‘Robber murdered shopkeeper’

An accused killer has denied the murder of a shopkeeper during a three-week crime spree. Alex Gunn, 31, is accused of stabbing 54-year-old Ravi Katharkamar to death during a robbery as he opened the Marsh Food and Wine in Pinner, northwest London, on 24 March. Mr Katharkamar, a father-of-two, was found collapsed inside the shop he co-owned suffering from knife injuries and police were called at around 6am that morning. Despite the efforts of paramedics, he was pronounced dead at…