A criminal gang behind the kidnapping, imprisonment, torture, killing and disposing of the body of DJ Koray ‘Bizim FM’ Alpergin have been handed long custodial sentences by a judge at the Old Bailey on Tuesday. Koray, 43, a popular radio presenter in the Turkish community, was initially treated as a missing person when police were […]
After two weeks of deliberations, a jury at the Old Bailey have found two men guilty of killing Mehmet Koray Alpergin. The popular Turkish radio DJ and his girlfriend Gözde Dalbudak were kidnapped outside Mr Alpergin’s Enfield home after a night out in central London last October, the court had heard. The pair were taken […]
On Sunday, 3 December, The Table of Love & Loss memorial event returns to East Ham Town Hall in East London. Now in its second year, the one day event, which is open to the public, is an opportunity to offer solidarity and hope to bereaved families who have lost relatives in tragic circumstances, while […]
The jury has retired to deliberate over the evidence presented in the murder trial of 43-year-old Koray Alpergin, whose body was found dumped in Essex woodland last year. During the seven week trial at the Old Bailey, which started on 20 September 2023, the prosecution set out the case against six defendants, who are variously […]
One of the accused killers of a Turkish DJ told the Old Bailey he was only hired as “muscle to scare the guy.” The body of DJ Koray Alpergin, 43, was discovered near the Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton, Essex, on 15 October 2023 after he was tortured to death. Mr Alpergin, who was […]
A Turkish radio DJ told his sobbing girlfriend “Be quiet my love” before she was beaten unconscious by a gang of kidnappers, a court heard. The body of DJ Koray Alpergin, 43, was discovered near the Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton, Essex, last 15 October. Mr Alpergin, from North Cyprus, was formerly the owner […]
Police have recovered a revolver believed to have been used in the murder of six young Turkish men in Loutsa, a town in Attica, central Greece, earlier this month. The murdered men, all Turkish citizens, were shot on 11 September, allegedly by other Turks, in an incident that bore all the hallmarks of a gangland […]
The trial into the murder of Koray Alpergin began at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, 20 September, where six men stand variously accused of murder, kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice. The popular Turkish radio DJ and his 34-year-old girlfriend, Gözde Dalbudak were abducted after a night out in Mayfair last October. […]
In the early hours of Thursday, 10 August 2023, Hüseyin Mavideniz was beaten to death by bouncers outside Breeze nightclub in İskele, in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. The shocking incident, captured on mobile phone cameras, caused massive outrage, not least because of the savagery of the attack on a man who was knocked […]
A man has died from serious head injuries after a suspected mugging in Wood Green, North London, prompting the Met Police to launch a hunt for the killer. Ibrahim Pertek, 52, was found in an alleyway that runs alongside Wood Green Library in the early hours of Sunday morning, 16 July. It is believed he […]
