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18/06/2008
Men Found Guilty For 'Mistaken Identity' Killing
Two men have been found guilty of killing a 15-year-old boy as he slept in his south-east London home.
Mohammed Sannoh, 19, of Peckham, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, of Camberwell, have been convicted at the Old Bailey of the murder of Michael Dosunmu on 6 February, 2006.
Both Sannoh and Noor face a minimum of 30 years in behind bars though both men have denied the charges.
Michael was asleep in the bedroom he shared with his brother, when Sanoh and Noor broke into the room and fired a Mac-10 sub-machine gun. It is understood one of the four bullets fired fatally pierced his heart, killing him.
Leading the prosecution, Jonathan Laidlaw QC said "it was a well-planned and well-executed execution" and that Michael had "no chance of surviving".
Presiding over the case, Judge Stephen Kramer said that both men had "quite probably" carried out the killing as "an act of revenge" and that it was a "planned and premeditated killing".
The trial heard that Sannoh and Noor had wanted to kill Michael's brother Hakeem in revenge for a murder.
Michael's devoutly Christian family say they are standing by Hakeem and that they "bore no grudges" against the gunmen.
His mother, Shakira, said she had "forgiven them from the bottom of her heart".
It is reported that Michael's brother Hakeem had been involved in drug dealing and had been involved in three robberies from security firms.
It is understood Hakeem had been a former soldier who who fell into a life of crime after serving in Iraq.
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Mohammed Sannoh, 19, of Peckham, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, of Camberwell, have been convicted at the Old Bailey of the murder of Michael Dosunmu on 6 February, 2006.
Both Sannoh and Noor face a minimum of 30 years in behind bars though both men have denied the charges.
Michael was asleep in the bedroom he shared with his brother, when Sanoh and Noor broke into the room and fired a Mac-10 sub-machine gun. It is understood one of the four bullets fired fatally pierced his heart, killing him.
Leading the prosecution, Jonathan Laidlaw QC said "it was a well-planned and well-executed execution" and that Michael had "no chance of surviving".
Presiding over the case, Judge Stephen Kramer said that both men had "quite probably" carried out the killing as "an act of revenge" and that it was a "planned and premeditated killing".
The trial heard that Sannoh and Noor had wanted to kill Michael's brother Hakeem in revenge for a murder.
Michael's devoutly Christian family say they are standing by Hakeem and that they "bore no grudges" against the gunmen.
His mother, Shakira, said she had "forgiven them from the bottom of her heart".
It is reported that Michael's brother Hakeem had been involved in drug dealing and had been involved in three robberies from security firms.
It is understood Hakeem had been a former soldier who who fell into a life of crime after serving in Iraq.
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