Louis Vuitton model convicted of murdering British-Nigerian rival
British
catwalker George Koh, 24, had become increasingly obsessed with more
successful English model Harry Uzoka, 25, in the months leading up to
the pair’s violent showdown in January, prosecutors said.
The two men began fighting over social media, with Uzoka calling Koh a “fake” and warning him to stop being a copycat and trying to cozy up to his friends, Britain’s Mirror reported.
But the tipping point finally came when “the less successful copycat’’ Koh began claiming that he’d slept with Uzoka’s model girlfriend, Ruby Campbell, prosecutors said, according to the BBC.
Uzoka
— who was referred to at Koh’s trial in Britain as “the country’s most
famous black model,’’ working for such brands as Mercedes and Zara —
agreed to meet Koh outside his London home on 11 January, the Mirror reported .
Both men brought backup in the form of beefy sidekicks — and weapons. Uzoka carried a dumbbell, while Koh had a knife in each hand.
Uzoka died on the sidewalk in front of his house.
Koh “plainly had an obsession with Harry Uzoka,’’ prosecutor Richard Horwell told jurors in his closing statement, according to the Mirror.
Koh faces life behind bars when sentenced on 21 September, the Mirror reports.
This article was originally published in the New York Post
The two men began fighting over social media, with Uzoka calling Koh a “fake” and warning him to stop being a copycat and trying to cozy up to his friends, Britain’s Mirror reported.
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 seethed in a direct message to Koh.
But the tipping point finally came when “the less successful copycat’’ Koh began claiming that he’d slept with Uzoka’s model girlfriend, Ruby Campbell, prosecutors said, according to the BBC.
Both men brought backup in the form of beefy sidekicks — and weapons. Uzoka carried a dumbbell, while Koh had a knife in each hand.
The scuffle — some of which was caught on video — ended with Koh stabbing his rival through the heart, prosecutors said, although Koh claimed that Uzoka punched him and then fell on top of him, stabbing himself, the Guardian reported.
Uzoka died on the sidewalk in front of his house.
Koh “plainly had an obsession with Harry Uzoka,’’ prosecutor Richard Horwell told jurors in his closing statement, according to the Mirror.
He even suggested to one witness that they were on a similar level in the modelling world. And that was not true. Whatever was going in Koh’s mind … was festering into an unhealthy and toxic mix.
Koh faces life behind bars when sentenced on 21 September, the Mirror reports.
This article was originally published in the New York Post
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