Overview
- Newcastle Crown Court handed life sentences to Sidney Bashford, Oliver Connelly, Michael Charville and Ryan Moore, setting minimum terms of 28, 23, 20 and 22 years respectively.
- Mr Justice Goss said Bashford used a knife to inflict the fatal wound and condemned the group’s retribution as cowardly.
- The armed group stormed Jordan Hogg’s Hemlington flat while seeking a suspected e-bike thief, with forensic work showing a blade struck the door before the fatal attack inside the property.
- After the February killing, arrests followed across March, including Bashford fleeing via Ireland before being detained in France and extradited to Heathrow on March 27.
- Seventeen-year-old Kaiden McIver acted as a lookout and was sentenced to detention at His Majesty’s pleasure with a 16-year minimum term, as his counsel argued he had been exploited by the gang.