An Eltham carpentry student was shot dead as part of a turf war between drug barons, the Old Bailey heard today (April 13).

Charlie Wright, 17, was shot in the face at close range in a flat on Calvert Road in Greenwich on April 23 2010.

Jurors heard Mr Wright had been recruited into the 'dark world' of drug dealing by Somalian man Ibrahim Aden, known as 'Double D'.

Prosecutor Bobbie Cheema QC said: "It was a chilling and brutal execution of a 17 year-old boy."

Ms Cheema told the court a regular customer of Mr Wright called him in the middle of the night, asking to buy drugs.

She added, after luring Mr Wright to the property on Calvert Road, the man rushed into the property with a group of men, one of whom shot Mr Wright at close range with a shotgun.

The group of men then ran off and left Mr Wright to die.

The killing was the latest attack in an ongoing feud between Aden and Hassan Hassan, known as Goldie, the court was told.

Ms Cheema said one of Hassan's dealers was knifed around a week before Charlie was killed and the shooting was planned as a revenge attack.

She told the court how 'Double D' had set himself up as a dealer in the area and that 'Goldie' didn't take kindly to the competition he posed.

She added: "In this case you are going to enter a dark world that exists in this capital city alongside the world you move in.

"There is another nefarious realm that is a criminal world in which people use intimidation, fear and violence against each other.

"In that parallel degenerate world witnesses who have evidence to give or information to provide don't usually assist the police.

"The shooting dead of this young boy has caused some people who would never normally speak to the police to come to court."

Mr Wright was studying to be a carpenter at Lewisham College.

Hassan, 36, of Vesta Road, Brockley, Colin Anderson, 48, of Plumstead Common Road, Woolwich and Mohammed Ibrahim, 26, of no fixed address, all deny murder, conspiracy to rob, and possession of an imitation firearm with intent to rob.

The trial continues.