A 2O-YEAR-OLD BRIGHTON MAN WHO MURDERED A 5O-YEAR-

A 2O-YEAR-OLD BRIGHTON MAN WHO MURDERED A 5O-YEAR-OLD TRAMP
IN HOVE ON MONDAY HAD HIS APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL AGAINST
CONVICTION DISMISSED BY THE CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT IN LONDON.

THE COURT HAD BEEN ASKED TO ADMIT EVIDENCE BY TWO WITNESSES
WHO HAD NOT BEEN CALLED AT THE LEWES CROWN COURT TRIAL IN MARCH OF
MICHAEL DAVID GILBERT OF PRESTON DRIVE.

BUT THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, LORD LANE, DECLARED THAT THE
WITNESSES — CHRISTOPHER FITGZGERALD AND ROBIN RICHINGS — WERE ‘NOT
WORTHY OF BELIEF’.

LORD LANE SAID THE MURDER OCCURRED EARLY ON FEBRUARY 24,
1984.

HE SAID GILBERT AND A GIRL CALLED KAREN STEELE WERE
PASSENGERS IN A CAR DRIVEN BY ADRIAN BAKER AFTER THEY HAD LEFT A
DISCOTHEQUE.

‘JUST OUTSIDE OR IN THE ENVIRONS OF HOVE, GILBERT WANTED TO
RELIEVE HIMSELF AND ASKED BAKER TO STOP NEAR THE DYKE ROAD CAFE’,

SAID LORD LANE.

‘BAKER NOTICED MOVEMENT IN AN ALCOVE, WALKED OVER, AND SAW
GILBERT HITTING A MAN WHO TURNED OUT TO BE GEOFFREY BAKER, A TRAMP
AGED ABOUT 5O.

‘HE SAW GILBERT STAMPING ON THE HEAD OF THE RECUMBENT TRAMP.

BOTH RAN BACK TO THE CAR.

‘THE TRAMP HAD MULTIPLE HEAD INJURIES AND BRAIN DAMAGE AND
DIED THROUGH SHOCK AND INHALATION OF BLOOD’, LORD LANE ADDED.

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