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Islington Tribune - by DAVID ST GEORGE
Published: 19 September 2008

Murder accused: death an accident

A STABBING victim’s death was a tragic accident and completely unintentional, the Old Bailey heard this week.
Ahmet Gomulu, 18, told a murder trial jury that he was not the aggressor and did not own the blade used to inflict fatal injury to popular student Nassirudeen Osawe.
Known as Nass, the 16-year-old from Petherton Street, Islington, was on his way to the West End to shop with two friends when they clashed with Gomulu at a bus stop near Angel on December 27 last year.
Gomulu, of Stoke Newington, denies murder and wounding.
He accused the friends of “staring” at him as he sat on the top deck of a 73 bus accompanied by his Staffordshire bull terrier Brandy, the court heard.
But his QC, Michael Grieve, claimed Gomulu was the innocent target of a bid to snatch the dog from him as he got off the bus, and violence flared as a result.
“It was three onto one,” the lawyer said.
In evidence, Gomulu said he had Brandy on a lead which one youth tried to snatch from him, threatening: “Blood, you might as well give me the dog before you get shanked [knifed].”
Gomulu told the trial: “I saw he had a blade up his right sleeve and then it was in his hand. I managed to grab it and was waving it in front of me, telling them to leave me alone. Nass grabbed me by the side of my hood. He tripped over the pavement and I lost my balance and dropped on to him.”
He said the knife in his hand went towards Nass as he tumbled “but I don't know whether it hit him”.
The trial continues.

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