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Man guilty of race-hate shootings | Man guilty of race-hate shootings |
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A gunman who threatened to "kill all black people" has been found guilty of three counts of attempted murder. | A gunman who threatened to "kill all black people" has been found guilty of three counts of attempted murder. |
Former boxer John Laidlaw, 24, went on a shooting spree in Islington, north London in May 2006. | Former boxer John Laidlaw, 24, went on a shooting spree in Islington, north London in May 2006. |
He shot at social worker Abu Kamara in Upper Street before accidentally shooting Emma Sheridan, a white Irish woman at Finsbury Park Tube station. | He shot at social worker Abu Kamara in Upper Street before accidentally shooting Emma Sheridan, a white Irish woman at Finsbury Park Tube station. |
Laidlaw, from Holloway, north London, was also found guilty of two firearms charges during the Old Bailey trial. | Laidlaw, from Holloway, north London, was also found guilty of two firearms charges during the Old Bailey trial. |
Judge Samuel Wiggs warned him that he faced an indeterminate jail sentence for the public protection. | |
"These offences, certainly the first incident, seem to be almost completely random. He is at the very least going to be subject to an indeterminate sentence." | |
Mr Kamara, 44, had been with a group of friends from work going for an early evening drink in Islington's trendy Upper Street, after a game of badminton. | |
But when a sports bag belonging to one of his colleagues brushed against a friend of Laidlaw's, the gunman reacted by pulling out a gun and shooting him. | |
The bullet deflected off Mr Kamara's chin and entered his neck through his Adam's apple, going through his voicebox and damaging nerve endings before lodging near his spinal column. |