Guilty of trying to murder shopkeeper for a bottle of rum

  A thug who was caught on CCTV beating a shopkeeper with a wine bottle and stabbing him in the face after he was refused rum on credit is facing years behind bars. Trevor Sinclair, 51, nearly killed Srikanth Mailvaganam after wrestling him to the floor and bludgeoning him over the head five times at a store in Brixton on 15 July last year. Mr Mailvaganam was working behind the till at The Stockwell Convenience Store when Sinclair approached the…