Jarrad Spence-Robinson, 26, from Enfield was convicted in February of murdering 23-year-old Seun McMillan on 2 May 2017.[1] Mr McMillan was attacked in Cowper Gardens in Enfield as he walked home with friends.[1] He suffered a single stab wound to the chest from a large bladed weapon.[1] He claimed he supplied Mr McMillan with a nine-ounce bar of cannabis and had been paid for some but not all of the drugs.[1] The court heard that he sought repayment for the drugs.[1] He accepted he caused the injury that led to Mr McMillan’s death but claimed he acted in lawful self-defence.[1]
At the Old Bailey Judge Mark Lucraft KC sentenced Spence-Robinson to life imprisonment with a minimum of 32 years for murder as well as conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs and conspiracy to transfer criminal property.[1] The conspiracy charges were unrelated to the murder charge.[1] Having pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charges, Spence-Robinson was jailed for 16 years for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, five years for conspiracy to supply Class B drugs and four years for conspiracy to transfer criminal property, to run concurrent with each other and the life sentence.[1] Between March and June 2020 Spence-Robinson used the Encrochat handle Resilientmind to buy and supply cocaine and cannabis at a wholesale level.[1] The judge said Spence-Robinson would have received a total of 373,500 pounds from the drug dealing, based on the figures in the Encrochat messages.[1]
He fled the United Kingdom after the killing and travelled to Northern Cyprus before returning in August that same year.[1] He gave no-comment responses in police interviews and in 2017 the Crown Prosecution Service discontinued proceedings before the case was reopened.[1] He was charged with murder after arriving at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Canada on 15 February last year.[1] Victim impact statements from Mr McMillan’s family spoke of their profound loss and described his killer as someone with no remorse who lived a life of luxury built on dealing drugs.[1] The court was told Spence-Robinson wore an expensive watch and designer clothing, travelled widely and lived in a flat with high security.[1]
