British-Nigerian Man Jailed for Shooting Man Over £3.50

An Edmonton man who attempted to shoot someone in retaliation over a £3.50 drug debt has been imprisoned for 28 years.

Marcus Adepoju, 31, of Claremont Street, appeared in Woolwich Crown Court on Friday, April 12, and was sentenced.

He had previously been convicted of various guns and narcotics charges after a trial at the same court in February.

In April 2023, authorities were called to a residence on Nelgarde Road in Catford after a man reported being shot through a window by a masked guy.

The three rounds narrowly missed him, but they did cause superficial wounds from glass shards and severe property damage.

Detectives launched a thorough CCTV inquiry as soon as possible as part of their investigation.

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This revealed the suspect leaving a property on Laleham Road, Hither Green, and walking to the scene, then going back there shortly after.

After focusing their attention on individuals entering and leaving the residence, the officers noticed a guy who would later be identified as Marcus Adepoju leaving the house to go to a storage facility in nearby Forest Hill.

During a search of the unit, knives, cash, drugs, ammo, and firearms were found. They discovered that more ammo, money, and drugs were recovered in a different storage site they connected to Adepoju.

Officers stopped Adepoju in a car in Chingford and discovered he was in possession of a bag containing a big set of keys. These were keys to the residence on Laleham Road and two storage containers.

Forensic investigations of one of the recovered guns linked it to both the shooting and another event in March 2023, when a bullet hole was discovered in a lorry in Forest Hill. Adepoju’s DNA was also discovered on both guns.

His phone was also examined, revealing many photographs of a third handgun.

At a previous hearing, Adepoju entered a guilty plea to three counts of handgun possession, money laundering, possession with intent to provide class A drugs, and possession of bladed objects.

He was convicted of three counts of attempted murder, possessing a gun and ammunition with the intent to endanger life, and one additional count of possessing class A drugs with the intent to supply them.

Following a police search of his Laleham Road home, Francis Ajeigbe, 60, was taken into custody and charged with money laundering and possession of class A drugs with the intent to supply.

Ajeigbe received a sentence of two years in prison with a one-year suspension.

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