A knife-wielding murderer who stabbed a man to death in a broad daylight attack outside a north London cafe faces jail over the killing.
Ibrahim Elkadmiri, 31, repeatedly stabbed victim Yahye Ahmed, 23, in an altercation outside a cafe on Holloway’s Axminster Road around midday on August 30 last year, with police saying the exact motive for the fight remained unclear.
Woolwich Crown Court heard how the victim had been with friends as he saw Elkadmiri walk past, when he armed himself with a baseball bat and followed him down the street.
Elkadmiri then produced a large knife from his waistband and stabbed Yahye five times.
He fled the scene where Yahye was left dying on foot, chucking the baseball bat into a nearby wheelie bin.
Yahye’s friends, who had been running toward the confrontation, stopped abruptly when they saw Elkadmiri holding the knife and all left the scene.
Police then discovered that Elkadmiri had made multiple calls to his accomplice, Ahmed Ahmed, who arranged to pick him up after the killing in his BMW in Tottenham’s Hermitage Road.
Ahmed then left Elkadmiri at a friend’s address to lie low and purchased a grey tracksuit from a shop in Wood Green for him to wear in place of the clothes he was in during the killing.
Elkadmiri was later seen on CCTV disposing of a carrier bag containing the bloody clothes he had been wearing while carrying out the murder.
Met Detective Sergeant Devan Taylor said: “Despite an extensive investigation, we may never know what the dispute was between the victim and Elkadmiri, but we do know that the confrontation was violent in the extreme and ended a young man’s life.”
DS Taylor said Elkadmiri, with the support of Ahmed, had attempted to do everything he could to get away with murder.
“He disposed of the victim’s baseball bat, escaped the scene in Ahmed’s BMW, laid low at an address nearby, changed into fresh clothes and was seen on CCTV disposing of the clothing he wore at the time of the stabbing,” he said.
“Then, later that evening, he disposed of his mobile phone.
“His efforts to cover his tracks were not enough.”
Elkadmiri, 31 of Axminster Road, Holloway, was found guilty of Yahye Ahmed’s murder after a trial on Monday.
Ahmed Ahmed, 34, of Waldegrave Road, Hornsey was convicted at the same hearing of assisting an offender.
Both will be sentenced on September 25.
