Teen victim of 'cold blooded execution'
A COURT heard this week how a Sheffield teenager was gunned down in broad daylight by members of a warring gang based on the S3 postcode.
Tarek Chaiboub, aged 17, was shot with a sawn-off shotgun outside a barber's shop in Burngreave because he was seen as a "traitor" by some of the gang.
At the start of the trial of four people accused of murder Paul Watson QC, prosecuting, told Sheffield Crown Court: "Last year a young boy was shot dead outside a shop on a street corner. It happened in broad daylight. It was a pre-planned and cold blooded execution.
"Those who did it knew exactly what they were doing. In fact an earlier attempt to kill the same boy had failed. This time they made no mistake.
"This was not Chicago in the 1930s. Still less was it the East End of London in the 1960s. This happened less than a year ago on a Friday lunchtime on a busy thoroughfare."
Jurors heard that the gang, which operated in Burngreave and Pitsmoor, had suffered a serious split and Tarek, who lived in Castledine Gardens, Wincobank, had a "foot in both camps".
The warring had already resulted in the murder of one member on one side – Brett Blake – and the attempted murder of another member on the other side – Junior Liversidge, who was a cousin of two of the defendants.
Two days before he was shot last July, Tarek was almost killed in a stabbing attack outside his home.
Mr Watson QC said the teenager was blamed for passing on information to gang members Esmond Thompson and Isiah Nelson, which led to them stabbing 19-year-old gang member Junior Liversidge "to within an inch of his life".
Tarek was friends with both the attackers as well as the victim and his death is said to have been in "revenge" for helping to locate Mr Liversidge on the night he was knifed.The court was told that Tarek, who had been carrying a gun himself, was targeted with a sawn-off shotgun outside Frenchie's barber's in Spital Street.
Gang member Nigel Junior Ramsey, aged 22, of Andover Street, Burngreave, who is known as 'The General', is alleged to have organised the shooting and made arrangements from his prison cell, using a smuggled mobile phone.
He was a prisoner at the time of the attack and is said to have "pulled the strings" of those who carried out the attacks.
Nigel Ramsey, along with his brother Denzil Emanuel Ramsey, aged 20, of Andover Street, Burngreave, Michael Jermain Chattoo, aged 21, of Daniel Hill Street, Upperthorpe and a 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are charged with murder.
Nigel Ramsey, Chattoo and 20-year-old Javan Richard Galloway, of Nottingham Street, Burngreave, are accused of attempted murder following the knife attack on Tarek. The defendants deny all the charges.
The case is expected to last six to eight weeks.
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