Seventeen Years For Killer Who Beat Pole To Death In West London Alleyway

17 Years: Vitalie Daikov

A killer who beat to death a Polish father, who travelled to the UK for a better life for himself and his family, has been locked up.

Homeless Vitalie Daikov, 26, attacked 31 year-old Kamil Metler after the victim joined him in walking down alleyway with a prostitute late at night.

At the Old Bailey he received 17 years imprisonment for manslaughter and must serve at least two-thirds of the sentence before he can be released.

Police, the London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance helicopter were called to Montague Road, Hounslow, west London at 2.52am on October 8, last year.

At the scene they found Kamil unconscious in an alleyway between Lampton Road and Montague Road.

He had suffered serious head injuries and died at the scene a short time later.

Witnesses told officers that they had seen Kamil being kicked and stamped on the head as he was on the ground.

A post-mortem examination held at Uxbridge Mortuary gave cause of death as head injuries.

Detectives established that a few hours before his death, Kamil had been in the Yates pub on Bath Road.

He left the pub and was seen on the street outside talking with the prostitute before they, and a man, moved along Lampton Road to the alleyway.

The woman was seen to run out of the alleyway back into Lampton Road shortly after and the man - identified as Daicov - walked out of the alleyway in the opposite direction.

In this alleyway Kamil received his injuries from Daicov, who argued that he feared he had been set up and was about to be robbed.

Beaten: Kamil Metler

When officers located Daicov, they discovered that he had not met Kamil before that night.

He was charged with murder, was found not-guilty of this offence.

The woman was not arrested.

Detective Inspector Will Reynolds, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: "Dailkov’s uncontrolled rage has taken the life of a man who had come to Britain in search of a better life and to enable him to support his young son.

“I sincerely hope that the sentence handed down today brings a measure of comfort to Kamil's family."

Kamil’s mother said: "I have not reconciled myself and I dare say I never will reconcile myself to the fact that my son is dead.

“I even feel a sort of emptiness, a void between his life and the grave. I did not see him dead and all of that has not got through to my consciousness.

"I try not to think about that, but the image of my son keeps coming back on sleepless nights and I feel a huge pain when I think how much he must have suffered when he was lying, having been beaten mercilessly by Daikov.

“Daikov left him dying slowly while he quietly strolled about the streets of London, he did not help him, he did not call the emergency services, he took no interest in what was happening to him."