20 years for the killer of ‘The Flower Man of Islington’

A killer who stabbed a popular florist to death after he blamed him for his mother’s suicide has been jailed for 20 years. James Peppiatt, 23, murdered 55-year-old Tony Eastlake, known as the ‘Flower Man of Islington’ by customers, in Essex Road, Islington, on 29 May 2021. He stabbed Mr Eastlake in the lower back shortly after he finished work at his stall nearby and the victim collapsed and died in the street. The florist, who separated from his wife…