Suspected murderers turned phones off on day rapper was shot dead outside Telford gym, court told
Four men accused of killing a rapper outside a Telford gym in 2020 had their phones switched off on the day of the fatal shooting, a court has heard.
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Tamba Momodu, 20, known as Teerose, was shot six times at point-blank range in October 2020 outside a gym in Horsehay.
Prosecutors allege Mr Momodu was “stalked” and tracked down by the older brother and cousin of 19-year-old Abdullahi Tarabi, who Mr Momodu had been acquitted of killing in 2017.
Mahamud Tarabi, 32, and Ahmed Karshe, 30, are both on trial for Mr Momodu’s murder, alongside two other men: Deria Hassan, 32, and Merje Ngoy, 24.
Giving evidence at Stafford Crown Court on Monday (February 3), “cell site expert” Martin Griffiths had previously explained to the jury how mobile phones are tracked and located using cell towers.
He told the jury he was able to show their mobile phones had travelled to Telford on multiple occasions – including to “an area that includes the Fitness Factory Gym”.
Mr Griffiths said there were 15 trips made from London to Telford on the days leading up to the shooting, in which the phones of both Tarabi and Karshe had been monitored along their journeys, and their cars were picked up by ANPR – number plate recognition – cameras.
