Two alleged killers went shopping and saw a Sir Michael Caine crime drama at the cinema after shooting a man dead in “cold blood”, the Old Bailey heard.
Juskiran Sidhu, 28, and Babatunde Philip Fashakin, 26, are accused of murdering 22-year-old Hashim Abdalla Ali as he sat in a Mercedes outside his father’s home in Hayes.
Crispin Aylett QC, prosecuting, told jurors the men later went to a JD Sports store in Staines and bought outfits before throwing away the clothes they had been wearing. They then got rid of their phones and went to a screening of King Of Thieves, about the Hatton Garden heist, and went into hiding.
Mr Aylett said Mr Ali may not have been the intended target of the shooting on October 11 last year.
“As for the reason for the cold-blooded murder, the prosecution do not know whether the real target was the victim or the man who was driving the car in which he was shot,” Mr Aylett said.
The driver tried to rush Mr Ali to hospital but crashed the car.
Sidhu, of Hayes, was arrested at a hotel in Birmingham nearly three weeks later, while Fashakin, of Rothwell in Northamptonshire, was detained at Aston University student accommodation on November 6. Both men deny murder.
The trial continues.
