Jobless plasterer who killed banker with a single punch to join murderer brother behind bars
Trevor Timon - who has a string of past convictions - will join murderer brother behind bars when sentenced tomorrow
AN unemployed plasterer who killed a banker with a single punch will be jailed tomorrow — and join his murderer brother behind bars.
Trevor Timon, 31, hit Oliver Dearlove, 30, for chatting to a woman Timon had earlier flirted with.
Oliver was lifted off his feet and knocked out by the blow.
It also ruptured an artery in his neck and he died 24 hours later.
He was cleared of murder but admitted manslaughter at London’s Old Bailey and will be sentenced tomorrow.
His older brother Wesley, 32, was convicted at the same court for the 2005 murder of Dean Wheaton, 19.
Wesley led a drug-crazed gang who stabbed him to death in Woolwich — for chatting up his girlfriend.
A source said: “Trevor and Wesley are blood brothers in every respect.
“They are violent nutters who should be left to rot in prison.”
Today a jury found him not guilty of murder after the fatal punch in August last year.
The former worker at Queen’s banker Coutts lived with girlfriend Claire Wheatley in New Eltham, South East London. They planned to have a baby together.
After a night out with pals in nearby Blackheath last August, Oliver chatted to the young woman while waiting for a taxi.
But unemployed plasterer Timon, of Plumstead, who had a string of previous convictions for violence, took offence and hit him.
Timon, from Plumstead, south-east London, had denied murder but admitted manslaughter shortly before going to trial.
Giving evidence, he said he left school at 16 with three GCSEs and got a job as a plasterer.
After four years, he became unable to work because of epilepsy, he said.
He has a history of violence and a string of convictions dating back to when he was 22 years old, which prosecutor Anthony Orchard QC, said showed "a penchant for violence in a public setting".
He added: "He makes the threats and then punches. He's fully aware that in punching someone he's going to cause really serious injury.
"It's the level of violence we say is him knowing exactly how strong he is when he punches."
Timon pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour after angrily shouting at a bus driver while brandishing a golf club on 11 February 2008.
On 1 January 2010, police saw him being restrained by his uncle as he shouted and screamed: "As soon as police leave I'm going to start f***ing fighting."
Timon pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour, but was next in trouble with the law on 26 May 2010 after attacking a woman outside a pub.
In a statement to police, the victim, who was a senior sales consultant, said she was talking to a group of three men, including a friend called 'Jay' when Timon pulled up in a car and said: "Why are you talking to that slag?"
"Trevor fully got of the car and began quickly walking towards me saying, 'don't talk to me'," she said.
Timon called her a "w***e", "crackhead" and "skaghead" throughout the incident and told her: "I'm going to bang you out."
"He kept saying he was going to knock me out throughout the incident.
"I then said to him, "what are you doing, acting like your brother?"
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"I then remember waking up on my left side, laying on the floor. I felt pain to the right side of my face, where I was hit, and to my left shoulder, where I believe I fell."
She was left feeling "dizzy and disoriented" after the attack, over which Timon admitted a charge of battery.
His most recent convictions, for common assault and criminal damage, stem from an incident on 17 June 2011, when Timon was ushered out of a pub after closing time.
Having been refused re-entry, he threw a punch at a barman, but missed and hit the wall, before saying "I'll petrol bomb the pub".
On August 27 last year, Timon had met a close female friend and three other women in Morden's nightclub for a birthday celebration.
He bought a bottle of champagne for the women and drank two glasses himself, he said.
Timon said he felt "happy" and not drunk as they left the club together to get a cab home.
He said he walked up to one of the women to "tell her to hurry up because she had her shoes off".
Timon told jurors he asked her "what are you saying?".
One of the young men replied "nothing to you mate", the defendant said.
Then it all "closed in" and an argument erupted, he said.
"We were just standing there having an argument. One of them said 'she's with the half chap'.
"They were laughing at me really, that's the way I took it.
"I said 'what do you find so funny in saying that. Just go away.'
"I did say to one of the guys 'if you don't get out of my face I will knock you out'. It's a figure of speech really."
One of the women was urging them to go but the shouting continued, he said.
Defending, Courtenay Griffiths QC had asked: "Who was the first person to do anything physical?"
Timon replied: "Me. I punched him. He fell backwards. He just fell.
"I stood there for a couple of seconds and walked off."
Asked what was going through his mind when he threw the punch, Timon said: "Nothing. I just threw a punch. I don't know."
Mr Griffiths said: "What were you hoping to achieve?"
The defendant replied: "Nothing. I was pissed off."
He continued: "I was shocked. I didn't think it was that serious. When I got the phone call (from one of the women) to say he was in hospital I was shocked to hear that. I could not believe my punch had led to hospital."
Timon said he went to London City Airport and got on a flight to see his mother in Ireland.
After a couple of days, Timon said he returned and went straight to a police station with his father.
The court has previously heard Timon had "bad intentions" when he delivered a single powerful knock-out punch.
Mr Dearlove's fried Andrew Cook gave evidence last week. He said: "There was this guy.
“I don’t know where he came from. He was just upon us all of a sudden. He came out of nowhere.
“He just started getting up in our faces. He started getting aggressive, shouting at us something like ‘Who the f*** are you?’
“He was very angry and agitated. He pushed me. He got really close to us pointing and shouting at us, being really abusive.
“He was looking for a fight. Not a nice guy. Trying to start a fight. We didn’t know why, it all happened so quickly.”
Timon had previously told jurors told jurors he punched the young banker after he was “laughed at” and called a “half chap”.
He will be sentenced after admitting manslaughter at the Old Bailey on Friday.
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