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Holly Lodge murder trial date set
GRIEVING relatives of four murder victims – including
a highly respected Highgate couple – will have the opportunity
to follow the trial of the accused man at the end of the month.
A team of psychiatrists at Broadmoor maximum security hospital,
Berks, have declared Daniel Gonzales mentally fit to go before
a jury at the Old Bailey.
The Common Serjeant of London, Judge Brian Barker, ordered the
case to start on February 27 when the bloody events of 17-months
ago will be investigated.
Gonzales, unemployed, of Southwood Avenue, Woking, Surrey, was
transferred to Broadmoor from Belmarsh prison where he was held
on remand.
He faces four counts of murder, two attempted murders, and burglary
arising out of an alleged stabbing spree in the Autumn of 2004.
Pensioners Derek and Jean Robinson were found knifed to death
at their £800,000 home in Makepeace Avenue, Holly Lodge
Estate, on September 17, 2004.
Dr Robinson, 76, was a retired paediatrician and his devoted
former music teacher wife, 68, did voluntary work for Christian
Aid. They had two daughters.
Earlier that day Gonzales fatally stabbed publican Kevin Molloy,
46, a father of two, in a random attack as he walked along Tottenham
High Road near his home, it is claimed.
The prosecution further alleged that 25-year-old Gonzales was
responsible for the horrific onslaught on a 73-year-old granny
two days earlier, on September 15. Marie Harding was on a footpath
in Oakedown Crescent, Highton, West Sussex, when her throat
was slit
Later that day 61-year-old Peter King was the victim of an attempted
murder in Portscreek, Portsmouth.
On September 17 Koumis Constantino, 40, suffered severe knife
wounds when he disturbed an intruder at his home in Frobisher
Road, Hornsey.
In April last year senior Old Bailey judge Jeremy Roberts called
for the case to come on without delay. “These matters have
to be resolved as soon as possible for the families of the victims,”
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