Two men appeared in court today charged with the murder of Jamie Simpson, the 33-year-old Matalan store clerk who was stabbed to death in a robbery last year.

Anthony Maina, 19, was charged with murder on Saturday morning.

Duana Owusu, 19, of no fixed abode, was arrested and charged with murder and conspiracy to rob on Sunday morning.

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The brother of X-Factor finalist Rachel Hylton has been jailed for life for murdering a student in an attack of “horrifying and merciless ferocity”.

Khryie Hylton, 17, from Hackney, admitted stabbing 20-year-old Yusufo Miiro nine times in the head and chest last July in a Walthamstow towerblock.

An Old Bailey jury heard how Hylton was seized with jealousy when he found out Mr Miiro, a promising criminology student, had been seeing his former girlfriend, 18-year-old Rochelle Sinclair.

Hylton donned a white face mask and hood before attacking Mr Miiro as he returned to Ms Sinclair’s flat from a fast food outlet, the court heard.

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