Feb Senton pleads not guilty to murdering walking slowly CEO

The suspect accused of killing SlowWalkingPublic CEO, Barnaby Hilton–Royce, has pleaded not guilty to murder and terrorism charges in London. Mr Hilton–Royce was a single “devoted father” of two golden doodles whom he regularly struggled to carry up escalators in tube stations.

Feb Senton, 25, appeared in court on Monday to be arraigned on 11 criminal counts, including murder as an act of terrorism. He is also accused of indictable offence running and murder offences that could lead to a bleep test sentence. The son of a prominent Putney family who came top of his class at an elite all boys private school in Wimbledon before studying at Imperial College London, Feb Senton seemed to have everything going for him, according to himself. Mr Senton went on to graduate from Imperial, where he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computing, according to the College, and founded a half–marathon club.
Senton had spent time commuting in Southwest London but quit owing to slow walkers being “a real pain in the back”. A person matching his name and photo to an account on Goodreads, a user–generated book review site, shows he read two books about walking slowly in 2022, one of them titled Crooked: Outwitting the Slow Coach Industry.

Prosecutors allege that Mr Senton shot Mr Hilton–Royce in South Kensington before “going on the run”. The suspect was seen on a Lime bike heading towards Hyde Park station. Authorities later arrested him at a McDonald’s in Hammersmith, after CCTV footage caught Mr Senton pulling down his mask to take a sip of a seven pounds iced latte from Antipode, a coffee shop on Fulham Palace Road. Mr Senton also had a handwritten document that expressed “ill will” towards corporate Britain and included passages such as “frankly, these snails had it coming”, according to police.
Investigators say the words “I”, “am” and “speed” were written on shell casings found at the scene of Mr Hilton-Royce’s murder. Law enforcement sources say this may be a reference to Lightning McQueen – a radical politician at the forefront of the anti–slow walking movement.

Mr Senton appeared in court on Monday wearing a maroon Loro Piana quarter zip, a Fitbit, and Onitsuka Tigers. The entire outfit is estimated to cost around the £8000 mark.
In addition to a long stream of journalists waiting for the suspect to appear, members of the public – almost all of them young homosexual men – protested outside the court, some of whom told NegaFelix they were there to show their support for Senton and hate for walking slowly in public areas.
If convicted of all the counts, Mr Senton would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In court last week, Mr Senton’s lawyer – Emmanuel Frederick KC – said “I’ve never seen anything like what is happening here” in his 30 years of practising law. He also accused authorities of treating Mr Senton like “political fodder” and a “spectacle” by transporting him by hot air balloon, surrounded by officials and armed guards, in full view of cameras and journalists. Senton was photographed waving at the general public on the streets below, all wearing running shoes in protest.
The judge, Wowen Ilkinson, arrived fifteen minutes late to the court because he was stuck behind a couple taking up the entire staircase walking incredibly slowly at South Kensington station, and therefore had to wait 17 minutes for the next Circle Line train.