Gang member jailed over fatal shooting pays the price while accomplices remain on the run

Jama Ahmed has spent nearly nine years behind bars for his role in the murder of 22-year-old Jordan Thomas back in December 2014.

Jordan, from Firshill, was gunned down at point blank range in a ‘cold blooded execution’ at traffic lights on Derek Dooley Way.

He was the front seat passenger in a car which was shot at as it stopped just before the Sheffield Parkway.

Jordan was blasted through the passenger side window of the Ford Mondeo he was travelling in after a gunman jumped out of a vehicle behind and fired three shots - hitting Jordan twice in his chest.

It could not be proven that Ahmed was the actual gunman, and others said to have been involved in the attack were never tracked down, but the drug dealer was convicted on the basis that he was part of a pre-planned plot to kill involving a number of gang members.

Ahmed, of Broomhall Place, Broomhall, was 30 years old when he was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 36 years years behind bars after being found guilty of murder.

Jordan was said to have been targeted in revenge for the death of 23-year-old Mubarak Ali in 2011, who was killed by Jordan's cousin, James Knowles, then of Deer Park Road, Stannington, and who was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for manslaughter.

Mubarak was stabbed to death on Mount Pleasant Road, Highfield, as part of a feud between rival gangs.

Jailing Knowles over that knife attack, Mr Justice Openshaw warned that the murder could ‘further stoke feuding and rivalry’ between gangs in the city - and three years later his warning came true when Knowles’ cousin Jordan was killed.

Four men are still wanted by South Yorkshire Police over Jordan's murder.

Mohammed Ali, Jamal Ali, Saeed Hussein and Ahmed Warsame are believed to have fled to Somalia after the shooting. They are believed to hold vital information about the gun attack.

Jordan’s murder was described in court as the result of a feud which “spiralled out of control”.