The 17-year-old girl was cleared of murder but admitted conspiracy to rob late in the trial while giving evidence following the brutal killing in south-east London
A 17-year-old girl who tricked a young man into a fatal trap is facing jail time.
Ayodeji Habeeb Azeez, 22, thought he was meeting a girl he had chatted to on Snapchat and social media when he drove to a car park in south-east London, on November 4 last year.
The girl was waiting for him outside the car park and beckoned him to where killer Kevin Lusala, 22, and his gang lay in wait to steal the victim’s BMW, a court heard.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named, hugged Mr Azeez in his car then fled as Lusala stabbed him 16 times to his torso, back and shoulders.
He managed to stagger out of the car park where he was ambushed leaving a blood trail and collapsed on the floor just outside the entrance.
Police and paramedics also struggled to stem the blood loss from his horrific stab wounds.
When a pathologist examined his body two days later, he found his lungs and ribs had been punctured in a ‘very serious stab wound’ which ’caused the most serious damage’.
The 17-year-old girl was cleared of murder but admitted conspiracy to rob late in the trial while giving evidence.
Lusala wailed loudly as the Old Bailey jury unanimously convicted him of murder and conspiracy to rob.
A 17-year-old male, who cannot be named, was cleared of murder and conspiracy to rob.
Judge Dennis remanded Lusala, Gray and the 17-year-old girl in custody ahead of sentencing on December 20.
Louis Mably QC, prosecuting said: ‘Mr Azeez had driven from Dagenham to Anerley that morning. The reason he did that was because he was tricked into driving there.
‘He thought he was going to meet a girl but when he arrived and met up with the girl and was guided by her into the car park a group of boys were waiting for him to rob him, and the attack was carried out.
‘Kevin Lusala was the one armed with large knife. The defendants were talking together and they had agreed to rob Mr Azeez that is why he tricked into coming to the carpark.
‘One of the people who lived nearby had witnessed something very significant. She had been looking out of her bedroom window in a nearby house.
‘She looked across Samos Road to a small car park – it is a private car park. She heard a commotion and she looked and what she could see was three or four youths running out of that car park and turned left and went out of view.
‘Again, at about the same time something else happened at the entrance of the carpark. A dark blue car sped out and drove off at sped in the same direction of those three or four youths.
‘That blue car that was driven out of the car park was in fact Mr Azeez’s own car and he had been attacked in it in the car park causing spots of his blood to splatter all over his material.’
Two college girls had been to a house party held at a nearby apartment used by the defendants as a base and saw blood on the clothes of the attackers as well as items of Mr Azeez’s property.
‘Lusala had blood on his jacket, his jeans and his chin,’ Mr Mably added.
‘Lusala said, “I need to get out of here.”
During the trial a teenage girl who partied with the gang after the killing said Lusala, who she knew as ‘Crim’, told her the victim was stabbed because he ‘wasn’t being compliant’.
She said Lusala coldly remarked that ‘n * s die every day’ and that he was glad Mr Azeez ‘now couldn’t give evidence’.
‘I felt sorry for him but had no feelings for him.
‘I saw one pair of eyes and I just got out and ran. They were wearing face coverings and dark clothes.’
She had met Mr Azeez on the pretence of going on a date but in her evidence she said she knew Mr Azeez was being set up.
The girl said she ‘realised Azeez was being tricked and knew they were going to rob him’.
Lusala claimed he was returning from buying a takeaway when he saw Mr Azeez being attacked and intervened.
Gray denied involvement in the murder and said he also went out to buy food.
He said he saw the 17-year-old girl ‘running out of the car park’ and saw a group around the victim’s car, with blood on the ground and a nearby fence post.
Gray learnt from the news that ‘someone was dead’, the court heard.
He claimed he later told Lusala: ‘If I get nicked for something you have done, I won’t do any time because I haven’t done anythin
Lusla, of Orpington, Gray, of south Norwood, the 17-year-old girl and the the 17-year-old male, of south London, all denied murder and conspiracy to rob.
Lusala, Gray and the girl will return for sentence on 20 December.
Earlier during the trial Brandon Griffith, 20, was cleared of all charges
