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Indian-origin man convicted of murder in UK
Sidhu, 28, and Philip Babatunde Fashakin, 26, were found guilty of the murder of Hashim Abdalla Ali, 22 on Wednesday.
The central criminal court of England and Wales has convicted Juskiran Sidhu and his accomplice of murder of a 22-year-old man in the London borough of Hillingdon in October 2018 following a trial, and are due to be sentenced.
Sidhu, 28, and Philip Babatunde Fashakin, 26, were found guilty of the murder of Hashim Abdalla Ali, 22 on Wednesday.
The court was told that on October 11, Ali was the passenger in a black Mercedes being driven by his friend. The car had pulled up on Central Avenue, Hayes, when Fashakin and Sidhu approached and discharged a firearm towards the passenger side of the vehicle, striking Ali.
Following the shooting, the driver of the car drove off in an attempt to get Ali to hospital, during which time it collided with a number of stationary cars. A passing ambulance stopped to provide assistance but despite their best efforts Ali was pronounced dead.
Scotland Yard’s investigation revealed that Fashakin hired a car in Reading. The same car was captured arriving in Central Avenue on the day of the murder and again leaving the location just one minute after the shooting is believed to have occurred.
The pair was then caught on CCTV at a shopping centre where they purchased new clothes and dumped the ones they had been wearing in a bin outside the shop. They also bought new sim cards and disposed of their old numbers.
On October 30, officers arrested Sidhu in a hotel in Birmingham, where he was staying using a false name. Fashakin was also arrested at a different location in Birmingham just a week later. Both denied having committed the murder and were remanded in custody.
Garry Moncrieff, detective chief inspector, who led the investigation, said: “This was a violent and callous attack in which a handgun was fired at the occupants of a car in broad daylight. Tragically the actions of these defendants led to a young man losing his life at the side of the road.”
