A MAN was jailed for life yesterday for the murder of a homosexual who
tried to pick him up.
The Old Bailey was told that Glasgow-born Edward Hillhouse, 24,
carried out a frenzied attack in which he smashed the man's skull with a
hammer and then stabbed him 12 times.
The body of Malcolm Raywood, 59 -- who had just been released from
prison for sexually assaulting young boys -- was found a week later in a
hostel in the King's Cross area of London.
Prosecutor Mr David Calvert-Smith said that on New Year's Eve in 1991,
Mr Raywood had left the hostel to find a young man for sex.
Hillhouse, who was not homosexual, had agreed to go back to his room.
His intention was to rob Mr Raywood.
Defence counsel Mr Ian MacDonald said: ''It is clear that the
defendant got into some kind of frenzy, whatever may have triggered it
off.''
Judge Kenneth Machin told Hillhouse: ''It was a brutal and savage
killing and you represent a danger to the public.''
Hillhouse, who is unemployed, and was said to have lived at various
addresses in King's Cross, pled guilty to murder and to a separate
assault three weeks later.
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