A father allegedly admitted that he may have threatened to kill a man who accused his son of robbery , a court has heard.
Mark Izraelov is said to have told Samuel Brown that he would kill him if he did not drop charges against Yacov Izraelov.
The jury at Wood Green Crown Court heard that while being questioned by police, Mark Izraelov agreed that he might have made the threat against Mr Brown during an encounter at Sami’s kosher restaurant in north London.
Reading from a transcript of his interview with Mr Izraelov, Detective Constable Mark Hay said that witnesses at the restaurant had heard the defendant tell Mr Brown in Hebrew: “I will f****** kill you, I will f*** you up.”
In response, the court heard that Mark Izraelov had told DC Hay: “Could be. In my mind I was so upset, it could be. Maybe I said by anger. Whatever happened was on the heat of the moment.”
Prosecutor Iestyn Morgan said the defendant had described himself in the interview as an “emotional person, very hot”.
Giving evidence, Argaman Rosfeck, a chef at Sami’s restaurant, told the jury: “I remember some swearing to Samuel Brown but I don’t really remember the words.”
He said Mr Brown sometimes helped out in the restaurant. When Mr Rosfeck heard the argument he asked Mr Izraelov to go outside.
Another witness told the court that she had been in a car with her son, when he had received a call from Yacov Izraelov.
She said that he had asked her son to tell Mr Brown to drop the charges.
She told the jury that during the conversation the subject of a burglary at her house last year was raised and Yacov Izraelov claimed he could get the stolen items back.
“He just said he knows who has the stuff and can get it back for us if [my son] asks Samuel to drop the charges,” she said.
Mark Izraelov, 50, of Finchley, north London, denies charges of intimidation and perverting the course of justice.
Yacov Izraelov, 20, also of Finchley, denies charges of robbery and perverting the course of justice.
A third defendant Edvin Banda, 22, of Kingsbury, north-west London, pleaded not guilty to robbery.
The trial continues.
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