Raise charges to Murder for death of Ian Baynham

A gay man was attacked and died after being subjected to homophobic taunts in Trafalgar Square, Ian Baynham, 62, died from a brain injury 18 days after being punched to the ground on 25 September last year.

He was confronted by two teenage girls outside South Africa House after they had been drinking, Baynham was with his friend Philip Brown and they were called "fucking faggots", it was alleged.

After a confrontation, a youth who was with the girls punched Baynham to the ground, where the girls kicked and stamped on him "like a scene from Clockwork Orange", the jury was told.

Joel Alexander, 19, of Thornton Heath, south London, Rachel Burke, 18, of Three Oaks, East Sussex, and Ruby Thomas, 18, of Lichfield, Staffordshire, deny manslaughter.

Altman told the jury that Trafalgar Square had been the scene of a "despicable incident" during which Baynham was "brutally attacked".

"One onlooker likened the scene of violence to the film A Clockwork Orange," he said.

"The story of this case is of an all too familiar and depressing tale of drunken loutish behaviour.

Two of these defendants are teenage girls. Fuelled by copious amounts of alcohol, they confronted Mr Baynham with abuse.

Ian Baynham was openly homosexual. What led to his death began when Ruby Thomas hurled homophobic abuse at him and his friend.