Pair cleared of Turnpike Lane drug boss murderTwo men accused of helping stage the assassination of an underworld drug boss were cleared of murder today.
Twenty-three-year-old Yunis Sagir, of Progress Way in Wood Green, and Ozan Toprak, 27, of Stowe Place in South Tottenham, were said to have been part of a masked hit squad that executed Ali Armagan, 32, in the street.
Armagan was the head of the one of London’s most notorious drugs and racketeering gangs, the Bombacilar. He was gunned down behind Turnpike Lane tube station in February 2012.
Police believe rivals from the Tottenham Boys criminal clan shot him at the climax of a ‘bloody and lethal’ underworld battle.
The gunmen have never been caught but Tottenham boss Kemel Eren - also known as ‘No Fingers’ - is suspected of plotting the murder.
He has since fled to his homeland, where he is in a critical condition having himself been shot.
Sagir and Toprak were accused of helping with transport to and from the scene of the Armagan assassination but were cleared of murder after a month-long Old Bailey trial. They claimed they believed they were only getting involved in a cannabis deal.
Minicab driver Suleyman Tonbul, 54, his son Hasan, 26, and Mehmet Senel, 24, are also facing years behind bars for their part in the fatal plot. They tipped off gang bosses about Armagan’s location in the minutes before he was shot.
The trio were initially charged with murder but prosecutors accepted pleas to a lesser charge of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm before the trial began.
The victim was blasted in the neck as he sat behind the wheel of his blacked-out Audi A8 outside Turnpike Lane Tube station.
He stumbled into a nearby barber’s shop in Langham Parade where he collapsed and bled to death.
Sagir said he only found out about the killing later in the day, but had gone for a jaunt to Southend to play the arcades because he was worried about heavy police presence. Toprak did not give evidence during the trial.
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