Alexander (left) and Thomas were jailed for manslaughter Two people who fatally attacked a man in London’s Trafalgar Square after subjecting him to homophobic taunts have been jailed for manslaughter.
Ian Baynham, 62, of Beckenham, south-east London, was assaulted outside South Africa House in September 2009.
He was punched by Joel Alexander, 20, and then repeatedly stamped on by Ruby Thomas, 19, as he lay unconscious.
The Old Bailey jailed Thomas and Alexander for seven and six years respectively.
Rachael Burke, 18, of Upper Norwood, south-east London, was found guilty of affray at an earlier trial but cleared of manslaughter.
Former public schoolgirl Thomas hurled obscene abuse at Mr Baynham, a civil servant, during the drink-fuelled assault.
The court heard she swore and screamed “faggots”, and smiled as she “put the boot into” Mr Baynham after he was knocked to the ground by Alexander.
Ian Baynham was attacked in Trafalgar Square in September 2009 Mr Baynham died 18 days after the assault in central London.
Police found his blood smeared on Thomas’s handbag and the ballet pumps she was wearing as she kicked him.
Thomas’s ex-boyfriend Declan Seavers told the court that the teenager was “not the type of girl” to have done it.
But Judge Richard Hawkins increased Thomas’s sentence from six years to seven years because of the homophobic nature of the attack.
“This was a case of mindless drink-fuelled violence committed in public,” he said.
Thomas, of Anerley, south-east London, and Alexander, from Thornton Heath, also in south east London, were convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey in December.
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