A gang of men who attacked a pair of brothers have all been convicted at the Old Bailey

A gang of men who attacked a pair of brothers, leading to the death of one and life changing injuries for the other, have all been convicted at the Old Bailey. The nine week trial saw seven defendants stand accused of various offences relating to the murder of 35-year-old Edmond Jonuzi (also known as Edmond Preci) and the assault on his brother Eraldi Preci in Green Lanes, near 123, London N17, was found guilty of violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon. Five other men were all found guilty of one count each of violent disorder. They were: Tenzin Massiah, 23 of Strode Road, Tottenham, 123 arrived, they found Edmond lying with stab injuries near the entrance to Ducketts Common, a small community park. Despite their best efforts, sadly Edmond, 35, from Albania, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10.39pm A subsequent post mortem examination found the cause of 1 was a stab wound through the heart. His brother Eraldi managed to get himself to the hospital despite having sustained a serious head injury. Once there his condition rapidly deteriorated and he was rushed to a major trauma unit diagnosed with a bleed on the brain and a fractured skull – which required an urgent operation that doctors deemed to be life-saving. He still has trouble now, nearly a year on, with headaches and concentration. Police were able to gather a good picture of the events leading up to the attack from evidence they obtained, including good quality 123 later showed that the group had been involved in other assault and disorder incidents earlier that night. Some had active Criminal Behaviour (CBO) and Anti Social Behaviour Orders put in place to stop them congregating in the Duckett’s Common area – and barring some from associating with others. Police made a deliberate decision to pursue seven of the group – those arrested throughout the months after the attack and subsequently charged – as those individuals who could be shown to have used unlawful 123 to an offer from two of the men to buy drugs. During the course of the trial evidence was presented that conveyed a picture of the attackers as a group of young men all well known to each other, habitually involved in drug dealing and accustomed to regarding the Duckett’s Common area as streets they felt they ‘owned.’ It was this territorial attitude shared by all the young men in the attackers group, the prosecution argued, that led to a fight developing into a violent and ultimately fatal incident. Two of the group were also known to have launched sudden, apparently unprovoked attacks in the hours prior to the major assault on the brothers. In the first they attacked another youth standing near them outside a betting shop. The victim was hit with a bottle, before being manhandled to the ground, where the duo punch and kick him, trying to stamp on his head. This occurred in full view of members of the public and CCTV cameras. The youth managed to get away eventually and ran from the scene. In the second prior incident, which occurred on the basketball courts in the park, there was an altercation involving the same two men subjecting a different youth to another bout of casual violence, punching and kicking, with one of the pair even putting his hands round the throat of one victim. Police were called, but the youth said the attack was just ‘play-fighting.’ Around an hour and twenty minutes later, the Preci brothers had their encounter with the group in the same park. During the post-mortem carried out later, Edmond was found to have 19 separate injuries on his body. The brothers’ devastated mother, Dava Preci, who was unable to travel from Albania for the trial, paid tribute to the ‘relentless work’ the detectives had put in to bring the case to trial. In a victim impact statement prepared for 1, she detailed how the attack has torn apart her the life of her family for good: “On 9 June my world changed forever, leaving me so broken and empty inside. Edmond was well loved by everyone, full of life and with big dreams for the future. His life got cut short so brutally. “I am left to relive the images of the fear and pain my sons went through over and over again. I can no longer sleep in peace. “My son Eraldi not only 1 his brother but is left traumatized by the violent attack on that dreadful day. My daughter Esmerina looked up to her elder brother for everything.”