A man was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 29 July, for killing a father of two in Enfield.
Sean Gomez, 48, (28.09.67) of Addison Road, Enfield, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of 47-year-old Mustafa Lanleyin.
He was found guilty on Wednesday, 27 July.
Mustafa of Cherry Road, Enfield was unemployed at the time of his death. He was single, and leaves behind two sons and a daughter.
On 29 September 2015, Mustafa had gone out with two friends. As they were walking in Cherry Road, he became involved in a verbal altercation with Gomez. This was sparked by the victim asking Gomez: “What are you looking at?”
The argument escalated quickly to violence, with Gomez grabbing Mustafa and repeatedly head-butting him.
Before dragging the dying man to a rubbish bin area, Gomez sought to justify the attack to the two men who had been with Mustafa. All three men then left him.
Around five to ten minutes later – at around 21.10hrs – a woman found the victim lying critically injured. An ambulance was called, but Mustafa was pronounced dead at 21:41hrs.
A post-mortem examination established cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head.
Officers from the Homicide and Major Crime Command launched an investigation, and Gomez was arrested on 30 September 2015. He was charged the following day.