Posted on 08/03/2007 10:56:07 AM PDT by blam
Idi Amin's son jailed for London gang attack
By Megan Levy and agencies
Last Updated: 1:09pm BST 03/08/2007
The son of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has been jailed for five years for his part in a violent gang attack in North London.
Wangita was living in London with his mother
Faisal Wangita was part of a 40-strong gang that attacked Somalian Mahir Osman, 18, in Camden in January last year.
Osman died within a minute of the brutal attack, in which he was stabbed 20 times, attacked with baseball bats, bottles and hammers, punched and kicked.
Wangita had joined in the attack, kicking the victim on the ground. Blood was found on his trousers.
After a trial at the Old Bailey this year, Wangita, 25, was jailed for five years for conspiracy to wound with intent and violent disorder, but was cleared of murdering Osman.
The jury was not told he was Idi Amin's son because it was felt it would prejudice his case.
His parentage can be disclosed today following another trial and the trial of a 17-year-old youth for Mr Osman's murder.
It is estimated that up to 500,000 people disappeared during Idi Amin's brutal eight-year regime in Uganda, which featured in the film The Last King Of Scotland.
Amin's secret police force was notorious for torturing and killing Ugandans it believed to be political opponents.
The first police knew about Amin being his father was when it was announced in court by his counsel.
Eight defendants have been convicted of various offences in relation to the attack and three youths were given life sentences in May for murder.
The attack was captured on closed circuit TV cameras and played to the jury during Wangita’s trial at the Old Bailey.
Wangita claimed he was born in November 1981 in Saudi Arabia. But documents showed he was born in February 1983 in Uganda.
He arrived in England some time ago and lived with his mother in a number of London addresses.
The Amin family fled Uganda when Idi Amin was ousted by Tanzanian-backed Ugandan rebels in 1979.
They lived in exile in Saudi Arabia, where many of the family remain. The family was given a huge monthly allowance and in return Idi Amin was asked to remain silent and out of politics. It was a bargain he kept up to his death in 2003, aged 78.
He had 40 officially-recorded children from seven official wives, and nothing is known about Wangita's mother.
Wangita had previous criminal convictions for possessing an offensive weapon and fraud in November 2000, and in May 2002 for threatening behaviour - for which he was given a community rehabilitation order.
He also has convictions for theft and having an offensive weapon in 2006. A pre-sentencing hearing said he posed a "serious risk to the public".
But Wangita's lawyer David Spens QC said his previous convictions "don't establish any pattern of committing any offences of violence".
Judge Stephen Kramer said: "You were seen on the video to take part. You were seen to raise your left leg or foot and bring it down in the area of Mahir Osman on the ground in the road."
The lifting of an order banning the identification of Wangita as Amin's son came after a jury failed to reach a verdict on a 17-year-old youth charged with Mr Osman's murder.
At the teenager's trial, which ended last month, he was found guilty of conspiracy to wound with intent, conspiracy to possess weapons and violent disorder, but jurors could not agree on the allegation of murder.
At a brief Old Bailey hearing today, prosecutors decided not to proceed with the charge, and a Contempt of Court order relating to Wangita's identity was lifted. The youth was remanded in custody to be sentenced next month
They ought to have pumped his stomach to see if he ate any part of the victim.
Like father like son...........
The Next Last King of Scotland.
Whoa!
Handsome fella.
Also a member of TROP, let’s not forget.
Just a day in the life of the ROP!
But in prison he’ll probably be a queen.
“Idi Amis? No relation of mine.”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
They ought to have pumped his stomach to see if he ate any part of the victim.
Not only that, he could hide the whole gang in that snazola of his :)
Boy howdy. There’s a face that’ll have you reaching for yer sidearm...
Headline fixed, oh well . . .
a chip off the ol’ block, papa would be proud.
The sane and civilized world can NOT continue to offer sanctuary to the misfits and discards of the Turd World.
To do so, long enough will have the same effect of slowly poisoning the well..
It eventually becomes polluted beyond recovery.
This asshole has clearly violated any reasonable condition of sanctuary — kick his sorry ass out.
Great concept, multiculturalism. How to take a place like merry olde England — bobbies on bicycles, two by two — and turn it into a third world hell-hole in just a couple of generations. Just what we need here.
I can assure you, mate, that Britain is not a third-world hell hole. The US has far more “ghettos” than the UK and that doesn’t stope the US being a great country.
Sorry for that, mate. I got caught up in my own rhetoric and I realized it at the time. I was going to say "London," but then I remembered how London is now regarded as one of the livliest, hippest cities in Europe...much more going on there culturally than in Paris, even including the "cuisine scene," or so I read.
So since it seemed palpably absurd to trash London in this way, I ended up saying "England," and that was a choice mostly to support my cutsie "merry olde" business. You've fairly called me out on some might shallow rhetoric.
On the other hand, it is sickening to see how much ground native British people have given to the third-world invaders, especially in London. I'm not especially proud of my own country anymore and can not complain about the little shot you gave it. My only defense of my very careless remarks is that London, in particular, is an especially visible example of how a historic center of a culture and a civilization can be seriously threatened by an alien invasion, including many people who do not have the intention of becoming English in their hearts but of bringing Pakistan and such places to England. And, really, the fact that London sparkles more brightly than ever in recent years, does not diminish the serious threat that it is under. The part that glitters is a quite small part of the whole. I hope you blokes can hold it together.
No need to apologize mate, I understand what you are saying. I didn’t mean to to take a pop at the US either, so I’m sorry if it came across that way!
London is more of an international city than a truly British one. It is one of the most culturally diverse places on the planet, with Brazilians, Poles, Africans etc. London is viewed by most people in the UK as a sort of international centre.
Just as a note, my thoughts go out to Mr. Osman and his family.
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