Teenager found guilty of fatal attack on gay man

A FORMER public schoolgirl who hurled homophobic abuse at a gay civil servant before kicking and stamping on him during a deadly attack was behind bars last night.

Ruby Thomas, 18, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Ian Baynham, 62, who died 18 days after the drink-fuelled assault in London's Trafalgar Square.

Police later found his blood smeared on her handbag and the ballet pumps she was wearing as she kicked him.

The court heard she smiled as she "put the boot into" Mr Baynham after he was knocked to the ground by another teenager, Joel Alexander.

Thomas's former boyfriend told the Old Bailey the teenager, of Anerley, London, was "not the type of girl" to have done it. But jurors convicted her of manslaughter, along with Alexander, 20, of Thornton Heath, London.

A third defendant, 18-year-old Rachael Burke, of Upper Norwood, London, was found guilty of affray at an earlier trial.

All three will be sentenced on 26 January