A teenage boy stabbed a loving dad-of-four to death on the day of his twin daughters’ second birthday party. James Gibbons was attacked after confronting a group of youths who had been 'bullying' a homeless man he had taken food to.
Joshuah Sparks, 16, knifed the 34-year-old plumber four times just yards from his home in Laindon, Essex, on May 2. READ MORE: 'Evil' stepmum and dad jailed for killing six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes In the hours after the murder, the teenager admitted to the stabbing in a message in a Snapchat group, saying: “I don’t care, I’m a psychopath.” Chelmsford Crown Court heard how Mr Gibbons had brought a sleeping bag, pillows and blankets to the homeless man, Christopher French.
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