Jeffrey Okafor (left), who was only 18 when he stabbed Carl Beatson Asiedu (right) 19, outside a nightclub in Vauxhall, central London in August 2009 when a late-night row escalated into violence, has been found guilty of murder.
Within an hour of the attack, Okafor confessed in a phone call to his girlfriend that he had stabbed Carl, and days later he told the same woman that he had stabbed the DJ in the stomach. She said he gave her a pair of black gloves to look after which were later passed to police. DNA which may have come from the victim was found on one of the gloves.
A post-mortem examination concluded the cause of Mr Beatson Asiedu’s death was a single stab wound to the front of the chest.
Sarah Whitehouse QC, prosecuting, told Woolwich Crown Court that Okafor had no connection with his victim prior to the attack. She said “It is not clear, and will probably never be known, what led up to the killing of Carl Beatson by Jeffrey Okafor. You may hear that there was some ill-feeling between some members of the two groups, but there was nothing serious enough in the background for anyone to explain why knives should be drawn. What is clear, the prosecution say, is that Jeffrey Okafor was the man who killed him.”
The prosecution said four days later Okafor boarded a flight from Heathrow Airport to Lagos using his brother’s passport.
He was extradited from Nigeria in November last year.
This is one of the consequences of war. Children who do not have any part in causing the war are sexually abused, sodomised and victimised by people who are supposed to protect them. For those who want war to happen in Nigeria through their careless speech and action, they better learn. Bringing foreign troops to our land has bitter consequence. If we don’t care for our country outsiders won’t.
Sorry I meant to write this somewhere else