Brothers guilty of revenge murder

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Three brothers are facing life sentences for murdering a south London father in a case of mistaken identity.

Julien Warrington, 43, was stabbed 19 times in a revenge attack aimed at someone else in Camberwell in September last year, the Old Bailey heard.

John Fitzgerald, 28, and his half-brother Alan Ellis, 19, both from Brixton, were found guilty of murder.

Declan Fitzgerald, 23, from Battersea, south London, pleaded guilty to murder. They will be sentenced at a later date.

A fourth brother - Stephen Fitzgerald, 25, from Bromley, south-east London - was cleared of murder.

Wrong address

The court heard that father-of-six Mr Warrington was staying on the sofa at his sister's council flat in Camberwell when he was killed.

Ellis summoned his brothers after previously being attacked in his home by a neighbour.

They initially tried to break into a flat but realised it was the wrong address.

They then smashed their way into the flat next door where Mr Warrington was.

To have him so brutalised in a case of mistaken identity sickens us and has left us with a gap that can never be filled Statement from Mr Warrington's family

He was attacked with two blades and blunt instruments. His body was found lying in a pool of blood at the scene.

Prosecuting, Jonathan Turner said: "What lay behind this attack was revenge."

Jermaine Morris, 26, from West Norwood, south London, Thomas Ireton, 21, also from West Norwood, and Paul Hudson, from Kennington, south London, were also cleared of murder.

Outside court Mr Warrington's family said his murder had a "devastating effect" on them.

"Julien was not a fighter, nor was he an aggressive or angry man," his family said in a statement.

"He was passive, patient, very loving and most of all a joker."

They added: "To have him so brutalised in a case of mistaken identity sickens us and has left us with a gap that can never be filled."