‘Church killer’ to enter plea next month

A suspected killer accused of beating a woman to death as she lay in her sleeping bag at a church entrance will enter a plea next month. Kieran Rifat, 22, is said to have brutally assaulted Kelly Stewart in the grounds of the Memorial Community Church, in Barking Road, Plaistow, east London, on March 26. Emergency services attended and declared Kelly, 41, dead at the scene. Judge Nigel Lickley, QC, said: ‘This is an allegation concerning the murder of a…