SHEFFIELD SHOOTINGS: Killers serve one third of sentence for murder of teenage boy
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Four gang members were jailed for 110 years between them in 2009 after being found guilty of the murder of 17-year-old Tarek Chaiboub in July 2008.
Nearly 12 years to the day since the killing, the murderers have now served one third of their sentences behind bars.
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Hide AdNigel Junior Ramsey, his brother Denzil Ramsey, their next door neighbour Levan Menzies and pal Michael Chattoo were all involved in a plot to kill Tarek, who was hunted down and shot dead at a city barber’s on Spital Street, Burngreave.
The men, who were all part of the S3 postcode gang operating in Burngreave and Pitsmoor at that time, wanted the teenager dead when rival factions in the gang clashed.
They blamed Tarek, of Castledine Gardens, Wincobank, for passing on information that led to the near-fatal stabbing of another S3 gang member.
Nigel Ramsey – known on the streets as ‘The General’ – and said to have been in charge of the younger members, organised the killing while behind bars.
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Hide AdRamsey, now 34 and formerly of Andover Street, Burngreave, was convicted of murder on the grounds that he ordered the shooting of Tarek from a smuggled phone in his prison cell when he was serving time for a stabbing.
He was jailed for a minimum of 35 years.
His ‘lieutenant’ Chattoo, now 32 and formerly of Daniel Hill Street, Upperthorpe, was jailed for a minimum of 30 years; Ramsey’s brother Denzil, now 33, got 25 years and ‘foot soldier’ Menzies, now 28, received at least 20 years.
It was never proven who shot Tarek, who was carrying a gun himself at the time.
Sentencing the killers at Sheffield Crown Court, Mr Justice Griffith Williams said: “Britain is not broken, although certain communities are being plagued by the lawless activities of the likes of you and gangs such as S3.
“I make it clear that to protect them the full rigour of the law must be brought to bear and rogues like you must be brought to book.”