‘I killed The Flower Man of Islington – but it was an accident’

A son accused of stabbing a popular florist to death after he blamed him for his mother’s suicide claimed he stabbed the victim accidentally after the older man pulled a knife on him. James Peppiatt, 23, allegedly murdered 55-year-old Tony Eastlake, known as the ‘Flower Man of Islington’ by customers, in Essex Road, Islington, on 29 May 2021. Mr Eastlake was stabbed in the lower back shortly after finishing work. He collapsed and died in the street. The florist, who…