{"id":3503,"date":"2008-12-04T15:54:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/04\/guilty-man-who-killed-over-250-debt\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:23:29","slug":"guilty-man-who-killed-over-250-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/04\/guilty-man-who-killed-over-250-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty: Man who killed over \u00a3250 debt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moosa Khan sentenced to life at Old Bailey<\/h3>\n
\"\"A MAN who callously stabbed another man to death over a debt of \u00a3250 has been sentenced to life today.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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Moosa Khan, 20, plunged a knife into the stomach of 23-year-old Leon Nelson following an argument over a \u00a3250 debt in July last year. <\/div>\n

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Today Khan was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey with the recommendation that he serve a minimum of 18 years before being considered for parole. <\/div>\n

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The Old Bailey was told that on July 31 last year Mr Nelson was with friends outside Pulham House on the South Lambeth Estate, when he was approached by Khan. <\/div>\n

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According to witnesses, the two men argued and then Khan stabbed Leon Nelson once in the stomach. He died just under an hour later at St Thomas’ Hospital. <\/div>\n

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Enquiries by detectives from the Met’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command quickly identified Khan as a suspect, and when officers visited his home they found he had not been back there since the night of the murder. <\/div>\n

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Further enquiries into his whereabouts resulted in Khan handing himself in to Croydon police station, where he was arrested. <\/div>\n

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During interview, and despite being identified by witnesses as Leon’s attacker, he denied being at the scene and refused to answer any other questions. <\/div>\n

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Officers also established that Khan had made over 150 calls to Leon over the five days before his death, including a final threatening text message around an hour before he was stabbed. <\/div>\n

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Detective Inspector Rick Murphy, who led the investigation, said: “Today’s result demonstrates our commitment to taking off the streets those who choose to resolve their disputes with knives. <\/div>\n

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“I’d like to thank the witnesses who were brave enough to come forward, a number of whom were able to give evidence from behind screens to protect their identity. <\/div>\n

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“Their evidence was vital in securing the conviction of a violent young man.”<\/div>\n

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Moosa Khan sentenced to life at Old Bailey A MAN who callously stabbed another man to death over a debt of \u00a3250 has been sentenced to life today. Moosa Khan, 20, plunged a knife into the stomach of 23-year-old Leon Nelson following an argument over a \u00a3250 debt in July last year. Today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}