Security guard ‘choked thief to death’ at mall

A SHOPPER warned a security guard he was choking a thief to death as he held him in a lethal neck lock at a busy mall, a court heard yesterday.

Horrified shoppers looked on as Aaron Bishop, 23, turned purple and eventually died at the Quadrant Shopping Centre in Swansea, south Wales, in July last year.

Samantha Gregory told a jury yesterday she initially thought the thief was a coloured man because his face was so darkened by the neck lock.