A law student who spent time shadowing a judge at the Old Bailey has returned there to be jailed for life after killing a man with a brick.
Malachi Lindo was studying law at Queen Mary College where, Judge Paul Worsley said, he showed "such promise" that he was given work experience following a judge around the Old Bailey. However he dropped out of his course and within weeks became a drug dealer in North London. He also got high on his own supply, and while on a cocktail of cocaine, cannabis, MDMA and ethylone last September, he killed a complete stranger on an Enfield street by beating him with a brick.
Judge Worlsey said Lindo's "unprovoked" attack on Phillip Steels, 51, was so ferocious that he "literally smashed his head in". CCTV footage showed Lindo leaning over Phillip's body and repeatedly battering him.
When Lindo was arrested on the scene he told police, "Take me to heaven, kill me now, I want to die". They didn't, and instead he stood trial at the Old Bailey where he pleaded manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility brought about by a drug-induced mental condition. The jury rejected his defence, and Lindo has been sentenced to a minimum of 14 years in prison for murder.
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Malachi Lindo was studying law at Queen Mary College where, Judge Paul Worsley said, he showed "such promise" that he was given work experience following a judge around the Old Bailey. However he dropped out of his course and within weeks became a drug dealer in North London. He also got high on his own supply, and while on a cocktail of cocaine, cannabis, MDMA and ethylone last September, he killed a complete stranger on an Enfield street by beating him with a brick.
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Judge Worlsey said Lindo's "unprovoked" attack on Phillip Steels, 51, was so ferocious that he "literally smashed his head in". CCTV footage showed Lindo leaning over Phillip's body and repeatedly battering him.
When Lindo was arrested on the scene he told police, "Take me to heaven, kill me now, I want to die". They didn't, and instead he stood trial at the Old Bailey where he pleaded manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility brought about by a drug-induced mental condition. The jury rejected his defence, and Lindo has been sentenced to a minimum of 14 years in prison for murder.
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