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Patrick Beckley, 32 of no fixed address, was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on Monday, 25 October to life with a minimum of 21 years imprisonment having been convicted at an earlier hearing of the murder of Michael Lavery, as well as actual bodily harm of two other men and assault on an emergency worker.
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