Is this the same man?
A former kickboxer accused of murdering a reality star’s brother in front of his family
has denied scoping out the victim’s house while dressed as a litter picker.
Flamur ‘Alex’ Beqiri, 36, whose sister Misse Beqiri appeared in Real Housewives Of Cheshire, was shot dead outside his £1.5m home on Church Road, Battersea, on Christmas Eve 2019.
Alleged gunman Anis Fouad Hemissi, 24 alongside his Swedish compatriots, Bawer Karaer, 23, Estevan Munizaga, 35, Tobias Andersson, 32, deny murdering the father-of-two on December 24, 2019.
Claude Isaac-Castor, 22 and Clifford Rollox, 31, deny perverting the course of justice between the 24 and 28 December 2019.
Earlier this week Hemissi denied he was the gunman and told jurors he flew to London to ‘Netflix and chill’ with a woman he met online.
During cross examination he denied that he was the person filmed on CCTV staking out Mr Beqiri’s house disguised as a litter picker.
CCTV allegedly shows Andersson entering a shop and buying a litter picker wrapped in a cellophane packet and taking it to a flat on Oyster Wharf, Battersea, where Hemissi was said to be staying.
Andersson is later seen leaving the flat without the litter picker, the court heard.
‘When that cellophane was examined your fingerprint were found on it,’ said Mark Heywood QC, prosecuting.
‘On it is your right middle finger print. Someone who wanted to tear open the wrapping to get out the litter picker, and who was right handed, would use his right hand middle finger. Would you agree?’
‘I don’t know sir,’ replied Hemissi.
Asked what he did on the day when he was supposedly filmed picking litter on Church Road, Hemissi said he was ‘watching movies, watching series, playing games’.
He is accused of visiting Church Road again the next day dressed in dark clothes to be less conspicuous.
The clothing tags found in the Oyster Wharf flat had Hemissi’s left middle and left forefinger print on them.
‘That’s probably because you grabbed the tag and ripped it off with your left hand before you wore it,’ said Mr Heywood.
The prosecutor said the person on CCTV was wearing a Daniel De Prato jacket, of the same type that police were able to buy at Sams in Malmö, Sweden.
A tag for that jacket was also found with Hemissi’s right palm print on it.
More tags for trousers and gloves were found with Hemissi’s finger prints, the court heard.
‘I’m suggesting to you that these trousers were not just bought by you but worn by you and you removed the tag,’ said Mr Heywood.
‘The truth is that this is your clothing bought by your for surveillance purposes.
‘And the reason why your finger prints are all over these tags is quite simply that you pulled them off, didn’t you?’
‘No,’ replied Hemissi.
Mr Heywood: ‘You’re lying.’
Hemissi: ‘Why would I lie?’
Mr Heywood: ‘The reason why is for others to determine.’
Hemissi, Pino-Munizaga, both of Malmo, Sweden, Karaer, of Stockholm, Sweden, and Andersson, of Trangsund, Sweden, all deny murder.
Hemissi also denies possession of a prohibited firearm in relation to a self-loading pistol
Isaac-Castor, of no fixed address, and Rollox, of Percival Street, Islington, deny perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
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