Life sentences for drug dealer killers

Six killers who hacked a county lines drug dealer to death just metres from his front door have been handed life sentences.

Lyndon Davis, 18, was followed by a gang of youths in Romford, east London, as he walked home from a friend’s house.

Jordan Worrie, 18, slashed at him after leaping off of a moped before following him into a walkway leading to the teenager’s home in nearby Nash Road.

Two others, then aged aged 16 and 17, along with a third unidentified male ran into the alley after them where Lyndon was knifed six times in his legs.

The rest of the chasing pack, two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old, stayed across the road during the fatal attack while another unidentified male sat waiting in a getaway car.

‘The attack upon him lasted for about a minute,’ said Brian O’Neill, QC, prosecuting.

During the two and a half month trial jurors heard a statement from Davis’ mother, Aber Green who explained her son’s involvement in ‘county lines’ drugs dealing.

‘It may be that it was as a result of the deceased’s own gang membership that he came to be targeted and to be killed by these defendants,’ said Mr O’Neill.

Worrie, Jordan Muingilu, 18, Connor Corcoran, 18, his 17-year-old brother Michael Corcoran, Tyler Faubel, 18, and 16-year-old Ali Ali, were all convicted of murder and possessing offensive weapons.

They were variously aged between 15 and 17 at the time if the killing but Worrie, Muingilu and Connor Corcoran are now 18 and reporting restrictions for the other youths were lifted.

Judge Andrew Lees handed Worrie and Faubel life sentences with a minimum of 16 years.

Muingilu and the Corcorans were each given life sentences with a minimum sentences of 14 years.

Ali also received a life sentence and an 11-year minimum sentence.

Mr Davis was stabbed to death ‘just metres from his front door’ in Arneways Avenue on the night of 14 March last year.

‘He was returning from a friend’s house when he was spotted by these defendants who had travelled to the area where he lived in order to seek a confrontation,’ said Mr O’Neill.

‘They chased him, they caught him, and they murdered him.’

The chase was captured on CCTV showing the six youths and one other, referred to in court as ‘Suspect A’, following Davis.

‘Five of that chasing group of seven were openly armed with knives – and I’m not talking little penknives,’ Mr O’Neill said.

Worrie leapt off the moped he had been riding and ‘made a swinging or slashing movement’ at Davis before he, two of the other teens and Suspect A – ‘all of them armed with a knife’ – followed him into the pathway.

The other three defendants, who had been part of the chase along Arneways Avenue, ‘didn’t enter the walkthrough where the actual killing took place’ and waited across the road.

After the stabbing they all ran back to where another unidentified male, ‘Suspect B’, was waiting in the car which had ferried most of them there; Worrie and one of the others having arrived and left on the back of the moped.

As he lay dying in the small walkway Mr Davis managed to phone 999 and paramedics found him bleeding heavily from several knife wounds to his legs.

He was treated at the scene and rushed to Newham General Hospital where he was revived following open-heart surgery.

But despite the efforts of doctors he was pronounced dead shortly after 1am the following morning.

Jurors heard all the youths except Ali answered no comment during their police interviews.

He said he knew Worrie but denied presence during the attack.

But Mr O’Neill added: ‘It now appears that all six of these defendants will admit that they were present in Arneways Avenue when Lyndon Davis was chased and then subsequently killed.

‘It is anticipated that as this trial unfolds over the forthcoming weeks at least some of the defendants may seek to greater or lesser degrees to blame each other for Lyndon Davis’ death.’

Worrie, from Hainault, Barkingside, east London, denied murder and two counts of possessing an offensive weapon but was convicted. He was acquitted of three further counts of possessing an offensive weapon.

Muingilu, from Wanstead, east London, denied murder and three counts of possession of an offensive weapon but was convicted.

The Corcorans along with Faubel, all from Ilford, and Ali, from Ilford, all denied murder and possessing offenseive weapons but were convicted.
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