Three teenage drug runners who posed for smiling selfies before and after beating a homeless man to death have been jailed for a total of more than 23 years.
The gang, who can now be named after turning 18, carried out a savage county lines retribution attack on Anthony Marks, 51, who later died from his injuries.
Mr Marks was found by police with serious injuries to his head and arms at King’s Cross Station at around 5.25am on August 10 2024. He died in hospital more than a month later, on September 14 2024.
Photos and videos taken on the night of the killing showed the teenagers posing for selfies and laughing together, images that were later used by detectives to place them at the scene.
Jaidee Bingham, 18, known as ‘Ghost’, of Dagenham, was unanimously found guilty of murder. He was jailed for 16 years.
Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, and Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, were found guilty of manslaughter by a majority verdict at the Old Bailey on October 30 2025.
Bradshow-McKoy was jailed for three years and 11 months, while Campos-Jorge has been sentenced to three years and six months behind bars.
Bingham and Bradshaw-McKoy were 16 years old when they killed the victim, while Campos-Jorge was 17.
The court heard how Mr Marks was first struck with a car bumper before being chased down, stamped on and beaten with a gin bottle in a brutal and sustained attack.
During the attack, Mr Marks was repeatedly kicked and struck over the head with a glass bottle. The trio only fled when a member of the public intervened, chasing them away with a cricket bat.
Mr Marks later stumbled into King’s Cross Station seeking help, where he was found by police covered in blood.
A picture found on the phone of Bradshaw-McKoy showed her with Bingham at an apartment near the scene of the crime
Bingham, aged 16 at the time of the attack and known as ‘Ghost’, was found guilty of murder
Two teen girls – Bradshaw-McKoy (left) and Campos-Jorge (right) – were also convicted and sentenced
Mr Marks, 51, was hit with a car bonnet then chased down, stamped on and beaten with a gin bottle before he was left for dead
The court was told the three began working for a county lines drug gang on the evening of August 9 2024.
After one of the girls was robbed, Bingham was tasked with finding out who had taken the drugs. The group believed Mr Marks knew what had happened and confronted him at around 5am on August 10.
Met detectives pieced together the case by tracking the trio across CCTV footage, identifying them across London and using forensic analysis of their mobile phones to reconstruct the events of the night.
Judge Mark Dennis, KC, said: ‘The deceased was involved in what started as a minor altercation which then developed into an exchange of blows and unlawful assault and a chase as he endeavoured to run away.
‘Having fallen to the ground he was subjected to kicks and then struck at least twice to the head with a glass bottle.
‘He had a longstanding addiction to Class A drugs and would regularly purchase his drugs from an established drugs line which operated in the King’s Cross area.
‘The victim was a vulnerable individual who was outnumbered in the assault and repeatedly struck both when on the floor and when trying to run away.’
Mr Marks told police he was ‘messing around with his crack pipe’ near some bins when ‘Ghost’ told him that ‘one of the smokers had taken some drugs from one of the girls and run away with it.’
He said ‘Ghost’ started making threatening gestures and hit him fives times with the car bonnet and knocked out his tooth.
Mr Marks added: ‘He and the two girls then chased me down the road towards the pub.
‘A white guy who I’ve seen, who is a smoker like us. He grabs me I fall to the floor. They proceed to stamp on me and hit me with a green gin bottle. I pass out.’
Detective Inspector Jim Barry, of the Met’s Specialist Crime North, who led the investigation, 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.’
Messages between the gang, found on their phones appeared to reference the incident
The teenagers shared photos on social media before and after brutally killing Anthony Marks
Following an altercation, Mr Marks was chased from Argyle Street to Whidbourne Street by Bingham and Bradshaw-McKoy. CCTV footage showed Bradshaw-McKoy wielding a long object believed to be a car bumper.
Officers were able to speak to him before his death and used CCTV to build a detailed timeline of the assault.
In the days that followed, police arrested the teenagers at addresses across south, north and east London, seizing their mobile phones.
Images and videos recovered from the devices showed them together at an apartment near the scene, with messages appearing to reference the attack.
Further CCTV footage tracked them back from the crime scene to the apartment, forming a key part of the prosecution case.
Bingham was arrested on Friday, October 4, 2024 and charged with murder on Sunday, October 6.
Bradshaw-McKoy was arrested on Thursday, November 28, 2024 and charged on Monday, November 29.
Campos-Jorge was arrested and charged with murder on Monday, December 9, 2024.
The three have now been sentenced to a combined total of more than 23 years behind bars for their roles in the killing.
