Fugitive fled UK after stabbing asylum seeker to death over £10 debt

Moosakhan Nasiri fled the Taliban in 2005 (Picture: Daud Musafar)

A failed asylum seeker who stabbed another man over a £10 debt has been jailed – after being released from a French prison for stabbing someone else.

Javid Ahmadzai, now 28, first moved to the UK from Afghanistan to try and claim asylum as a teenager, but he was refused and returned to his home country in 2015.

In 2017 he re-entered the UK illegally, and later that year he murdered fellow Afghan Moosakhan Nasiri, 20.

Ahmadzai and a group of others attacked Moosakhan, who was known as Moosa, in Plashet Park in East Ham in October 2017. Their victim was punched and kicked until Ahmadzai delivered the fatal blow, a single stab wound to his chest.

The group attacked Moosakhan because he owed them a £10 drug debt which he couldn’t immediately pay back, the court heard.

After the killing, Ahmadzai fled to France – but in 2018 he was convicted of stabbing a man during a row over the behaviour and language of the group he was hanging out with.

He was released from French custody last June and extradited to the UK, where he was arrested on suspicion of murder.

Following a trial at the Old Bailey Ahmadzai was found guilty of murder and violent disorder. He’s now been sentenced to 24 years in prison.

Moosakhan Nasiri was killed over a £10 debt (Picture: Daud Musafar)

Moosakhan’ Nasiri’sa murder was a ‘senseless and cowardly act’, the judge said (Picture: Daud Musafar)

During sentencing, Judge Mark Dennis KC said Ahmadzai had ‘multiple’ previous convictions for violent or aggressive offending between 2013-2014.

He added Ahmadzai’s use of a knife in the murder of Moosakhan was a ‘senseless and cowardly act against an unarmed and defenceless victim’.

The court heard a victim impact statement from Mr Nasiri’s cousin, Daud Musafar, who said he could not believe his cousin had been murdered.

‘When I found out, I could not believe what I was hearing, especially in a safe country like the UK,’ he said.

‘Moosakhan was a young man, who lost his life at such a young age.

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‘He was a happy and active young man and we were very close to each other, just like brothers. We looked after each other in the UK.’

He said Ahmadzai’s conviction meant that he and his family could ‘move on’, adding: ‘Although Moosakhan will never come back, the conviction of Javid has brought an end to this part of our lives.

‘I would like to let the judge and the court know, how much I suffered during this time and how this situation has affected my life.’

Moosakhan sought asylum in the UK in 2005 due to the actions of the Taliban. He lived in Bradford before moving to stay with an Afghan foster family in London, who lived near the park where he died.

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After the killing Javid Ahmadzai fled to France – but a year later he was convicted of stabbing another man.