Errol Woodger broke into a block of Flats in Peareswood Road in the early hours of December 29, 2019, the Old Bailey heard.
He was disturbed by resident Marc Allen, 50, and snatched his keys before retiring in his car.
When Mr. Allen tried to stop him, Woodger used the car “As a weapon” to direct it, said prosecutor Anthony Orchard Kc.
The neighbors found Mr. Allen along the way with a serious head injury, from which he died a month later, without having regained consciousness.
Woodger, 38, or Belvedere, had claimed that he was only a passenger in the vehicle driven by an accomplice who had outbreaks of an excess drug.
A jury in Old Bailey rejected his version of the events and found the former soldier, who served in Afghanistan, guilty of homicide and robbery.
Woodger had applauded at the dock, since he was authorized of the most serious murder crime on Tuesday.
The court had previously heard that everyone used a prosthetic limb since the lower right leg was amputated as results of a previous disease.
His car, a gray Mercedes Gla, had been supplied by a motion car scheme and was parked on the esplanade at the time it was stolen.
The court heard that Woodger had planned to steal tools and a vehicle and sell them and get money to spend on drugs.
Allen had been sleeping or watching television on his ground floor at Peareswood Road when a man was caught in CCTV outside.
The man climbed through a low wall and got into a unemployed neighbor through a window, said the prosecutor.
The victim put himself in his prosthesis, but left his other coach on the couch in his hurry to face the intruder in the community hall.
Orchard said: “In a matter of minutes, Marc Allen’s Mercedes was being stolen. The keys of his car had leg tasks. He may be sure that he would have voluntarily delivered.”
Mr. Allen was heard “that’s my car. You’re not taking my car”, while I was standing on the entrance path.
The automobile engine accelerated several times and everything could have suffered a “gun” As the vehicle quickly reversed outside the parking lot, the jury was told.
Mr. Allen stopped in the middle of the road with his hands up and said “That is my car,” the jurors were told.
Seconds later, the car accelerated “at the speed” and hit Mr. Allen, sending him crashing into the hood and on the roof of the Mercedes, according to the court.
Neighbor Linda Rumsey, who witnessed the incident, recalled: “He slid down the back of the boot and his head was when he hit the floor, I heard his head growing, he sent me a chill.
“Who was in that car had the intention of Bar, nothing was going to stop him.”
Other neighbors listened to Mr. All “Oi” several times, and a car scallding.
Louise Hamilton saw him on the floor and ran to help, jurors were told.
She noticed that Mr. Allen had a “golf ball size” blow on the back of the head and a similar one on his eye, as well as chin injuries, forearm and hands.
The emergency services were called at 2.53 AM and Mr. Allen was tasks for King’s College Hospital, where he died on January 29, 2020.
The jury members were told that the police found their robust Mercedes two days after they were tasks, on an entrance path on the island of dogs in eastern London.
Woodger was arrested on May 28, 2020 and gave a statement that denied the participation in the death of Mr. Allen, saying: “It was not close to the crime scene at the time the victim was attacked.”
He told the Police that on the day of the murder, he was attacked and injured by eight males on his way to his mother’s house in Greenwich, the southeast of London and tasks to the hospital, where he remained for Ah.
Police confirmed that it had been assault that afternoon, but that it happened 12 hours after theft and murder.
Orchard suggested that the assault on the defendant “was not a random act of violence, but was related” to theft.
The prosecutor said that Woodger had been beaten in a traveler site because he had “very hot” car tasks there immediately after the blow and the race.
Orchard told the jurors: “You know that there was a group of organized crimes that operated from the site, and that the people on the site were involved in drug treatment.
“They did not need attention. The car should be hidden, as was possible, not paraded in the site within an hour or have bone, simply having run the owner.”
After a police review of the case, more investigation lines were carried out last year when the defendant was Forensic Forensic to three stolen car articles.
Woodger was arrested after his digital footprints were identified in a plastic box and the water bottle found under the front passenger seat and his DNA was discovered in a cigarette.
Giving evidence in his trial, Woodger admitted to having been in the car, but said that an accomplice was being the wheel when Mr. Allen was beaten and was crouched in the passenger seat.
But Mr. Orchard told the jury: “Before you, we suggest, he has come with a carefully personalized version of events in a desperate and selfish attempt to try to save his own skin.
“It is not thought that the victim or his family. We suggest that it has been a song and song again. What he says simply does not accumulate.”
The court was also told that Woodger had committed 15 previous crimes, including robberies and attempted robbery.
The jury deliberated for seven and a half hours to reach unanimous verdicts.
Judge Rebecca Troowler KC retained the defendant to be sentenced on June 27.
