The Woolwich Crown Court has sentenced British nation Paul Campbell to decades in prison for the murder of a former doctor.

Mr Campbell was handed a 21-year jail term with a five-year extended licence for killing Gordon Ogunmuyiwa, in South-East, London.

According to the UK Metropolitan Police, the 43-year-old convict, on December 24, 2022, brutally assaulted Mr Ogunmuyiwa, 62. Me Campbell fled the scene after the assault.

The London Ambulance Service, said to have called the police to report of a man who had died in a house in Dunheved Road West, Thornton Heath, told officers upon arrival, that the suspect, who is a registered tenant of the address, was absent.

Attempts to reach Mr Campbell on phone was also futile, prompting officers, after making enquiries about him, to launch a murder investigation. Fellow residents were interrogated and their responses help the police quickly establish a pattern of behaviour.

The police also conducted a financial search and discovered that Mr Campbell had been making withdrawals from the victim’s credit cards which he used to buy an iPhone from a second-hand shop, a week after the incident. 

He was, however, arrested on January 11, 2023, and charged the next day, while a post-mortem examination conducted revealed that the defendant had multiple injuries. His sentence followed a three-week trial that concluded on May 8, 2025.

Expressing his condolences to the family of the diseased, Detective Chief who led the Met’s investigation, Inspector Samantha Townsend, described Mr Ogunmuyiwa, as a gentle man with no history of violence. 

“Ill-health, however, had seen him become increasingly vulnerable, something Campbell, a selfish and self-serving man took advantage of. It is hard to make sense of Campbell’s actions however, I can only hope that today’s sentence can go some way in providing a sense of justice to Gordon’s family,” the inspector stated.