"Disturbing Footage: Serial Killer Fights with Teens Hours Before Gruesome Murder"

THIS is the shocking moment serial killer James Desborough is filmed fighting teens in the street – just hours before he murdered his second victim.

Footage shows the , sparring with teenagers in Truro, Cornwall.

Shocking moment serial killer James Desborough spars in street with teens just hours before he killed man Credit: Supplied Desborough is seen with a moustache scrapping with two young men and a young woman Credit: Supplied

The videos were taken on June 3 last year – the last day victim Daniel Coleman was seen alive – while the pair were on a pub crawl in the city.

Desborough, 40 – fan of serial killer TV show Dexter – is seen with a moustache scrapping with two young men and a young woman in the cobbled Boscawen Street in the city centre.

Wearing black shorts and a jumper he is seen flailing as he parrys blows and throws slaps at the teens.

He takes on a young woman with black hair with his hands behind his back as he tries to dodge but is slapped in the face.

Twisted James Desborough was a massive fan of the TV show Dexter Credit: Facebook Desborough stole his roommates’ money and used Daniel’s cash to treat himself to a ‘large beef roast’ after chopping him up Credit: POLICE HANDOUT/UNPIXS

Just hours later he took , chopped up his body, cremated it and buried it in a shallow grave.

Winchester Crown Court heard how Desborough had three “explosions of fatal violence” towards vulnerable and weaker men.

The muscly and intimidating dad-of-one was staying at a centre for recovering addicts in Newquay early last year where he met Coleman, 43, and Claudio Aquilino, 57.

While living at the centre Desborough slept with Mr Coleman’s wife, though the two remained friends and after they left the centre they both lived at Desborough’s cabin in Paramoor Woods in Sticker, Cornwall, in spring 2025.

They were joined by a number of other residents, including Mr Aquilino, who would intermittently stay on the land.

But Desborough became angry with the people staying with him and on May 30, he sent a text saying he was “bloodthirsty” and “real hostile” to one of his friends.

Chillingly, a week earlier, Desborough had told Daniel he was a “fing r*d” and warned him: “Don’t take me for a mug, boy.”

That was the same date Mr Aquilino became a .

A shallow grave found near Desborough’s cabin in Paramoor Woods, Sticker, Cornwall Credit: Solent Handwritten notes found in the killer’s cabin Credit: PA

Desborough killed Mr Coleman in the early hours of June 4 after getting him drunk on the pub crawl in Truro.

searched Desborough’s land after the men were declared missing and they found 1,900 burnt bone fragments belonging to Mr Aquilino at the stream.

A shallow grave was also found in which Mr Coleman’s burnt and dismembered body was found next to a can of petrol.

Desborough smiled in court as the jury gave their guilty verdict.

While in jail awaiting trial for the murders, Desborough strangled his third victim, cell mate Steven Kempster, because he was irritated by his snoring.

Mr Justice Saini, who sentenced James Desborough, 40, at Winchester crown court, said the circumstances of the case were unique.

Handing Desborough a rare whole-life order, he said the killer was a highly dangerous person who had considered his victims “worthless”.

The judge said Desborough killed his two friends because they were vulnerable, homeless, physically slight individuals who he considered would not necessarily be missed given their chaotic personal lives.

An axe found outside Desborough’s cabin, near where the graves were found Credit: Solent Cops scoured the woods after finding several body parts Credit: POLICE HANDOUT/UNPIXS

“I also find you did not consider them to be worthy of respect as humans,” the judge said.

Saini added that a whole-life order was a “last resort”, used only when the seriousness of a case was “exceptionally high”.

During the sentencing hearing, emotional victim statements were read out that made clear the men who were killed were loved and did have worthwhile lives.

Coleman’s 14-year-old daughter said: “I love him. I was a daddy’s girl; now I can’t be. It hurts to see I’ll never see him smile again.”

She said it terrified her to think her father would have been frightened when he was killed and told Desborough he was a “miscreant killer”.

More than 700 officers and scientists were involved in the 175-day search of the woods, with Devon and Cornwall police drawing on resources from five other forces.

The weather was very hot and the nature of the terrain jungle-like and boggy.

Cops sometimes had to wade through water up to their chests as they searched.

Aquilino’s family said he had been a talented artist and a good cook, although addiction problems had made his life very difficult.

Aquilino and Coleman, who suffered from long-term addictions, had previously lived with Desborough at a homeless hostel in the Cornish surfing hotspot of Newquay.