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| Two guilty of murdering footballer Cody Fisher in Crane nightclub stabbing | Two guilty of murdering footballer Cody Fisher in Crane nightclub stabbing |
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| Cody Fisher was stabbed with a zombie knife on the dance floor of Crane in December 2022 | |
| Two men have been found guilty of murdering a footballer, stabbed to death on the dance floor of a nightclub. | Two men have been found guilty of murdering a footballer, stabbed to death on the dance floor of a nightclub. |
| Cody Fisher, 23, was attacked by a masked group at the Crane club in Birmingham on 26 December 2022, in front of more than 2,000 people. | |
| Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, were convicted of murder at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday. | Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, were convicted of murder at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday. |
| A third defendant Reegan Anderson, 19, was found not guilty of murder. | A third defendant Reegan Anderson, 19, was found not guilty of murder. |
| The trial heard Mr Fisher made "unavoidable" contact with Gordon in a trivial incident at Popworld, a busy bar in Solihull on Christmas Eve, which led to him trying to track him down. | |
| Prosecutor Michael Duck KC told jurors there was "no doubt" Gordon was looking for trouble and wanted Mr Fisher to apologise and "seek his forgiveness". | Prosecutor Michael Duck KC told jurors there was "no doubt" Gordon was looking for trouble and wanted Mr Fisher to apologise and "seek his forgiveness". |
| But he was not going to apologise because he had done nothing wrong, he said. | But he was not going to apologise because he had done nothing wrong, he said. |
| Less than an hour after the encounter that night in Popworld, Gordon sent messages in a Snapchat group he was in with several friends appealing for help to identify Mr Fisher and threatened to "shank him up". | |
| "Who knows this likkle pip squeeze [sic]?" he posted with a photograph and arrow pointing to Mr Fisher, along with comments of "man think he's bad" and "posh yout". | |
| Remy Gordon shared this image with friends to track down Mr Fisher, the court heard | |
| Mr Duck said Gordon, of Cofton Park Drive, Birmingham, was "set on retribution" and that "ultimately was to lead to the loss of Cody Fisher's young life in the Crane nightclub". | |
| Jurors were told of other messages in the defendants' Snapchat group in the days before the Boxing Day event in which Gordon and Carpenter talked about whether masks could be worn and if weapons could be taken inside the club. | |
| 'I needed to tell him I loved him as he lay dying' | |
| Mr Fisher, a former Birmingham City FC academy member who had also played for a number of non-league Midlands clubs, including Bromsgrove Sporting and Stratford Town, had gone to the Digbeth nightclub with his girlfriend and friends to see a DJ they liked. | |
| Sam Newey, a close friend of Mr Fisher, who had met Gordon some six months earlier, told jurors how he had tried to persuade Mr Fisher to leave Crane, after seeing Gordon and several others wearing ski masks and balaclavas several hours before the attack. | |
| He said Gordon had asked him "is your boy Cody here?" and he replied he was not. However, Mr Newey said he became concerned "we were going to be outnumbered and obviously potentially get hurt". | |
| Remy Gordon, Kami Carpenter and Reegan Anderson all denied murder and affray | |
| Shortly after 23:30 GMT, up to 10 men approached Mr Fisher who was standing with his girlfriend Jess Chatwin and best friend Dan Vann. | |
| Mr Vann told the court the "large crowd" with masks "up to their noses" asked Mr Fisher to go outside before one headbutted him, knocking "his head backwards" before punches were then thrown. | |
| He then fell to the floor after being stabbed in the chest and leg. CPR was administered by security staff, but the blade had penetrated the main valve to his heart, a post-mortem examination later showed. | |
| The weapon - a zombie knife - was left in his chest, the court heard. | |
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