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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teen-jailed-for-homophobic-murder.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former public schoolgirl Ruby Thomas has been jailed for seven years for a homophobic attack which killed a 62-year-old man" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-teen-jailed-for-homophobic-murder.jpg" alt="Former public schoolgirl Ruby Thomas has been jailed for seven years for a homophobic attack which killed a 62-year-old man"/></a></p>
<p>A former public schoolgirl who kicked and stamped on a gay civil servant during a deadly homophobic attack has been jailed for seven years for his manslaughter.</p>
<p>Ruby Thomas, 19, hurled obscene abuse at 62-year-old Ian Baynham during the drink-fuelled assault in London&#8217;s Trafalgar Square in September 2009.</p>
<p>Mr Baynham died 18 days later in hospital. Police found his blood smeared on Thomas&#8217;s handbag and the ballet pumps she was wearing when she kicked him.</p>
<p>The Old Bailey heard how she screamed &#8220;f****** faggots&#8221;, and smiled as she &#8220;put the boot into&#8221; Mr Baynham after he was knocked to the ground by another teenager, Joel Alexander.</p>
<p>Thomas&#8217;s ex-boyfriend Declan Seavers told the court that the teenager, of Anerley, south-east London, was &#8220;not the type of girl&#8221; to have done it.</p>
<p>But jurors did not agree and convicted her of manslaughter, along with Alexander, now 20, of Thornton Heath, south-east London, at the end of their trial last month.</p>
<p>Alexander was jailed for six years while 18-year-old Rachael Burke, of Upper Norwood, south-east London, was given a two-year sentence after being found guilty of affray at an earlier trial.</p>
<p>Judge Richard Hawkins increased Thomas&#8217;s sentence from six years to seven years because of the homophobic nature of the attack.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;This was a case of mindless drink-fuelled violence committed in public.&#8221;</p>
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