THE mother of an aspiring lawyer who was stabbed to death said that dealing with the Metropolitan Police was “harder than getting someone convicted in The Hague.”

Sven Badzak, 22, and a 16-year-old friend were attacked by a group of six young men as they walked in Kilburn, north-west London, on February 6 2021.

Mr Badzak was repeatedly stabbed after falling to the ground, while his friend suffered multiple stab injuries.

Drug dealers 22-year-old Rashid Gedel, from Ilford, and 23-year-old Shiroh Ambersley, from Wembley, were found guilty of Mr Badzak’s murder last month.

Asked what she thought of how the police dealt with her son’s murder on Times Radio, Jasna Badzak said: “It was horrendous for us, they were saying that it was gang-related violence, implying that Sven was a gangster.”

She added it became a “problem” for police to get CCTV and they were “very reluctant to do that.”

Ms Badzak, who was previously a protected witness in two trials of war criminals at The Hague after fleeing her native Yugoslavia, said: “Putting criminals behind bars in The Hague was a piece of cake compared with dealing with the Metropolitan Police.”

She described her son as “calm and collected” and said he “never, ever had any altercations with anybody who would be involved in something like that.”

Ms Badzak added she was threatened with arrest for “interfering with the investigation.”

She added: “I was demanding that they arrest the killers and even arresting any one of them would take at least seven to 10 days.”

A spokesperson for the Met Police said that officers are “determined to bring all those responsible for the death of Sven Badzak to justice.”