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A man has been convicted of demolish after he became as soon as identified following the forensic diagnosis of discarded cigarettes at the scene.
Zak Baako, 29 (06.08.95) of no mounted cope with became as soon as found guilty at the Veteran Bailey on Friday, 20 December of offences including the demolish of 27-year-passe Michael Patrick Afonso Peixoto.
On 19 December 2023, police had been called to Mayfield Crescent in Thornton Heath at round 22:30hrs following experiences of a man being severely assaulted.
Officers arrived alongside the London Ambulance Service and located Michael on the ground with multiple stab wounds.
He became as soon as sadly pronounced dead at the scene and a demolish investigation became as soon as launched by detective from the Specialist Crime Command.
Enquiries revealed that a group of workers of men had been considered arriving at Mayfield Crescent and waiting in a white BMW for round 30 minutes. Michael and a legit friend attain at the gap in a Vauxhall Grandland.
Michael got out of the automobile and became as soon as confronted by a man holding a clean knife.
Michael became as soon as stabbed multiple times, including as soon as in the chest, as he tried to rep motivate to the automobile. The suspects then threatened his perfect friend with a knife and compelled her out of the automobile, earlier than stealing it. The car became as soon as located deserted shut by.
During searches of the plan following Michael’s death, officers located cigarette butts on the ground, shut to to where the BMW became as soon as parked.
Following forensic diagnosis, these had been matched to Baako, John Budal, 20 (07.03.04) of Ena Road, Thornton Heath, and Omari Peat, 23 (01.03.01) of Southampton Gardens, Mitcham.
All three had been arrested and charged with demolish and theft within a month.
Following a four-week-trial at the Veteran Bailey, the jury returned with verdicts on Friday, 20 December.
Zak Baako became as soon as found guilty of demolish and theft.
John Budal became as soon as found now not guilty of demolish, and guilty of manslaughter and theft.
Omari Peat became as soon as found now not guilty of demolish or manslaughter, and guilty of theft.
All three men will seem at the Veteran Bailey on 13 January 2025 for sentencing.
Detective Inspector Martin Thorpe acknowledged: “Zak Baako arrived that day, armed with a knife and became as soon as ready to make train of it against Michael Afonso Peixoto.
“It’s been dazzling over a year since Michael became as soon as killed, leaving his household including his younger son devastated.
“Whereas this Christmas will be no more straightforward than the final for his household, I’m hoping that this result lets in them to begin moving forward.”
