Jahzeen Carpenter was found guilty of assisting an offender as she drove to London and researched flights to Jamaica to help her son Kami Carpenter who has been convicted of murdering Cody Fisher
Jahzeen Carpenter has been found guilty of assisting her murdering son, Kami Carpenter, in his attempt to flee to Jamaica following the stabbing death of Cody Fisher at Crane nightclub in Digbeth
The mum of one of the killers of an aspiring footballer who was murdered in a Birmingham nightclub has been found guilty of trying to help her son flee the country.
Jahzeen Carpenter drove to London a day after her son Kami Carpenter had stabbed Cody Fisher to death at the Crane nightclub in Digbeth, late on Boxing Day evening 2022.
Carpenter arrived in the capital on the evening of Tuesday, December 27 in her Mercedes convertible, while her son was found with two suitcases of clothes.
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Officers spotted the mum and son a day later and arrested both of them outside flats in the Lewisham area of south east London at around 8.30am on December 28.
Officers searched the white Mercedes and found £5,000 in cash which they seized.
Police examined the 40-year-old’s phone and found she had searched for a flight from Gatwick Airport to Kingston, Jamaica.
Jahzeen Carpenter was found guilty of trying to help her son Kami Carpenter try to flee to Jamaica following the murder of Cody Fisher at Crane nightclub in Digbeth
And her son had booked a seat on the flight which was due to leave at 1.20pm on the day they were arrested.
Carpenter of Peak Drive, Lower Gornal in Dudley denied helping her son try to leave the country.
But she was found guilty of assisting an offender after a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court. She is due to be sentenced on 15 October.
Cody Fisher(Image: Stratford Town FC)
Detective Inspector Phil Poole, from West Midlands Police ’s homicide team, said: “Cody’s murder left his family and friends devastated and struggling to come to terms with what had happened.
“But while his loved ones were grieving, Carpenter’s mother was trying to help her son avoid capture and flee to Jamaica, which would have severely hampered our investigation and delayed justice.
“We worked really closely with colleagues from the Metropolitan Police, who were able to move in and arrest both of them before Kami Carpenter could leave the country.
“It meant we were able to achieve justice for Cody’s family, and our thoughts remain with them to this day.
“Today’s conviction just shows how many lives and families knife crime can destroy.”
The moment mum Jahzeen Carpenter and son Kami Carpenter were arrested in London as they hatched plan for him to flee to Jamaica after the murder of Cody Fisher
Last year, Kami Carpenter, now 24, was jailed for life for Cody’s murder and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years before he can be considered for release.
Another man, Remy Gordon, was ordered to serve at least 26 years after being convicted of the same offence.
Cody, aged 23, from Redditch had accidentally bumped into Gordon at Popworld in Solihull and the pair exchanged a few words.
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But Gordon refused to forget the encounter, and set about trying to identify Cody from social media images he found of him on other nights out.
He learned Cody’s name, and that he was likely to be at the Crane on Boxing Day.
Inside the Crane, just before midnight on Boxing Day, Cody was surrounded before being headbutted, punched and kicked. He was stabbed once in the chest and died from the wound at the scene.