Murdered for talking to the police

A teenage gang member fled to Spain after orchestrating the murder of a young father in revenge for co-operating with police, a court heard. Nashon Esbrand, 27, told officers five months before his death that 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’ due to being targeted by…