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Jury discharged in chip row death Manslaughter plea in bus murder
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A second jury has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in a trial where a bus passenger was stabbed to death in a row over chips being thrown. A man has admitted stabbing a hospitality worker to death in a row over throwing chips on a London bus.
Anthony Joseph, 23, stabbed Richard Whelan, 28, after throwing chips at women on a bus in Holloway Road, north London, in July 2005, the court heard. Anthony Joseph admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility after a second jury was discharged on a charge of murder.
He denied murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility . Richard Whelan, 28, was stabbed seven times on a bus in Holloway Road, north London, in July 2005.
Mr Joseph, of Islington, north London, first stood trial in May. Joseph, from north London, was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. when he carried out the attack.
That trial ended without the jury reaching a verdict. Whelan 's family said they were very disappointed.
Onset of schizophrenia Joseph will be sentenced on 20 December at the Old Bailey.
The re-trial which began this month, centred on Mr Joseph's mental health at the time of the murder. A statement released on behalf of Mr Whelan's family immediately after the verdict said: "Having heard the whole of the evidence for the second time we feel that the defence of diminished responsibility in this case has been used as a defence for the un-defendable, with so much evidence showing that Anthony Joseph was an angry and vindictive man."
His defence argued that Mr Joseph was suffering from the onset of schizophrenia at the time of the incident. "He has tried to excuse his actions that evening by claiming mental illness, however in our opinion he callously killed Richard for no reason at all."
The Old Bailey heard Mr Whelan, who had been travelling on the top deck of the number 43 bus with his partner Kerry Barker, 38, intervened when the accused began throwing chips Ms Barker.
Mr Whelan was stabbed through the heart and suffered six other stab wounds, the court heard.