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‘Love of Money’ gang are named
COURT orders banning the identification of five members of an armed gang were lifted this week.
The ‘Love of Money’ gang was on a “murder mission” after a trivial street incident when a shootout began, the Old Bailey heard.
And the indiscriminate firing could have cost a little girl her life. She cheated death when she leaned forward in her dad’s car to lick an icecream as a shot slammed into the vehicle.
When the men went by car from their base in Hoxton to “take revenge on the challenger” they had with them a loaded sawn-off shotgun and a handgun.
They set off in broad daylight and converged on Laburnum Street, Haggerston.
Moments after arriving in the crowded residential street on 10 April 10 last year, one of the gang, Ezekel Taylor, 21, fired the shotgun and wounded Nicolas Richards, 20.
Another shot peppered a passing car in which the four-year-old girl was sitting.
Sallie Bennet-Jenkins, QC claimed that the gang’s intention “was to kill a man or men” after one of them traded punches with Richards for straying into their territory in Kingsland Road.
He was peppered with shots and still has particles embedded in his body.
Taylor, of Geffrye Court, Hoxton, Clive Joe, of Stanway Court, Hoxton, Ross Oakford, 22, of Shrubland Road, Dalston, Levi Defreitas, 23, of Gospell Street, Hoxton, and Colin Hylton, 25, of Bletsoe Walk, City Road, Islington, have all been convicted of various offences arising from the incident.
“Ziggy” Taylor was given an indefinite sentence on firearms and wounding charges. Joe, already serving nine years for manslaughter, was also given an indefinite term. Defreitas was sentenced to seven years and Oakford to five years. Hylton will be sentenced next month. |
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