13 years for Bradford gunman who shot at club door staff

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A man who injured three revellers with a sawn-off shotgun after being thrown out of a Bradford nightclub was yesterday jailed for a total of 13 years for that offence and drug-dealing.

Omar Shah threatened to come back and shoot door staff after they forcefully ejected him from The Cube in Ivegate in the city centre, at 3.30am, for “having a go” at a deaf man.

Prosecutor Dave MacKay told Bradford Crown Court that 24-year-old Shah returned to Ivegate less than 20 minutes later with the weapon, which he fired up the street towards the club.

Customer Christopher Silson, who was standing outside the club, suffered 80 pellet wounds to his back, neck, arms and head. A member of door staff was hit in the leg but was uninjured.

CCTV footage showed Shah reloading the gun before running into the club, where he fired one shot upwards towards the DJ stand from a crouched position, injuring two other customers.

Howard Brown was knocked to the floor and suffered blister injuries to his shoulder and chest. Kamran Mahmood suffered an eye injury.

Shah fled the club and fired another shot at a man in the street, who ran for cover and was not hit.

The defendant was identified from CCTV footage and arrested.

Shah’s barrister, Sukhbir Bassra, said no-one had been seriously injured and when shots were fired outside the club there was no deliberate aiming at individuals. His client contended his intention was to scare people, not to injure.

Mr Bassra said the defendant could not name the people who gave him the gun because there would be reprisals against his family.

He was a pleasant, well-thought of man who had never resorted to violence in the past, but was easily led by those more criminally sophisticated.

Judge Alistair McCallum said Shah had come within a hair’s breadth of life imprisonment or an indeterminate sentence. He said the gun used was a vicious weapon and the offence was planned.

Shah, of Quaker Lane, Canterbury, Bradford, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possessing a sawn-off shotgun with intent to cause fear of violence, wounding with intent, and two charges of causing actual bodily harm, on November 7 last year.

Judge McCallum sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment for those offences and a further three years for charges of supplying heroin and crack cocaine and possessing both drugs with intent to supply, in August last year, which he had also admitted.

[ballantyne78]

A pleasant well thought of man who uses a sawn off and possesses heroin and crack with intent to supply? Sounds an ideal member of any community.

10 years wasn't long enough though, regardless of his so called intent afterwards, you don't fire a shotgun without being aware of the possible repercussions. Defence barrister should be ashamed but they rarely are. Distinct lack of morality.

[noise stopper]

"Shah’s barrister, Sukhbir Bassra, said no-one had been seriously injured and when shots were fired outside the club there was no deliberate aiming at individuals. His client contended his intention was to scare people, not to injure."

Oh well that's all right then no real harm done!

[karlbee]

Would love to sit with the defence barrister and over a few pints get him to explain how been hit by 80 pellets around the head and neck,is in his eyes not serious.Iam sure that if I walked into a pub he goes in to and started waving a sawn off and then peppering him with 80 pellets,he would describe it as quite serious.

[luke34]

I'm betting that the closest that defence barrister ever gets to a gun is when he watches daddy and his chums shooting pheasants on daddy's country estate!

[BigAvo]

What a joke!

I had a look around the net and it looks like they've give him the Minimum possible sentence.

5 Years Minimum for Possession of a Firearm
8 Years Minimum for Attempted Murder

Crazy

[Gepard]

What a joke!

I had a look around the net and it looks like they've give him the Minimum possible sentence.

5 Years Minimum for Possession of a Firearm
8 Years Minimum for Attempted Murder

Crazy

Where does it say what he was charged with?

[Mattsmith1990]

Judge Alistair McCallum said Shah had come within a hair’s breadth of life mprisonment or an indeterminate sentence. He said the gun used was a vicious weapon and the offence was planned.

Shah, of Quaker Lane, Canterbury, Bradford, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possessing a sawn-off shotgun with intent to cause fear of violence, wounding with intent, and two charges of causing actual bodily harm, on November 7 last year.

Judge McCallum sentenced him to ten years’ imprisonment for those offences and a further three years for charges of supplying heroin and crack cocaine and possessing both drugs with intent to supply, in August last year which he had also admitted.

[BigAvo]

What a joke!

I had a look around the net and it looks like they've give him the Minimum possible sentence.

5 Years Minimum for Possession of a Firearm
8 Years Minimum for Attempted Murder

Crazy

Where does it say what he was charged with?

Sorry, I never looked further into the story. Just had a look at a few law websites.