# Killer, 22, who bragged ‘I stabbed him’ after knifing accounting student to death on railway line is jailed for life

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/killer-22-who-bragged-i-stabbed-him-after-knifing-accounting-student-to-death-on-railway-line-is-jailed-for-life/
- Published: 2026-11-06T22:07:25+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T22:21:00+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16272813/Killer-22-bragged-stabbed-knifing-accounting-student-death-railway-line-jailed-life.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Dino Donaldson received a life sentence with a 23-year minimum.
- He killed Anojan Gnaneswaran after following him onto railway tracks.
- The victim’s family described the lasting impact of their loss.

## Summary

Dino Donaldson, 22, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for murdering accounting student Anojan Gnaneswaran at Strawberry Hill station in south-west London. The killing followed a confrontation between two groups over a £50 drug deal, and the judge described it as a savage attack on a helpless young man.

Gnaneswaran, 21, was stabbed first in the abdomen and then in the chest after Donaldson followed him onto the railway tracks; he died at the scene shortly after midnight on 9 January 2024. Donaldson was recorded boasting about the stabbing less than an hour later and was arrested three days afterwards, when police found him hiding in a cupboard. He was convicted of murder at a retrial in April, and his barrister said he had experienced substantial trauma.

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