Horrific bat attack was to ‘teach a lesson’

Three brothers wanted ‘revenge, retribution and punishment’ when they clubbed a dying father with bats and poles after he was fatally stabbed in the throat, a court heard. Jerome Thomas, 38, Michael Hyde, 28, and Daniel Hyde, 32, are accused of stabbing 29-year-old Lashawn ‘Lash’ Williams, 11 times in Silvertown, east London, on 19 December 2019. The father-of-two was battered outside his home by the brothers, while neighbours begged them to stop, jurors heard. Croydon Crown Court heard the fight…