In October of last year, Mehmet Koray Alpergin and his fiancée were kidnapped as they were walking home from a restaurant in Mayfair, central London.
In a murder with all the characteristics of major organised crime, “sadistic thugs” tortured a well-known radio DJ to death close to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a court has heard.
The Old Bailey was informed that Mehmet Koray Alpergin and his fiancée were kidnapped last October as they were leaving a posh Italian restaurant in central London’s Mayfair.
They were escorted to an abandoned wine bar with a view of White Hart Lane, where Mr Alpergin, 43, is said to have been beaten, choked, scorched with hot water, stabbed, maimed and molested.
His 34-year-old girlfriend, Gozde Dalbudak, spent two days imprisoned in a bathroom before being released, the jury was informed, and his body was eventually discarded in an Essex woodland.
At the Old Bailey, six men are on trial for a variety of murder charges kidnapping, false incarceration, and justice-flipping.
It is apparent that Koray Alpergin was brutally tortured and stripped naked before he died. The prosecution claims that it is not difficult to imagine a group of sadistic thugs taking turns inflicting injury based on the quantity and type of injuries inflicted.
“It is obvious that before his death Koray Alpergin had been stripped naked and horribly tortured,” Crispin Aylett KC said in his opening statement at their trial on Wednesday.
The prosecution claims that it is not difficult to imagine a bunch of cruel criminals taking turns inflicting pain, whether through punches and kicks, beating him with a bat, scorching him with boiling water, or slashing his feet. This is supported by the number and character of the injuries inflicted.
Jurors were informed that Mr. Alpergin, a well-known and well-liked figure in the British Turkish community and the proprietor of London’s Bizim FM, a Turkish language radio station, was originally from northern Cyprus.
His attackers had been waiting in wait for him and Ms. on the evening of October 13 of last year.
Father-of-two Mr. Alpergin was allegedly shoved into a white van as they made their way home to Enfield, north London, while Ms. Daldudak was allegedly driven there by a masked knifeman.
Jurors were informed that the van and the two cars drove off in a convoy to an alleyway on White Hart Lane in Tottenham that led to the back of the Stadium Lounge wine bar.
Koray Alpergin was killed here, in the Stadium Lounge, according to Mr. Aylett.
“As for Godze Dalbudak, she was confined to a Stadium Lounge loo for over two days. She wasn’t released until late on Saturday afternoon, October 15.”
The unclothed body of Mr. Alpergin was brought to Loughton, Essex, where was abandoned in the woods on October 15 and discovered a short time after by a dog walker.
Any way you look at it, this was a horrendous act that involved a lot of individuals.
According to Mr. Aylett, a post-mortem investigation revealed 94 distinct wounds on his torso, which was also covered in scrapes and bruises.
“He had received what must have been a significant blow to his head, which had actually resulted in brain damage,” the prosecutor added.
He exhibited neck wounds that were consistent with being strangled with a ligature.
He had 14 broken ribs, and the linear pattern of the bruises on his chest indicated that a baseball bat may have been used in the attack.
He exhibited several skin wounds that were consistent with having been scorched by hot water.
“Something sharp had stabbed the soles of both feet.”
According to Mr. Aylett, the victim also suffered an inside injury and genital wounds.
“This was, by any standard, a terrible crime and one in which a great number of people participated,” he told the jury.
It was claimed that the use of automobiles with fictitious licence plates that were afterwards burned out had “all the signs of being linked to serious, organised crime — almost certainly drugs.”
“The prosecution alleges that Koray Alpergin was abducted and tortured either so that he might be punished for something he had done or else forced to give up something that he knew — possibly the location of either drugs or money — and which his kidnappers also wanted to know,” Mr. Aylett said to the jury.
Tejean Kennedy, 33, of Cricklewood Broadway, and Steffan Gordon, 34, both of Northolt The ages of Junior Kettle, 32, of Archway, Samuel Owusu-Opoku, 35, of Wood Green Erdogan Ulcay, 56, of Camden, and Ali Kavak, 26, both of Tottenham, are in the dock.
Murder and two counts of wrongful imprisonment are denied by Gordon, Kennedy, Owusu-Opoku, Kettle, and Kavak.
Gordon confirms that Kennedy, Owusu-Opoku, Kettle, and Kavak deny abducting the two victims.
“The prosecution alleges that Koray Alpergin was abducted and tortured either so he might be punished for something he had done or else forced to give up something that he knew — possibly the location of either money or drugs — and which his kidnappers also wanted to know,” Mr. Aylett said to the jury.
Steffan Gordon, 34, and Tejean Kennedy, 33, both of Cricklewood Broadway, Northolt Junior Kettle, 32, of Archway, and Samuel Owusu-Opoku, 35, of Wood Green, are both males. Both Ali Kavak, 26, and Erdogan Ulcay, 56, of Tottenham and Camden are in the dock.
Gordon, Kennedy, Owusu-Opoku, Kettle, and Kavak all deny the charges of murder and two counts of unlawful detention.
Gordon attests to the denials of kidnapping the two by Kennedy, Owusu-Opoku, Kettle, and Kavak.
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