A 20-year-old Nigerian man has been found guilty of
murdering a teenage boy in north London. Uchechukwu Ejimonye, of Roth Walk, N7
was yesterday, Wednesday, 22 June found guilty at the Old Bailey in connection
with the death of 17-year-old Vasilaki Kakko in Holloway. He was sentenced on Thursday, 23 June.
Detective Inspector Mick Norman, from the Met's Homicide and
Major Crime Command, said:
"What started as an evening out with friends quickly
escalated into a moment of extreme violence. Whilst it is unclear what led
Ejimonye to fatally stab Vasso, it is obvious to most people that there is
never any excuse to take someone else's life…"
On 23 November 2015, police were called at approximately
20:50hrs to reports that a man had been stabbed on Yoke Close, close to North
Road, N7. The London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance also attended
and Vasilaki - known as Vasso to family and friends - who was from Newington
Green was pronounced dead at the scene at 21:22hrs.
A post-mortem examination held at Whittington Hospital
Mortuary on 25 November 2015 gave cause of death as a stab wound to the neck. Detectives
from the Homicide and Major Crime Command launched an investigation and quickly
established that Vasso had been socialising with a small group of acquaintances
in a small public square. Without explanation, one of these men produced a
knife and stabbed him in the neck before running away.
The man was later identified as Ejimonye. He was traced by
officers to the Bognor Regis area where he was arrested with the assistance of
colleagues from Sussex Police on 30 November 2015. He was transferred to London
and charged the following day.
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