8 years in UK jail for Zimbabwean gang member

8 years in UK jail for Zimbabwean gang member

THUGS: Top row, left to right: Simba Chiuture, Alex Ojerinola, Younatan Frezgi. Bottom row, left to right: Trevon Bert, Neil Williamson

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By Staff Reporter

A TEENAGE Zimbabwean tear-away has been jailed for eight years in England over his involvement in a frenzied gang knife attack on a man whose brother he had just robbed.

Callous Simba Chiuture, 17, and five others thought to be members of a gang called the Ferrier Boyz were caged for a total of 46 years by a judge at the Old Bailey for the violent attack on Faheem Javaid, 20, in June last year.

Javaid was attacked and left battling for his life by the Ferrier Boyz crew as he confronted them for robbing his brother.

Gang leader Abdul Yassin-Noor, 20, stuck the knife in four times, the Old Bailey heard.

He got 15 years for attempted murder.

Chiuture was given eight years for robbery and wounding and Alex Ojerinola, also 17, seven years for similar offences.

Also jailed were Neil Williamson, 17, and 15-year-olds Younatan Frezgi and Trevon Bert.

The gang sniggered and whispered in the dock as their sentences were read out on Wednesday.

The court heard Chiuture and his gang attacked Javaid after he confronted the yobs for robbing his younger brother.

Javaid was punched, kicked, beaten with a brick and pounded with a motorcycle helmet by the thugs – whose gang is named after the estate where they lived - in the frenzied attack in Kidbrooke, south east London.

Judge Giles Forrester, QC, said: “I hope young persons may get to hear about this case and maybe tempted to take up knives will have in mind the sentences passed in this case, even upon young defendants.”

The gang had first targeted Javaid's 14-year-old brother after spotting him on the number 112 bus in Kidbrooke on the afternoon of June 25 last year, as he made his way home from school.

They robbed him of his pocket money before jumping off the bus to use the cash to buy a McDonald's meal in Well Hall Road, Eltham.

The upset schoolboy sent a text message to older brother Faheem who bravely set out to track down the robbers.

He spotted two of the thugs at a bus stop and punched Frezgi in the face. But the student was soon “hopelessly outnumbered” when they called for reinforcements.

Sentencing Judge Forrester told the thugs: “I have no doubt the reason you combined together in the way you did was because each of you was either a member of a street gang, the Ferrier Boyz, or closely linked to it.

'The authority of the gang had been called into question and so as a group you executed revenge upon him.

'This was needless and extremely serious violence in which a knife was carried and used and a young man very nearly lost his life. Each of you bears a responsibility for that.

'The fact of the matter is Faheem came extremely close to death.”
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