by ‘Jola Sotubo
Daily Mail reports:
A gunman who uploaded a rap video onto YouTube boasting about trying to murder a rival with a ‘spray and pray’ machine gun was jailed for 22 years today.
Kayode Oshin, 21, attempted to assassinate Yassin Zouaiou with a Mac 10 in a feud over drugs and money in Hounslow, west London, after being enticed into a world of gang culture and crime’, a court heard.
Mr Zouaiou survived when the gun jammed – but a single bullet was fired, hitting his brother Mohammed Ali Subhani in the neck.
But Oshin then posted a rap video bragging about the shooting on YouTube.
The shooting was carried out in an alleyway between North Drive and Kingsley Road, Hounslow, at around 1am on October 6, 2011, the court heard.
Oshin and a second man, were arrested the next day in a white Mercedes-Benz they had hired for the attack.
Jailing Oshin for 22 years and Tahir-Akinyele for 14 years, Judge Timothy Pontius said the pair had been ‘enticed into a world of gang culture and crime’.
‘Oshin you are convicted of attempted murder, your clear intention was that Yassin Zouaiou should die,’ he added.
‘That intention would undoubtedly have been realised were it not for the fact that the mechanism on the gun jammed, releasing only one round.
‘It’s a matter of good fortune that he was not killed in what would have been a spray of bullets had the weapon been in good working order.
‘The Mac 10 was obtained by you with a specific murder in mind.
The pair, both from Hounslow, are currently serving sentences for a stabbing in Isleworth in November 2011 – Oshin for ten years and Tahir-Akinyele for eight.
‘Both of you have a record for serious violence,’ Judge Pontius said.
‘I have no doubt that the public must be protected from serious harm at your hands.
‘You are both currently serving substantial sentences for the offence in November 2011.’
‘They were then brazen enough to brag about their offending on the internet.
Junior Tahir-Akinyele also appeared on the video, which was uploaded on to the internet
Leave a reply