"Daniel Matos, 23, Keith Preddie, 34, and Joshua Cowley, 29, were found guilty on Friday of murdering 19-year-old Tyler Donnelly in Feltham, west London. They were convicted after an Old Bailey jury in a retrial deliberated for 46 hours and 28 minutes. Jurors heard that a GPS tag fitted to Matos enabled police to track his movements as he and the other two defendants cycled to the scene of the attack in Hanworth Park, two of them armed with large knives."
"Donnelly had also cycled there in his role as a runner for a local drug-dealing business operated from a phone number called the 'John line'. Instead of meeting his customers, he was set on and fatally attacked on 24 January 2024. His body was found the next day in thick grass near his discarded bicycle. He was still carrying nearly 30 packages of heroin and crack cocaine, a large knife in a leather sheath tucked into the waistband of his trousers and 300 in cash."
"Matos's DNA was also identified on an unlit cigarette beside the body and he had the victim's blood on the sleeve of his hoodie, the Old Bailey was told. The 'sustained and targeted' attack on Donnelly took five minutes and was not caught on camera or witnessed by anyone, jurors were told. The victim was stabbed several times, with a fatal injury to the neck."
Daniel Matos, Keith Preddie, and Joshua Cowley were found guilty of murdering 19-year-old Tyler Donnelly in Hanworth Park, west London, on 24 January 2024. Donnelly was working as a runner for a drug-dealing operation when he was fatally attacked. Police tracked the defendants' movements to the crime scene using a GPS ankle tag fitted to Matos. The three men cycled to the park armed with large knives and launched a sustained five-minute attack on Donnelly. Evidence included Matos's DNA on a cigarette near the body and the victim's blood on his hoodie. The jury deliberated for over 46 hours before reaching guilty verdicts at the Old Bailey retrial.
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