Teen hitman guilty of shooting woman for £200

A TEENAGER thought to be Britain’s youngest hitman was jailed for life yesterday for shooting a young mother dead for just £200 (€230).

Santre Sanchez Gayle, aged 16, was told he must serve at least 20 years behind bars for the murder of 26-year-old Gulistan Subasi in March last year. He was just 15 when he blasted Ms Subasi with a sawn-off shotgun in a contract killing in Hackney, east London.

CCTV footage showed him resting the gun on the front gate of the flat where she was staying and blasting her in the chest on the doorstep.

Gayle, known by the street name Riot and related to two other convicted killers, was convicted of murder after boasting of the crime to another youth.

The teenager, of Kensal Rise, north-west London, was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday alongside Izak Billy, aged 22, who recruited him for the hit.

Billy, of Willesden, north London, was also found guilty of murder, and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 22 years.

Ms Subasi’s former partner Serdar Ozbek, aged 28, of Wood Green, north London, was accused of ordering the shooting but was cleared of the crime, along with four other defendants.

Judge Stephen Kramer told Billy and Gayle: “It was an efficient, ruthless and calculated execution.”

There was sobbing from the public gallery as the killers were taken down to begin their sentences.

The judge told Gayle that his “youth and immaturity” were factors in the crime.

The judge described Gayle as a low-level cannabis dealer who expected to be paid £2,000 for the murder but was only paid £200.

The judge said it was not possible to say who was behind the killing or who recruited Billy to find someone to carry it out.

Ms Subasi had been staying with her mother at the time and was about to celebrate the birthday of her young child.

The judge told her killers: “You have deprived a mother of a much-loved daughter and a son of his mother.”