Teenage hitman jailed for 20 years over £200 doorstep execution

Santre Sanchez Gayle, 16, was told he must serve at least 20 years behind bars for the murder of 26-year-old Gulistan Subasi in March last year.

He was just 15 when he blasted Miss Subasi with a sawn-off shotgun in a contract killing in Hackney, east London.

Closed circuit TV footage showed him resting the gun on the front gate of the flat where she was staying and blasting her in the chest on the doorstep.

Gayle, known by the street name Riot and related to two other convicted killers, was convicted of murder after boasting of the crime to another youth.

The teenager, of Kensal Rise, north west London, was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday alongside Izak Billy, 22, who recruited him for the hit.

Billy, of Willesden, north London, was also found guilty of murder, and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 22 years.

Miss Subasi’s former partner Serdar Ozbek, 28, of Wood Green, north London, was accused of ordering the shooting but was cleared of the crime, along with four other defendants.

Judge Stephen Kramer told Billy and Gayle: “It was an efficient, ruthless and calculated execution.”