‘He was such a puncher I thought he’d kill me’

Redhill

A traveller who battered his second cousin to death with a plasterer’s whisk told a court he feared for his life after seeing the gypsy’s high score on an arcade punching machine. Simon Baker, 22, claims he lashed out in self-defence after seeing Facebook posts of Quhey Saunders, 20, posing next to the ‘test your strength’ machine with a score of 950. Baker and his cousin Mikey Coyle, 21, had been out on the road looking for roofing work when…

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