Car burners ‘wanted to destroy murder evidence’

Three men set fire to a stolen Nissan Micra used in a murder to destroy DNA evidence linking it to the killers, a court heard. Malachi Brooks, 21, was knifed in the street just 250 yards from Prince George’s school, St Thomas’s in Battersea, southwest London. The Micra was used to take the killers to the scene and Joel Preddie, 20, together with Abdul Popatpotra, 26 set the car ablaze after it was dumped at the Weir Road industrial estate…