Daily Mail
November 6, 2014
Three men posed as police officers to force their way into a house and drag a father-to-be from his bed before they stabbed him to death in front of his pregnant fiancee, the Old Bailey heard.
Danny Gough, 24, was dragged to the floor and stabbed so many times by Sam Monteith, Stephen Dougherty and Paul West, 30, it was impossible for him to survive.
The court heard the three men had surveyed Mr Gough’s fiancee’s house for days and equipped themselves with an axe, machete and possibly a sword for the attack.
They were the kind of weapons that could be used ‘silently but lethally’, said Mark Heywood, prosecuting.
The trio were caught after they left a Jiff lemon bottle, containing ammonia, behind which they used to spray in the eyes of Mr Gough so he could not protect himself.
His pregnant fiancee Kareena Modashia was also sprayed so that she could not identify them.
Mr Heywood said: ‘This case concerns a truly vicious killing, one motivated by vengeance and the need to remain in criminal control.’
The court heard Mr Gough had been involved in an ongoing feud with Stephen Dougherty, 36.
Mr Gough’s friend Leanne Meredith was involved in a fight with Dougherty and Monteith, 33, in a pub.
Mr Gough took revenge by breaking into Monteith’s home in Wallington, Surrey, with two others.