Pensioner cleared after killing burglar ‘fears lifestyles in revenge assault’

A pensioner cleared of blame after killing an armed burglar could well also never be in a role to come motivate dwelling amid fears of a vendetta against him, police delight in urged residents.

Richard Osborn-Brooks, seventy eight, and his disabled valuable other Maureen delight in now not been seen at their £500,000 property since Henry Vincent died after a atomize-in closing week.

With the couple believed to be staying at an undisclosed arena in fear of their lives, their dwelling has been fitted with security grilles – and a police surveillance digicam has been mounted on a stop-by lamppost.

Mr Osborn-Brooks – in the origin arrested on suspicion of assassinate – became as soon as urged on Friday he would face no extra police lope. However neighbours in Hither Green, South-East London, now fear he’ll be the target of reprisals from the prison clan to which Vincent, 37, belonged.

The dad-of-4 threatened Mr Osborn-Brooks with a screwdriver after traumatic the pensioner and his valuable other in their bed. He forced him downstairs as an accomplice ransacked a bed room, but all over a fight Vincent became as soon as fatally stabbed.

Serial burglar Vincent became as soon as phase of a honorable family describing themselves as travellers. Many are residing on a housing affiliation property in St Mary Cray, come Orpington.

Per residents, Vincent became as soon as phase of a tight-knit neighborhood whose participants delight in a reputation for violence. Belief to be one of many prolonged Vincent clan shamelessly declared on social media about a years previously: ‘An OAP a day keeps ur bank steadiness at bay. The archaic b******s deserve every thing they catch.’

Whereas Mr Osborn-Brooks’s neighbours and visitors had been relieved at his exoneration the day earlier than at the present time, any celebrations had been muted thanks to anxiety over his future. ‘The police delight in urged us unofficially there’s no manner he’ll be in a role to switch motivate into his dwelling with his valuable other,’ one urged The Mail on Sunday, asking now not to be named. ‘The extra or much less of us alive to on this can discontinue at nothing to delight in their vengeance.

‘It’s unpleasant that Richard and Maureen need to switch away towards the tip of their lives.’

Whereas the conditions are very varied, Mr Osborn-Brooks’s case echoes that of Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who had a £60,000 bounty set up on his head after he shot needless a sixteen-300 and sixty five days-archaic traveller who broke into his property in 1999. First and valuable given lifestyles for assassinate, the Court docket of Appeal replaced Martin’s conviction with one of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished accountability and he became as soon as released in 2003.

Vincent, his father and 5 uncles had been convicted in 2003 of a £450,000 building rip-off through which they centered elderly of us across South London and Kent. A come to a call described it as ‘the worst case of cowboy builders I really delight in ever stumble upon’.

The day earlier than at the present time, visitors of Vincent left a card and flowers across the corner from Mr Osborn-Brooks’s dwelling, come where the prison died. It be taught: ‘Henry, beloved and cared for by many. A heart of gold. Might maybe God bless you.’

Occupation prison Henry Vincent who became as soon as stabbed and killed by a pensioner after breaking into his dwelling as soon as boxed with David Haye in 1995

By Stewart Paterson

The burglar who became as soon as killed after breaking into a pensioner’s dwelling as soon as sparred with David Haye as a teen, it has emerged.

Occupation prison Henry Vincent died after being stabbed all over an alleged botched burglary at seventy eight-300 and sixty five days-archaic Richard Osborn-Brooks’ dwelling.

Now footage from 1995 shows a 15-300 and sixty five days-archaic Vincent boxing with boxing significant person David Haye.

The arena champion became as soon as serene an beginner with Fitzroy Amateur Boxing Membership when he confronted Vincent in the ring for a junior competition. 

The footage shows Vincent as a promising boxer – but he would flip to a lifetime of crime that can survey him jailed for a string of scams on elderly of us.

Haye went on to turn into one of Britain’s most winning boxers and won three of the 4 valuable world titles as a occupation, alongside side winning the WBA title in 2009.

The clip shows Haye in the red corner while Vincent wears blue shorts for the match.

Haye, who wins the fight, shakes defeated Vincent’s hand afterwards.

A spokesman for Haye urged Solar On-line: ‘[Vincent] became as soon as a factual boxer who pushed through into the 1/3 round.

‘It compatible shows the more than just a few paths of us’s lives can soak up the 22 years since they met.’

It comes after Vincent’s family left floral tributes commence air Mr Osborn-Brooks’ east London dwelling.

A card be taught: ‘A letter, seen by dozens of passing nicely-wishers, says: ‘Henry, beloved and cared for by many.

‘A heart of gold, could well also god bless you and give you peace in heaven xx Sorely overlooked.’

The card became as soon as planted accompanied by a bouquet of red gerbera daisies, lily buds and chrysanthemums – tied to wooden corner submit.

Mr Osborn-Brooks became as soon as arrested on suspicion of assassinate but has now been urged that no lope will be taken following discussions between the Met Police and Crown Prosecution Carrier.

After the 1995 fight, Haye grew to turn into on to signify Britain as a talented boxer and holds world championships in two weight classes.

Haye, of south London, won silver in the World Boxing Championships in 2001.

He then won three out of 4 valuable world titles as a talented.

However Vincent selected a lifetime of a crime and his grievous past became as soon as this week laid bare.

He hailed from a occupation prison family who centered pensioners to con them out of half of a million kilos.

Vincent died on Wednesday after being stabbed by pensioner Richard Osborn-Brooks. 

It’s a long way known Mr Osborn-Brooks overpowered Vincent after he became as soon as marched downstairs by the prison, while an accomplice searched the pensioner and his 76-300 and sixty five days-archaic valuable other’s dwelling.

Vincent became as soon as bleeding carefully sooner than he collapsed in a stop-by aspect road and the 2d suspect fled the scene. Police in the meanwhile are appealing to search out him.

Mr Osborn-Brooks became as soon as a manager for the RAC in Croydon, south London, sooner than retiring around 26 years previously.

He became as soon as puzzled on suspicion of assassinate but Met Police delight in since confirmed he is now not going to face any tremendous prices.

Detective Chief Inspector Simon Harding, of the Met’s Raze and Important Crime Declare, stated: ‘That is a tragic case for all of those concerned.

‘As anticipated with any incident where somebody has misplaced their lifestyles, my officers applied an intensive investigation into the conditions of the death.

‘We delight in now approached the CPS for early investigative advice, as required below the guidance. We delight in now acquired and belief to be that advice, and, at display – on the evidence available – we is now not going to see a charging decision.

‘Subsequently, no extra lope will be taken against the person.’

‘Henry had a heart of gold!’: Plant life and card left commence air OAP’s boarded-up dwelling for burglar who became as soon as stabbed to death by seventy eight-300 and sixty five days-archaic condo owner all over unhurried night atomize-in  

By Rod Ardehali  

A card left commence air of the dwelling of a pensioner who stabbed a burglar to death while defending his disabled valuable other has remarkably paid tribute to the intruder.

Henry Vincent, 37, died after being stabbed all over a botched raid at the south-east London dwelling of Richard Osborn-Brooks in the early hours of Wednesday.

No subject come unanimous public sympathy for Mr Osborn-Brooks, who became as soon as arrested and later released, one mysterious nicely-wisher stated occupation prison Vincent had a ‘heart of gold’, in the card, left alongside with some flowers, commence air of the crime scene.

The letter, seen by dozens of passing nicely-wishers, says: ‘Henry, beloved and cared for by many.

A heart of gold, could well also god bless you and give you peace in heaven xx Sorely overlooked.’

The card became as soon as planted accompanied by a bouquet of red gerbera daisies, lily buds and chrysanthemums – tied to wooden corner submit.

Mr Osborn-Brooks became as soon as arrested on suspicion of assassinate but has now been urged that no lope will be taken following discussions between the Met Police and Crown Prosecution Carrier.

On Friday afternoon, Mr Osborn-Brooks’ dwelling became as soon as boarded up and CCTV cameras had been installed amid fears the pensioner could well also very nicely be attacked.

Officers delight in additionally spoken with the family of Vincent who delight in been urged of the choice and the explanations for it delight in been outlined to them.

Following his launch, a cousin of a burglar stated she became as soon as angry the OAP became as soon as bailed.

The unnamed relative of his has insisted nonetheless that he became as soon as a ‘loving person’ and the pensioner he fought with ought to serene be kept in custody as police compare him for assassinate.

The girl urged BBC’s South East As of late: ‘I accomplish now not know what came about in that dwelling but all I know is my cousin is needless at the present time.

‘The Henry I know, he became as soon as such a loving person and I mediate it’s potentially one thing that compatible went abominable but he set up now not need died out of it.’

Meanwhile, footage has emerged of the moment a burglar lay dying in the aspect road after combating a pensioner all over a atomize-in.

Mr Osborn-Brooks’ arrest on suspicion of assassinate, reignited a national debate about the rights of house owners to provide protection to themselves all over atomize-ins.

Pictures acquired by the BBC now shows Vincent laying the aspect road as emergency provider workers fight to retain him alive.

The condo owner who filmed the scene is heard announcing: ‘Or now not it’s a stabbing. A stabbing. [They’re] looking to revive him. I mediate he is gone.’

For the duration of the botched raid in South Park Crescent, Hither Green, an accomplice dragged Vincent toward a van sooner than leaving him for needless, fixed with a seek.

He became as soon as came across collapsed in nearby Extra Green Avenue by paramedics from London Ambulance Carrier, who took him to sanatorium where he died shortly sooner than 4am.

The 2d man has now not been came across and no now not as a lot as one suspect became as soon as believed to be armed with a screwdriver, police stated.

Vincent, 37, had been on a police force’s ‘most wanted’ record, had a string of convictions and became as soon as suspected of burglaries focusing on the vulnerable.

Burglar stabbed to death looking to eliminate a pensioner beforehand ‘posed as a policeman to con an Eighty 4-300 and sixty five days-archaic girl out of £7,300’

By David Wilkes and Rebecca Camber and Miles Dilworth for The Each day Mail and Stewart Paterson for MailOnline

As a family philosophy goes, it’s sensationally callous.

‘An OAP a day keeps ur bank steadiness at bay,’ a member of the Vincent clan announces proudly on social media, adding: ‘The archaic b******s deserve every thing they catch.’

With relatives notorious for focusing on pensioners and fleecing them of their savings, it became as soon as armed burglar Henry Vincent who died after combating seventy eight-300 and sixty five days-archaic Richard Osborn-Brooks all over a atomize-in this week.

And the day earlier than at the present time yet extra beautiful incidents emerged from the past of the 37-300 and sixty five days-archaic and his family.

In a single, Vincent became as soon as accused of posing as a policeman to con octogenarian June Stratton out of £7,300.

The dilapidated alleged victim became as soon as stated to delight in been urged she had paid workmen in deceptive cash, and if she did now not let Vincent and an accomplice in, they’d ‘flip her dwelling over’.

The two men grew to turn into up at June Stratton’s dwelling in Kent at some point in October 2013, and had what she belief to be identification cards and a warrant, Maidstone Crown Court docket heard.

Vincent became as soon as now not in the dock as he became as soon as unfit to face trial.

His co-accused, Rate Wooden, fifty two, denied burglary and walked free from court after the trial collapsed partway through.

Gigantic grandmother June, 87, urged The Judge: ‘If he’d gone away for what he did to me, he could well even delight in belief twice about doing it again.

‘However right here’s how they recall to are residing their lifestyles. It’s unpleasant that somebody died, but it seems to be he acquired his comeuppance.

‘When you occur to switch into any other person’s dwelling, you take care of your possibilities. You don’t know who you’re going to come motivate up against.’

However for any other perception into the Vincent family’s perspective to the elderly, one need easiest seek motivate to a case in 2007, when Vincent’s cousin William – then 27 – pleaded responsible to 2 distraction burglaries and became as soon as jailed for 4 years.

His brother Amos, then 24, became as soon as jailed three years after admitting two counts of the the same crime.

Their victims included aged airman Ronald Butler, then Eighty two, who came across his ‘indispensable’ series of six war medals had been missing after the pair visited his dwelling in Catford, south-east London, posing as water board officers.

They urged any other of their victims, a girl feeble ninety, that they had been from the gas board.

Sentencing the brothers at London’s Blackfriars Crown Court docket, Decide on Henry Blacksell QC stated: ‘That is an especially pernicious and sinister form of offending and the manner you picked on them became as soon as rather cynical.

‘You preyed on them for what that you just can well also catch. You will want to be completely ashamed of yourselves.’

Nevertheless the Vincent clan became as soon as one thing but ashamed by the most modern addition to their long and appalling collective prison document.

After a concerned Neighbourhood Quiz neighborhood publicised the thefts applied by William and Amos on Fb, any other member of the family posted a heinous-mouthed response.

Invoice Vincent wrote: ‘The archaic b******s deserve every thing they catch. So dull handing over hundreds upon hundreds… An OAP a day will retain ur bank steadiness a (sic) bay. Got to cherish the archaic c***s.’

In what reads esteem a warped advertising and marketing method for the family’s snide activities, he went on: ‘Worn c***s ain’t qualified. Buy every penny they acquired catch archaic b******s to remorgage, care for the cash and let erm catch chucked owt nxt one (sic).’

The posts had been later deleted.

Many participants of the Vincent family are residing in the St Mary Cray arena of the London borough of Bromley, come the extra affluent Orpington.

Whereas it could well also seem a horny arena before every thing peep, Broad title Lane which runs through it’s notorious for its lawlessness.

One employee alive to on cleaning up the rubbish-strewn streets remembers as soon as seeing, alongside the identical old discarded sofas, a ‘immense gap which had been dug 6ft wide and 20ft deep with a automobile pushed into it’.

Henry Vincent became as soon as first convicted in 2003 for helping fleece elderly owners out of extra than a million kilos.

He and his family of cowboy builders frog-marched their vulnerable victims to the bank after telling them their properties had been about to tumble down.

They dilapidated tricks corresponding to showing unfavorable items of wood they had brought with them and squirting water on to interior partitions to utter roofs had been leaking in enlighten to utter cash for deceptive repairs.

One 80-300 and sixty five days-archaic girl became as soon as forced to tag over her £A hundred and fifty,000 dwelling.

Yet any other man, feeble 80, paid out his lifestyles savings for work on his chimney, which became as soon as pointless and became as soon as never even carried out.

The victims, feeble between 59 and 89, had been in overall too ashamed at being conned to enlighten their households what had came about.

Meanwhile the Vincents and their households drove costly autos alongside side BMWs, Mercedes and Mitsubishi Shogun 4×4 – regardless of residing in council properties.

When detectives searched their properties they came across a pot containing £27,500 in cash.

The rip-off became as soon as led by Vincent’s father Henry Charles alongside with 5 of his brothers – alongside side Robert and Steven – and his son Henry, then 23.

Sentencing the seven at Croydon Crown Court docket in October 2003, Decide on Simon Pratt stated: ‘That is by a long manner the worst case of bogus cowboy builders that I really delight in ever stumble upon.

‘It’s a long way reasonably clear the family commercial became as soon as devoted to preying upon and fleecing elderly, vulnerable victims.’

Vincent became as soon as jailed for 4-and-a-half of years for acquiring property by deception and the crew acquired a total of 30 years.

After he became as soon as released early halfway through his sentence, he applied two burglaries in 2008, for which he acquired two six-month suspended sentences.

In June 2009, Vincent and his father had been convicted of fraud after they charged a pensioner £72,000 to restore a single tile on their roof. Both men had been handed six-300 and sixty five days sentences.

In 2013 Vincent became as soon as named as one of Kent Police’s ‘most wanted’ criminals after he became as soon as suspected of conducting any other burglary in Gravesend.

Kent Police appealed again for him in January this 300 and sixty five days after he became as soon as suspected of being alive to on a distraction burglary from a person in his 70s.