‘Murdered by teenager who had provoked him beyond endurance’

A father of three was stabbed to death by a 14-year-old boy who had provoked the victim ‘beyond endurance’ by shouting and swearing outside his family home, a court heard. Stonemason Jamie Markham, 45, chased the boy with a large drill bit, swinging it above his head. But the boy pulled out an 18″ knife and stabbed Mr Markham three times near his home in Chingford, east London. The boy was ‘already a teenage trouble-maker’ and had breached a criminal…