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Why were they free to gun down innocent five-year-old? Gangsters guilty of drive-by shooting could have been behind bars on the night of the attack
- Youngster was caught in crossfire of a 'tit-for-tat' gang feud
- Victim Thusha Kamaleswaran had dreamed of becoming a dancer
- Instead she will have to wear a brace and leg splints permanently
- Mother's agony as shooting of five-year-old is shown to court
By LEON WATSON and CHRIS GREENWOOD
UPDATED: 12:10 GMT, 27 March 2012
Three members of a notorious street gang jailed for the shooting of a five-year-old-girl could have been behind bars on the night of the attack, it has emerged.Thusha Kamaleswaran was left paralysed by a bullet fired by 21-year-old Nathaniel Grant as she danced in a grocery store aisle in front of her parents.Grant and his accomplices Anthony McCalla, 20, and Kazeem Kolawole, 19, last night faced long jail sentences after a jury at the Old Bailey unanimously convicted them of causing grievous bodily harm.Scroll down for video (Warning: Distressing footage)
Harrowing: CCTV from inside Stockwell Food and Wine shows lying on the floor having been shot in the chest
Guilty: Nathaniel Grant, 21
Guilty: Kazeem Kolawole, 19
Guilty: Anthony McCalla, 20
But in an appalling indictment of Britain’s soft justice it can now be revealed that the three men could - and perhaps should - already have been locked up.
■ Gunman Grant, known as ‘Killa Buzz’, was cleared of an almost identical gangland murder and released from prison just weeks earlier;
■ Sidekick McCalla was on bail over a vicious bus brawl and probation staff considered recalling him to prison hours before Thusha was shot;
■ Enforcer Kolawole had recently been spared prison for beating a schoolgirl and was wearing an electronic tag while on bail for carrying a knife.The three thugs were key members of the Gas Gang, fast emerging as one of London’s most dangerous criminal outfits.Police seemed powerless to intervene in a spiral of up to 20 tit-for-tat attacks in the preceding weeks.The gang was responsible for four out of five violent crimes in the area around Brixton that they claimed as their own.When little Thusha was gunned down while visiting her uncle’s grocery shop on March 29 last year her plight shocked the nation.
But for members of the Gas Gang, short for Guns and Shanks (knives) it was business as usual.
CCTV footage of the gunmen showing the moment one of the men lifts his hand and fires into the store
Supporters gathered outside the shop to jeer the emergency services. As paramedics fought to save her, one even asked a policeman why they were bothering as the victim was 'just a Paki'.
Moments after dancing in the aisle of her uncle’s shop, young Thusha was left lying sprawled on the shop’s floor.The five-year-old was left helpless and dying on the floor of the grocery shop after a .22 round pierced her chest.Moments earlier she could be seen in her bright red coat and pink skirt playing cheerfully with her 12-year-old brother and three-year-old sister. The whole incident lasted just 50 seconds.She was ready to go home after a long day in which her hard-working parents drove her across London to wish her uncle a happy birthday. Security cameras installed because of the constant threat of armed robbery captured the moment that would change her life for ever.Senior barristers said the graphic CCTV footage of the moment she was shot contained some of the most heart-breaking evidence ever seen in a British courtroom.Thusha's mother Sharmila Kamaleswaran broke down in tears and was comforted by her husband as she saw it for the first time at the start of the Old Bailey trial.But she bravely told police the footage should be released to reveal the full horror of the crime.Roshan Selvakumar, 35, who lived upstairs and was buying groceries, was hit in the face by the second shot, but miraculously escaped serious injury - though he still has part of the bullet lodged in his skull.
Split second before: CCTV showed Thusha dancing in the aisle of her uncle's shop
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1qJya2JcQ
UPDATED: 12:10 GMT, 27 March 2012
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Three members of a notorious street gang jailed for the shooting of a five-year-old-girl could have been behind bars on the night of the attack, it has emerged.Thusha Kamaleswaran was left paralysed by a bullet fired by 21-year-old Nathaniel Grant as she danced in a grocery store aisle in front of her parents.Grant and his accomplices Anthony McCalla, 20, and Kazeem Kolawole, 19, last night faced long jail sentences after a jury at the Old Bailey unanimously convicted them of causing grievous bodily harm.Scroll down for video (Warning: Distressing footage)
Harrowing: CCTV from inside Stockwell Food and Wine shows lying on the floor having been shot in the chestGuilty: Nathaniel Grant, 21Guilty: Kazeem Kolawole, 19Guilty: Anthony McCalla, 20But in an appalling indictment of Britain’s soft justice it can now be revealed that the three men could - and perhaps should - already have been locked up.
■ Gunman Grant, known as ‘Killa Buzz’, was cleared of an almost identical gangland murder and released from prison just weeks earlier;
■ Sidekick McCalla was on bail over a vicious bus brawl and probation staff considered recalling him to prison hours before Thusha was shot;
■ Enforcer Kolawole had recently been spared prison for beating a schoolgirl and was wearing an electronic tag while on bail for carrying a knife.The three thugs were key members of the Gas Gang, fast emerging as one of London’s most dangerous criminal outfits.Police seemed powerless to intervene in a spiral of up to 20 tit-for-tat attacks in the preceding weeks.The gang was responsible for four out of five violent crimes in the area around Brixton that they claimed as their own.When little Thusha was gunned down while visiting her uncle’s grocery shop on March 29 last year her plight shocked the nation.
But for members of the Gas Gang, short for Guns and Shanks (knives) it was business as usual.
CCTV footage of the gunmen showing the moment one of the men lifts his hand and fires into the storeSupporters gathered outside the shop to jeer the emergency services. As paramedics fought to save her, one even asked a policeman why they were bothering as the victim was 'just a Paki'. Moments after dancing in the aisle of her uncle’s shop, young Thusha was left lying sprawled on the shop’s floor.The five-year-old was left helpless and dying on the floor of the grocery shop after a .22 round pierced her chest.Moments earlier she could be seen in her bright red coat and pink skirt playing cheerfully with her 12-year-old brother and three-year-old sister. The whole incident lasted just 50 seconds.She was ready to go home after a long day in which her hard-working parents drove her across London to wish her uncle a happy birthday. Security cameras installed because of the constant threat of armed robbery captured the moment that would change her life for ever.Senior barristers said the graphic CCTV footage of the moment she was shot contained some of the most heart-breaking evidence ever seen in a British courtroom.Thusha's mother Sharmila Kamaleswaran broke down in tears and was comforted by her husband as she saw it for the first time at the start of the Old Bailey trial.But she bravely told police the footage should be released to reveal the full horror of the crime.Roshan Selvakumar, 35, who lived upstairs and was buying groceries, was hit in the face by the second shot, but miraculously escaped serious injury - though he still has part of the bullet lodged in his skull.
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