Hitman murdered Southgate Turkish gang boss then shot accomplice,’ court hears

Bombacilar lieutenant Zafer Eren was shot dead in April 2013. Picture: Metropolitan Police

A hitman known as “Freddy” after the central character in the Nightmare On Elm Street horror films executed a Turkish gang boss then tried to kill his own accomplice four days later during an escalating drugs war, the Old Bailey heard.

Jamie Marsh-Smith (Photo below), 22, of Ennerdale House in the Woodberry Down Estate in Green Lanes, Manor House, denies murdering 34-year-old Zafer Eren, one of the leaders of the Tottenham Turks drugs gang – also known as the Tottenham Boys.

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On April 18 last year, Zafer Eren was shot three times in the back on his doorstep in Fontaine Court, Southgate High Street, by a masked gunman.

The hitman, said to have been hired by the rival Hackney Turks, or Bombacilar, also denies the attempted murder of his accomplice Samuel Zerei, 21, his alleged getaway driver who was shot in Tottenham’s Markfield Park four days later.

Marsh-Smith “had reason to fear” that Zerei, of Hathersage Court, Newington Green, Hackney, would reveal his involvement in two hits, the court heard.

The shootings were chapters in a “bloody and lethal” feud between the two gangs, said prosecutor Ed Brown.

The Eren family “were thought by many to be significant players” in the Tottenham Turks, said Mr Brown.

Marsh-Smith and two other defendants, Christopher Annan, 23, and Tyrone Wright, 19, also deny attempted murder of Mr Eren’s cousin, 34-year-old Inan Eren, four months earlier.

Inan Eren was “lucky to survive” being shot on his doorstep on December 30, 2012, he said.

Marsh-Smith fled London after Zerei was shot, allegedly with the help of his half-brother Wayne McNeish, 32, of West End Lane, West Hampstead, who denies perverting the course of justice.

Zerei denies Zafer Eren’s murder. The trial continues.

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