Farhad Khalili was stabbed in the back after he left a kebab shop in Kingston upon Thames.
Sean Deery murdered his former friend who was "oblivious" to the impending attack, the judge saidFarhad Khalili, 32, was murdered in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, in December 2021 as he walked home from a kebab shop.
"Acting together, you carried out a brutal knife attack on a man in a situation where he was defenceless.At the defendants' trial last year, the Old Bailey heard how Deery was engaged in a "feud" with Mr Khalili, who had been a friend of his, over either drugs or money. Deery arranged for Niven, 13 years younger than him, to take part in the attack."You looked upon him as a 'little cousin' and were quite prepared to let him wield a knife...
A victim impact statement from the victim's mother Goli Ghanbari said: "As a mother whose son has been murdered for nothing, I now have to live with this life sentence.