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[[File:RubyThomas.jpeg|thumb]]'''Ruby Thomas''' was a British teenager who along with friends kicked and stamped a 62-year-old gay man, Ian Baynham, to death in Trafalger Square around September 2009 when they were drunk. Before the beating, she screamed "f***ing faggots" at Baynham and a friend, Phillip Brown. Thomas was sentenced to 7 years in a young offender’s institution, which she began in 2011, and her ex-boyfriend Joel Alexander was given 6 years for the attack. Sometime before this attack Thomas had been expelled from school. | [[File:RubyThomas.jpeg|thumb]]'''Ruby Thomas''' was a British teenager who along with friends kicked and stamped a 62-year-old gay man, Ian Baynham, to death in Trafalger Square around September 2009 when they were drunk. Before the beating, she screamed "f***ing faggots" at Baynham and a friend, Phillip Brown. Baynham got a severe brain injury from falling before he was attacked, and he died in a hospital 18 days later. Thomas was sentenced to 7 years in a young offender’s institution, which she began in 2011, and her ex-boyfriend Joel Alexander was given 6 years for the attack. Sometime before this attack Thomas had been expelled from school. | ||
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*https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/26/ruby-thomas-sentenced-fatal-homophobic-attack | *https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/26/ruby-thomas-sentenced-fatal-homophobic-attack | ||
Revision as of 23:38, 24 September 2019
Ruby Thomas was a British teenager who along with friends kicked and stamped a 62-year-old gay man, Ian Baynham, to death in Trafalger Square around September 2009 when they were drunk. Before the beating, she screamed "f***ing faggots" at Baynham and a friend, Phillip Brown. Baynham got a severe brain injury from falling before he was attacked, and he died in a hospital 18 days later. Thomas was sentenced to 7 years in a young offender’s institution, which she began in 2011, and her ex-boyfriend Joel Alexander was given 6 years for the attack. Sometime before this attack Thomas had been expelled from school.