A man from Surbiton has been jailed after a man was shot dead at a block of flats in West Norwood.

Ramane Wiggan was killed in Friar Mews on March 27, 2019, after travelling to the area to collect a drugs debt of £10,000.

Officers and London Ambulance Service attended and found Ramane seriously injured on a balcony walkway.

He died a short time later.

It was later found that he was shot from behind by a Glock pistol, with one of the bullets passing through his chest.

Kaine Gilead, of Grove Road, Surbiton, was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey on July 19.

The 26-year-old was sentenced to a minimum of 34 years in jail on August 4.

Analysis of mobile phone data, along with other intelligence, resulted in officers identifying Kaine as the main suspect.

Kaine took a minicab to Liverpool on the day after the murder, before returning to London on April 24, 2019.

He was arrested on May 2, 2019, after officers saw him visiting his mum’s address in West Norwood.

He was bailed while officers carried out further enquiries, which included a review of data collected from Kaine’s phones.

One of the mobiles was used in the area of the murder shortly before Ramane was shot.

It also showed several calls between Kaine and Ramane in the hour prior to the shooting.

He was further arrested on September 2, 2020, and charged by the Crown Prosecution Service the following day.

He made no comment during interviews with officers.

Judge Topolski, sentencing Gilead, said he had committed a "brutal and callous" murder that would "haunt Ramane's mother, family, friends, for many years".

Detective Chief Inspector Kate Kieran, who worked on the investigation, said: "The evidence we collected against Gilead was overwhelming and showed him to have played a key part in the deliberate, planned and cold-blooded murder of Ramane.

"This case is also a tragic reminder of the misery drugs cause within communities and demonstrates how they can often act as a catalyst to more serious crimes."