A man who stabbed a father to death in a busy high street while his young daughter bought sweets has been found guilty of killing him.
Abraham Omotoso of Tudor Gardens, Harrow, from Nigeria was found guilty of manslaughter at the Old Bailey on Friday (September 15).
The 27-year-old stabbed “family man” and father-of-two, Mohamed Al-Zufairi, 34, from Harrow, in broad daylight in High Street Wealdstone , on Monday February 27 this year.
The doting dad had been shopping with his eight-year-old daughter when he sent her into Poundland to buy sweets, the Metropolitan Police said.
While he waited outside, Omotoso approached him and a short argument broke out before Omotoso, who was wearing a parka-style coat with the hood pulled up, stabbed Mohamed and ran from the scene still holding the knife.
Mohamed’s daughter did not witness the incident, but her and her family have been “left scarred for life”.
In a statement, Mohamed’s brother Jafar said: “Mohamed was a family man, his family came first.
“I still can not really believe what has happened to Mohamed, the constant grief just gets worse.
“It’s like a massive hole just suddenly appeared in our family, our big brother was there one minute and suddenly he was snatched away.
“None of us can get a grasp of or understand. It makes it so much worse that we know that he was killed.
“I think it has hit his daughter the hardest. She did not see her dad being stabbed, but was with him.
“She walked to the local shops to get some sweets with her dad and returned home without him.
“She was the last one with, holding his hand as she says ‘Daddy never came home with me’.
“Our lives will never be the same, they have been scarred.”
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