London - A high-profile business associate, who has brokered a multi-million pound deal between England footballer Ashley Cole and U.S. rap star Jay-Z, has been held guilty with eight other men for stabbing a teenager to death.
Christopher Nathaniel, 40, was one of nine men in the dock charged with the murder Danny O'Shea, 18, in Canning Town, east London, last December.
Nathaniel, who has worked with many leading sports and show business stars, was involved with anti-knife crime meetings with former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
He was also a director of Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand's Live The Dream Foundation, which helps disadvantaged youngsters.
Nathaniel was initially arrested by police at Heathrow airport in March in connection with the killing of O'Shea, who was stabbed in the neck outside his mother's house after being chased down the street by a mob.
Nathaniel had just returned from the U.S. when he was seized in March and was formally charged along with Paul Johnson, Kevin RichardsO'Neil Wareham, Andrew JohnsonFerron Perue,
Nugent Rowe, Paul Boadi, and David Hylton, when they answered their bail yesterday.
The district judge remanded all nine men in custody until a bail hearing on June 25 and set a plea and case management hearing for September 25th.
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