Man jailed over gangland killing

A property dealer has been jailed for 10 years for ordering the execution of two men in a gangland vendetta.

Glen O'Brien ran a property business from offices in Peckham, south London.

The Old Bailey heard Ainsley Barrington and Leroy McKain were lured to the offices where they were tortured, then shot through the head, on 22 June 2003.

O'Brien and Linval Edwards were acquitted of murdering the two men, but found guilty of manslaughter at an earlier hearing at the Old Bailey.

Edwards, of no fixed address, was jailed for 10 years and a further three years to run consecutively for a firearms offence.

The gunman, Courtney Palmer, 23, from New Cross, south east London, is serving two life sentences for the double murder.

All three men had denied murder.

The reason why the two men were killed is not known, but police believe Mr Barrington was a former gang boss from Jamaica.