Boy to stand trial for murdering youth worker outside tube station

A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a youth worker to death after the victim asked a drug dealer to ‘move on’ will stand trial in April next year.

The teenager allegedly knifed 20 year-old Omid Saidy near Parsons Green tube station in west London on the evening of 16 August.

Mr Saidy, from Fulham, was pronounced dead at the scene in Pursers Cross Road at 8.30pm.

An 18 year-old friend of the victim was also stabbed after trying to come to his aid on a moped, it is claimed.

Both the 16 year-old suspect, from County Durham, and Shafiq Smith, 18, of Laitwood Road, Wandsworth, are accused of murder.

The 16 year-old boy, who cannot he identified, appeared in court for a short preliminary hearing and was remanded in custody until trial on 16 April next year.

He is charged with murder and threatening a second man, Oluwafemi Omotosho, with a ‘large knife’.

Shafiq is charged with murder, attempted murder and threatening a person with a knife. He is due to appear at the Old Bailey later this week.

Mr Saidy was killed just six hours after charity worker Abdul Samad, 28, was stabbed to death in Little Venice by thugs on a moped who targeted him for his iPhone.

During previous police appeals, DCI Noel McHugh said: ‘A young man has tragically lost his life for simply asking a drug dealer to move on. I urge anyone who can assist our investigation to come forward without delay.’

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