Killer caught on video showing off ‘ju-jitsu’ moves before stabbing Ian Wright’s boxing trainer pal to death is jailed
A KILLER caught on video showing off his “ju-jitsu” moves before stabbing Ian Wright’s boxing trainer pal to death has been jailed.
Reece Newcombe, 31, gasped “he’s done me” after he was attacked by Ross Hamilton, 34, outside the Viva nightclub in Richmond.
Both men had been watching England play the USA in the Qatar World Cup in a fan zone in Richmond Park on November 26, 2022, before going out to a club.
Hamilton was seen acting aggressively and had earlier elbowed a man in the face causing him to fall to the ground.
He was seen doing “karate kicks” on the dance floor and shouted at clubber that he would ‘”ju jitsu the f***” out of them and “wrap people up like a pretzel”.
Hamilton had been drinking heavily and taken cocaine and ecstasy before he killed Mr Newcombe.
Mr Newcombe helped train former England star Wright, 59, and other celebrities for a charity boxing match in 2014.
He also trained actor Jack O’Connell, who starred in the drama SAS: Rogue Heroes.
Hamilton denied murder and assault by beating but was convicted by an Old Bailey jury today after 15 hours and 21 minutes of deliberation.
The killer has two previous convictions and a caution for offences of violence in the street.
Mr Newcombe had a five-month-old daughter and his partner was pregnant with their second baby girl when he was murdered.
His former partner Alicia Smith said in an impact statement that when she met Mr Newcombe it was “love at first sight”.
“Reece was a one of a kind person, someone who you would search a lifetime to meet,” she said.
“I find it to this day hard to explain the pain that I felt. Reece was my best friend, my soul mate my partner, my girl’s dad.
“He was loveable, generous, honest and a beautiful person and he was someone everyone warmed to.
“As a family we are broken. The loss of Reece is unexplainable – a pain so raw it is difficult to accept.”
Mr Newcombe’s father John Holland, who owns two boxing gyms, said in his impact statement that when his son was murdered “his entire world came crashing down”.
He said the screams of Mr Newcombe’s mother when she was given the news of the stabbing “will haunt me till my dying day”.
“I thought my heart would stop and in fact I wished that it would. I didn’t want to live with the pain of losing my son,” Mr Holland said.
“It is truly the worst thing that can happen to a human being. I cry myself to sleep every night. I don’t think that will change.
“I will never forgive the defendant till the day I die.”
Judge Anthony Leonard KC jailed Hamilton for life with a minimum term of 19 years.