Tudor Simionov, 33, was attacked by New Year’s Eve party gatecrashers in Mayfair

This article is more than 5 months old

This article is more than 5 months old

Three men have been jailed over the death of a doorman who was stabbed outside a private party in Mayfair, central London.

Tudor Simionov, 33, was attacked when he went to the aid of colleagues working on the door of an unlicensed event on Park Lane in the early hours of New Year’s Day last year.

Gatecrashers had turned violent after being denied entry to the £2,000-a-table celebration organised by Edward Davenport, jurors were told.

During the brawl, Simionov, a professional rower and part-time bouncer, was fatally stabbed in the chest and five other members of staff were injured, the Old Bailey heard.

The man alleged to have been behind the stabbing, Ossama Hamed, 26, from Hillingdon in west London, fled the country and is wanted by Scotland Yard.

Adam Khalil, 21, from Kingsbury in north-west London, and Haroon Akram, 26, from Fulham in south-west London, pleaded guilty to Simionov’s manslaughter. Barber Nor Hamada, 24, from Wembley, north-west London, was found guilty of violent disorder and in March admitted manslaughter.

On Friday, they appeared for sentencing at the Old Bailey by video link from Belmarsh prison. All but one lawyer attended the hearing by telephone conference.

The judge, Anthony Leonard QC, jailed Khalil for 11 years and Hamada for seven years for manslaughter, with the latter given three years for violent disorder, to run concurrently. Akram, who played a lesser role, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.

In his sentencing remarks, Leonard acknowledged a victim impact statement from Simionov’s fiancee, Madalina Anghel, who had described him as “an amazing man who lit up any room he walked into”.

The judge accepted the killing was “spur of the moment” and not planned.

But he said it was aggravated by the fact others had been injured and it had involved group violence in a public place when there were a large number of members of the public present.

Leonard said Khalil, who had played a “major role”, had been armed with a knife and was subject to a community order at the time.

The judge said he would make his sentencing remarks available to members of the victim’s family or close friends who were unable to attend court in person.