Killer facing jail for beating his neighbour Jim O’Neill to death in gate shutting row

A killer who beat his elderly neighbour to death in a row about shutting a gate is facing years in jail. Trevor Gocan, 57, repeatedly punched and kicked 74-year-old James O’Neill to leave him bleeding on the ground outside his flat in Covent Garden, central London. Mr O’Neill, known to family as Jim, was left in a coma after the savage beating on October 6 last year. He died in hospital two weeks later. Father-of-two Gocan was originally charged with…