A teenager who fled to Pakistan has been convicted of the manslaughter of a 27-year-old father, after police used DNA from a cigarette butt found at the scene to identify him. Ali Abdul Basit, 19, was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday for his role in the killing of Michael Patrick Afonso Peixoto. The Metropolitan Police spent two years tracking Basit following the attack.
Mr Peixoto was fatally assaulted in Mayfield Crescent, Thornton Heath, south London, on December 19, 2023. According to a Met Police statement released on Saturday, a group of men in a white BMW were observed waiting in the road when Mr Peixoto arrived with a friend in a Vauxhall Grandland on the night of the killing.
