The jailed killer gangs who are rightly where they belong

Yahoo

06-04-2025

Brutal gang killers have left grief and devastation for families across the West Midlands in recent years.
Among some of the murders plaguing our streets was a broad daylight killing of DPD delivery driver Aurman Singh.
He was attacked in a Shrewsbury street and hit with an axe and a golf club with shocked on-lookers witnessing the violence.
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Elsewhere, the dad of an intended target was knifed in the heart as he tried to protect his son.
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Kelvin Ward, 50, was at a KFC restaurant when he was attacked by a group of men which tragically took his life.
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From a wasted talent to a 'troubled' teenager expelled from school, the back stories of a gang behind a bungled murder plot at KFC were detailed in full as they were jailed.
Leighton Williams, aged 29, Tyrone Hollywood, 17, Aaron Coates, 18 and Rusharn Williams-Reid, 18, tried to kill a 19-year-old in Castle Bromwich following a long-running feud.
But when their intended target managed to make a desperate escape on an electric bike their attention turned to his father Kelvin Ward, 50.
He managed to jump behind the wheel of the gang's Kuga and tried to run Hollywood over in a bid to stop the attack.
He missed the teenager and crashed into a railing on Winward Way before being ultimately stabbed in the heart by Williams.
His son had once been friends with Hollywood and Coates before falling out and it was alleged he was responsible for causing damage to Coates' home.
In retaliation the gang attacked his address three days before the killing, setting fire to cars, breaking windows, wielding machetes and shooting at the property.
On April 18, 2023 they were riding around in a stolen Ford Kuga when they spotted the father and son at the KFC drive-thru in Chester Road.
Hollywood, who was behind the wheel, rammed them leading to a road chase before the deadly confrontation with Mr Ward.
All four were convicted of conspiring to murder his teenage son while Williams and Hollywood were found guilty of Mr Ward's murder and Coates was convicted of his manslaughter.
They were jailed for more than 80 years in total at Coventry Crown Court.
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A fugitive who planned an ambush robbery of a rival drug dealer which ended in the tragic murder of the intended target's driver has been jailed.
Ayub Khan was the fourth and final person brought to justice over the fatal stabbing of Richard Hopley in Harborne in September 2022.
The 29-year-old fled to Pakistan where he got married and fathered a child.
His three accomplices, Nicholas Stallard, Paul Hayles and the man who inflicted the fatal blow, Mohammed Qasim, were convicted for their involvement and jailed as he lay low.
Khan returned to Britain last year believing he could no longer be implicated by the other men.
After being arrested he also fooled a psychologist into concluding he was vulnerable in a bid to deceive the jury that he was an 'innocent dupe'.
But Khan's lies were foiled and he was found guilty of murder and conspiracy to rob.
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A promising drill artist and three gang associates - including one from Birmingham - have been jailed after a tit-for-tat revenge shooting outside a child's birthday party.
Young dad Kacey Booth was fatally shot in a gang murder which was then "glorified" in a rap video.
Kammar Henry-Richards, known as Kay-O, was involved in the murder on August 13, 2022, then boasted on video that the same gun was used to injure the victim's brother two years earlier.
On Tuesday, January 14, the 26-year-old was jailed for life at the Old Bailey for a minimum term of 37 years for his murder.
E9 gang associate Roody Thomas, 27, of Birmingham, was among the four men sentenced.
He admitted having a prohibited firearm and was jailed for five years for his involvement in the gang rivalry.
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Jack Towell and David Oswald
Four gang members who slit the throat of a man and dumped his body in a stream have been jailed for life.
Jack Towell, David Oswald and two other men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, ambushed Owen Fairclough after they thought he would tell police about the group's drug dealing operation.
A group of teenagers made the grim discovery and found Owen's body in the water near a path in Breaston, Derbyshire, at around 7.20pm on June 23 2023.
A court heard Owen had been lured to the area after arranging to meet his friend Towell to collect some money he was owed.
Owen got a taxi from his home in Long Eaton to the Navigation Inn pub where he had agreed to meet Towell at around 11pm on June 21.
But when he arrived at the scene, he called Towell, who then directed him to the secluded area nearby.
Two other men – David Oswald, 31, and a man who cannot be named for legal reasons – were also waiting and Owen was subjected to a brutal attack.
Jurors were told the group had hatched a plan to kill Owen, believing he was about to report their drug dealing to the police.
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An armed mob who brutally hacked to death a DPD worker 'within seconds' of ambushing him in the street have been convicted by jurors.
Aurman Singh, from Smethwick, was part of a two-man crew delivering parcels in Shrewsbury when he was executed by masked men in broad daylight.
They chopped at his head with an axe and hacked off part of his ear in the chilling onslaught.
Aurman's killers also wielded a wooden stave, metal bar, hockey stick, shovel, knife and cricket bat during their 'extremely violent' attack.
Mehakdeep Singh, 24, and Sehajpal Singh, 36, both of no fixed abode, denied a single count of murder and stood trial.
They were unanimously convicted of the charge by jurors at Stafford Crown Court on Monday, March 31.
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