Jail for gatecrashers at orgy host’s party

Three gatecrashers who killed a doorman at an exclusive New Year’s Eve party run by a notorious orgy host have been jailed for more than 24 years.

Tudor Simionov, 33, bled to death after he was knifed in the chest outside the £12.5 million Portland Place on Park Lane as gatecrashers fought to get in.

Nor Hamada, 24, Adam Khalil, 21, Haroon Akram, 26, battled with security guards after they were told they enter and Mr Simionov was killed in the struggle.

Host Lord ‘Fast Eddie’ Davenport, who is famed for his ‘Sexy Beast’ style VIP orgies, ‘ran out the back door’ in the ensuing mayhem.

The Old Bailey heard how female guests were escorted inside free of charge and they enjoyed bottles of free champagne, but male punters queued up to paying hundreds of pounds each for a ticket.

Tables were priced at £2,000-a-pop and ‘plates of cocaine’ were openly snorted as private security guards patrolled the three floors.

Lord Davenport stood behind the front door with his head of security, Mark McKinley, peering through a spy-hole.

The so-called ‘Lord of Fraud’ was jailed for seven years and eight months in 2011 for conning investors.

He was released just three years later as an ‘act of mercy’ after he was left gravely ill following a kidney transplant.

Trouble started outside when doorman, Atu Ngoy, threw Adham El Shalakany, 24, over the bonnet of a Lamborghini when he tried to buy his way inside with two female friends.

His friends came to his aid and a fight broke out between them and the bouncers resulting in Mr Simionov’s death and five other security workers being stabbed.

Mr Simionov went outside to quell the violence and had only been on the street for less than a minute before he was killed.

Judge Anthony Leonard QC said aggravating features of the offending were that it took place at night, involved a group and was in the presence of members of the public.

The judge added: ‘In respect of Khalil, I find a further aggravating feature that he was armed with a knife which he used that night and that he committed this offence whilst he was subject to a community order.

‘Having looked at the video evidence again it is clear to me that you played a major role in the violence and took part in serious and protracted fighting.

‘You must have been responsible for some of the injuries inflicted on the doormen other than Simionov.

‘In your case Hamada your involvement was less than that of Khalil, but you were clearly involved in aggressive fighting and punching directed against the doormen on more than one occasion.

‘Your reaction which involved you leaving the country to avoid the consequence of your actions does you no credit, but I accept that it is also an indication of your immaturity.

‘In your case Akram, you were at times trying to break up the fighting but that did not prevent you from lashing out against the doormen and, on one occasion kicking hard towards a man who was already on the ground.’

Body worn police footage later showed him being tended to by El Shalakany and another man as he lay dying in one of the venue’s red-lit en suite bathrooms.

Philip Evans prosecuting, told the court the attack was fast moving fracas which left the doorman with insurmountable injuries.

Footage of the brutal fight showed a knife being wielded by Ossama Hamed, 25, as Hamada fought with the doormen.

Jurors sitting on the trial heard Hamed inflicted the fatal wound before he fled the UK with Hamada who had been out celebrating his birthday.

Hamada and Hamed both went from Dover over to Calais, Northern France on the ferry, and then onto to Paris and Barcelona before flying to Morocco, North Africa.

They hid in Tangier then moved to the capital of Morocco, Rabat, where Hamada received a call from his mother telling him the police had contacted her explaining they knew he was not the knifeman.

Hamada and Hamed then made their way to Casablanca where the mood turned sour.

‘I stayed with him maybe three or four days, four or five max. He was going out and I told him I was not in the mood for going out,’ Hamada said.

‘As soon as he left, I got by bag and left. I went to Tangier. He poisoned my thoughts. He was using me as a scapegoat.

‘Mr Simionov and me, had no issue. I had no quarrel with him. He was a security man doing his job at the end of the day.’

Hamada was arrested at Gatwick Airport and told officers he was not a murderer.

Video footage shot by bystanders captured parts of the ‘fast-moving’ fracas – including the moment Mr Simionov was stabbed.

El Shalakany, of Fulham was cleared of violent disorder over his role in the fighting while his then partner Shaymaa Lamrani, 27, of northwest London was acquitted of perverting the course of justice by disposing of the murder weapon.

Hamada, of Wembley, northwest London, denied murder and five counts of GBH with intent.

He was convicted of violent disorder but cleared of four of the five wounding charges.
after a jury could not decide on the murder charge or the fifth GBH.

On 16 March a guilty plea to manslaughter was accepted in the alternative to murder and the fifth count of GBH was left to lie on file.

He was sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter and three years for violent disorder to be served concurrently.

Khalil, of Kingsbury, northwest London, admitted manslaughter shortly into the trial and was jailed for 11 years.

Similarly, Akram, of Fulham, southwest London, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received six years and nine months behind bars.

Ahmed Munajed, 27, of Hammersmith, west London, was earlier jailed for two years for violent disorder after admitting it.

Mr Simionov’s fiancée, Madalina Anghel sat through almost the entire trial and was in the well of the court as the verdicts were read out but was not present today (Fri).

Hamed is still on the run.

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