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| A former child model and his friend have been jailed for life for murdering a doctor in a robbery in a London park. | |
| Nadim Gulamhuseinwala, 32, was attacked in the early hours of 25 July last year as he walked home through Green Park. | |
| He was hit with a 10kg cast iron fence pole and his face was stamped on, the Old Bailey heard. He died later. | He was hit with a 10kg cast iron fence pole and his face was stamped on, the Old Bailey heard. He died later. |
| Angel Delight model Thomas Connor and William Paton, both 20 and from Orpington, Kent, will serve a minimum terms of 25 and 23 years respectively. | |
| Both were given concurrent terms of 10 years' detention for robbery. | |
| Taken cocaine | |
| The trial heard how Dr Gulamhuseinwala had been for a drink after work with a friend in the Funky Buddha nightclub. | |
| He was walking home at about 0400 BST and he stopped near railings in Queen's Walk, in Green Park, central London, to phone his girlfriend Rebecca Bott. He was then attacked. | |
| The jury heard how Paton and Connor had taken cocaine and had been drinking in a club called the Strawberry Moons that night. | |
| Connor withdrew £90 from a cash machine, but was later robbed in Soho. | |
| Dr Nadim Gulamhuseinwala died two weeks after the attack | |
| "This seems to have driven him into a towering rage," said Mr Andrew Edis QC. "He was angry." | |
| The pair walked through the alleyways of St James's to Queen's Walk. | |
| They sat on a park bench and when they saw Dr Gulamhuseinwala they ran 100m towards him. Connor picked up the post and threw it at him. | |
| Dr Gulamhuseinwala died in hospital two weeks later from a severe head injury. | |
| He had been working in the United States and had flown in from New York just hours before he was attacked. |