Overview
- Jurors at the Old Bailey found Michael Stewart, 57, and Anthony Stewart, 60, guilty of murdering Anthony Littler after less than three hours of deliberation on Monday, June 1, 2026.
- Prosecutors said Littler, 45, was ambushed near East Finchley Tube station on 1 May 1984 and died at the scene from two skull fractures and catastrophic brain injury.
- The case was rebuilt from preserved contemporaneous material such as the postmortem, station train logs and 999 call sheets that helped place people at the scene.
- Police used long‑running admissions from associates and a 2013 family disclosure plus covert surveillance, including bugging, to capture further evidence for the 2022 reinvestigation.
- Sentencing is scheduled for July 3, 2026, and the case highlights how courts can rely on hearsay, bad‑character evidence and joint‑enterprise law to prosecute killings when physical evidence and witnesses are no longer available.