Inmate 'Ordered Fatal Attack From Phone In Cell'

A drug dealer used a phone installed in his prison cell to order a revenge attack which led to the knife and hammer murder of 25-year-old Olamide Fasina, a court has heard.

Mr Fasina, who was known as Trigger, bled to death after he was set upon in the street in Thamesmead, south east London, in the early afternoon of 14 October last year.

He suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest, arm and stomach, one of which penetrated his heart.

At the time of the killing, Steven Ngolo, 22, was behind bars at Thameside Prison serving a sentence for cannabis dealing, jurors were told.

But he had access to a phone and used it to encourage friends to target Mr Fasina in retribution for robbing a low-level drugs runner.

Opening the trial at the Old Bailey, prosecutor Mark Fenhalls QC read from transcripts of the phone calls from jail.

They outlined discussions Ngolo had with his alleged conspirators the day before the attack.

Mr Fenhalls said: "It was not one of those situations where he had a phone smuggled in.

"It was one of these prisons where there is one in each of the cells."

It was during a series of calls that Ngolo had "demanded, encouraged and urged" the attack on Mr Fasina, he said.

The prosecutor told jurors that the prison only allowed inmates to call an approved listed family members.

But this system was "flawed" because calls could easily be patched through to others.

Mr Fenhalls said: "The police had found a significant flaw in the system.

"A prisoner using it could simply ask the person who he had called to patch in a third person to a conference call."

He said Ngolo's sister was one person who would patch calls through to his friends.

Ngolo, from south east London, is accused with his co-defendants of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm.

Louis Henry, 22, of Greenwich, Alvin Ansah-Baaphy, 23, of Old Dover Road, south east London, and Bliss Duodo, 22, from Greenwich, are also charged with murder.

They all deny the charges against them. The trial continues