A man has been found guilty of battering his flatmate to death with a clawhammer and stabbing him repeatedly in a “brutal and violent” attack.
Ergys Koci was found suffering multiple fatal head wounds and stab injuries in the bathroom of his home in West Green Road, Tottenham on September 21.
His flatmate Briken Quni, 43, aroused suspicion in officers after he came back a number of times to sleep in his bedroom while forensic officers examined Ergy’s dead body.
Detectives uncovered a furious row had erupted between the two men, who lived at the property together and were once friends.
Wood Green Crown Court heard that Quni launched a violent attack on Ergys, armed with a claw hammer. Ergys sustained multiple injuries including several blows to the head and a number of stab wounds, two of which punctured his lung and heart.
Prosecutors said Quni then tried to conceal the body and later tried to claim self-defence.
A post-mortem examination established Ergys’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. He had also suffered several stab injuries.
DCI Neil Rawlinson from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command said: “The level of violence used in this assault was extreme.
“Ergys sustained several heavy blows to the head with a hammer and was subjected to multiple stab wounds before he succumbed to his injuries.
“Quni then tried to conceal his body and later tried to claim self-defence.
“I’m glad that the jury saw through this and convicted him for this ferocious attack. I hope it brings some comfort to his family to know that justice has been served.”
Briken Quni, 43, of no fixed address, was found guilty following a trial at Wood Green Crown Court which concluded on Monday, 5 June.
Quni will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on June 30.
