Ranjit Nankani, 30, from Croydon was sentenced to serve at least 18 years in jail this week after being found guilty of decapitating a rival clubber with his car outside the Ministry of Sound last August bank holiday.
London’s Old Bailey Court heard how Nankani had argued with his victim Gary Johnson inside the club after apparently stepping on his toe then waited outside to take revenge after he was thrown out. After he moved down his victim in his car, Johnson’s friend Dwayne McPherson pulled out a gun and shot Nankini, wounding him. The incident was captured on CCTV, clips of which were broadcast on the BBC this week (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10972628 ).
"What you did must have involved a degree of premeditation,” sentencing judge Judge Stephen Kramer told Nankini, “It was a targeted revenge attack on a crowded public street when people were leaving the club to go home,” he added.
The killer was sentenced just a day before police issued a fresh appeal for information about the unrelated murder of south London club promoter Daniel Herbert 27, who was killed several miles away from Ministry in Bermondsey two weeks before the Ministry killings.
Press reports said Daniel was ‘singled out by association’ by members of a rival gang of childhood friends of his who were involved in selling drugs to clubs after venturing into the notoriously tough area last August.
"Daniel was chased by a gang of men, predominantly white males, four to five white males, who managed to capture him in St James's Road, where they beat him unconscious,” investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Cliff Lyons told the BBC soon afterwards, “"Having done that, they dragged him to his knees, placed a gun to his head and murdered him.”
In an updated report the BBC said cops believe they know who carried out the killing though need more information to bring the case forwards.
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