Reece Newcombe: Man who stabbed celebrity boxing coach to death on Richmond Bridge guilty of murder

A antheral has been recovered blameworthy of stabbing a personage boxing manager to decease aft threatening to “ju-jitsu the f***” retired of radical connected a nighttime retired successful westbound London.

Ross Hamilton had been “spoiling for a fight” and equipped himself with a breached vessel earlier helium plunged it into the cervix of Reece Newcombe, 31 connected Richmond Bridge, the Old Bailey heard.

Mr Newcombe, a person of ex-footballer and TV pundit Ian Wright, held his cervix and said: “I’m dormant – he’s done me,” earlier helium collapsed.

Jurors heard Hamilton had 3 erstwhile convictions for assaulting girlfriends and a taxi driver.

A assemblage deliberated for 15 hours and 21 minutes to find Hamilton, 34, from Isleworth, westbound London, blameworthy of execution and battle by beating.

There were tears and a outcry of “yes” from the nationalist gallery, portion successful the dock Hamilton appeared incredulous and asked the jury: “How?”

Judge Anthony Leonard KC remanded him into custody up of sentencing connected October 11.

Police had been called to reports of a combat connected Richmond Bridge successful south-west London successful the aboriginal hours of November 26 2022.

Prosecutor Louis Mably KC had said the combat was fuelled by “intoxicated aggression” and Hamilton’s determination to limb himself “changed everything”.

Earlier, some Hamilton and Mr Newcombe had been watching England play the USA successful a World Cup crippled being screened successful a fanzone successful Richmond Park.

Mr Newcombe went connected to Viva nightclub successful Richmond wherever helium became intoxicated and had a “good time”, jurors were told.

Mr Mably said Hamilton, described arsenic a bald man, had besides gone connected to the nine wherever beryllium began acting successful an “aggressive and unpredictable manner”.

The authoritative said: “He seemed to beryllium goading people, doing karate kicks connected the creation level and putting his limb astir radical and behaving aggressively towards them.”

He continued to enactment aggressively aft the nine closed and radical spilled outside.

Mr Mably said: “He began confronting people, and goading them to spell and combat him down an alleyway.

“He said, successful his words, ‘I volition ju-jitsu the f*** retired of you’. In short, the bald antheral was spoiling for a fight.”

Shortly earlier 4am, Mr Newcombe made the “tragic decision” to prosecute with Hamilton, who had already equipped himself with a portion of breached glass, jurors heard.

After helium was stabbed successful the neck, Mr Newcombe’s friends rushed to assistance him.

Hamilton near the country but aboriginal handed himself successful to police, jurors were told.

Mr Mably said: “The bittersweet information is determination was nary request for this combat to hap – it was an lawsuit that was fuelled by intoxicated aggression. It was not a lawsuit of the suspect defending himself, but of 2 radical consenting to fight.

“The suspect had equipped himself with a limb and got the combat helium was looking for.”

Jurors were told that Hamilton had a convulsive streak which archetypal led to a condemnation successful 2014 for punching a taxi operator to the broadside of the caput successful a enactment implicit a fare.

In 2018, helium received a caution for hitting a woman successful the look causing her to autumn to the ground.

Two years aboriginal helium was convicted successful Spain of hitting different spouse successful the enarthrosis with a bottle, kicking her successful the tummy and pushing her to the ground.

Unemployed Hamilton had denied murdering Mr Newcombe, claiming helium had acted successful self-defence.

Giving evidence, helium claimed that helium had picked up the cervix of vessel aft being knocked to the level and helium did not cognize what happened to it.

However, different witnesser claimed helium had already equipped himself and enactment it successful his pouch earlier the combat began.

The suspect besides claimed that helium did not realise anyone was wounded until helium was told by a person who had near with him successful a car.