Public schoolgirl jailed for deadly attack on gay civil servant
A former public schoolgirl who hurled homophobic abuse at a gay civil servant before kicking and stamping on him during a deadly attack is tonight behind bars.
Ruby Thomas, 18, was found guilty of the manslaughter of 62-year-old Ian Baynham, who died 18 days after the drink-fuelled assault in London's Trafalgar Square.
Police later found his blood smeared on her handbag and the ballet pumps she was wearing as she kicked him.
The court heard she smiled as she ''put the boot into'' Mr Baynham after he was knocked to the ground by another teenager, Joel Alexander.
Thomas's ex-boyfriend told the Old Bailey that the blonde teenager, of Anerley, south east London, was ''not the type of girl'' to have done it.
But jurors did not agree and convicted her of manslaughter, along with Alexander, 20, of Thornton Heath, south east London.
A third defendant, 18-year-old Rachael Burke, of Upper Norwood, south east London, was found guilty of affray at an earlier trial.
All three will be sentenced on January 26. Thomas and Alexander were remanded in custody after Judge Richard Hawkins refused to continue their bail applications by their barristers.
A woman in the public gallery blew a kiss to Thomas as she was taken down to the cells.
The teenager had earlier appeared distraught and put her head in her hands as jurors returned their unanimous verdicts.
Thomas, a former pupil at the £12,000-a-year Sydenham High School for Girls, had a previous record for violence.
She was just 15 when she assaulted a bus driver in Northumberland Avenue in December 2007, a short walk from where the attack on Mr Baynham took place.
Thomas was living with her mother, a legal secretary, at the time of the attack.
Her father, Richard, was convicted of manslaughter for stabbing a taxi driver in Brixton, south London, in 2003 and was sentenced to two years imprisonment.
On that night in September last year she was said to have been "off her face", acting in a "lairy, mouthy" way, and flirting with random men.
The court heard that Thomas screamed "f****** faggots" at the victim and his friend Philip Brown.
When Mr Baynham confronted her, there was a scuffle during which she hit him with her handbag and he grabbed it.
Alexander then ran up and knocked him to the ground, causing a severe brain injury as his head struck the pavement.
Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, said: "That did not suffice. There is evidence that the female defendants then began putting the boot into Mr Baynham, who was still prone on his back, clearly unconscious and in distress."
He said the girls were "fuelled by copious amounts of alcohol" and one witness likened the attack to a scene from the film A Clockwork Orange.
"Shocked onlookers saw repeated stamping to his chest and forceful kicks to his head," said Mr Altman.
I have copied the article from the Telegraph because it sickened me. I am not homophobic even though all my working life has been in an industry that does not openly permit homosexuals. To be honest, no-one gave a damn. As long as you could do the job you were in.
What gets me with this story is I bet the males are BLACK. Everywhere you go young British women select a black bulls and lead them round by the nose, inciting criminality and often brutality. And the law does nothing because it is racial profiling even though it is fact. It is not new, it has been getting worse for the past 50 years but no-one can talk about it, especially not victims.
How do I know? For my fifteenth birthday I was the victim of just such an attack, but fortunately I lived in a town were people looked after each other and I had a bit of a name because I was a half decent sportsman. When I was attacked by a gang of thug scousers, the promenade came to a full stop and half a dozen cabbies dived as I wrestled with my assailant. The irony of it, even though I ended up with forty plus stitches and a dozen clips in the old mush, had my later outburst been recorded I would have been charged with a hate crime even though I was the victim. Why? Because I kept repeating "you're dead, you black bastard"
In the mob we had a homosexual called Fluff. I saw Fluff put a group of Jock squaddies on their backs because they threatened a gay waiter. I bet this gang would have developed the runs had they attacked Old Fluff.
And I had a couple of NCO’s who would have been ashamed of the white trash using and abusing. They were BLACK, brilliant soldiers, murdered by Mugabe long after they had laid down their arms. To my comrades in RAR. Pamwe Chete.
IS drills-man in red shirt.
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