Man stabbed and clubbed his friend to death in Haringey

Briken Quni, 43, of no fixed address, was found guilty following a trial at Wood Green Crown Court that concluded on Monday, June 5.

He was arrested after CCTV footage put him at the scene of a brutal attack in which Ergys Koci, a man he had called a ‘friend’ was killed.

Police had found Ergys, who had suffered severe injuries, after being called to a home in West Green Road, Hornsey, on September 21.

Officers and London Ambulance Service staff attended, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

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A post-mortem examination later established Ergys’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. He had also suffered several stab injuries.

The court heard detectives established a row had broken out between the two men, who lived at the property together.

As a result of the argument, Quni launched a violent attack on Ergys with a claw hammer.

Victim Ergys Koci (Image: Met)

Ergys sustained multiple injuries including several blows to the head and a number of stab wounds, two of which punctured his lung and heart.

As officers worked to establish the circumstances surrounding the killing, they identified that Quni had returned to the property a number of times after the attack, sleeping there while Ergys’ body lay dead in the bathroom.

Detective Chief Inspector Neil Rawlinson from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command said: “The level of violence used in this assault was extreme. Ergys sustained several heavy blows to the head with a hammer and was subjected to multiple stab wounds before he succumbed to his injuries.

“Quni then tried to conceal his body and later tried to claim self-defence. I’m glad that the jury saw through this and convicted him for this ferocious attack. I hope it brings some comfort to his family to know that justice has been served.”

Quni will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on June 30.