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Tristan Kirk

Driver who hit pedestrians at random in West End Christmas Day 'carnage' found guilty of murder

Gilheaney will be sentenced on January 30 (Metropolitan Police/PA) - (PA Wire)

An enraged driver who killed a man and left five others in hospital when he drove into random pedestrians in London’s West End last Christmas in a suspected racist and homophobic attack has been found guilty of murder.

Anthony Gilheaney, 30, mounted the kerb repeatedly “like a maniac” while at the wheel of a Mercedes in Shaftesbury Avenue, shortly after he had left a nightclub in the early hours of Christmas morning 2024.

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