A driver has admitted to killing Marcus Fakana, a British teenager who had just recently returned to the UK after being imprisoned in Dubai before his death.
Marwaan Mohamed Huseen, 20, had been trying to drive away from police in the early hours of 3 October last year when he crashed his car into a lorry, resulting in the death of 19-year-old Fakana who had been a passenger in the vehicle.
Appearing by video link at Wood Green Crown Court today (23 January), Huseen pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
Fakana had spent several months in prison in Dubai after the London teenager had a relationship with a 17-year-old girl while there, with the girl's parents only alerting authorities once their family had returned to the UK.
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The relationship had been consensual and would have been entirely legal back in the UK but breached Dubai's age of consent laws and Fakana had been sentenced to a year in prison before he was released and made it back on 3 July last year.
Sadly, three months to the day he returned home he died in a car crash in Tottenham.
The Met Police said their officers had been attempting to stop a 'vehicle of interest' on Pretoria Road, Tottenham when they lost sight of the car.
Officers said that when they reached 'The Roundway' they found that the vehicle had been involved in a crash.
Fakana was one of the passengers and was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead, while another passenger was badly hurt in the crash.
Huseen was identified as the driver of the car and entered his guilty plea to the court today from HMP Pentonville, admitting that he was uninsured, unlicensed and had caused the death of Fakana as well as serious injury to another passenger due to dangerous driving.
The driver was arrested at the scene of the crash and has been in custody ever since.
A hearing has been set for 27 February at which point a date for Huseen's sentencing will be announced.
Speaking of the 19-year-old's death after the car crash, Detained in Dubai chief executive Radha Sterling said she had been 'heartbroken' to hear that Fakana had been killed.
Her group had been campaigning for his release ahead of the pardon which secured his return to the UK.
“Marcus spent the majority of this year in a Dubai prison which no doubt caused him long-lasting mental anguish”, she said.
“It’s sad that of all of 2025, he was only free for the three months from the 3rd of July until the 3rd of October.”
Joe Harker