A barber who killed a doorman at an exclusive New Year’s Eve party is facing a life sentence.
Tudor Simionov, 33, bled to death after he was knifed in the chest outside one of Lord Edward Davenport’s Mayfair bashes.
The unlicensed after party at the multi-million-pound Portland Place mansion on Park Lane became the scene of mayhem when gatecrashers descended demanding entry.
Nor Hamada, 24, told the Old Bailey that Ossama Hamed, 25, inflicted the fatal wound before they both fled the UK.
Nor Hamada who killed doorman Tudor Simionov at an exclusive New Year’s Eve party
But Hamada, Monday, admitted manslaughter on a joint enterprise basis.
Hamada was out celebrating his birthday at the time of the stabbing and left the country on the evening of 2 January last year.
The private bash was being held by self-styled Lord and socialite ‘Fast Eddie’ Davenport, notorious for hosting VIP orgies, who ‘ran out the back door’ when the fighting kicked off.
Jurors were told girls were the ‘ticket in’ and were escorted inside free of charge where they enjoyed bottles of champagne on the house while male punters were forced to queue up outside before handing over hundreds of pounds each in exchange for entry.
Tables, priced at £2,000-a-pop, were laden with ‘plates of cocaine’ which witnesses described was openly being snorted by punters as the private bouncers patrolled the three floors.
Hamada and Hamed both went from Dover over to Calais, Northern France on the ferry, and then onto to Paris and Barcelona before flying to Morocco, North Africa.
They hid in Tangier then moved to the capital of Morocco, Rabat, where Hamada received a call from his mother telling him the police had contacted her explaining they knew he was not the knifeman.
Tudor Simionov, 33, (pictured) bled to death after he was knifed in the chest outside one of Lord Edward Davenport’s Mayfair bashes
Hamada and Hamed then made their way to Casablanca where the mood turned sour.
‘I stayed with him maybe three or four days, four or five max. He was going out and I told him I was not in the mood for going out,’ Hamada said.
‘As soon as he left, I got my bag and left. I went to Tangier. He poisoned my thoughts. He was using me as a scapegoat.
‘Mr Simionov and me, had no issue. I had no quarrel with him. He was a security man doing his job at the end of the day.’
Hamada was arrested at Gatwick Airport and told officers he was not a murderer.
After speaking to his solicitor he said: ‘I came back to clear my name.’
Video footage shot by bystanders captured parts of the ‘fast-moving’ fracas – including the moment Mr Simionov was stabbed.
Adam Khalil, 21, and Haroon Akram, 26, had admitted manslaughter shortly after their trial started last year.
Adham El Shalakany, 24, of Fulham was cleared of violent disorder over his role in the fighting while Shaymaa Lamrani, 27, of northwest London was acquitted of perverting the course of justice by disposing of the murder weapon.
Hamada, of Wembley, northwest London, denied murder and five counts of GBH with intent.
Tudor Simionov becoming involved in fight. Nor Hamada was convicted of violent disorder on Monday
He was convicted of violent disorder, and four of the five wounding charges, after a jury could not decide on the murder charge or the fifth GBH.
Today the Crown Prosecution Service accepted his guilty plea to manslaughter after he appeared at the Old Bailey via video-link from HMP Belmarsh.
Brenda Campbell QC, defending, said: ‘On New Year’s Eve 2018 Mr Hamada went out to socialise with friends, it wasn’t pre-organised to a great extent.
‘The plea is on the basis that he had no knowledge that any of his friends were armed with a knife or in their pockets, that what happened blew up quickly and that he had not anticipated or wanted to engage in any violence.
‘What happened was a significant amount of manhandling of him and he was in fear but he appreciated that his actions went beyond reasonable self defence.
‘The primary issue is whether at the time the fight happened Mr Hamada had the opportunity to perceive that one of his associates was in possession of a knife.
‘Mr Hamada’s position remains that he did not appreciate there was a knife.’
Khalil, of Kingsbury, northwest London, Akram, of Fulham, southwest London, and Hamada will be sentenced on 25 March.
Ahmed Munajed, 27, of Hammersmith, west London, was earlier jailed for two years for violent disorder.
Hamed is still on the run.