Pair facing jail for manslaughter after botched robbery for pizzas
TWO men have been convicted of killing a Pizza Hut delivery driver in a botched robbery for three pizzas.
Father-of-two Ali Qasemi, whose wife Fawzia was pregnant with their third child, was delivering three pizzas costing just over £50 when he was floored with a single punch and hit his head on the ground. He died two days later.
Joel Lawson, 25, formerly of Goodhale Road, Norwich, admitted throwing the punch and pleaded guilty to robbery and manslaughter.
His friend Mark Lintott, 29, denied both charges, but was found guilty of manslaughter and robbery following a seven-day trial at Peterborough Crown Court.
Lawson told the court a group of friends had been drinking lager and using cocaine at Lintott’s flat in Shrewsbury Court, Peterborough.
Lintott phoned Pizza Hut and provided a false address in his street, hoping to snatch the pizzas without paying for them and with no comeback to his address, the court heard.
When 45-year-old Mr Qasemi arrived in the early hours of Sunday, May 8, he was attacked and the pair made off with the pizzas.
The pair will be sentenced next month.