Nigeria-born Michael stabbed to death in UK when 3 robbers tried to steal his laptop

A teaching assistant was stabbed to death by three men in UK when he confronted them after they tried to steal his laptop, a British court heard on Tuesday.
Michael Adegbite, 28, had listed his Apple MacBook on online marketplace Gumtree and agreed to meet a potential buyer on a street in Enfield, north London, on July 19 last year.
The Old Bailey heard he was met by three men who threatened him with a large knife but left empty-handed when he refused to hand over the laptop.
Mr Adegbite, who also coached young footballers, was later stabbed in the heart when he confronted the gang on a nearby street, it was claimed.
Christopher Nzeh, 18, Montel Ajayi, 19 and Isaac Owen-Brady, 18, are all accused of murder but deny the charge.

University graduate, Mr Adegbite, known as ‘Bengz’, and his friend, Mohammed Umer, had arranged to meet a buyer for the Apple laptop on Auckland Close.
Prosecutor, Simon Mayo, told the court that Ajayi, Owen-Brady and Nzeh had travelled to Enfield “for the specific purpose of robbing him of that Apple computer.”
He said the three men were carrying a folding knife which they used, unopened, to “reinforce the threat that was designed to persuade Mr Adegbite to hand over the computer.”
Jurors heard that Owen-Brady asked to be passed the knife so that he could use it as a weapon and tried to get into the car that Mr Adegbite and Mr Umer were in.
He then told his accomplices: “Give me the knife, I will do it.”
Mr Mayo continued: “The planned robbery was unsuccessful as Mr Adegbite and his friends stood their ground and resisted the defendant’s efforts to rob them.
Realising that Mr Adegbite was not going to be a push-over, the defendants left the scene empty-handed.
“Understandably upset and irritated by what the defendants had done, Mr Adegbite and his friends decided to try and follow the defendants in the hope that they might be better able to identify them.”
They called for assistance and armed themselves before confronting the three defendants in nearby Lackmore Road, the court heard.
Mr Mayo said Mr Adegbite had a metal bar with him when he got out of the car to confront the defendants.
He added: “While taking that iron bar with him might not have been the wisest course of action, it was perhaps understandable in the light of the fact that he had been threatened with that rather nasty looking knife just minutes before.
“Within moments the defendant, Christopher Nzeh, had taken out the knife he was carrying, opened it to expose the blade and he then plunged it into Mr Adegbite’s chest.”
Mr Adegbite was stabbed shortly before 7.00 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7.31 p.m.
Mr Mayo told the jury that Owen-Brady has pleaded guilty to a similar robbery in March 21, 2014, pulling out a knife to rob two men of a games console after they advertised it for sale on Gumtree.
He added: “In the course of stealing the games console, Owen-Brady stabbed the victim in the back with a knife before making off.”
He said the three defendants are “guilty on the basis of joint enterprise,” even though Nzeh is accused of inflicting the fatal stab wound.
Ajayi, of Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, Owen-Brady, of Enfield, and Nzeh, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, denied one count of murder and second count of having a bladed article in a public place.
They all admitted one count of conspiracy to commit robbery.
The trial continues.