Accused of murdering this man in hammer attack

An alleged killer accused of beating a gay man to death with a hammer in a cemetery will stand trial in March next year. Erik Feld, 37, allegedly left 51-year-old Ranjith Kankanamalage with ‘catastrophic’ head injuries in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, east London. Mr Kankanamalage, a Sri Lankan national, was found by a passer-by on 15 August last year. A post-mortem examination found he died from blunt impact injuries to the head. The imprint of a hammer head was found…