile phones that helped piece together the night’s events.
Jaidee Bingham, aged 16 at the time of the attack and known as ‘Ghost’, was found guilty of murder. Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, then aged 16, and Mia Campos-Jorge, then aged 17, were both convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey on Thursday.
Detective Inspector Jim Barry said: “This is a particularly callous murder that gives an insight into the ruthless brutality of county lines gangs.
“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.
“This verdict shows how the Met is taking the fight to criminal gangs and committed to getting justice for their victims.”
The court heard that Mr Marks was taken to hospital after the attack but later recalled to prison, and likely would have survived if he had received a brain scan.
However, prosecutor Hugh Davies KC told the court that the “cycle of events” leading to Mr Marks’s death would never have occurred “if he was not assaulted in the first place.”
During the trial, Mr Davies had told jurors: "Whilst there were some missed opportunities for medical intervention, the prosecution alleges that the assault and haematoma on August 10 2024 more than minimally contributed to the cause of death of Mr Marks on September 14 2024."
Judge Mark Dennis KC remanded the defendants into custody to be sentenced at a later date.
The jury was discharged after failing to reach a verdict on a fourth defendant.
Staff at King's Cross station alerted emergency services after finding Mr Marks stumbling near the main concourse, with serious facial injuries and blood dripping from his head, shortly before 6am.
He was in a "critical condition" by the time paramedics arrived and took him to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington for treatment.
A CT scan showed bleeding on his brain caused by the violent attack, on top of a pre-existing injury, the court heard.
Meanwhile, he was identified by police as subject to recall to prison for breaching his licence, after an earlier release.
In a police interview, Mr Marks described being assaulted outside the closed McGlynn's pub, during a row with a dealer about stolen crack cocaine.
He told 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 said Ghost and the two girls had chased him towards the pub where he was stamped on and hit.
Ghost was the nickname for Bingham, and the two female runners were said to be Bradshaw-McKoy and Campos-Jorge.
Mr Davies had said: "The motivation for each of Bingham, Bradshaw-McKoy and Campos-Jorge is obvious: one of these girls had been robbed and suffered violence when delivering drugs for Bingham and they held either Mr Marks responsible directly or indirectly.
"That violence, against a runner linked, they thought, to him in some way, could not go unpunished."
Mr Marks was discharged from hospital and transferred to prison last August 13.
In custody, he complained of headaches and slurred speech, but was not referred for another brain scan, the court was told.
On August 29 2024, prison staff were called to his cell after he had a seizure, the jury heard.
He was admitted to King's College Hospital and received emergency surgery to remove a blood clot.
He died last September 14 after medics made a clinical decision to withdraw care in the absence of a next of kin to consult.
The cause of death was found to be bleeding on the brain caused by the violent attack a month before.
Bradshaw-McKoy, of Brixton; Campos-Jorge, of Tottenham; and Bingham, from Dagenham, denied all the charges against them.
