GUILTY UK - Brighton, male found in deserted building, Jan'20 - Billy Henham *arrests*

Can a mod please edit the title to show the deceased’s males name as Billy Henham age 24, as per link above for Sussex Police website, thank you, don’t believe I can do this myself
 
Just found an update from The Argus, doesn’t tell us much, just that police are still at the scene three weeks on....

Police reveal why officers remain outside building three weeks after suspected murder
Ty for the update. These are such beautiful sentiments shared by his mourning family. I pray for their comfort and peace.

Rest in peace, Billy.

His family paid tribute to him.

He said: “Our son Billy was a man who walked his own beat. He was creative and independent.

“His gentle demeanour and belief that the world was a friendly place meant he made himself vulnerable at times.

“His guardian angel who had looked after him on so many other occasions sadly lost sight of him on New Year’s Eve.

“So many people have kindly shared their happy memories of him with us.

“Their love and kind words are giving us all huge support at this terrible time.”
 
Three men have been charged with the murder of a 24-year-old student who was found dead in a disused building, police have said.

Alize Spence, 18, from Ealing, Lamech Gordon-Carew, 19, from Hampton and Gregory Hawley, 28, of no fixed address, have now been charged with murder.

The three men appeared at Brighton Magistrates Court on Friday morning.

Police are still appealing for help to find Dushane Meikle, 27, in connection with the investigation.

Mr Meikle from Hove has links to the city and London and should not be approached by the public.

Detective Superintendent Alex Geldart said: 'We are urging anyone who sees Dushane Meikle or has information on his whereabouts to dial 999 immediately. Please do not approach him.'


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Sussex Police are still appealing for help to find Dushane Meikle, 27, in connection with the investigation

Three men appear in court charged with cold case murder of student | Daily Mail Online
 
Brighton murder: Man arrested by Specialist Enforcement Officers

A man wanted in connection with the murder of 24-year-old Billy Henham was arrested by the force's Specialist Enforcement Officers in Hove on Monday night (21 June).

Detectives from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team had issued an appeal to help locate Dushane Meikle, 27, who they wanted to speak to in connection with the investigation. Two men aged 25 and 27 were also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and all three are in custody.

Billy's body was discovered at a disused building in North Street, Brighton on Thursday 2 January 2020, after officers attended the property following a report of concern for a person.

* Three other men have been charged with the murder of Billy. These are Alize Spence, 18, of Makepeace Road, Ealing, Lamech Gordon-Carew, 20, of Cheeseman Close, Hampton and Gregory Hawley, 28, of no fixed address.
 
19th July 2021 :

Four men accused of killing 24-year-old Billy Henham in Brighton have denied murder at a hearing at Hove Crown Court.

Three of the men entered a formal plea of not guilty before Judge Jeremy Gold and all have denied the charge.

[...]

They are provisionally due to face a trial by jury starting on Monday 22 November.

Maryam Hassan Syed is prosecuting.


The trial is expected to last five weeks.

Four deny Brighton murder
 
Case possibly transferred to Maidstone? and trial starting this Thursday.

09-11-2021 Maidstone 3 T20217325
Alize Spence
Dushane Anthony Meikle
Gregory Ben Hawley
Lamech Gordon-Carew
Details:
For Pre-Trial Review - Case Started - 10:04
For Pre-Trial Review - Hearing finished for ALIZE SPENCE - 10:36


17-11-2021 Maidstone 6 T20217325
Alize Spence
Dushane Anthony Meikle
Gregory Ben Hawley
Lamech Gordon-Carew
Details:
For Pre-Trial Review - Case Started - 09:45


22-11-2021 Maidstone 7 T20217325
Alize Spence
Dushane Anthony Meikle
Gregory Ben Hawley
Lamech Gordon-Carew
Details:
For Trial - Case Started - 10:26
For Trial - Case adjourned until 00:00 - 10:28
For Trial - Resume - 11:11
For Trial - Case adjourned until 00:00 - 11:34
For Trial - Case to be listed for Trial on 25-Nov-2021 - 11:42
 
Case possibly transferred to Maidstone? and trial starting this Thursday.

09-11-2021 Maidstone 3 T20217325
Alize Spence
Dushane Anthony Meikle
Gregory Ben Hawley
Lamech Gordon-Carew
Details:
For Pre-Trial Review - Case Started - 10:04
For Pre-Trial Review - Hearing finished for ALIZE SPENCE - 10:36


17-11-2021 Maidstone 6 T20217325
Alize Spence
Dushane Anthony Meikle
Gregory Ben Hawley
Lamech Gordon-Carew
Details:
For Pre-Trial Review - Case Started - 09:45


22-11-2021 Maidstone 7 T20217325
Alize Spence
Dushane Anthony Meikle
Gregory Ben Hawley
Lamech Gordon-Carew
Details:
For Trial - Case Started - 10:26
For Trial - Case adjourned until 00:00 - 10:28
For Trial - Resume - 11:11
For Trial - Case adjourned until 00:00 - 11:34
For Trial - Case to be listed for Trial on 25-Nov-2021 - 11:42

Thanks for keeping track of this, @Tortoise.
 
...a jury at Maidstone Crown Court in Kent was told that although his injuries would have rendered him unconscious, Mr Henham would have been alive for at least an hour after the violent attack.

On trial accused of his murder are Lamech Gordon-Carew, 20, Gregory Hawley, 28, Dushane Meikle, 27, and 18-year-old Alize Spence. [...]

At the start of the trial on Wednesday (December 1), prosecutor James Mulholland QC said all four defendants participated in a joint attack on Mr Henham in the early hours of New Year's Day in 2020. [...]

"William Henham was subjected to a sustained assault before his body was dropped over a balcony and he was found naked, laying on his back on a low-level outdoor roof terrace," he told the jury.

"Shortly after his death, two of the defendants - Gregory Hawley and Lamech Gordon-Carew - boasted to others about what they had done to Mr Henham.

When Meikle was arrested in nearby Hove six days later, police found two deleted photos on his phone of Mr Henham's body on the roof terrace. [...]


By 4.30am, CCTV captured the last sighting of him alive, outside the All Sorts off-licence in North Street.

The store was diagonally opposite the squat where a party was being held by the 'tenants', and where Mr Henham would be dead within a few hours.

Student 'beaten unconscious and thrown over balcony' before death in Brighton
 

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