Man jailed for murder after 2006 attack led to fatal epilepsy years later
Jordan Burton has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 10 years, for murdering Daniel Allright, whom he attacked in Deptford in 2006 when Burton was 14 and Allright was 16. Allright died in 2022, aged 31, from post-traumatic epilepsy linked to the severe head injury he suffered in the assault.
The court heard that Burton struck Allright with a piece of wood during an attempted robbery by a group of youths, who also took his bicycle; the article’s headline says a bicycle chain was used too. Allright underwent two operations, including one in which part of his skull was replaced with a titanium plate, and later experienced thousands of seizures. His mother found him in the bath after he had reported another seizure and a headache the previous day; a post-mortem found no evidence of drowning or natural disease.
- Burton received life imprisonment with a minimum term of 10 years.
- Allright’s fatal epilepsy was linked to his 2006 head injury.
- He endured years of seizures and disability after the attack.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Ex-youth footballer is jailed for at least ten years for murder of teenager he attacked with a bicycle chain who died from epileptic fit in bath 16 years later”.