{"id":594609,"date":"2026-05-20T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594609\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:24:13","slug":"michelle-sadio-two-jailed-for-life-for-drive-by-shooting-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594609\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Sadio: Two jailed for life for drive-by shooting murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A victim impact statement was also read out on behalf of Sadio&#8217;s father, who said that his daughter was &#8220;a brilliant mother, a leader and incredibly intelligent&#8221; but added that their lives &#8220;had crumbled&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sadio had gone to the wake, mainly attended by members of the Ghanaian community, to honour the life of 80-year-old Dianne Boatong who had died 10 days earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Children as young as five were in the crowd at the time of the shooting, in which two men were injured. Transport for London contractor Kenneth Amoah, 39, was hit in the back and left paralysed, while self-employed Kadeem Francis, 32, received a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The intended target was said to have been a rapper called Trapstar Toxic, real name Adetokunbo Ajibola, 33, who was at the event, the court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A victim impact statement was also read out on behalf of Sadio&#8217;s father, who said that his daughter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}