Gypsy cleared of murdering cousin with plasterer’s whisk

  A gypsy who battered his cousin to death with a plasterer’s whisk at a motorway service station was cleared of murder after insisting he was trying to resolve their blood feud. Simon Baker, 22, confronted 20-year-old Quhey Saunders after the victim had told associates he was going to give him ‘a good hiding’. The powerfully built victim got the better of initial scuffles at the Cobham Services on the M25 and Baker grabbed the tool. As Mikey Coyle, 21,…