Boy, 14: I've killed man down road; COURT.A BOY of 14 confessed to killing an elderly man after being caught burgling a house yards away from the murder scene, the Old Bailey Old Bailey Noun the Central Criminal Court of England Noun 1. Old Bailey - the central criminal court in London criminal court - a court having jurisdiction over criminal cases heard yesterday. The teenager allegedly kicked Eric Rider, 60, to death on a communal grassy area in Plaistow, east London East London, city (1991 pop. 240,474), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. The city grew around a British military post founded in 1847. Its harbor was developed from 1886, and today it is a leading South African port. . The youth and his co-defendant Mantas Kraucevicius, 27, had the victim's blood on them when they broke into a nearby house, it is claimed. When the homeowner made a citizen's arrest, the court heard that he pleaded: "Please let us go. I'm going to have double trouble. I killed someone down the road." The pair deny the murder charges. The trial continues. |
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