Angel Delight killer is given life for murder over £100 for prostitute

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12 April 2012

A thug who battered a management consultant to death with a metal pole to steal £100 to pay for a prostitute was jailed for at least 25 years today.

Thomas Connor, 20, stamped on the head of Nadim Gulamhuseinwala, 32, in Green Park.

William Paton, also 20, who rifled Mr Gulamhuseinwala's pockets and stole his wallet, was ordered to serve a minimum of 23 years. The pair were jailed for life at the Old Bailey after being convicted last week of murder and robbery in July last year.

Judge Stephen Kramer said the victim was "an admirable and fine man and charming and decent — a talented man with the prospect of a promising career which you have snuffed out."

The judge said Connor and Paton had picked out their victim because he was vulnerable as he walked home across the park in the early hours.

"Fuelled by your intake of alcohol and cocaine you used gratuitous violence on a man you knew to be vulnerable so you could rob him for your own selfish purposes," he said.

Connor was once the advertising face of the instant whip pudding Angel Delight while his friend Paton was known locally as "Billy Idiot". They had travelled from Orpington and had taken cocaine and been drinking heavily when Connor was robbed by a prostitute in Soho. They went looking for a victim to recoup the money.

The family of Mr Gulamhuseinwala, who had trained as a surgeon, told how his death had left "a black hole" in their lives. His mother Veronika Gulamhuseinwala, 62, said: "Wherever Nadim went he brought light. People loved him — over 500 came to his funeral.

"It feels like we are in a black hole now that he is gone. He was the ideal son. I still have not accepted that Nadim is never coming home. It's the first thing you remember in the morning and the last thing you think about at night. The only focus we have now is our other son and our grandchildren. If not for them, I don't think we would be here now."

Speaking of the night he died, Mrs Gulamhuseinwala said: "He had flown in from New York that morning and gone straight to the office until 10pm. He then went out to catch up with his friends.

"The people that did this killed Nadim and carried on with their night out. He could have given them the money but they were hell-bent on killing."

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