Man charged with four counts of attempted murder after West End incident
Man charged with four counts of attempted murder after West End incident
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A man has been charged with four counts of attempted murder after a car mounted the pavement and hit four pedestrians on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue in the early hours of Christmas Day. Anthony Gilheaney, 30, was allegedly behind the wheel of a Mercedes which ploughed into pedestrians, and now faces seven criminal charges over the incident in the early hours of Wednesday.
He is accused of the attempted murders of Aidan Chapman, Tyrone Itorho, Marcelo Basbus-Garcia, and Miguel Wairich, as well as allegedly causing serious injury by driving whilst disqualified. Gilheaney, who lives in Longfield in Harlow, Essex, has also been charged with driving dangerously on Fleet Street, also on Christmas Day, and possession of a small knife in nearby Lincoln's Inn Fields.
He is due to appear to face all the charges for the first time at Westminster magistrates court on Friday. It is said he had been banned from driving prior to the incident when the four pedestrians were injured. After the incident, the Metropolitan Police said four people had been taken to hospital after a road traffic collision and reports of “a car driving on the wrong side of the road on Shaftesbury Avenue”.
Scotland Yard said one of the injured people remains in hospital in “critical condition”. “The suspect was arrested within minutes of his violent attack in the early hours of Christmas Day in Central London”, said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy.
