SHEFFIELD SHOOTINGS: Gunmen still at large as three murders remain unsolved

Here is a re-cap of the murder cases for which nobody is yet behind bars.

Unsolved major incidents are regularly reviewed.

Jonathan Matondo, aged 16, was shot dead close to a children's playground in a postcode gang war which spiralled out of control.

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He was shot in his head at the Nottingham Cliff recreation ground in Burngreave, with detectives believing he was targeted by a rival gang.

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Jonathan, of Verdon Street, Burngreave, was a member of the S3 gang which operated in Burngreave and Pitsmoor at that time.

It was at war with the S4 gang and Jonathan’s murder blew the lid off the deadly feud, which has been responsible for a number of shootings and stabbings over the years.

In the two years before Jonathan's murder, police compiled a dossier of 38 incidents, which led to the recovery of six guns.

Jonathan, known on the streets as ‘Venemous’, was known to carry a knife and a gun.

Detectives established that the gun used to kill Jonathan had been used to fire at another S3 member's home two months earlier.

One man stood trial for Jonathan’s murder twice after jurors in his first trial failed to reach a verdict.

After spending a year behind bars while on remand, he was found not guilty.

Two years later, Safrajur Jahangir, 23, was killed as he pulled up on Scraith Wood Drive, Shirecliffe, to deliver a curry.

A bogus order had been placed to lure the takeaway boss to the spot where a gunman was lying in wait for him.

He was shot in his head at point blank range in what detectives at the time described as an ‘organised hit’.

Safrajur, who was known as Shaju and was from Darnall, ran the Spice Hut on Middlewood Road, Hillsborough.

Six men went on trial in 2010 accused of conspiracy to murder, with detectives believing they were all involved in a plot to kill as par of a long-running feud between two families.

It was claimed that a hitman had been paid £15,000 to carry out the shooting but that he later died of a heroin overdose before he could be charged.

But the trial of the suspects accused of planning the murder collapsed and the men walked free.

The trial was stopped when it emerged that South Yorkshire Police had failed to disclose to the defence teams all the evidence gathered by the force during the investigation, which was said to have denied the defendants the right to a fair trial.

That same year, James Kamara was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Broomhall.

The dad-of-two, aged 22, was shot by a man who opened fire from a car which drove along Brunswick Street as James and his friends gathered.

Detectives who investigated the death believed James was killed as part of a feud between two rival gangs operating in Sheffield.

They claimed James was part of the WS10 ‘Squaremen,’ based in Broomhall, and that his killers were members of the S3 gang.

Four men were charged over the death and found not guilty after a trial.

James and his friends had been involved in a clash involving a rival gang in Eldon Street, Devonshire Green, 90 minutes before the fatal shooting.

Detectives who investigated the case believe a leading member of the Squaremen had been the target and that James was in the wrong place at the wrong time.