DJ Koray Alpergin killing in Tottenham: Three men jailed

Mehmet Koray Alpergin and his girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were snatched as they returned home from an Italian restaurant in Mayfair in October 2022.

They were taken to an empty wine bar near Tottenham Hotspur Stadium where 43-year-old Mr Alpergin was said to have been beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed, maimed and horrifically violated.

His body was then dumped in woodland near the Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton and 34-year-old Ms Dalbudak spent two days locked in a toilet before being freed by her captors and given money for a taxi.

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Jurors at a previous trial were told the killing bore “all the hallmarks” of serious organised crime and the world of drugs.

A post-mortem examination revealed 94 separate injuries on Mr Alpergin’s body.

The court heard that Mr Alpergin, who was originally from Northern Cyprus, owned a Turkish language radio station in London – Bizim FM – and was a well-known and popular figure within the Turkish community in the UK.

The prosecution alleged that eight men had driven in two vehicles – a white van and a Volkswagen Polo – to the scene of the kidnapping.

It was alleged Dylan Weatherley, 20, of Beaufoy Road in Tottenham, was in the Polo but his co-accused Isay Stoyanov was not in either car.

The jury was told the group knew Mr Alpergin’s Audi was on its way to Enfield from Mayfair because it had been fitted with a tracking device.

It was accepted that there was no evidence that Weatherley or Stoyanov were directly involved in the violence meted out to Mr Alpergin.

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But it is believed that Stoyanov was implicated in the “clean-up” inside the Stadium Lounge where the victim was killed.

Dylan Weatherley was found guilty of the manslaughter of Mr Alpergin and his kidnap and false imprisonment.

On Thursday (September 5), he was jailed at the Old Bailey for five years. This will be added to a sentence he is already serving for a separate conspiracy to murder for which he received life with a minimum term of 16 years.

Bulgarian painter and decorator Isay Stoyanov, 44, from Seven Sisters, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and jailed for 18 months.

Kyrie Mitchell-Peart, 33, of Barnet, who had previously pleaded guilty to the kidnap and false imprisonment of Mr Alpergin and his girlfriend, was sentenced to six years and four months.

From left to right: Dylan Weatherley, Isay Stoyanov and Kyrie Mitchell-Peart (Image: Metropolitan Police)

Following a separate trial last year, four more men had been convicted of their roles.

Tejean Kennedy, 33, of Cricklewood Broadway, and Ali Kavak, 26, De Quincey Road, Tottenham, were found guilty of the kidnap and false imprisonment of the couple and Mr Alpergin’s manslaughter.

Kavak Ali (left) and Tejean Kennedy (right) kidnapped and killed Koray Alpergin (Image: Metropolitan Police)

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Samuel Owusu-Opoku, 36, of Dunbar Road in Wood Green, was found guilty of two counts of kidnap, while Steffan Gordon, 35, of Dehavilland Close in Northolt, had admitted kidnap and was found guilty of two counts of false imprisonment.

Samuel Owusu-Opoku (left) and Steffan Gordon (right) (Image: Metropolitan Police)

Kavak was also convicted of perverting the course of justice by helping to dispose of Mr Alpergin’s body and destroying two vehicles by fire. Owusu-Opoku admitted the charge.

Yigit Hurman, 19, of Audley Close, Muswell Hill, admitted perverting the course of justice.

Yigit Hurman admitted perverting the course of justice (Image: Metropolitan Police)

All five men previously convicted have been jailed. Two more suspects were said to be still at large and were believed to have fled abroad.

Some reporting by PA.