A hitman found guilty of the gangland murder of a Albanian-swedish drugs boss in front of his wife and children has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years.

Flamur Beqiri, 36, was fatally shot on Christmas Eve 2019 on the doorstep of his mansion in Battersea, south west London, due to his connections with organised crime in Malmo.

Swedish assasin Anis Hemissi, 24, was found guilty of murdering Beqiri, as well as being in possession of a firearm after a two-month trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Hemissi was jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years at the same court on Friday.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said: "Flamur Beqiri, a Swedish citizen with Albanian origins, was suspected of involvement in international drug dealing and other serious crime. He was also a son, a partner and a father.

"His children will never know him and nothing the court does can comfort them, or reconcile those who loved him to their loss.

"Anis Hemissi, on the evidence there is no doubt that, aged just 22, with no previous convictions, in 2019 you were a gun for hire.

"The intricate planning that enabled you to arrive in London just a few days before shooting that man dead in front of his family as they were walking to their front door on Christmas Eve, also enabled you to leave the country within hours of his death.

"This was international crime at its most brutal.

"You carried out an audacious execution intended to induce terror in south-west London in those associated with Flamur Beqiri.

"But not only in this city.

"The impact was felt thousands of miles away because its origin is in the battle between callous gangs who disregard borders to commit crime, including targeted killings."

The jury had been told how Hemissi had flown into London four days before the brutal shooting and flew to Denmark on Christmas Day, hours after the murder.

He was later arrested after a holiday in Thailand.

The court heard how Beqiri, the brother of The Real Housewives of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri, was shot eight times in the back by Hemissi, who was disguised as a litter picker.

CCTV footage was shown to the court showing the victim arriving home from dinner with his wife, Deborah, when the shooting started.

She is seen screaming and cradling their two-year-old son as her husband drops dead.

Prosecuting, Louise Attrill said the murder was due to a rivalry between two organised crime groups.

Beqiri, who was of joint Swedish and Albanian nationality, claimed to be in the music business but had been involved in the international drugs trade from Spain, through the Netherlands and into Scandinavia since 2007.

He had been arrested several times in Europe and in 2018 was named one of Sweden's most wanted men after investigators said he was part of an international drugs smuggling ring moving cannabis into Scandinavia.

Homicide detectives from the Met Police 's Specialist Crime Command launched an investigation and identified CCTV that tracked the movements of Hemissi before and after the shooting.

It was quickly established he had stayed in a flat in Lombard Road, Battersea, a short distance away from his victim’s home address, in the days before the murder.

Further investigation revealed that meticulous planning had gone into securing the flat for Hemissi to stay and organising a clean-up operation after the murder.

Detective Inspector Jamie Stevenson, the lead investigator in the case, said: “This was a meticulously planned murder that originated from a dispute between organised criminal groups in Sweden.

“The fatal shooting, at point blank range in front of the victim’s wife and young child, was a deeply shocking and distressing incident.

"The two-year investigation into the murder was one of the most complex and wide-ranging taken on by the Specialist Crime Command in recent years.

"A range of expertise in the Met including homicide detectives and forensic teams solved the case via analysis of more than 1,000 exhibits and 800 hours of CCTV. More than 500 witness statements were also collated.

“This was an investigation that also demonstrated Scotland Yard’s strengths in working with the CPS and international law enforcement agencies, in particular Swedish Police.

Estevan Pino-Munizaga, 35, was acquitted of murder found guilty of an alternative charge of manslaughter. Tobias Andersson, 32, and Bawer Karaer, 23, also from Sweden, were acquitted of both charges.

Clifford Rollox, 31, from Islington, north London, and Claude Isaac Castor, 31, a Dutch national from Sint Maarten in the Caribbean, were found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

(Source: Mirror)