Cricklewood teenager jailed for part in Tube station shooting (From Harrow Times)

Cricklewood teenager jailed for part in Harlesden Tube Station shooting

11:20am Monday 9th January 2012 in News By Natalie O'Neill

A GIRL from Cricklewood has been jailed for helping a gang of teenagers try to murder a footballer last year.

Chantelle Franklin, 17, of Edgware Road, was among a gang of four teenagers who tried to shoot the 27-year-old man at Harlesden Tube Station last March.

Blackfriars Crown Court, which lifted reporting restrictions on the identities of the youths involved, heard how the victim became involved in a fight with the group in Mordaunt Road as he was making his way home to south-east London from a football match.

The teenagers chased the man into the station before Jordan Gabbidon, 17, of Brent, shot him in the back as he tried to run down the stairs to escape. He was shot from a range of six metres and fell to the ground as he reached the platform.

The victim managed to board a Bakerloo Line train to Willesden Junction and was taken to hospital for emergency surgery for wounds from shotgun pellets in his back which had damaged his spine and liver.

Upon sentencing the group on Thursday, Judge Aidan Marron QC called the shooting a “wicked and ruthless act of violence”.

Gabbidon and Samuel Woods, 16, of Windrush Road, Brent, were jailed indefinitely for public protection for the attempted murder. Both will serve a minimum of six years and three months.

Franklin and Ola Salau, 18, of Nettleden Avenue, Wembley, were convicted of possession of a firearm in a public place. Salau was sentenced to six years imprisonment.

Franklin was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice and also jailed for a total of six years.