Friday, July 23, 2010

A black football player has been found guilty of murdering a man on a north-west London estate

Former Millwall striker Gavin Grant, 26, shot dead Leon Labastide on the Stonebridge Park Estate in Harlesden in 2004. Grant, who also played for Wycombe Wanderers and Bradford City, was involved in a series of "tit-for-tat" shootings on the estate. Another black Gareth Downie, 25, from Markby Road, Birmingham, was also found guilty of murdering Labastide. A third black Damian Williams, 32, from Tower Bridge Road in Southwark, was convicted of conspiring with them to murder Labastide. The court heard that Labastide's killing led to the murder of Jahmall Moore in 2005 and Grant's arrest.

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