Robber who fatally kicked and punched pensioner jailed for 23 years

A robber who fatally kicked, punched and stamped on a vulnerable pensioner before taking off with a box of cornflakes and a cottage pie has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 23 years. John Mackey, 87, was targeted by unemployed Peter Augustine after he visited a Co-op store in Manor House, north London, on the afternoon of May 6.Earlier in November, an Old Bailey jury found Augustine, 59, guilty of robbing and murdering the “kind, generous gentleman” from Callan, Co Kilkenny, who had lived in London for around 70 years.