Barry McElduff and Chris Hewertson conclude prosecution of final chapter of tit for tat cases of Bedford gang based serious violence
Barry McElduff and Chris Hewertson secured convictions of two core members of a violent criminal gang, known as the Mile Road Gang, following an 8 week trial at St Albans Crown Court before HHJ Lithman QC.
This case was the fourth in a series of Bedford gang trials successfully prosecuted by members of 2KBW and focussed on gang warfare in June 2017 by way of a series of stabbings and a reprisal shooting.
This trial focussed to a large extent on the attack upon a 16 year old member of a rival gang, K Block, which resulted in the youth having his arm almost severed off by the 2 convicted Defendants wielding a machete.
This was a Prosecution made harder by the refusal of the victim of the above hacking to speak to the police.
As a direct consequence of that attack K Block launched a reprisal shooting 2 days later. The victim of the shooting suffered 15 shotgun pellets embedded in the back of his head and neck and a host of other shot in his back and shoulders. His brother-in-law was also shot in his action to haul the primary victim back into a house. Miraculously, neither man was killed. Two of the men responsible for that offence were convicted at an earlier trial.
The evidence in the trial established that many K Block and Mile Road Gang members were actively engaged in the supply of controlled drugs. K Block produced violent and explicit drill rap videos in which the common themes were “trapping” over “County Lines,” shankings and drive-by shootings. The above-shooting was carried out by sourcing a “burner” car which was crashed by the K Block operatives into stationary vehicles at the time of the shots.
This week those responsible for the machete attack received sentences of 15 years (with an extended licence period of 3 years) and 14 years respectively.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47653884
Barry and Chris were instructed by Charles White, Complex Case Unit Thames Valley
