Abdullah Ahmet unsolved crime

An adopted son of the Arif family, a group of Middle Eastern racketeers and armed robbers residing in London’s Stockwell district, Ahmet Abdullah was identified by Scotland Yard as a narcotics dealer, nicknamed “Turkish Abbi.” On March 11, 1991, Abdullah was ambushed by rival mobsters at a betting shop on Bagshot Street, Walworth. Witnesses reported that he begged for his life, then briefly used another of the shop’s patrons as a human shield before fleeing into the street, where Abdullah was shot in the back and fatally wounded.

Suspects Patrick and Tony Brindle were charged with the murder, held over for trial at the  Old Bailey court in early 1992. Frightened witnesses to the shooting testified behind screens to conceal their faces, identified only by numbers in court. Patrick Brindle declined to testify, but brother Tony produced evidence that he had been drinking and playing cards in a London pub, The Bell, when Abdullah was shot. The defendants’ mother described her sons as softhearted young men who wept when their parakeet died, and who made a habit of helping elderly women cross the street. Jurors acquitted the brothers on May 16, 1992,
whereupon police pronounced the case closed serial killer.

UNSOLVED SERIAL KILLER