Slavery victim was forced to sleep beside dogs and beaten to death in East London, court told
A vulnerable former chef died in a “cuckoo” house after being repeatedly beaten, kept in slavery and forced to sleep beside dogs, a court has heard. The body of 55-year-old Dimitrios Tsavdaris was found in a foetal position in a flat in Hackney , east London, after he succumbed to weeks of violent attacks, the Old Bailey was told. He had allegedly been taken there from the home of Bamidele Fawehinmi in Wickford, Essex, where he slept on a mattress in a garage beside dogs. Weighing just over eight stone, the victim was a frail “vulnerable person” who may have been dead or dying for several days before his body was found last January 29, prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said. He had suffered multiple fractures to his ribs, face and breastbone as well as old and new bleeding on the brain and internal injuries, jurors were told. Fawehinmi, 31, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of Mr Tsavdaris’s murder and causing him grievous bodily harm. The defendant is also charged with keeping ...
