Antonette Richardson, 37, has been charged for manslaughter after phoning her boyfriend Tony Virasami to come down to there local supermarket to help resolve an altercation.
Tony Virasami arrived and wrongly approaced a 57 year old shopper who he though his wife Antonette Richardson had pointed out for being involved in a “queue jump” altercation. Tony Virasami punched the 57 year old who fell to the ground and knocked his head on the floor causing severe brain injuries. The ME sufferer, from Colliers Wood, south London, who had a five-year-old daughter, died shortly afterwards in hospital.
Richardson, a grandmother, had denied she “egged” her boyfriend on and maintained she was as “shocked” as anyone else at the turn of events.
But Michael Worsley, QC, prosecuting told the jury: “Her boyfriend had hit what turned out to be the wrong person who was lying on the floor bleeding and she says ‘We need to find the right guy’.
“When you are considering what her purpose and intent was at the time when she fetched or caused the other defendant to come to the premises, when you are considering her state of mind, these words give a significant clue.”
He added that they might also consider whether Richardson’s hasty departure from the store a few minutes later was “flight due to guilt on her part”, her role in egging Virasami on.
Virasami, who was tagged and under curfew for shoplifting, admitted Mr Tripp’s manslaughter last June and the couple, from Sedgehill Road, Catford, southeast London, will be sentenced later.