Nigerian born music supervisor stabbed to loss of life in UK

A Nigerian born music supervisor was stabbed to loss of life after celebrating his birthday with a designer watch value as much as £300,000, a London court docket heard.

The Previous Bailey heard that Emmanuel Odunlami, 32, was attacked by three robbers after leaving the Haz restaurant close to St Paul’s Cathedral within the Metropolis of London on Might 1, 2022.

They had been allegedly knowledgeable by a safety operator, Kavindu Hettiarachchi that Odunlami was sporting a Patek Philippe Nautilus watch value between £90,000 and £300,000 if real.

Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson KC said that Hettiarachchi was a significant member of the safety workforce employed by the occasion’s organizer, Playhxuse, for the non-public ticketed brunch and afterparty with DJ.

“It was a part of his function to guard the security of these, like Odunlami, who had been attending the occasion. In reality, he did the other,” the court docket was informed.

The sufferer, identified to buddies as Jay, had pushed to town in his gray hatchback Mercedes on the day of his loss of life to have a good time his birthday with buddies, having bought tickets for a £1,400 desk.

Because the occasion got here to an finish round 11 p.m., Hettiarachchi was caught on digital camera filming outdoors the venue and calling Louis Vandrose, in response to Dailymail.

The court docket heard that Vandrose and Jordell Menzies had been then pushed by Quincy Ffrench in a white Mercedes with altered quantity plates from north west London.

The Prosecutor stated: “The proof reveals that Vandrose, Menzies and Ffrench had been setting off in a automobile with a disguised registration to be able to perform a theft, and their goal was on the Haz restaurant the place Hettiarachchi was working, and to which by cellphone he had summoned them.’’