Overview
- A unanimous jury at the Old Bailey convicted Donaldson of murdering 21-year-old Anojan Gnaneswaran, and the judge set sentencing for June 19 with Donaldson remanded in custody.
- Prosecutors said a £50 deal for 10 MDMA tablets at Strawberry Hill station in Twickenham led to a fight that ended with Gnaneswaran chased onto the tracks and fatally stabbed.
- A Ring doorbell near the scene recorded Donaldson saying, “I stabbed him fully,” and bus CCTV later showed him laughing and fist-bumping as he left the area.
- Police arrested Donaldson at his west London home on January 11, 2024, after finding him hiding in a cupboard and seized 74 wraps of crack and heroin valued at over £1,000.
- Investigators reported finding a knife and a black glove in a tree at the scene with DNA linking both Donaldson and the victim, and the family paid tribute to Gnaneswaran, a third-year accounting student and karate black belt.