Santre Sanchez Gayle, aged just 16, has been told he will serve at least twenty years in prison after being convicted for the murder of a young mother.
Gayle, also known by the gang name Riot, was just 15 when he shot and killed mother of two Gulistan Subasi in Hackney with a sawn off shotgun. He was paid just £200 for the East London hit.
By the age of 14, Gayle, who lived in Kensal Green, north west London, already had convictions for attempted robbery. He was a member of a notorious street gang known as the Kensal Green Boys (KGB), who were responsible for violently robbing commuters outside Kensal Green tube station.
The Old Bailey heard that the teenager was hired by a middle man, Izak Billy, to carry out the shooting last March. Billy, of Willesden, north London, was also found guilty of murder and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 22 years.
The prosecution claimed that he had been hired by Subasi’s ex-husband, Serdar Ozbek from Tottenham, who was also on trial for murder. After deliberating for three days the jury found Ozbek not guilty.
According to Detective Inspector Andy Chalmers, who led the inquiry into Subasi’s murder, it is common for Turkish gangs to recruit young black men to commit murder.
Judge Stephen Kramer told Gayle, “You were an easily led, immature youngster, who, if money was involved, was capable of violence out of loyalty, having cynically been used by others. You shot and killed Gulistan for money, and at the bidding of an older man who you were trying to impress.”
Is the price of a human life really just £200?
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