UK Drug Dealer Set On Fire ‘Was Already Dead,’ Trial Told

UK Drug Dealer Set On Fire ‘Was Already Dead,’ Trial Told
Undated handout photo of Loeike Guei, 23, taken prior to his death in September 2020. Metropolitan Police
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A killer recruited his 70-year-old mother, his brother, and two friends to move the body of a London drug dealer and set it on fire after he was beaten to death in a row over £40,000 ($49,800) worth of missing cocaine, a court has heard.

Home Office pathologist Dr. Robert Chapman told a trial at the Old Bailey in London on Apr. 28 that he could not confirm a cause of death for 23-year-old Jean Loeike Guei but he said he had suffered “blunt trauma” injuries to the face and head. Chapman said he may have died of a blocked airway as he lay unconscious after being assaulted.

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