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British Louis Vuitton model George Koh was found guilty of murdering fellow male model Harry Uzoka.
The fatal incident took place in January after Koh, 24, and Uzoka, 25, got into a heated social media dispute, theAssociated Pressreported.
Prosecutors claim Koh was envious of Uzoka, who was growing in the fashion industry after being signed to Premier Model Management and modeling forGQand Zara.
Uzoka had also recently landed a film role and was even close friends with high profile modelJourdan Dunn.
Dunn, 28,paid tributeto Uzoka following his murder. “Rest in Paradise Young King,” Dunn tweeted.
Before Uzoka’s death, he called Koh “fake,” and asked him to stop “copying him.”
“Leave my name out of your mouth, it’s that simple, I’ve never spoken bad of you in any way, so this is wild,” Uzoka wrote in a message to Koh shown in court.
“Koh claimed he knew Uzoka well and then said that he had sex with Uzoka’s girlfriend and that was the reason why they no longer talked,” Prosecutor Richard Horwell QC said in court Monday according toBBC.
“Where you I’ll come there n we can fight bring ur friends with u,” Koh told Uzoka.
Uzoka then responded, “Come Shepherd’s Bush.”
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Uzoka, who brought a dumbbell bar to the fight, was then stabbed with a knife three times and died on a sidewalk in front of his house, theNew York Postreported.
Koh told the judge he carried the knives for self-defense.
In addition to Koh, his two friends, Jonathan Okigbo, 24, and Merse Dikanda, 24, who went with him to meet Uzoka were also found guilty.
Both Koh and Dikanda, who brought a machete to the fight, were found guilty of murder and Okigbo, who was not armed, was found guilty of manslaughter, according to the BBC.
They will all be sentenced on Sep. 21.
source: people.com
