Kieran Rifat has been sentenced to life for the murder of Kelly Stewart in Plaistow.
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A man has been jailed for life after bludgeoning a vulnerable homeless woman to death as she slept on the steps of a church.
Kieran Rifat, of Grange Road, Plaistow, was sentenced at the Old Bailey today (Thursday, February 4) after pleading guilty to murder.
Rifat battered Kelly Stewart with a rock without warning as she lay sleeping in the doorway of Memorial Community Church, Barking Road in the early hours of March 26 last year.
Judge John Hillen, sentencing, said: “This was a sustained assault involving protracted, extreme and gratuitous violence on a homeless, mentally ill and vulnerable woman who was asleep.
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8:03 AM December 24, 2020
Kelly Stewart s body was found in the grounds of Memorial Community Church in Barking Road, Plaistow. Picture: Met Police
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A Plaistow man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Kelly Stewart, whose body was found in the grounds of a church in March.
Kieran Rifat, of Grange Road, entered his plea at the Old Bailey yesterday (Wednesday, December 23).
The 22-year-old will be sentenced on January 29, 2021.
The body of Ms Stewart, 41, was found in the grounds of Memorial Community Church in Barking Road, Plaistow on the afternoon of Thursday, March 26.
She was pronounced dead at the scene and a post-mortem examination the next day gave the cause of death as impact injuries to the head.
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Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock’s church-run summer camp was nearly shut down after Maryland health officials found unreported child abuse allegations and repeated safety code violations, records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Records from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene revealed that staff failed to properly supervise children and were not given a criminal background check before being hired, which is required by law. The camp’s director was forced to resign after at least five child abuse or neglect allegations were brought against him, the Free Beacon reported Thursday.
Warnock served as the senior pastor of the Douglas Memorial Community Church at the time, which operated the Maryland camp known as Camp Farthest Out.