Moment murderer threatens clubbers before killing Ian Wright's trainer

This is the terrifying moment a murderer threatens clubbers shortly before he killed a celebrity boxing coach friend of Ian Wright by stabbing him in the neck.

Ross Hamilton, 34, is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering Reece Newcombe, 31, who trained soccer pundit Ian Wright.

Video footage captured at 11.24pm shows Hamilton confronting a group of people outside a nightclub in Richmond screaming 'I will f**k you up' at people.

Just over four hours later, Mr Newcome was heard gasping ‘he’s done me’ after he was attacked by Hamilton outside the Viva nightclub.

Both men had been watching England play the USA in the Qatar World Cup in a fan zone in Richmond Park on 26 November 2022 before going out to a club.

Hamilton was seen acting aggressively and had earlier elbowed a man in the face causing him to fall to the floor.

He was seen doing ‘karate kicks’ on the dance floor and shouted at clubber that he would ‘ju jitsu the f**k’ out of them and ‘wrap people up like a pretzel’.

Father-of-one Mr Newcombe helped train former England star Wright, 59, and other celebrities for a charity boxing match in 2014.

He also trained actor Jack O’Connell, who starred in the drama ‘SAS: Rogue Heroes.’

Hamilton denied murder and assault by beating but was convicted by an Old Bailey jury today (fri) after 15 hours and 21 minutes of deliberation.

Hamilton shouted ‘I didn’t f-ing mean it man, how, how?’ at the jury after he was convicted while members of Mr Newcombe’s family screamed ‘yes’ and cheered.

Judge Anthony Leonard, KC, will sentence him on 11 October.

Hamilton had been drinking heavily and taken cocaine and ecstasy before he killed Mr Newcombe.

Prosecutor Louis Mably, KC, earlier said: ‘Hamilton had been causing trouble throughout the night in various different ways in various locations including inside the nightclub.

‘He had gone from the fan zone to the nightclub and as he walked from the fan zone he was increasingly aggressive, accosting members of the public and women, standing in front of lorries and throwing beer over a passing car.

‘Throughout the evening he was involved in a number of low-level altercations with other individuals inside, goading people and behaving erratically, doing karate kicks on the dance floor, harassing people - sometimes putting his arm round people sometimes being aggressive.

‘Then at the end of night when the nightclub closed and everyone spilled onto the street, instead of going home he was hanging around outside, behaving in an aggressive and erratic manner.

‘At 3.20am he walked up to another man much smaller than himself, engaged him in conversation and then without any warning at all, elbowed him in the face as hard as could causing the man to fall to floor.

‘Having elbowed the man to the floor he began dancing around in the street, confronting security staff and screaming at people “I will ju jitsu the f-k out of you.”

‘He was looking for people to fight.

‘He continued to hang around outside the nightclub and goad people to have a fight with him.

‘Shortly before 4am he was still there, spoiling for a fight when Reece approached him.

‘And it seems the defendant had been goading Reece and his friend and in the end Reece decided he was going to confront him. And that was a tragic decision on his part.

‘What happened was exactly what Newcombe was hoping to happen- he got the fight that he asked for.

‘Except what he had done before the fight started, a few minutes before he found someone to fight with, he had armed himself with a piece of broken glass and put in in his pocket ready for when the time came.’

A witness saw him smashing a glass to make the makeshift dagger.

The prosecutor added: ‘When the time did come, he took the glass out of his pocket and in the fight with Reece stabbed him in the neck causing a fatal wound.

‘He immediately began to appear seriously wounded, he grabbed his neck and grabbed and friends rushed in and it became a general melee in the side street.’

Hamilton was pushed to the ground but drove away from the scene.

Two police officers attended and found a large crowd of people outside the Nando’s near Richmond Bridge.

Mr Mably said: ‘At the bottom of the stairs they saw that a man was lying on the ground and was covered in blood and members of the public were around him kneeling down trying to give first aid.

‘It was clear he had a serious wound to the right side of the neck.’

Mr Newcombe was taken away in an ambulance and had emergency surgery but was pronounced dead at 10.15am.

A few days later Hamilton handed himself in at a police station and claimed he had been acting in self-defence.

Giving evidence in court Hamilton said: ‘I’m ashamed of myself, I was acting like a prat.

‘I’m sorry and I’m remorseful, but at the same time I have ADHD and when I’m drinking I’m very over the top.

‘I can’t stop fidgeting and moving my hands around.

‘I was just excitable, I’d taken some drugs that day, had lot of drink, I was bouncing around like a Duracell bunny, just high energy.

‘I was actually in a good mood, good spirits, I was having a good night.’

He claimed Mr Newcombe approached him and said: ‘Fight me, fight me, you think you’re a hard man, you smacked my mate, fight me.’

‘I knew Reece was a boxer, I didn’t want to fight him,’ Hamilton said.

He said someone else then grabbed him on the back of the shirt and he tried to put his beer bottle on a wall but it fell and smashed.

He said ten to twenty people then came around the corner.

‘At this point I knew an attack was imminent,’ he said.

‘I just grabbed a bottle off the floor and started swinging. I don’t know if it was broken at the time I don’t think it was.

‘I was trying to get free, I’m surrounded, getting battered.’

Hamilton sobbed: ‘I never intended for anyone to lose their life.

‘I was just trying to fight back.

‘I didn’t really have time to think anything, it all happened in a second I was just getting kicked and punched from the front, back, every angle.’

Mr Newcombe became a father to a girl in June 2022 and his heartbroken family wrote on social media: ‘This is the hardest thing for us to write.

‘We are truly heartbroken at the loss of our son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin.

‘Words cannot describe our grief. Our family is broken and never will be the same again without Reece’s larger than life personality.

‘As a family, we will make sure his darling daughter Misse will know all about her Daddy and how much he loved her and how much he was loved by everyone.

‘We appreciate everyone’s love and support. RIP our beloved Reecey Bear.’

Jurors had heard how Hamilton assaulted his girlfriend in 2020 by hitting her in the shoulder with a bottle and then kicked her in the stomach.

He was also convicted of assaulting a taxi driver in 2014 after he punched him twice in the head after an argument about the fare.