Overview
- The Old Bailey sentences handed down Wednesday set minimum terms of 38 years for Perry Allen-Thomas and 26 years for Amir Salem after murder and attempted murder convictions.
- The drive-by outside the River of Life Pentecostal Church in Willesden on December 14, 2024, killed Michelle Sadio, 44, and wounded two men, one now paralysed below the waist.
- Detectives linked the pair through DNA on a petrol can left by a burnt-out Kia, extensive CCTV reviews, phone records, and ULEZ and ANPR traffic-camera data.
- Prosecutors said the shooters sought rapper Trapstar Toxic, and the firearm had been used in earlier attacks and was described in court as a gang gun.
- In court, widower Jean‑Marie Sadio called his wife the family's pillar and told the defendants they were forgiven.