Fugitive convicted of murdering asylum seeker in park over £10 drug debt

A fugitive has been discovered responsible of murdering an Afghan man in a London park over a £10 drug debt.

Javid Ahmadzai, 28, fatally stabbed asylum seeker Moosakhan Nasiri as soon as within the chest throughout an assault by a bunch of fellow Afghans nearly six years in the past, his trial heard.

Mr Nasiri, 20, was punched and kicked within the east London assault that had began as a result of the sufferer owed cash for medicine which he couldn’t pay again instantly, prosecutor Lisa Wilding KC mentioned.

The row had damaged out on 15 October 2017 between him and three of the group in Plashet Park, East Ham, earlier than the defendant obtained a telephone name summoning him to the park to affix in.

Following an Old Bailey trial, Ahmadzai was discovered responsible of homicide and violent dysfunction.

The court docket had heard how Mr Nasiri got here to Britain in 2005 to hunt asylum after leaving Afghanistan. He had reportedly fled the nation after the Taliban killed his household.

He lived in Bradford earlier than shifting to London to stick with an Afghan foster household who lived close to the park the place he died.

Although he was not entitled to work within the UK, he would typically discover employment as a labourer, jurors have been informed.

After the park killing, Ahmadzai fled to France the place he was convicted in September 2018 of stabbing a person within the chest throughout an argument over the behaviour and language of the group he was in.

After he was launched from French custody on 21 June 2022, he was extradited to the UK and arrested for homicide.

Following his conviction on Tuesday, Ahmadzai was remanded into custody and he is because of be sentenced on 10 August.