Adrian Murphy: Last News

A man who poisoned a dancer with a drug known as "devil's breath" after entrapping him using a fake dating app profile has been handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 32 years.

‘Devil’s breath’ have been found guilty of murdering him. Joel Osei and his partner Diana Cristea first connected with Irish dancer Adrian Murphy using profiles on the gay dating app Grindr.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA woman accused of murdering a champion Irish dancer allegedly made a desperate 999 call where she tipped-off police about which drug he'd been poisoned with.Diana Cristea, 19, and her boyfriend Joel Osei, 25, deny murdering Adrian Murphy at his flat in south west London last year.Osei is said to have met the 43-year-old on gay dating app Grindr before allegedly drugging his drink with scopolamine, also known as ‘Devil’s breath’.Mr Murphy had worked as a dance teacher and a choreographer at the Royal Academy of Dance, but was on a year's sabbatical when he was found dead at his Battersea flat.A jury at Croydon Crown Court heard a 999

An English couple have been accused and stand trial for poisoning and sexually assaulting one man and murdering another with the poison ‘Devils Breath’, otherwise known as Deadly Nightshade or scopolamine, after using Grindr to find their victims.Jurors at Croydon Crown Court also heard on Tuesday that the pair allegedly stole goods from each of the men’s apartments worth around £2,000 (A$3,600) and then unsuccessfully attempted to use the murdered victim’s name to buy £62,000 (A$111,000) worth of diamonds.Champion Irish dancer Adrian Murphy (43) was found deceased in his Battersea, London apartment on June 4, 2019 – three days after arranging to meet Joel Osei (25) for a hookup.

drug known as "devil's breath" before using their bank cards to go on a spending spree, a court has heard.Diana Cristea, 18, and Joel Osei, 25, are accused of killing Adrian Murphy between May 31 and June 5 last year.The pair then allegedly used his details to try to buy £62,000 worth of diamonds from a jeweller in New York.Mr Murphy, 43, had worked as a dance teacher and a choreographer at the Royal Academy of Dance, in London.He was on a year-long sabbatical when his body was found in a 17th-storey flat in Battersea, south-west London.Cristea and Osei are also accused of poisoning a second man, who cannot be named due to a reporting restriction, in May 2019, before stealing about £2,000 of his belongings.Croydon Crown Court heard on

The trial of a teenage girl accused of murdering a man with a poison called “Devil’s breath” is too complex to go ahead at the moment.