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Murder charge after pub horror
DRINKERS at a Kilburn pub watched in horror as a regular staggered through the doors with a fatal stab wound to the heart on Saturday night.
Customers at the Red Lion, in Kilburn High Road, tried to help Gerry Fairall as he bled in the pub’s front bar, but he was pronounced dead at St Mary’s hospital in Paddington later that night.
His friend Simon Watkins, 44, charged out of the pub and chased a man believed to be the assailant.
He caught up with him at the junction with Oxford Road but was also stabbed and slashed across the face.
Mr Fairall, 53, had lived only a few hundred yards away in Carlton Vale, and his family are well known in the area. Mr Fairall was a regular at the Red Lion and the nearby Old Bell and Queen’s Arms, on Kilburn High Road and Maida Vale, according to fellow customers.
An inquest into Mr Fairall’s death was opened on Tuesday morning at St Pancras Coroner’s Court.
A post mortem confirmed that Mr Fairall died of a single stab wound to the heart, coroner Dr Andrew Reid said.
• Cecil Walcott, 51, from Godwin House, Tollgate Gardens, Kilburn, has been charged with murder and attempted after he was arrested on Sunday. |
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