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Court frees murder accused
A MAN accused of a “turf war” drugs murder walked free from the Old Bailey after insisting “I’m being framed”.
Jurors returned a not guilty verdict at the end of Dayne Thompson’s trial. He was discharged by Judge Martin Stephens, QC.
During the two-week hearing, Mr Thompson, 22, of Biddestone Road, Holloway, denied murdering Reginald Berko, 22, from Stamford Hill.
Mr Berko, who lived with his wife and 16-month son, was knifed through the heart by a “bold and brutal” assailant in Ormsby Street, Hackney, on January 30.
A witness later identified Mr Thompson as the killer. But the defendant always protested his innocence and maintained he was not even in the vicinity of the knifing that day.
He claimed his name was “put up” because he was targeted for revenge by members of the notorious London Fields gang. Mr Thompson said he gave evidence against one of their members at a trial in 2005 over a shooting “and they wanted to get even”. |
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