Teen locked up after Mohamed Abdi Noor named him as killer

Sanchez Tate, 18, had stabbed 21-year-old Mohamed Abdi Noor, after being blamed by him for knocking over his motorbike.

Tate claimed he had acted in self-defence but was found guilty of murder by a jury at the Old Bailey.

On Thursday (November 21) Judge Mark Dennis KC ordered him to be detained at His Majesty’s pleasure for a minimum of 22 years.

Tate was also handed a concurrent sentence of 15 months for possessing a blade in a public place.

The court had heard how Mr Abdi Noor was stabbed in the chest during the incident last December 11 in Tufnell Park Road in Kentish Town where both men lived.

Emergency services were called to the scene as Tate ran off towards his home and was arrested soon after.

Prosecutor Catherine Pattison had said: “Before he lost consciousness, Mr Abdi Noor said ‘Sanchez’ and repeated it – meaning the name of the person who had stabbed him.”

Married motorcycle enthusiast Mr Abdi Noor was taken to hospital where he died early the next morning.

Ms Pattison told jurors: “The level of violence was out of all proportion for what was needed to rob someone.

“It has the hallmarks of targeted, if spontaneous, violence against a known individual, whatever lay behind it.”

The court heard that Tate and Mr Abdi Noor knew each other because they lived in the same road but they were not friends.

Mr Abdi Noor had a “passion for pedal cycles and motorbikes” and told his wife of an earlier incident allegedly involving Tate.

Ms Pattison said he had gone to check his motorbike in his estate parking lot and found it on the ground.

He asked some teenagers who had knocked it over and they pointed to Tate.

The prosecutor said: “Mr Abdi Noor told Mr Tate that he needed to pay for the damage – a scratch and some parts were damaged.

“Nothing else appeared to come of it.

“As it happened, Mr Abdi Noor took his motorbike to be repaired.

“The damage to the motorbike was still being repaired on the date Mr Abdi Noor died.”