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Mahir Osman |
Six in court for killing of student
Applications for bail refused over stabbing
SIX young Somali men charged with murdering teenager Mahir Osman in Camden Town were remanded in custody on Thursday.
Ismail Mohamed, 19, Faisal Wangita, 24, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were the first to be remanded in custody by Horseferry Road Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and then left the court.
The six are accused of taking part in the killing of Swiss Cottage student Mahir Osman who was stabbed in an attack in Camden High Street in January.
Mr Osman, 18, died in hospital a few hours later. The six defendants and 19 others were arrested on a double-decker bus.
Officers from Belgravia specialist crime department stated in court that police had recovered several weapons including hammers, knives, wine bottles, scaffolding and knives still in their supermarket packaging.
The public gallery was jam-packed with family members of the six defendants.
Two solicitors appeared for two 16-year-olds who cannot be named for legal reasons.
One solicitor, applying for bail, said that the youth had kept his bail conditions of reporting to the police. He lived in a close family unit and was a student studying mechanical engineering.
A solicitor for the other boy, also applying for bail, argued that he had never been in trouble with the police before.
Members of the families of the two boys were allowed in court, but not called to give evidence.
The defendants hung their heads in the dock as their names were read aloud.
District Judge Daphne Wickham refused the applications for bail.
Mrs Wickham said the possibility the boys could “fail to surrender” and because a number of other suspects are still at large led her to the decision.
Their next appearances will be at the Central Criminal Court. |
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