heart by a man he befriended and asked
round to his north London flat, the Old Bailey
has heard.
The body of Shaun Akanbi, 26, who dressed
the likes of Ms.Dynamite and Tinie Tempah,
was found in his locked bedroom at the flat he
shared with others in Exeter Road, Kilburn, in
December.
Police broke down the door after police and
family said they were concerned no-one had
seen him for three days. He had been stabbed
five times.
Achraf Jandara, 20, is accused of murdering
Mr Akanbi before ransacking his flat and
fleeing wearing clothes from the victim's label
Billy Boyce.
The Moroccan was captured on CCTV walking
off with a rucksack and trolley bag and
dressed in a jacket bearing the Billy Boyce
logo.
The court was told that Mr Akanbi and
Jandara had previously swapped messages
over Facebook and Mr Finnigan said the
'apparent purpose of the meeting was
connected to proposed or actual sexual
activity.'
Peter Finnigan, QC, prosecuting told the
court: 'The motive for the killing was very
probably robbery. Items were stolen from the
flat.
'[Mr Akanbi] had already attained a fair
amount of success. He was talented. He was
reasonably well-off. He was also sociable and
well-loved.'
Jandara, 20, of Camberwell, south London,
denies murder.
The jurors were told Jandara was claiming
someone else murdered Mr Akanbi and that
he was the first to come across the body.
Fans of the Billy Boyce brand, named after Mr
Akanbi's father, include Brit award winner
Miss Dynamite and Fazer from grime trio N-
Dubz.
Mr Akanbi founded the label while studying at
the London College of Fashion in 2009.
Shaun Akanbi founded the Billy Boyce label
in 2009 when he was still a fashion student
He was last seen alive by a pizza delivery
driver who dropped off food at the victim's flat
at about 10.40pm on the night he died.
The driver later told police he saw the victim
with a white man with a distinctive long face
and long skinny nose, although he was unable
to identify Jandara.
Mr Finnigan told the court that Jandara's
footprint was found in Mr Akanbi's flat and his
DNA was on a mug in the bedroom.
He said he stumbled across the body of Mr
Akanbi.
Mr Finnigan said: 'The new defence is the
murderer slipped in and out of the building
unobserved by CCTV, conveniently leaving the
door open for the defendant to find the body.
Musicians such as Tinie Tempah, left, Ms.
Dynamite, right, and Fazer from N-Dubz are
known to be fans
'You will have to consider why he did not call
the police or emergency services. Instead he
stripped the flat of as many of Shaun Akanbi's
possessions as he could bodily carry out of the
flat.
'He even had on Shaun's clothes which he got
from a rack on the flat.
'Shaun had his own special unique line of
clothes with his own logo – you can see it on
the CCTV.'
Mr Akanbi's Macbook laptop was sold by
Jandara's cousin two days after the murder for
£160, the court heard.
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