Father ‘murdered for co-operating with police’

  A young father was cornered and stabbed to death in the street by a teenage gang in revenge for co-operating with police, a court heard. Nashon Esbrand, 27, told officers five months before his death he had received threats from the Islington-based ‘Cally Boyz’ for being a ‘grass’, jurors were told. Mr Esbrand, a former pupil at the Anna Scher theatre school, also told his doctor that ‘he was afraid to walk in the street’. On the day he…