MALE NURSE ANDREW MCINTOSH, WHO RESORTED TO MURDER

MALE NURSE ANDREW MCINTOSH, WHO RESORTED TO MURDER WHEN HE WAS
‘RECRUITED’ TO SETTLE AN EAST END FEUD, WAS JAILED FOR LIFE ON

FRIDAY.

FOUR OTHERS WERE ACQUITTED BY AN OLD BAILEY JURY OF KILLING 45
-YEAR-OLD ROBERT MIN ON SEPTEMBER 9 LAST YEAR.

BUT BALD, BESPECTACLED MCINTOSH, 24, WAS CONVICTED AFTER

STABBING THE WALTHAMSTOW MAN WITH SUCH FORCE THAT THE NINE-INCH BLADE

OF HIS KITCHEN KNIFE BROKE IN HIS VICTIM’S BACK.

MR MARVIN, A SCAFFOLDER, LAY BLEEDING AND COVERED BY FALLEN
WASHING IN HIS OWN BACK GARDEN AS MCINTOSH FLED, THE COURT HEARD.

HE CONTINUED TO BLEED INTERNALLY AND DIED ON SEPTEMBER 25.

THE HURY WAS TOLD THAT THE MURDER ENDED A SERIES OF
CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN MR MARVIN’S FAMILY AND MCINTOSH’S BROTHER AND
FRIENDS, WHICH BEGAN AFTER A VISIT TO THE SEASIDE BY YOUNG DEBBIE
MARVIN.

THE 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL FLED HOME TO LONDON AFTER DARREN
MCINTOSH, 19, AND ALISTER DEACON, 21, TRIED TO GET INTO HER CARAVAN,

THE COURT HEARD.

AND FROM THAT MOMENT THE TWO SIDES CLASHED WHENEVER THEY MET,
EXCEPT FOR AN ATTEMPTED ‘PEACE MISSION’ BY THE DEAD MAN’S SON, JOHN.

THE COURT HEARD THAT ANDREW MCINTOSH, WHO ADMITTED THAT HE
HAD NEVER MET MR MARVIN, WAS ‘RECRUITED BY THE OTHERS ON THE DAY TO

DO JUST WHAT HE DID – SET UPON ROBERT MARVIN.

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MCINTOSH WALKED INTO HIS VICTIM’S GARDEN AT VALOGNES

AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, AND ‘STABBED MR MARVIN IN THE BACK,’ SAID

PROSECUTOR MR STEPHEN MITCHEL.

HE ADDED: ‘AND THE FORCE HE USED WAS SO CONSIDERABLE THAT THE
BLADE BROKE.

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MCINTOSH, OF BEULA ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, HAD DENIED MURDER.

THE FOUR OTHERS, WHO ALSO DENIED THE CHARGE AND WERE ACQUITTED
WERE: DARREN MCINTOSH, A PAINTER AND DECORATOR OF KINGSWOOD ROAD,
ILFORD, CEMAL MUSTAPHA,UNEMPLOYED OF BEULA ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, ALISTER

DEACON AND FLOYD BELAFONTE, 21, BOTH UNEMPLOYED AND LIVING AT

LAWRENCE AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW.

DARREN MCINTOSH HAD TOLD THE COURT THAT HE TOOK HIS
ELDER BROTHER TO THE MARVIN HOME AFTER ‘THREE GROWN MEN HAD CHASED
ME OVER AN ARGUMENT THAT WAS ALREADY SETTLED.

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HE ADDED: ‘I THOUGHT IF I HAD MY BROTHER WITH ME THEY
WOULD ACT MORE RESPONSIBLY.

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AND HE SAID OF THE INCIDENT IN THE GARDEN: ‘I SAID NOTHING
AND I DID NOTHING.

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THE OTHER THREE ALSO DENIED INVOLVEMENT IN THE KNIFING.

JAILING ANDREW MCINTOSH FOR LIFE MR JUSTICE BOREHAM TOLD HIM:
‘THIS WAS THE CLEAREST POSSIBLE EVIDENCE.

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ENDS.