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Trio face trial for ‘execution’
THREE men have been charged with “executing” a murder suspect who was extradited from the United States in connection with the shooting of a clubber in Holborn five years ago.
After 22-year-old Damian Cope was shot outside Browns club in Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, on July 29, 2002, the prime suspect walked free.
Damian, from south London, was involved in a row which ended with him collapsing with a bullet in his stomach. As he lay dying he named his assailant as “Sparks”.
At the Old Bailey in 2004, alleged killer Andrew Wanoghu, 26, from Deptford, south-east London, was cleared of the murder after a vital prosecution witness refused to testify against him.
While on Scotland Yard’s wanted list, Wanoghu was living in Florida where he was arrested by FBI agents and later extradited.
But his freedom was short-lived. He was gunned down in April last year in Brockley, south London, in what detectives described as a “professional execution”.
Sereata Barrie, 28, Delphon Nicholas, 28, and Michael Williams, 27, all from the Woolwich area, will face murder charges at the Old Bailey in January. |
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