Ibrahim Elkadmiri

A MAN has been jailed following his conviction for the murder of 23-year-old Yahye Ahmed in Islington.

Ibrahim Elkadmiri, 31, of Axminster Road in Holloway, appeared for trial at Woolwich Crown Court.

On July 29 he was found guilty of the murder of Mr Ahmed. He was sentenced at the same court yesterday (Thursday) to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years.

Ahmed Abdi Ahmed, 34, of Waldegrave Road near Hornsey, was convicted at the same hearing of assisting an offender. He was also sentenced yesterday to two years’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.

At around midday on August 30 2023, Mr Ahmed was with a group of friends outside a cafe in Axminster Road. The victim saw Elkadmiri walk by the cafe, armed himself with a baseball bat and followed him.

Yahye Ahmed

CCTV seized by officers showed the victim following the defendant along the road holding the baseball bat. The confrontation between the two took place off camera. However, eyewitness testimony and dash-cam footage confirmed that Elkadmiri had produced a large knife from his waistband that he used to stab Mr Ahmed five times.

Elkadmiri fled the scene on foot. As he left he threw the baseball bat in a wheelie bin. This was later recovered by officers.

Detective Sergeant Devan Taylor of the Met’s Specialist Crime Command said: “Despite an extensive investigation, we may never know what the dispute was between the victim and Elkadmiri, but we do know that the confrontation was violent in the extreme and ended a young man’s life.”

Further CCTV enquiries showed Elkadmiri speaking to someone on his phone. It was later found that those calls were to the second defendant, Ahmed Ahmed, arranging for him to pick him up.
Ahmed drove his BMW to collect Elkadmiri at Hermitage Road in Tottenham and the two drove away together to the address of a friend of Elkadmiri where he would lie low.

DS Taylor added: “Elkadmiri, with the support of Ahmed, did everything he could to get away with murder. He disposed of the victim’s baseball bat, escaped the scene in Ahmed’s BMW, laid low at an address nearby, changed into fresh clothes and was seen on CCTV disposing of the clothing he wore at the time of the stabbing. Then, later that evening, he disposed of his mobile phone.”