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Hitman wanted £50 cancellation fee
12.02.09
A wife who paid a hitman £800 to murder her husband after a chance meeting at her children's school was put on a "skills for life" course today.
Zekiye Osmankan, 33, of Edmonton, handed the money to Stacey Jane Ali at the school gates, the Old Bailey heard. Miss Ali told Osmankan that her boyfriend William Holden could arrange to have Cinsan Osmankan, 39, shot.
But his wife changed her mind, and was told there would be a £50 cancellation fee. She confessed to her husband, and asked to borrow the cash.
Judge Jeremy Roberts QC gave Osmankan a suspended 10-month prison sentence, and told her to attend the 20-hour course after she admitted soliciting to murder. Charges against Miss Ali and Mr Holden were dropped at an earlier hearing.
Reader views (4)
Funniest thing I've read in ages.
You just couldn't make it up.
- Steve, Gloucestershire
She sounds exactly like my ex-partner, same thing exactly.Escept for the cancellation fee.
- Charles, London
Erm, I think she should have been sent on a Recovering From Stupidity course. Imagine telling the target of your hit that you've hired someone to kill them and then asking to borrow the money.... Doh! If she had half a brain cell it'd be very lonely.
- Real, London
How could she afford £800 when she couldn't scrape together the £50 cancellation fee?
- Kittyh, London
