Killer attacked his mother and sold ‘Pineapple Express’ strain of cannabis
POWERFULLY-BUILT amateur boxer Svenson Ong-a-Kwie was thrown out of the family home for attacking his own mother.
He excelled at Latin when studying at Hornchurch High School in East London, but told the court he was ‘trafficked’ to work as a runner for a ‘county lines’ drug gang at only 16.
After being caught red-handed with class A drugs, the light-heavyweight boxer was given a second chance, but instead redoubled his efforts to become a dealer.
He has originally been a customer of his co-defendant Manuel
Petrovic, but clocked up convictions for being involved in the supply of cocaine, possession of Class A and Class B drugs and handling stolen goods.
After teaming up, the pair bombarded their customers, who numbered up to 1,000, with daily offers on small amounts of cocaine and strains of cannabis such as one called ‘Pineapple Express’.
Ong-a-Kwie, whose mother is from Suriname in South America and whose father is Belgian, revelled in his ‘tough guy’ image, using social media to publicly feud with rivals coming onto his turf in Romford, East London.
‘Definitely gonna f*** s*** up for these YG’s [young guns] down [in the postcode area of] RM3,’ he previously wrote on Twitter over an apparent territorial spat.
CCTV played to jurors also showed him hopping off the back of a motorbike and attacking a rival in an incident in which a teenager was stabbed.
Ong-a-Kwie, who has four sisters and whose mother is studying to be a counsellor, claimed he tried to remain polite and ‘schmooze’ his customers, or ‘lines’.
‘Everyone does their lines differently. I try to make it like they like me. A lot of people cannot pronounce Svenson, a lot of people say Spencer,’ he said.
When police arrived to arrest him he fled out of a first floor window, only to plunge through a conservatory roof, saying: ‘Murder? I ain’t done a murder.’
He admitted to a life of crime and even to burning his clothes in the aftermath of the murder, but ranted at jurors: ‘The one thing I am not taking responsibility of murdering Jodie Chesney. I have nothing to do with it.’ But jurors easily saw through his lies.
‘I ain’t done a murder’