Stabbed to death: Pelican Zekaj Pic: Metropolitan police
20 May 2013
A teenager was today cleared of murdering a man in a branch of Burger King in Wood Green Shopping Centre.
Daniel Lewis, 19, said he was acting in self-defence when Albanian national Pelivan Zekai, 23, was stabbed to death during a struggle.
He was found not guilty of murder and affray at the Old Bailey.
Lewis, of Barking, east London, and Mr Zekai had been watching the film Taken 2 with their friends at the shopping centre in north London in October, last year.
But after they left, trouble broke out and Lewis was chased into the Burger King restaurant opposite.
The fatal confrontation came when he emerged and ran into the group of Albanian friends, the court heard.
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