Thirty gang members attacked one Somali young man and beat him to death in front of passersby. Five years later, some of the perpetrators are being sentenced to long prison terms, some to life in prison.
From the Camden New Journal:
A FOURTH man has begun a life sentence for the “brutal and senseless” public execution of a teenager in Camden Town.
Gang warfare between rival groups of young Somalis led to the “shocking” death of Mahir Osman, an Old Bailey judge said on Friday. Judge Richard Hone, QC, sentenced his “cowardly” killer, Ahmed Farah, to serve a minimum 16 years following his conviction by a jury after a two-week trial for the 2006 murder.
Farah, 24, from Islington, played a leading role in the attack on engineering student Mahir, 18, from Taplow, Adelaide Road, who was known as “Smiley” to his friends.
A mob of more than 30, all heavily armed, ambushed the 18-year-old on the evening of January 28, a Saturday, and killed him within sight of hundreds of stunned passers-by.
One of those serving a lesser sentence is the son of Idi Amin!
Three have been given life sentences and the others various prison terms on lesser charges. One of them, Faisal Wangita, serving five years, is the son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
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