Lianne Gordon: Teenager who shot Hackney mom useless as she shielded her youngsters jailed | EUROtoday

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A youngster who shot a mom within the head whereas she stood within the doorway of her Hackney dwelling attempting to protect her two youngsters has been jailed for all times.

Lianne Gordon, 42, had simply returned from a vacation in Jamaica when she turned the unintended sufferer of a gang feud on 5 December final 12 months.

At the time of the deadly capturing, Joshua Alexander was on bail for an tried homicide regarding a separate incident in March 2023.

Her homicide was the fruits of a sequence of violent incidents between two rival neighbourhood gangs. That night, Ms Gordon’s 21-year-old son Kaymound was within the bathe and her 16-year-old daughter got here out of her room when she heard what she thought had been fireworks.

Even although the gunman was carrying a balaclava, she was later to inform police that she recognised her mom’s 17-year-old killer.

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She stated: “Mum had her hand on door handle and looked like she was trying to close it. I could see gun tip through the open door. I saw her drop. I went to her.

“As soon as my mum took her last breath and I was still hearing gunshots and that, I opened the front door and I was screaming at him and he stared me directly in my face.

“He was wearing a balaclava or hood, but I could see enough of his eyes and nose area to recognise him. He did not say anything. Everything happened in slow motion. We were face on for a few seconds, maybe five, before he ran off. We locked eyes, knew it was him.”

Ms Gordon died on the scene from a single gunshot wound to the top whereas the 2 victims outdoors had been handled in hospital.

Her twin sister, Louise, described her as “a force of nature” and stated “everything has been destroyed, shattered and broken” since her loss of life.

In a sufferer influence assertion, she advised the courtroom: “I feel like I have lost my other half. She had nothing but love for me, as she did for everyone who was lucky enough to be in her circle.”

Ms Gordon’s sister added: “I feel like I’m underwater most days trying to stay afloat. My mind is still in constant turmoil.”

She stated her twin was “shot like a gangster” in her own residence, including: “This gun crime has ripped a hole in my family and there is nothing we can do about it.”

Prosecutor Mark Fenhalls KC stated the incidents resulted from a dispute between two Hackney gangs: the Pembury Gang, with which Alexander was related; and the A-Road Gang, with whom Mr Gordon was linked.

It was alleged the defendants had threatened Ms Gordon’s son with a big knife as he smoked a cigarette on his doorstep on October 1 final 12 months, though they denied it.

Days earlier than her homicide, Alexander was concerned in a ride-out in rival territory involving a machete and a gun which was fired 4 occasions, jurors had been advised.

Mr Gordon, who makes use of a wheelchair, had denied membership of the A-Road Gang however stated issues started in 2019 when his buddy, Dotz, was murdered.

Over the years, either side would disrespect one another in music and on social media and there have been revenge assaults, jurors had been advised. Despite the teenage defendant’s household attempting to distance him from the gang by shifting miles away, he travelled again to Hackney to participate within the capturing.

Following the deadly capturing, Alexander had made 65 web searches on his laptop for Lianne Gordon and ‘fatal shooting in Hackney’.

Mr Fenhalls advised jurors: “The only sensible conclusion to draw from this activity on this computer is that (the youth) had made it home in the early evening and was searching to see what was being reported about what he had done.”

In January, rap lyrics had been recovered from his cell referring to the capturing saying that Kaymound’s mom was “wigged”, the courtroom heard.

The youth had a sequence of earlier convictions relationship again to when he was 15 years outdated.

Despite denying being the gunman, he was discovered responsible of her homicide after the jury deliberated for 21 hours. They additionally discovered him responsible of trying to kill a 17-year-old boy and 21-year-old man who had been shot on the street throughout the identical incident.

He has now been jailed for all times with a minimal of 29 years. Addressing Alexander within the dock, Judge Aubrey advised him: “You murdered an innocent woman who was behind her front door in her own home.

“Her home should have been a sanctuary, a place of safety. It was, however, where she met her death at your hands while you were in possession of a firearm.”

This gun crime has ripped a gap in my household and there’s nothing we are able to do about it

The decide stated Alexander was “on a mission that night to execute members of your opposing gang”.

He advised Alexander: “You have shown no remorse whatsoever. Notwithstanding that you have murdered an innocent person in her own home who was not the intended target.”

The decide stated this was illustrated by rap lyrics present in his jail cell in January that had been “glorifying” his crimes.

The youth was additionally convicted of affray, having a firearm with intent to hazard life and possession of a bladed article however was acquitted of threatening Ms Gordon’s son with a knife.

Co-defendant Elijah Seriki, 21, from Hackney, was acquitted of all the fees in opposition to him on Wednesday.