Accused Easter Sunday knifeman in court

An alleged knifeman accused of stabbing a former student to death on Easter Sunday has appeared at the Old Bailey. Botton, 24, is said to have murdered 20-year-old Devoy Stapleton who was making his way home from a night out in Wandsworth shortly after 1am on 1 April. Police and paramedics rushed to Ellerton Road, in Earlsfield, but Mr Stapleton was pronounced dead an hour after the attack just a street away from his home. Mr Stapleton became London’s twelfth…