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| Michael Adegbite |
The serial Gumtree robbers
who killed Michael Adegbite, 28, a model, fitness instructor and teaching
assistant who campaigned against knife crime was on Thursday, February 4, 2016, the Old Bailey
court heard how Mr Adegbite had been lured by the three teenagers, Christopher
Nzeh, Montel Ajayi and Isaac Owen-Brady, so they could steal the computer. The
three were found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.
Jailing
the serial Gumtree robbers for a total of 34 years, Old Bailey Judge Paul Worsley
QC said: ‘I do find you have all been prepared, in the past, to use violence on
those you have set out to rob and you have taken weapons to the scene.
‘Those
who go armed with knives to commit robbery, whether or not they are used in the
course of a robbery, will inevitably attract high sentences.
‘That
is underlined when the victim is targeted and the robbery takes part in his
home.’
The
judge sentenced Nzeh to a total of 21 and a half years for robbery, possession
of a knife and manslaughter, telling him: ‘You produced a knife from your
waist, opened it out, then thrust it deep into the chest of Michael, piercing
his heart.
‘The
jury have concluded that you alone were responsible for the death of Michael.
‘He
was only 28 years old. He was a model and a personal trainer. He had his whole
life ahead of him.
‘He
did not deserve to die alone in the street as he did.’
Ajayi,
who the jury found did not know a knife was going to be taken to the scene, was
jailed for five years for robbery and Owen-Brady was handed a 12-year sentence
for robbery, possession of a knife and a similar robbery on a 16-year-old.
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