Teenager guilty of murdering man in motorbike row

A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a man after the victim blamed him for knocking over his motorbike.

Sanchez Tate, 18, stabbed 21-year-old Mohamed Abdi Noor in the chest during the incident on 11 December on Tufnell Park Road in Islington, north London.

Mr Abdi Noor was taken to hospital, but he died early the next morning.

The defendant had denied murder, claiming he had acted in self-defence, but he was convicted of the offence by a jury at the Old Bailey.

During the trial, it was heard Tate and Mr Abdi Noor knew each other because they lived in the same road, but they were not friends.

Mr Abdi Noor had a "passion for pedal cycles and motorbikes" and previously told his wife about an earlier incident allegedly involving Tate, the court was told.

Prosecutor Catherine Pattison said the victim had gone to check his motorbike in his estate parking lot and found it on the ground.

He asked some teenagers who had knocked it over and they pointed to Tate.

The prosecutor said: "Mr Abdi Noor told Mr Tate that he needed to pay for the damage - a scratch - and some parts were damaged.

"The damage to the motorbike was still being repaired on the date Mr Abdi Noor died."

The Met Police was called to reports of a fight on the road at 19:27 GMT, and the court heard Tate ran off towards his home and was arrested soon after.

Ms Pattison said: "Before he lost consciousness, Mr Abdi Noor said 'Sanchez' and repeated it - meaning the name of the person who had stabbed him."

"The level of violence was out of all proportion for what was needed to rob someone," Ms Pattison told jurors.

"It has the hallmarks of targeted, if spontaneous, violence against a known individual, whatever lay behind it."

Judge Mark Dennis KC adjourned sentencing until 21 November, telling Tate he needed more information about his "plainly rather troubled past".

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