Trio jailed for revenge shooting

Warren Gray was killed for revenge, it was claimed

Members of a gang have been jailed for life for shooting dead a man they thought had raped a woman friend.

The three men had decided to "extract their own brand of retribution", the Old Bailey heard.

Warren Gray, 24, of Catford, south London, was blasted in the chest with a double-barrelled shotgun in May, 2007.

Michael Peters, 23, of Bellingham Road, Catford, Sebastian Baptiste-Gomez, 23, and Dean Clement, 23, both of no fixed address, were all convicted of murder.

Peters was told to serve a minimum of 30 years while Baptiste-Gomez and Clement were given 28 years each.

The 24-year-old woman who said she was raped was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and jailed for two months.

'Warped minds'

Aftab Jafferjee QC, prosecuting, said Mr Gray was chased down two floors of Milford Towers, Catford, where he lived, to a friend's home, where he was then killed.

Mr Jafferjee said it was "revenge" for the alleged rape in July 2006.

"Her own account of the circumstances of how she came to be in Warren Gray's room may itself raise significant question marks as to whether this allegation is true, quite apart from the significant delay in making the allegation," he said.

Mr Jafferjee added: "This is a case of a gang of men who decided to take the law into their own hands and extract their own brand of retribution which amounted to the execution of a defenceless man.

"No doubt in the warped minds of people who carry out this kind of crime they would have done so with a clear conscience."

A fourth man, Marvin Hussein, 24, of Stanstead Road, Catford, was found not guilty and discharged.