August trial for man accused of murdering Islington’s ‘Flower Man’

An alleged killer accused of stabbing a popular florist to death will stand trial in August. James Peppiatt, 22, allegedly murdered 55-year-old Tony Eastlake, known as the ‘Flower Man of Islington’ by customers, in Essex Road, Islington, on 29 May 2021. Mr Eastlake was stabbed in the lower back shortly after finishing work. He collapsed and died in the street. The victim had been in a relationship with Peppiatt’s mother, Alicia Callaghan, who took her own life weeks earlier, the…