Life in jail for 1983 killing of Irish waiter
HOMELESS MURDERER CONFESSED TO ‘GET OFF STREETS’
A DANISH man suspected of a bowand-arrow attack in a small Norwegian town that killed five people is a Muslim convert who was previously flagged as having been radicalised, police said.
Norway’s national security agency said Espen Andersen Brathen’s actions “currently appear to be an act of terrorism”.
Brathen is suspected of having shot at people in a number of locations in
A HOMELESS 59-year- old has been jailed for life after confessing to the murder of an Irish head waiter in 1983 — in order to live out the rest of his days off the streets.
Anthony Kemp was 21 when he attacked Christopher Ainscough with a marble ashtray after they met on a night out in December 1983.
Kemp admitted murder and was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 15-and-a-half years at the Old Bailey yesterday.
Judge Mark Dennis told him: “This was a wholly unjustified, brutal killing that led to the death of a harmless, well-respected, goodnatured man who had befriended you and caused you no harm.”
The court had heard that Dublinborn Mr Ainscough (50) had invited Kemp back to his home in Kilburn, the town of Kongsberg on Wednesday evening. Several of the victims were in a supermarket, police said.
“There earlier had been worries of the man having been radicalised,” said Police chief Ole B Saeverud during a news conference.
He added that there were “complicated assessments related to the
London, in the early hours of the morning and was on the sofa when he was attacked.
His body was discovered by police after he failed to turn up to work at a restaurant in the city.
He had suffered devastating head injuries, including a fractured skull from being hit with a marble ashtray weighing 2.4kg, which was found at the scene.
Mr Ainscough was gay and had been warned about inviting people he had just met to his flat in the past, the court heard.
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The original probe was closed in 1985 after no leads were found.
On July 28 last year, the cold case was reopened when Kemp turned up at Chiswick police station in west London and began to throw stones at the window, before an motive, and it will take time before this is clarified”.
Norway’s domestic security agency, known by its acronym
PST, cited various aspects of the attack, that also wounded three people, in explaining its belief that Brathen’s actions “currently appear to be an act of terrorism”.
The victims were four women and one man between the ages of 50 and 70, Ms Saeverud said. officer came out to speak to him just after 4am.
Kemp told the officer he had murdered someone 40 years ago, saying he had “bashed his brains in” over an argument.
He said: “I’m not going to live on the f****** streets, that’s a fact. I’d rather the Government look after me.
“I’d rather do the last few years of my life in bang-up than sleep on the streets. For 40 years I got away with it and now I’m owning up to it.”
Kemp, who was previously an alcoholic and heroin user, retracted his confession three days later after being released on bail.
He blamed the killing on his accomplice in an aggravated burglary in 1988, who had killed himself in prison.
But police matched Kemp’s DNA to that left on a cigarette butt in an ashtray on a coffee table in Mr Ainscough’s sitting room.