A Swedish hitman has been found guilty of murdering a reality television star’s brother in front of his screaming wife as she shielded their two-year-old son.

Flamur Beqiri, 36, was shot dead on the doorstep of his £1.7 million home in Battersea, south-west London, on Christmas Eve 2019 as part of “a tit-for-tat rivalry" between gangs.

Beqiri, the brother of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire star, Misse Beqiri, was a kingpin in an international drugs gang.

He was targeted as part of a feud with a rival organised crime group headed by Amir Mekky, 24.

Gunman Anis Hemissi, 24, disguised in a latex mask, opened fire 10 times with a pistol, hitting Beqiri with eight bullets from behind.

Professional kickboxer Hemissi, who had earlier disguised himself as a litter picker to carry out reconnaissance, was found guilty of murder and possession of a firearm at Southwark Crown Court on Friday after a two-month trial.

The jury was not told that he had previously been a suspect in the murder of a man shot dead near Hemissi’s father’s house in Malmo but never charged.

The court heard three other Swedes had also flown to the capital in the weeks and days before the shooting, which had been meticulously planned for up to six months.

Estevan Pino-Munizaga, 35, was acquitted of murder but found guilty of an alternative charge of manslaughter.

Tobias Andersson, 32, and Bawer Karaer, 23, also from Sweden, were acquitted of both charges.

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Clifford Rollox, 31, from Islington, north London, and Dutch national, Claude Isaac Castor, 31, from Sint Maarten in the Caribbean, were found guilty of perverting the course of justice after being hired locally to clean up the flat where the killers had stayed.

They were seen removing a large suitcase on Christmas Day, but police were on the scene before they could finish the job and evidence recovered included a ripped up flight ticket stub including Hemissi’s name.

Karaer’s cousin, Ahmet Karaer, suspected of helping to finance, plan and organise the murder, is wanted by police, having disappeared after being deported from Egypt where he was arrested for drug smuggling.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she will sentence those found guilty next Friday.

Senior Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor, Louise Attrill, said the murder was part of a “a tit-for-tat rivalry between two very significant organised crime groups”.

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