UK - Koray Alpergin, 43, DJ found deceased in Laughton Essex, abducted with girlfriend outside their home. Murder investigation, 13 October 2022

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First picture of London radio DJ found dead in woodlands

Tributes have been paid to the radio DJ who was found dead in woodlands near Loughton.
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''This is the first picture of a DJ who was found dead in woodlands after fears he was ‘taken against his will’.

Tributes have been paid to Koray Alpergin, 43, who was found near an industrial estate on Saturday morning.

Koray, radio DJ and the owner of London station Bizim FM, was found near Loughton, Essex, on Saturday after a man and a woman who knew one another were missing.

Three men have been arrested in Kent in connection with the investigation on suspicion of murder and they remain in custody''.
 
..."Tejean Kennedy, 33 and Samuel Owusu-Opuku, 35, were both found guilty of kidnapping the DJ and his girlfriend.

Kennedy and Steffan Gordon, 34, were found guilty of the false imprisonment of the DJ, but Owusu-Opuku was cleared of that offence.

Gordon was convicted of the false imprisonment of Ms Dalbudak as was Kennedy. Owusu-Opuku was cleared of that offence.

The jury cleared Gordon of the murder of the DJ.

Kennedy was also cleared of the murder - but found guilty of manslaughter.

Owusu-Opuku was cleared of murder.

Junior Kettle, 32, was cleared of murder, kidnap and false imprisonment and walked free.

Erdogan Ulcay, 56, denied but was convicted of perverting the course of justice by assisting with the disposal of Mr Alpergin's body or the destruction by fire of a Fiat Diablo van and Renault Megane.

Owusu-Opuku and Yigit Hurman, 18, previously admitted perverting the course of justice.

The jury deliberated for over 42 hours before reaching their unanimous verdicts. Judge Sarah Whitehouse, KC will now sentence them on a date to be fixed"...

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Gang who kidnapped DJ and tortured him to death face years behind bars

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Mehmet Koray Alpergin (pictured), 43, was ambushed outside his north London home and bundled into a van along with his girlfriend on October 13, 2022.
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Court 9 at 10am Sentence of Steffan Gordon and five others in relation to the murder of Koray Alpergin, 43. The victim was kidnapped outside his home and then taken to a disused restaurant in Tottenham, North London where he was repeatedly physically assaulted, resulting in 94 separate injuries to his body including 14 fractured ribs and a blow to the head, which caused brain damage.
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At the Old Bailey on Tuesday, Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said drugs were “at the heart” of the case, referencing evidence by prosecutors that it was related to “international organised crime”.

She described Mr Alpergin’s death as a “horrific murder”, adding if the defendants were convicted of that offence they would have received a life sentence with a minimum term of 30 years and “probably considerably higher”.

[...]

Judge Whitehouse sentenced Kavak, from Tottenham, to 13 years’ imprisonment and Kennedy, of Cricklewood Broadway, to 20 years.

Gordon, of Northolt, was sentenced to eight years and Owusu-Opoku, of Wood Green, to seven years’ imprisonment

Yigit Hurman, 18, from Muswell Hill, north London, who admitted perverting the course of justice, was sentenced to two years.

 
more charges -

"Mitchell-Peart and Stoyanov are charged with murder, two counts of kidnap and two counts of false imprisonment.

The pair appeared at the Old Bailey today via video link from HMP Belmarsh. Stoyanov was assisted by a Turkish interpreter.

Mitchell-Peart, of Grange View Road, Whetstone, and Stoyanov, of Remington Road, Tottenham, were remanded in custody ahead of a further hearing on 22 February.

Their trial was provisionally set for 1 July."

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Pair appear in court accused of kidnapping Turkish DJ and girlfriend

Kyrie Mitchell-Peart, 31, and Isay Stoyanov, 43, allegedly ambushed Koray Alpergin (pictured), 43, and his girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak, 34, outside his north London home.
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Mayfair: Three jailed after kidnap and 'horrific' killing of DJ

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and his girlfriend were kidnapped as they returned home from a restaurant.
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Three men have been jailed following the kidnap and killing of a Turkish radio DJ who was "horrifically tortured" by an organised crime gang.
Mehmet Koray Alpergin, 43, who owned a Turkish radio station, and his girlfriend, Gozde Dalbudak, were bundled into the back of a van as they returned home from a night out at a restaurant in Mayfair, central London, in October 2022.
A post-mortem found Mr Alpergin had suffered 94 separate injuries before his body was found dumped in woodland in Essex.
Dylan Weatherley, 20, from Tottenham, Kyrie Mitchell-Peart, 33, from Barnet and Isay Stoyanov, 44, who is also from Tottenham, were sentenced at the Old Bailey on Thursday
 
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