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TWO LONDON MEN have been jailed for a combined 28 years after two attacks on two women in a crime spree earlier this year.
Joshua Jordan and Sadik Kamara were today sentenced to 14 years each for the March attacks that were committed as part of a gang robbery.
The court had heard that Kamara, who is a well established rap artist under the name ‘Trizzy Trapz’, and Jordan travelled from Newham to Hackney to commit the robberies on Friday 10 March.
In the first attack, the pair were part of a gang of five that targeted a supermarket after staking it out for the evening. A woman in her 50s was the lone shopkeeper in the store when they entered.
“In a carefully planned attack with a getaway car and a lookout waiting nearby, four of the attackers entered the store wearing gloves and masks,” Met Police said today.
None of the robbers made any demands or gave the victim a chance to respond before Kamara squirted high strength ammonia in the face of the victim several times burning her.
After the gang sped off in the getaway vehicle the drove past their next victim, another woman in her 50s who had been walking to a friend’s house after getting out of a taxi.
Two members of the gang forced the woman to the floor and one pinned her face to the pavement while the other repeatedly sprayed the woman in the face with a fresh bottle of ammonia.
As with the first attack, it was only after the victim was burned by the cleaning liquid and lying injured that attempts were made to steal from her.
The pair stole her handbag and ran back towards the car. A witness saw the pair laughing amongst themselves as they ran away from the burnt victim on the floor.
Both victims were rushed to hospital with facial burn injuries, one suffering chemical burns to her mouth.
Due to the quick treatment they received, neither victim has been left permanently disfigured but the shopkeeper has now been forced to give up working in the supermarket.
Jordan and Kamara were subsequently identified and arrested and paperwork found at Kamara’s home indicated he sought hospital treatment the day after the robbery for exposure to ammonia.
Both men were convicted of harm relating to the use of at the ammonia as well as robbery.
“The behaviour of both Kamara and Jordan was cowardly in the extreme. Five physically strong males preying on lone, slightly-built women to attack and rob,” Detective Constable Ben Kahane said today after the sentence.
“The use of ammonia to burn their victims was completely unnecessary to achieve their aim of to steal. I hope they use the 14 years’ imprisonment that they have received to reflect on this.”
A power struggle to captain the Titanic.
@Cathal: if no tds get elected would labor consider dissolving?
@Cathal: The trough,the trough Cathal,big salarie bump for the captain ,no matter how leaky the ship is, snouts twitching for more.Kelly might actually attend work if he gets it.
Task 1: Apologise for facilitating nearly a decade of FG led government that promised fiscal responsibility but has devastated the value of assets paid for through public funds. By implementing policies to starve investment in public hospitals and social housing, education, etc FG have created huge opportunities for private profiteers while FG ministers have used public money (Rent Allowance, HSE Treatment Purchase Scheme, PPS built schools, etc) to benefit their donors and supporters who profit directly from the the poverty that has been carefully maintained during the ‘downturn’.
Task 2: Apologise for the way Labour ministers’ brazenly sneered at those who raised objections to prioritising their state funded salary, allowances, expenses, etc while basic and humane schemes like discretionary Medical Cards for sick kids were defunded. Labour in government with FG should have been red in tooth and claw, ensuring that the public policies that are essential to running a nation cohesively, included unashamedly defending a decent standard of housing, education and health for all citizens in this republic.
Task 3: Apologise for Joan Burton.
Task 4: Organise an orderly wind down of a party that used to mean something but has destroyed itself by abandoning its base.
@Donal McGrath: I regret I can only thumbs up your excellent comment once.
@Donal McGrath: Half of Labour TDs receive a part teachers salary despite not teaching. Howlin was minister for expenditure and reform yet cutbacks occurred to children’s disability yet not a cent was taken off this teacher salary.
@Donal McGrath: Jaysus..that’s an awful lot of apologies for an Irish politician… and do you want them all at once …???
@Peter McGlynn: Stick to the facts. Maybe 3 of 6 are teachers. I dont know. Frankly that’s irrelevant. If they are they may have the right to return to their post after politics if it’s a permanent post etc. No TD can draw a teaching salary, their job is reallocated on a fixed term contract for so long as is necessary. It’s debateable whether this should be allowed go on indefinitely for sure but that’s an entirely different matter to saying they’ve a salary. Also like pretty much every worker teacher’s pay was cut during Howlin’s time. Even worse a two tier payscale was created that remains to this day. And yes disability and other services were cut, we all know and hence many showed our feelings at the ballot box leading to where Labour are at now.
They’ll pick Kelly and he’ll bury them – It’s hard to serve the public when your utterly obsessed with serving yourself.
Not sure who’s more grasping and desperate, Kelly or AOR.
Alan Kelly is toxic. If Labour want to recover they should expel him. He personifies the betrayal of the electorate over The water charges and we have to deeply question if he is influenced by his brother. Perhaps labour are already too afraid of him? If he is elected leader, it will send a powerful signal to voters who will never vote for labour again.
Labour have shifted to a right wing party in the way Kelly and others tried ramming the water charges down our throats in order to prop up FG. Even in there manifesto they said there’s no money , let’s keep going the way we are.
Mr “Power is a dug”?
@David A. Murray: oops… drug
You forgot to add Coco the clown, he is the most logical choice.
Sean Sherlock has ruled himself out. He’s a TD in my local constituency and whatever about his politicals he is one sound bloke.
@Manbackonboard: they all are.its their job to be .
Best thing grass roots labour people could do is to disband labour or cause a split and distance itself from Mr “power is a drug” and the old feeble labour leaders like Burton and howlin. They need a fresh start altogether and they need to find a charasmatic real socialist to lead them
Given what the arsehat has said ‘tis easy enough to predict there will be very few Labour candidates returned at GE2020 Mark 2.
Trying to freeze out Sinn Féin from government when the people have already spoken is a sure way of making sure second, third, fourth etc preferences skip Labour.
Tired old men need to get out of the way of progress. Glad to see the back of him. The newly elected need to understand the electorate do not want the hegemonic demonic troika of ffg/rcc.
Kelly and that will surly see them disappear :-)
Alan Kelly, Joan Burton and now AOR are the very reason I stopped voting for #Labour. Toxic party who forgot there base.
ABU. Anybody But Kelly. No matter what happens in government unfortunately the likes of RTE feel they have to give each party no matter how small and unimportant they are a little snippet on the news to have their say and I for one cannot listen to Kelly every time that happens!
#Neveragain.
Alan Kelly is spineless with huge anger issues. Is this what Labour want. He’d Nash had a stronger calmness and stability to lead Labour. Kelly goes around as if the world owes him special treatment. Just look on nonverbal facial expression
Kelly is the personification of a party that has completely abandoned its core principles. 6 TDs would rapidly turn into zero at next GE.
I never saw anyone as arrogant looking as Alan Kelly
Now that they’ve no principles left to sell, they’ll have to attach themselves to one of the big three parties. It’s time the unions stopped funding the ambitions of these opportunists.
North East Cork has only 1 TD but he is worth 6 of the others
Would they be any way to Coax, Danny Healy-Rae over for 6 months to put the tractor back on de ould Road ?
The most surprising thing is there are still four of them left
aquaman would love it
The British labour party were formed to be the political voice of the unions….I wonder if the Irish labour party were formed to represent the same…if it was..they failed miserably..
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