An 18-year-old has been jailed for life for the murder of Hayes handyman Paul Thrower , and his accomplices handed long jail terms for manslaughter.
Kiro Halliburton was sentenced to detention at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, the equivalent of life imprisonment, with a minimum of 16 years, for murder.
Zakariya Subeir was jailed for eight years and Mahdi Osman for five and a half years, both for manslaughter.
Sentencing the trio at The Old Bailey this morning (Friday, December 19), Judge John Bevan said: “I have no doubt that individually you are all intelligent and sensible young men, but in a group, as you were that night, the mentality changes and the behaviour with it.
“You all have to take responsibility for your behaviour as a group.”
The judge said that no matter what provocation the men may have felt, either from Mr Thrower’s girlfriend, Geraldine Roberts, or from Mr Thrower himself, it did not justify their actions.
Ms Roberts had been abused, spat upon and had a drink thrown at her in the stairwell of the flats where Mr Thrower lived, in St Dunstan’s Close, Hayes, on the evening of Thursday, February 20.
Mr Thrower went to remonstrate with the young men and lost his life when they turned on him, stabbing him repeatedly and hacking him with an axe.
In a statement read to the court today, his sister, Dawn described him as a ‘Christian man who succumbed to bullying’.
“He wasn’t prepare to put up with it and lost his life as a result,” she said.
“He was a loving son, brother, uncle and a true and faithful friend and very much loved father to his son.”
