Chilling moment phone snatcher leaps from car & stabs aristocrat's footballer grandson to death in savage robbery

The Sun

5 days ago

THIS is the chilling moment a phone thief jumped from a car and stabbed an aristocrat's footballer grandson to death.
Shocking CCTV footage showed Oguzcan Dereli, 27, pull up next to his victim on October 18 last year.
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Abdul-Latif Pouget, 20, had been sitting on a moped near Farringdon station, in London, before the brutal attack at around 9.30pm.
Dereli can be seen leaping out of a blue Ford Focus estate armed with a machete.
Pouget attempts to ride away but Dereli knocks him off his bike and knifes him multiple times.
The victim, known as Abz, was in critical condition for three days before he sadly succumbed to his injuries.
The horror had taken just 13 seconds to unfold.
Abz was the grandson of Baron Bouget, and his great-grandfather had been banker George de Vere Drummond, godson of King George VI.
The Pouget family also has links to Chateau Pouget, a winery in the Margaux appellation of Bordeaux, France.
The 20-year-old was a talented footballer and played on the left wing for Zaza FC in the Barnet Sunday Football League, the Old Bailey heard.
Cannabis dealer Dereli denied murder but was today found guilty by a jury.
The conviction is the latest on a long list, with 39 previous on his criminal record.
He was sentenced to 18 months in 2018 for a string of phone thefts in London.
Abz's brother Badruddin, delivered a moving victim impact statement in court.
He addressed the defendant in the dock and said: "Mr Dereli, when Abz was nine you had your first conviction.
"When Abz was collecting medals you were collecting bank cards and snatching phones from strangers. You were caught hiding under a mattress."
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The heartbroken brother described his beloved sibling as "a young man who, unlike you, was loved for who he was, not feared for what he might do."
"I hope that justice might speak for Abz now since you never let him speak again," he added.
The victim's devastated mother, Kawsar Pouget, also paid tribute to her "kind, respectful, polite and humble" son.
"He was a talented and gifted footballer who was a role model to those younger than him. He was young intelligent and full of promise," she added.
"He bought warmth and laughter to every room. His murder shattered the natural order of things and has broken something deep within us.
"Every member of the family carries this loss. Our family gatherings now taken place at the graveside."
Prosecutors argued Dereli had been trying to steal Abz's phone at the time.
But the defendant told the court his victim had wrongly accused him of robbery and he was acting in self-defence after a confrontation ensued.
Prosecuting, Danny Robinson, told the court Abz was still sat on his moped when Dereli came at him with a machete.
"He struck him with the machete and then stabbed him with it to his right thigh. The stab wound severed an artery causing instant massive blood loss and Mr Pouget collapsed on the pavement," he told the court.
Abz tragically died in hospital three days later at 11.15am on October 21.
Police detained Dereli at the Easy Hotel on October 19, where he was staying with a woman.
The court heard his girlfriend had given birth shortly before the murder, but Dereli had not met his baby because he was "scared".
Cops were unable to locate the murder weapon but arrested Dereli on October 20.
The court heard his family of eleven were Kurdish asylum seekers who all lived in a three bedroomed council flat.
His father was unemployed and his mother was too ill to work.
Dereli, of Alexander Road, Holloway, denied but was convicted of murder and having an offensive weapon.
Judge Sarah Whitehouse said upon sentencing: "I am not satisfied this was a murder carried out in the circumstances of a robbery.
"We shall probably never know why you decided to get out of your car and run over and stab Mr Pouget."
But the judge added there had been rumours of a disagreement over a debt.
"Some of the rumours were that you and Mr Pouget had an altercation that very evening in which he had got the better of you and your friends had encouraged you to go out and seek revenge," continued the judge.
"I am satisfied you had formed the intention to cause him really serious bodily harm when you stopped and got out of your car at speed, carrying that machete.
"Your actions caused incalculable distress to Abdul-Latif Pouget's family."
Detective Chief Inspector Lucie Card, who led the Met's investigation, said: "My thoughts and that of my team remain with Abdul's family, a much loved brother, friend and neighbour.
"A young man has tragically died in a senseless and brutal way. I can only hope that this sentence can go some way in providing a sense of justice to Abdul's family."
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