Four males stood trial at Teesside Crown Court for over two months after they have been charged with the murder of Kurdistan-born British citizen Hemawand Ali Hussain.
Mr Hussain, 30, died immediately after he was shot inside a terraced home in Charterhouse Street, Hartlepool, on September 14, 2019, the trial heard.
The jury was instructed Mr Hussain, who was stated to be a hashish seller, was lured to the home by an Albanian drug gang on the pretext of utilizing it for a hashish farm and was then killed over a dispute.
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Hemawand Hussain was killed inside an empty home in Hartlepool’s Charterhouse Street.
On Wednesday, March 24, all 4 of the accused have been cleared of murder.
But Noza Saffari, 39, Qazim Marku, 25, and Dorian Pirija, 33, have been as a substitute discovered responsible of manslaughter.
The fourth defendant, Anxhelo Xhaferi, 24, of Acton Street, Middlesbrough, was discovered not responsible of murder or manslaughter and was discharged.
The trial heard that the three responsible males all attended a “planning assembly” in Bolton on September 5 to debate the assault.
Saffari, of Park Lane, Middlesbrough, arrived on the home in Charterhouse Street with Mr Hussain on the day he was killed.
He was additionally caught on CCTV leaving the scene and getting right into a black Hyundai with 4 different males instantly after the killing.
The car was set on hearth simply off the A19 in North Yorkshire a short while later.
Pirija, of Trillo Avenue, Bolton, picked up Marku and different males from the burning car after the killing.
His gray Fiat automobile was seen near Charterhouse Street two days earlier than Mr Hussain was killed.
Marku, an unlawful immigrant of Maxwell Road, West Drayton, London, was current on the time of the killing and was additionally seen fleeing the scene.
But he stated he was in one other room upstairs when the set off was pulled.
During the trial, Mr Hussain’s companion, Jennifer Buller, stated she believed he had been killed due to his hyperlinks to medication.
She additionally described him as the kind of one that might make mates with anybody.
Saffari, Marku and Pirija will probably be sentenced by High Court Judge Mr Justice Wall on Thursday, March 25.
The defendants have been remanded in custody.
