A 13-YEAR-OLD has been charged with the murder of Irishman Christopher John Barry – known locally as ‘Jack’ – who was killed outside his home in Enfield over the weekend.
The boy has been remanded in custody and will appear at Highbury Corner Youth Court today (Wednesday, December 17).
Four other boys, three aged 14 and one aged 13, who were arrested on suspicion of murder following the attack on Sunday, December 15, have been bailed to return to an east London police station on a date in late January 2015.
Mr Barry, a 53-year-old from Cobh in Co. Cork, who was working as a builder in London, was attacked as he and his Irish girlfriend returned home to his flat on The Broadway in Edmonton at around 7.30pm on Sunday evening.
He is thought to have got into an altercation with a group of boys who were attempting to enter the block of flats.
An ambulance and police officers attended the scene, where he was pronounced dead shortly after at 8.20pm.
A post-mortem examination, which took place on Monday, gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.
