Builder beat friend to death then blamed ‘a gang of black men’

A drunken Lithuanian builder who took a picture of his friend without any trousers on as he beat him to death has been jailed for 12 years. Airidas Janavicius, 38, punched carpenter Marius Lakavicius, 44, repeatedly to the head after drinking together on 23 July last year. Mr Lakavicius was found with serious injuries in Goresbrook Road, Dagenham, and pronounced dead at the scene. When he was arrested Janavicius told police he had attacked by a group of up to…