GarveyLives
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This is the Late Sabri Chibani, who was stabbed to death in Streatham on 11 February 2018 ...
... the 19-year old Italian, who came to the UK to find work a few months earlier, was found collapsed in Hopton Road at around 3.50pm that day. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 4.39pm and a post-mortem examination gave his cause death as an incised wound to the chest.
Detectives believe he was attacked inside a property in Hopton Road before he made his way outside.
The teenager’s father Munir has told how he first thought his son had died in a road accident.
“I am destroyed,” he told Italian news site Blitz Quotidiano. “Sabri was a boy who everyone loved.”
Mr Chibani’s friends also paid tribute to the “easygoing and friendly” teenager, describing how he “never had any problems with anybody”.
Nadir Ayoub, 21, who used to catch the school bus with Mr Chibani, told the Evening Standard: “We want to know what happened. We are tormented by this news. We are trying to understand it.
“The family is totally destroyed, they cannot understand it. Sabri was not the type to ever go looking for trouble. I have known him for 10 years, he never insulted or made fun of anyone.”
Mr Chibani, a former youth team football player whose family migrated to Italy from Tunisia, grew up in Piacenza, a city 70km south-west of Milan in northern Italy.
Mr Ayoub, who lived in the same block as Mr Chibani, added: “When he went to London he said, ‘Don’t worry, we will see each other again soon’. He saw a great future for himself there.”
Another childhood friend said: “I am really angry. At first they said it was an accident, then I read the newspapers and was shocked to see how he died.
“His father is heartbroken — his mother is even worse. I have been there to comfort the family but they have returned to Tunisia now.”
Mr Chibani graduated from the Marconi Industrial Technical Institute last year with a diploma in electronics.
He followed his brother to London in November in search of a job and was said to be working as a bar tender at the time of his death.
A 23-year-old man was arrested at the scene. Ronny Padilla, of Hopton Road, Streatham, was charged with murder on 13 February 2018.
Padilla is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 2 July 2018.
Anyone who has any information that could assist police, call the incident room on 020 8721 4005 or 101, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Earlier today, 23-year old Ronny Padilla, 23, of Hopton Road, Streatham, was convicted, following an Old Bailey re-trial, of the murder of 19-year-old Sabri Chibani at the Hopton Road house they shared, having claimed that he had accidentally knifed his teenage roommate while preparing potatoes. During Padilla’s post-arrest police interview he denied deliberately causing the injuries. He claimed he was using the knife whilst preparing food and Sabri had “accidentally collided with him in the corridor.”
The court heard that when the attack happened, Sabri’s brother was woken by him crying in pain. When he went to investigate, he saw Padilla on top of Sabri in the corridor with a knife in his hand.
This startled Padilla and caused him to attempt to escape by running out of the flat and into the front driveway where he was seen to drop the weapon.
Padilla will be sentenced at the same court on Thursday 15 November 2018.
