Landlord ‘killed man in mobility scooter row’

THORNTON HEATH

A landlord stabbed a man to death in a row over a lost mobility scooter, a court heard today (Tues). Kenneth Pitcher, 51, is accused of knifing 60-year-old John Kennett in Woodcroft Road, Thornton Heath, south London, on December 23 last year. Police and paramedics rushed to the scene to find Pitcher posing as a ‘Good Samaritan’ pretending to tend to the victim, the Old Bailey heard. Jonathan Polnay prosecuting said: ‘The defendant’s lodger told the police the deceased and…

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