A famous Turkish DJ was allegedly tortured to death in London by “sadistic thugs” who inflicted 94 injuries on him – including hitting him with a bat and stabbing him in the leg – and locked his girlfriend in a bathroom for two days, disrupting court proceedings it was revealed Wednesday.
Mehmet Koray Alpergin, 43, and his girlfriend, Gozde Dalbudak, 34, were kidnapped by six men near the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as they returned from an Italian restaurant in Mayfair on October 13, 2022, according to the Telegraph.
The attacker allegedly installed a tracking device on Alpergin’s car, jurors were told.
The pair were put into separate vehicles – Dalbudak at knifepoint – and taken to an empty wine bar in White Hart Lane, the outlet reported.
Her naked body – which had been punched, kicked, beaten with a bat, and burned with boiling water while her legs were stabbed, according to prosecutors – was dumped in woods near Essex on Oct. 15.
Mehmet Koray Alpergin, 43, and his girlfriend, Gozde Dalbudak, 34, were kidnapped by six men in London in October, and the DJ was tortured before her naked body was dumped in a wooded area, a jury heard Wednesday. Instagram/@koraybizm
It was found a few hours later by a dog walker.
Dalbudak was locked in a bar toilet for two days, jurors were told.
Stefan Gordon, 34, of Northolt; Tejean Kennedy, 33, of Cricklewood Broadway; Samuel Owusu-Opoku, 35, of Wood Green; Young Kettle, 32, of Archway; Ali Kavak, 26, from Tottenham; and Erdogan Ulcay, 56, of Camden, have been charged with murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and perverting the course of justice, according to the Telegraph.
Alpergin’s naked body, brutally beaten, was dumped in the woods near Essex on October 15. Instagram/@koraybizm
“The prosecution alleges that Koray Alpergin was kidnapped and tortured either so that he could be punished for something he had done or be forced to give up something he knew — perhaps where either drugs or money — and that his captors also wanted. to find out,” said lawyer Crispin Aylett.
“It is clear that before his death, Koray Alpergin was horribly stripped and tortured,” he continued.
“From the number and nature of the injuries sustained, the prosecution suggested that it would not be difficult to imagine a group of sadistic thugs taking it in turns to inflict injury, either with punches and kicks, beating him with bats, scalding him with boiling water. water, stabbing his leg.”
Jurors were told Alpergin was not his usual “happy-go-lucky” self before the fatal attack and he appeared anxious.Instagram/@koraybizm
He claimed the attack was related to “organized crime” and “almost certainly drugs,” Aylett added.
Jurors were told Alpergin, who owns London-based Turkish-language radio station Bizim FM, was not his usual “happy-go-lucky” self before the fatal attack and he appeared distressed.
The popular DJ is also allegedly in debt, including around $40,000 just for his car, the Telegraph reports.
An autopsy revealed he had suffered 94 injuries and was covered in cuts and bruises. Lawyer Crispin Aylett said, “It is clear that before her death, Koray Alpergin was stripped and horribly tortured.” Instagram/@koraybizim
Kennedy, Owusu-Opoku, Kettle and Kavak deny the murder and false imprisonment charges as well as the kidnapping charges.
Gordon admitted kidnapping but denied murder and false imprisonment.
Ulcay and Kavak denied allegations of embezzlement. Owusu-Opoku admitted it, according to the Telegraph.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
