Get these murderers off the street, says mother of mugging victim

THE devastated mother of a man murdered during a Rolex robbery has demanded that moped muggers be cleared off London’s streets.

Jordan Bailey-mascoll, 25, was one of two men who attacked Jan Pearce’s son Danny, 31, as he left a jazz club with his girlfriend in Greenwich last July.

Woolwich Crown Court heard how the killer and his accomplice, who he refused to name, had been riding around south London targeting people with expensive watches. Wearing balaclavas, one carried a hunting knife, the other a gun. When Mr Pearce refused to hand over his £5,000 watch, he was shot at and chased along a street. He was caught, cornered and stabbed, suffering multiple knife wounds to his neck and chest. He died at the scene.

Mrs Pearce, 63, urged the police to find his accomplice, known as “Ghost”. She said: “We need to get these murderers off the streets. I don’t want another mum to go through this agony.”

Mr Pearce and Stephanie Holland, his girlfriend, had been walking to their car after a night with friends when the attack happened. Ms Holland wept as she told the court how she tossed her boyfriend’s watch at the muggers but they killed him anyway.

She said: “Two men wearing balaclavas and motorcycle helmets came in front of us asking for the watch. I thought they were joking, but then when the gun was shot I just ran. I turned back and saw that Danny was between two cars and bleeding from his forehead. One of the guys followed him up the steps.

“I was scared – I saw the guy repeatedly stabbing Danny. He just would not stop. I shouted at him, ‘I’ll give you the watch’. Danny was on the floor and I took the watch off and just threw it at them. They left on their mopeds.”

Louis Mably, QC, prosecuting, said Bailey-mascoll and his accomplice had armed themselves “so if anyone stood up to them, they had the means to get a watch from someone’s body”.

Bailey-mascoll was eventually identified via CCTV and the moped linked to a series of similar robberies in the area. When police tried to arrest him last August he escaped by threatening officers with a knife. He was finally arrested a month later. He will be sentenced next month.

When Bailey-mascoll, who has a criminal record dating back to his teens, was convicted of murder, possessing a firearm and imitation firearm and robbery in the court, he astonished onlookers by starting a fight with prison officers in the dock.

 A 16-year-old schoolboy is fighting for his life after being stabbed on a suburban street in south London yesterday afternoon.

Shocked eyewitnesses said he was in his school uniform when he was repeatedly stabbed. He was rushed to hospital where his condition was said to be “life threatening”.