Two jailed over 'contract killing'

On Tuesday, 25-year-old Isaak Billy, of Oxford Gardens, was convicted of murder and making threats to kill a man who would later become a prosecution witness ahead of his trial.

He was jailed for life with a recommendation he should serve at least 22 years.

A second defendant, 16-year-old hitman Santre Sanchez Gayle, of Compton Road, Kensal Rise, also convicted of murder, was jailed for life with a recommendation that he should serve at least 20 years.

Ms Subasi lived in Turkey and had travelled to stay with her mother in Hackney two days before her murder.

She had planned to visit her son for his birthday a few days later, ahead of her wedding in Turkey.

On March 22 last year, she was having a meal with her mother and a family friend when there was a knock at the door at around 8.20pm.

Ms Subasi went to answer the door and moments later, there was a loud bang.

Her mother went to the top of stairs and saw her daughter lying inside the doorway bleeding from a chest wound.

CCTV showed a boy entering an alleyway leading to the maisonettes and knocking at the door before taking a shotgun from his rucksack and pointing it at the house.

The gunman, Gayle, then ran towards the road and got into a waiting taxi.

His calm state meant the taxi driver had no idea what he had just done.

Police discovered that Billy had accepted the contract for Ms Subasi's murder and secured the involvement of Gayle, then aged just 15, to carry out the shooting.

Billy is believed to have been paid thousands of pounds for his role, and the teenager just £200.

Gayle was arrested after he gave details of his involvement in the murder to a friend.
Billy surrendered himself to police after hearing they were looking to arrest him, and both were later charged.

Ms Subasi's former partner Serdar Ozbek, 28, of Westbeech Road, Wood Green, was cleared of murder along with four other defendants.

The court heard that Mr Ozbek was afraid that Ms Subasi, who moved to Turkey after their relationship ended, would try to leave England with their son.