A 22-year-old has confessed to murdering a man in a stabbing after a broad daylight street fight in north London.
Kozma Papa, 22, of Fairview Road, Cheltenham, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Thursday of murdering Bledi Petraj, 37, and will be sentenced on December 6.
The court heard how the emergency services were called to a stabbing on Enfield’s Queen Elizabeth’s Drive at around 2pm on February 4.
They found Petraj, who was from Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, with knife injuries, and he later died of his wounds in hospital.
Papa was arrested by Met officers in a car that was stopped in Hertfordshire that same day. He was charged the following day with murder.
Met Detective Sergeant Matthew Goode said police believed on the day of the murder, the victim pulled over in his car on Queen Elizabeth’s Drive when Papa pulled in behind him and they began fighting.
The fight “ended in a senseless loss of life,” he said.
“It has never been established why they fought, but whatever the reason for the confrontation, I know it wouldn’t justify the loss felt by Bledi’s family and the years that Papa will now spend in prison
“I am pleased that this guilty plea will spare Bledi’s family the experience of a criminal trial – my thoughts are with them today.”
A 30-year-old man, who was also arrested as part of the investigation, was released without further action.
