Evening Standard

Man ‘fled in car seconds after killing banker with one blow’

- Sophia Sleigh

A MAN who killed a banker with a single punch fled the scene in a car seconds after striking the fatal blow, witnesses said today.

Oliver Dearlove, 3 0, a former employee of royal bank Coutts, was found unconsciou­s in Blackheath Village at 12.45am on Sunday following the “senseless and tragic” attack.

Passers-by attempted to resuscitat­e Mr Dearlove, described by his mother Joy Wright as “the perfect son”, but he was pronounced dead in hospit al shortly after 10pm the same day.

Mr Dearlove, a relationsh­ip manager at private bank Duncan Lawrie in Belgravia, had been out with university friends on Saturday evening when he was attacked as he walked towards the

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