Bouncer shot dead outside a Clapham bar

Kolawole Babadiya, A DOORMAN was shot dead as he shielded a 21-year-old woman at her birthday party while working at Bar SW8 in Wandsworth.

Another man was injured in the shooting.

Friends of the 28-year-old Door supervisor, who lived only yards from the club, said they were still trying to come to terms with his death.

Michael Blair, 34, the owner of SW8 and a good friend of the dead man, said: "It was nothing to do with Kola; he was just protecting this girl, trying to stop her getting hurt. I heard a bullet whistle past me and turned to see him fall to the ground, the girl behind him.

"We didn't know what the noise was at first, but know it was the first round of some sort of machinegun.

"The guy with the gun wasn't firing anywhere near the club but across the road, then somebody started running towards the club and he fired the second round towards us and Kola was basically hit by a stray bullet.

"He's worked for me for two years and he was always the one stopping trouble, not starting it." Witnesses told how they saw Mr Babadiya and the other man covered in blood.

The Doorman was shot in the head and died in hospital. The other victim was shot in the back.

The pavement of Wandsworth Road outside the bar was littered with spent ammunition cases.

A witness, who did not want to be named, said: "I heard the gunshots at around 1.30am. They woke me up. There was one, and then bang, bang, bang... another 10 or so. It was definitely an automatic weapon.

"Then there was screaming and you could hear people running around.

"By the time I got dressed and came out of my flat, there were people around the two victims trying to help them.

"One of the men had been shot in the head and was shaking, but that soon stopped. I heard he died.

"The other one had been shot in the back and he was trying to call his girlfriend on his mobile phone. He got through eventually and then he went still. Another bystander, who also knew Mr Babadiya, said: "He was a bouncer at the club and I think he must have got caught in the gunfire.
I don't think he had anything to do with it.

"There were two birthday parties going on for two girls a 21st, and another birthday for a girl in her twenties. I don't go to SW8. It attracts a lot of people from different areas. All this is down to kids with toys." Officers from Operation Trident, which targets gun crime in the black community in the capital, are investigating the murder.

Detective Chief Inspector Adnan Qureshi said: "This is an appalling loss of another young life.

'He was always the one stopping trouble, not starting it. Kola was one of the good guys '

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