Overview

• Tinson pleaded guilty to the murder of 44-year-old acquaintance Matthew Phillips on August 4 after initially denying involvement.
• Judge John Thackray KC described the sustained head-stamping attack as "shocking and distressing" during the sentencing hearing.
• Humberside Police launched a murder investigation aided by witness tip-offs and CCTV and made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which remains paused pending the end of the court process.
• Tinson admitted at the scene and in custody that he intended to kill Phillips, declaring "I meant to do it. I killed him. He's dead. I'm a murderer."
• Phillips’s family has spoken of enduring profound grief and lasting pain since his death in Beverley’s Saturday Market.