Shortly afterwards a 59-year-old man
was attacked and stabbed at his home
in Hornsey, and at 8 a.m. the same
day a decorator was confronted by
a naked man when he arrived at an
elderly couple’s £800,000 home in
Highgate, north London. The intruder
fled, and in the blood-spattered hallway
the decorator found the bodies of Dr.
Derek Robinson, a 76-year-old retired
consultant paediatrician, and his wife
Jean, 68, a former music teacher. They
had been stabbed repeatedly and their
throats had been cut.
Gonzalez was arrested at a central
London tube station five hours later.
After questioning he had been charged
first with the Robinsons’ murders, and
then with those of Mrs. Harding and
Mr. Molloy, and with the attempted
murders at Hilsea and Hornsey.Victims of Gonzalez’s murderous spree: Derek and Jean Robinson (above),
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Report by
A.W. MossA
JUDGE stood in the doorway
of a cell beneath London’s
Highbury Corner Magistrates’
Court. The prisoner lay handcuffed on
the cell floor, his jaw and right eye red
and swollen – he had been banging his
head against the cell walls. A policeman
wearing a protective vest sat on a bench
beside him. Two more policemen stood
outside the cell. A special court was in
progress.
Deemed too dangerous to appear
in the dock, the man on the floor was
Daniel Gonzalez, 24, a former mental
patient charged with four murders and
two attempted murders.
From the doorway District Judge
Dorothy Quick asked him to confirm
his identity and Southwood Avenue
address in Woking, Surrey. Gonzalez’s
only reply was a gurgle. His solicitor
stepped into the small cell to say there
was no application for bail. The judge
remanded Gonzalez in custody for
a week, and the court’s proceedings
ended.
The events which led to Daniel
Gonzalez’s arrest six days earlier on
September 17th, 2004, had begun on
September 15th when a 61-year-old
man was attacked and stabbed
while out for a walk at Hilsea, near
Portsmouth. Later the same day MarieHarding, a 73-year-old grandmother,
was stabbed to death as she walked
home from her daughter’s house in
Southwick, West Sussex.
Two days later, around 5.30 a.m.
on September 17th, Kevin Molloy,
a 46-year-old former publican, was
found dead in a street in Tottenham,
north London. His throat had been
cut and he had multiple stab wounds.He killed four
and scarred
two for life in
a terrifying,
inexplicable
spree of
violence...
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