Remy Gordin and Kami Carpenter have been jailed for the murder of Cody Fisher, 23, who was stabbed in the chest at Crane nightclub in Birmingham on Boxing Day 2022.
Two men have been jailed over the stabbing death of soccer player Cody Fisher at a nightclub.
Remy Gordon and Kami Carpenter were sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum terms of 26 years and 25 years respectively at Birmingham Crown Court following the 2022 Boxing Day attacks. The two men blamed each other for the stabbing, but both were found guilty. last month. The third defendant, 19-year-old Regan Anderson, was acquitted.
Mr Fisher was stabbed in the chest with a knife at the Crane nightclub in Birmingham and tragically died at the scene. His death was linked to a minor altercation at a club in Solihull two nights earlier. The attack was described as a “terrible revenge” against the former Birmingham City academy footballer. He also played for Stratford Town and Bromsgrove Sporting.
During the trial, it was revealed that Gordon found a photo of the victim on social media, uploaded it to a Snapchat group of friends, and asked: “Who knows this pip squeeze?” In a follow-up post, he said, “It's because I punished him.” The jury heard both Mr Gordon and Mr Carpenter discussed the level of safety at the site, including knives and cranes. Carpenter later shared a photo of herself posing with a giant machete on Christmas Eve. This turned out to be the same weapon that ended the soccer player's life.
The 10-week trial heard that Mr Fisher was accused of smuggling weapons through security into Digbeth's Crane nightclub before a pre-planned “act of retaliation” for a minor incident two days earlier took place. was said to have been attacked. Jurors were told that Mr Gordon, of Cofton Park Drive, Birmingham, orchestrated the stabbing after Mr Fisher briefly and “unavoidably” touched Mr Fisher's back as he left a packed club on Christmas Eve. Ta.
On Monday, Judge Paul Farrar KC sentenced Gordon and Carpenter to prison terms. In a statement read out in court, Fisher's girlfriend Jessica Chatwin, who was with him the night he was killed, said her boyfriend was in her care when he died in Fisher's arms. He said the world was “shattered.”
“I remember a few seconds before that moment, when I turned around and saw Cody behind me, he gave me the biggest smile, full of love and happiness, and now I know that was my goodbye to him. The next time I turned around, he was surrounded by his attackers, and I saw him fall to the floor, and that's when the reality that he had been mortally wounded hit me. Ta. From that day on, my life stopped, and I live every day with tremendous pain, loneliness, and sadness.
“I was supposed to spend the rest of my life with Cody. Now I have to face a world without his love and guidance. While we were together, he always told me He showed me that. He was my strength through every situation, but now I have to face it alone.'' A statement from Fisher's mother, Tracy, was also read, and she said in court: Although she did not enter the building, she was in the building during the sentencing hearing, and said that hearing the defendants' statements during the hearing was “excruciating for her mother.” A disgusting lie. ”
Paying tribute to her son, she wrote: “Since this terrible day, I feel like my own life is over and I too feel like I've been stabbed straight through the heart. I am the happiest and most sociable person ever.” I watched myself struggle just to get through endless, terrifying days with the awful knowledge that my best friend, my youngest son, would never come home to sleep. .His bedroom, a room I still can't enter.
“I instilled in Cody from a young age to be yourself and not let anyone bully you. I taught him that sad and weak people do exist in our society and that they I told him that it would ruin his life. How ironic and sad that this is exactly what happened to Cody. He was just doing what his mother told him to do, and I think about it every day. I think about it, but I never expect my child to be murdered.”
KC prosecutor Michael Duck told the court it was a “coordinated attack” on Mr Fisher, and CCTV footage later showed Mr Gordon “reenacting the attack and laughing” at a pizza takeaway restaurant. He said that he was captured. He said the pair had shown no remorse for their actions and had attempted to evade arrest by fleeing to Jamaica, Gordon to Jamaica, and Carpenter to London, before being arrested.
Mr Duck opened the case in January, telling jurors that Mr Fisher had been stabbed in the chest, piercing his heart valve and was pronounced dead at the scene, while close friends of the victim had been chased and kicked. However, she managed to reach him. Run away on his feet. Mr Duck said the attack on Mr Fisher was not a matter of “coincidence” or a “fatigue”, but was a result of a minor incident at Popworld nightclub in Solihull about 48 hours before the murder. It was a planned act of retaliation.”
As Ms Fisher and her friend made their way to the exit of the club, Mr Duck said there was a “meeting” with Mr Gordon. He said: “Inevitably, they had to move through a large crowd of people. Sadly, Remy Gordon was also in that crowd. “Cody Fisher and Remy Gordon's backs. It appears that there was brief contact between them. It appears that Cody Fisher just touched Remy Gordon's back. It appears that Remy Gordon wanted to have an argument with someone.”
Referring to social media messages sent by Mr Gordon, Mr Duck told the jury: “Mr Gordon not only acknowledged that he had no malicious intent, but that he was determined to challenge Cody Fisher. It is clear from the evidence available.” The court heard that Mr Fisher had done nothing wrong and was not prepared to apologize after being threatened with violence and left the club with his friend.
Duck said of Gordon: “He was determined to take revenge, ultimately resulting in the loss of Cody Fisher's young life at Crane's Nightclub. The intensity of his anger was evident within approximately 50 minutes of the encounter at Pop World. It can be gleaned from the messages sent that he was quite embarrassed and mortified that he was unable to intimidate the public.”
Mr Duck revealed what he described as “one of the horrifying details of the incident”: “The weapon was recovered. It was recovered by medical staff who came to treat him, but it was still embedded in his chest as he lay there. It remained the same,” he said. Ground. “
Jurors were also shown surveillance footage of the three defendants arriving at the Crane Club, as well as copies of Snapchat messages sent between Gordon and Carpenter in the hours before their arrival. One message mentioned “balls” and another asked, “Can I put a shank in there?”
A third electronic conversation showed “sinister intentions” on Mr Gordon's part, with Mr Gordon saying he was “trying to sniff someone out”. Mr Duck said: “Mr Gordon intended to wear a disguise. He was debating which weapon to bring onto the premises. And he intended to revisit the events of Christmas Eve with Mr Fisher.''
