Drug seller concerned in capturing of innocent 22-yr-previous in excess of Rolex robbery is jailed for 13 years 

A drug supplier involved in the murder of an harmless person in a revenge plot over a stolen Rolex has been jailed for 13 several years.

Imani Allaway-Muir, 22, was ‘in the improper location at the mistaken time’ when he was gunned down in front of young children close to a playground in Islington, north London in July 2020.   

The killers had used a Obtain My Cell phone app to identify the past recognised spot of an Iphone taken in the theft and travelled there intent on revenge.

Even though 4 of the guys involved in his demise have already been sentenced, James Nicholson, 36, was sentenced for his job in the incident right now. 

James Nicholson, 36, was sentenced and jailed right now for manslaughter for his involvement in the demise of Imani Allaway-Muir

The Islington-gentleman is receiving 13 decades imprisonment for manslaughter and must serve two-thirds of his sentence before currently being thought of for parole.   

His 13 12 months sentence also reflects two more expenses for staying concerned in the provide of cannabis and cocaine that arose out of the proof from the demo. 

Talking to Nicholson these days, the Widespread Serjeant of London Judge Richard Marks stated: ‘You ended up significantly involved in Kyriacou’s small business. You worked for him most times delivering drugs and you acquired a little bit much less than 50 for each cent of the earnings.

‘During demo you conceded that he was for all intents and applications your manager. You also instructed the jury that you experienced some of your have clients. In any celebration, term extremely quickly distribute about the destiny that had befallen him in the theft, so all of the accused arrived at his flat.

‘You claimed all through your demo that the only goal of this was to check out if he was alright. In my judgement that was manifestly untrue.’

Nathaniel Reece, 40, who pulled the set off, was sentenced to lifestyle with a bare minimum of 33 many years and two months. 

Darren Dredge, 40 and Matthew Hardy, 35, ended up both equally sentenced to daily life with least phrases of 10 and 7 and a half decades for manslaughter, respectively. 

Demetrios Kyriacou, 35, who planned the hit, was jailed for lifestyle and requested to provide a minimum of 31 many years. 

Kyriacou’s sentence also mirrored convictions for conspiracy to source Class A medicine, which he admitted. 

Decide Marks stated that Kyriacou was ‘fired up and aggressive’ following the robbery. 

After the killers began to search for the cellphone, they satisfied a team of youthful males they suspected ended up the robbers. 

He ongoing: ‘Kyriacou preserved to the jury that the robbery and medicines was just anything that comes about. He suggests he was calm and accepting of the situation. I say this is much off the mark and not the actuality of how drug sellers function.’

Imani Allaway-Muir, 22, was ‘in the incorrect put at the mistaken time’ when he was gunned down in front of youngsters in the vicinity of a playground in Islington, north London in July 2020

‘A range of youths began to run and your team open up fired, indiscriminately discharging 15 bullets.

‘There is no proof in any way that he [Imani] had in fact been associated in that theft, he just experienced the grave misfortune of currently being in the erroneous put at the mistaken time.’

The gun used to destroy Imani was never ever recovered and nevertheless continues to be in illegal circulation.

Mr Allaway-Muir’s mother Keetha Allaway formerly read through a target affect assertion to court docket, calling her son ‘my eldest little one but my most significant little one.’

His father Jason Muir stood beside her sporting an Arsenal jacket and keeping a photograph of their son.

Providing her comments wanting straight at the killers in the dock she mentioned: ‘I do not know how to convey this suffering to all of you who’ve taken my lifestyle.

‘My son was a wonderful youthful male so comprehensive of life.

‘Now, every single time I near my eyes all I see is my son’s lifeless system coated in blood.’

His mother stressed that he ‘did absolutely nothing improper and was innocent’, going out that day with ‘no awareness of any robbery’. 

She continued: ‘It kills me to feel of how scared he was when he observed them surface and shoot him. I know by the route he ran away he was hoping to make his way dwelling to me.

The killers experienced applied a Find My Cellphone app to track down the very last identified place of an Iphone taken in the robbery and travelled there intent on revenge

‘Not only did I have to witness him dying but so did both of those of his younger brothers and his two tiny sisters.

‘The working day all of you took this incredible boy’s lifetime you not only ruined his life but that of my other small children. They have been crying every day because of to the loss of their major brother.

‘I was when crammed with this sort of joy and pleasure but now I can barely depart the property due to the fact I am consumed with unhappiness.

‘My minimal female thinks it’s usual to be at a cemetery each and every day, she was only one particular when her brother was murdered.’

Brandishing the image of her son in direction of the killers, she added: ‘A handsome young gentleman, this younger man.

‘Look at him! Lying in a casket is a thing no dad or mum must ever have to see.

‘No mother need to ever have to bury their son. I can only ever dream what he would have grow to be.’

Associates of the killer’s households, sat in the public gallery, walked out in tears as she spoke.

Following hearing the speech, Reece instructed his lawyer to not put forward any mitigation to the choose on his behalf and requested that he was not provided any credit score for his guilty plea.

Prosecutor Jacob Hallam KC earlier claimed: ‘It was on Saturday 4 July in 2020 at 19 minutes past a few that Imani Allaway-Muir was shot dead.

‘He was shot useless in a engage in area at the finish of a residential cul-de-sac in London.

‘The shooting was witnessed by several users of the public who took place to be in the location which includes younger folks.

‘The unexpected emergency services ended up termed, they arrived at the scene and uncovered Imani getting appeared just after by associates of the general public.’

By that stage he was unconscious and inspite of the efforts of the London ambulance provider he was pronounced dead at 3.49pm, 30 minutes after he experienced been shot.

The prosecutor continued: ‘A submit-mortem examination uncovered 4 bullet wounds, just one to the appropriate buttock, one particular to the left forearm, a person to the still left shoulder, and the past a glancing wound to the still left ear.

‘It was the to start with of those wounds, to the proper buttock, which was lethal to Imani.

‘This killing was revenge for a robbery in which Imani had performed no aspect in any respect.’

Mr Hallam explained the killers had fulfilled at Kyriacou’s Islington flat on the 6 Acres estate to focus on the prepared taking pictures.

He stated: ‘Down the alleyway they went, out of the alleyway they arrived, and there Mr Reece shot Imani Allaway-Muir useless.

‘When Reece opened fire, Imani Allaway-Muir was in the improper put at the wrong time.’

Reece admitted murder although Kyriacou and some others had been convicted by an Old Bailey jury at demo in May perhaps.

The court read that Reece, Kyriacou and Dredge had been ‘prolific drug dealers’ and that Kyriacou would acquire between 1 and a few kilograms of cocaine each individual a few to four weeks paying out £30,000 for each kilo for a £4,000 profit.

Ms Allaway stated possessing to sit as a result of her son’s demo was ‘too much’.

She explained: ‘Having to sit as a result of his demo, obtaining to revisit that day when I just was not completely ready and listening to the information of what occurred to my son for the to start with time in front of detached strangers and the men that killed him was horrifying.

‘To those people involved it may possibly have been just another murder situation but for me this was my son.

Nathaniel Reece, 40, of Southgate Highway, admitted to murder and was sentenced to everyday living with a bare minimum of 33 decades and two months

Darren Dredge, 41, and Matthew Hardy, 36, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter

‘You will hardly ever fully grasp how distressing a trial is to sit via and to continue to be composed- at periods it was just as well much.

‘None of the defendants confirmed any remorse or compassion for Imani.

‘At the really least these gentlemen should have pleaded guilty, preserving us from the additional heartache.

‘Despite getting in jail they all get to see their small children- all of that was taken from me.’

Demetrios Kyriacou, 35, of Liverpool Road, Islington, was convicted of murder, jailed for daily life and requested to provide a least of 31 decades

Hardy’s father William Hardy, 71, together with Dean Walker, 33, and Hassan Hamza, 27, were cleared of equally charges right after the trial which lasted far more than two months.

Dean Walker was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months for conspiracy to provide prescription drugs.

Reece’s sentence integrated unauthorised possession of a knife and affray in prison, which he admitted. He denies intent to supply medicines and will be tried using at a afterwards day.

Dredge’s sentence incorporated conspiracy to provide medicines and possession of legal assets, which he admitted.

Kyriacou, Dredge, Matthew Hardy, William Hardy, Walker, Nicholson and Hamza, all from Islington, all denied murder and manslaughter.

Reece, also of Islington, admitted murder.