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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Emily Dugan

‘Set up by my own gang’: man convicted of London stabbing in 2009 looks to reopen case

Kai Shannon
Kai Shannon: ‘I was no angel in 2009 but I was and am still no murderer.’ Photograph: Emily Dugan/The Guardian

When 18-year-old Wahab Zaaki was found bleeding to death from five stab wounds on an east London estate, police were under immense pressure to find his killer.

It was spring 2009 and knife crime in the capital had been branded an epidemic. Zaaki was one of four teenagers killed in separate incidents over just three days in London that March.

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