A second-hand car dealer is beginning a life sentence after ambushing a rival in a busy bookmaker's with seven accomplices and stabbing the victim to death.
Dagazau Ali, 23, (pictured) of Aylesbury House, Friary Estate, Peckham was involved in an ongoing dispute with 22 year-old Jerry Iyiku over the repair and sale of vehicles locally.
He was convicted at the Old Bailey of murdering Jerry in the Old Kent Road bookie's on July 19, last year and must serve a minimum of twenty-five years.
The victim was in the bookmaker's with a friend at 7.45pm when eight men, including Ali, rushed in and surrounded and attacked him in a corner at the rear of the premises.
Jerry was repeatedly kicked, punched and stabbed and the attackers fled the scene as he collapsed to the floor.
The London Ambulance Service attended, but sadly he died at the scene.
A post-mortem examination at Greenwich Mortuary on July 20 gave the cause of death as a haemorrhage resulting from a stab wound to the chest.
Detectives launched a murder investigation which established that Jerry had been in a dispute with Ali over the ownership and sale of cars.
The catalyst for the murder was an argument that took place on May 16 at a car repair premises just off the Old Kent Road, which resulted in Jerry taking Ali's car.
On July 23 Ali was arrested outside his home address and subsequently charged with murder.
Detective Inspector Richard Beadle, from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said: "The fatal attack on Jerry Iyiku is one of the most cowardly incidents I have come across.
"As is so common in murder investigations, Jerry has lost his life over petty rivalry.
"It is immensely worrying that young men in London feel they can conduct themselves in this way without fear, or even consideration, of the consequences.
"Fortunately this proved not to be the case and Ali has been rightly convicted."
Olarenwaje Akanbi, 18, and Olamide Akanbi, 19, of Bird In Bush Road, Peckham and a 17-year old youth were all found not guilty.
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