Killers of popular DJ who was ‘tortured to death’ are jailed | UK News

Two men who were found guilty of kidnapping and killing a popular DJ near the Tottenham Hotspur stadium have been jailed for a total of 33 years.

Mehmet Koray Alpergin was snatched along with his girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak in October last year, as they returned home from a meal at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair, central London.

Tejean Kennedy, 33, and Ali Kavak, 26, were found guilty of the kidnapping and false imprisonment of the couple and Mr Alpergin’s manslaughter last month following a trial at the Old Bailey.

The court heard they had taken the couple to a wine bar that backed on to White Hart Lane where Mr Alpergin, a 43-year-old father-of-two, was beaten with a baseball bat, scalded with boiling water and stabbed in the feet.

His body was later found dumped in a forest in Essex.

Ms Dalbudak, 34, spent two days locked in a toilet before she was freed and given money for a taxi.

Reading a statement on behalf of his family at the Old Bailey today, Mr Alpergin’s cousin, Neliz Halil, accused the defendants of attempting to ‘escape the consequences of their heinous actions’ and ‘tarnish (Koray’s) character’.

Ms Halil told the court Mr Alpergin’s parents had not smiled since his death and his father had suffered two strokes and a heart attack because of the ‘pain of losing his son’.

She added: ‘How can you tell your children about the barbaric torture their uncle experienced?’

Kennedy was handed 20 years in prison by Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC, while Kavak was given 13 years.

Samuel Owusu-Opoku, 35, who was found guilty of two counts of kidnap, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment.

Steffan Gordon, 34, who had previously admitted kidnap and was found guilty of two counts of false imprisonment, was jailed eight years.

A further two suspects are still at large after they were believed to have fled abroad.

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