08/08/2005

Man remanded over bus murder

A man has appeared in court, accused of the murder of a man on a London bus.

Anthony Leon Joseph, 20, from Islington, north London, appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, charged with the murder of twenty-eight-year-old Richard Whelan.

Mr Whelan, from Kentish Town, north London, was stabbed on the Number 43 bus in Islington on July 29, after confronting another passenger who was throwing chips at his girlfriend. He collapsed from his injuries on the lower level of the bus, after following his attacker downstairs. He was taken to Whittingdon Hosptial, where he later died.

At Monday’s hearing, Mr Joseph was remanded in custody, to appear at the Old Bailey on November 14.

(KMcA)




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