Doctor murdered in homophobic park attack
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA consultant psychiatrist was murdered in a homophobic attack carried out by two men and a teenage girl. They were targeting gay men to rob in Bute Park, Cardiff in the early hours of 20 July last year.
It was there that Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, was brutally beaten, kicked and punched to death. Audio of the horrendous attack, carried out by Jason Edwards, 25, Lee Strickland, 36, and Dionne Timms-Williams, 17, depicted Dr Jenkins pleading for help and for his attacks to “Leave me alone” but his cries were left unheeded. Read more:Cop saved by his body armour as armed officers swoop on industrial park and take out machete gang After 15 minutes of being savagely beaten by the group, he was humiliated and left for dead, covered in blood with his trousers pulled down to expose his penis.
He was taken to hospital but died two weeks later on 5 August. Edwards, Strickland and Timms-Williams were arrested and later pleaded guilty to manslaughter, robbery and assaulting a man who tried to intervene, reports Wales Online.
They all denied murder but were found guilty by a jury on Thursday (3 February) following a trial at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.
