Telford murder trial: Accused 'drove from London to torch car' after rapper shot dead outside gym
One of the men on trial for the murder of a rapper outside a Telford gym four years ago drove from London to Shropshire to torch the car used in the killing, a court has heard.
Tamba Momodu, aged 20, was shot six times outside The Fitness Factory at Bridges Business Park in Horsehay, Telford on October 13, 2020.
Over the last three weeks, a jury at Stafford Crown Court has been told that Momodu Momodu had moved to Telford in 2018 to start a new life after being acquitted of murdering 19-year-old Abdullahi Tarabi, a rapper known as Teewiz who was stabbed in an alleyway in Northolt in April 2017.
Mr James Curtis KC had told the jury that Mr Tarabi’s brother Mahamud Tarabi, 32, and cousin Ahmed Karshe, 30, were two of the four men standing trial for Mr Momodu’s murder.
Also in the dock accused of the killing are Deria Hassan, 32, and Merje Ngoy, 24.
A fifth man, Abdi Jama, is still at large.
The jury had previously heard from two eyewitnesses to the shooting.
Mr Diandre Henry was in the driving seat when Mr Momodu was blasted with a handgun through the window of his Renault Megane.
