A 19 year-old Zimbabwean teenager, Phillip Tadzingwa Gambiza, has been charged with murder following a mafia style shooting of a 25 year-old in London

Reports in the British media say that Gambiza, together with an accomplice who has also been picked up by the police, fatally shot Sadiq Adebiyi in a motorbike ride-by shooting in South London. Adebiyi was standing near Stockwell Tube Station when Gambiza and his yet to be named accomplice opened fire with a machine gun. The gun shots left Adebiyi mortally wounded. He was taken to King’s College Hospital where he was pronounced dead an hour later. Scotland Yard said in a statement that a passing police van followed the motorbike immediately after the shooting. They caught up with Gambiza, who lives in south-west London, at a housing estate in Battersea. The Crime Prosecution Service authorized the Metropolitan Police to charge Gambiza with one count of murder and an additional charge of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.