Man guilty of school run murder

Christopher Toussaint-Collins denied murder

A man involved in the shooting of a father as he took his two children to school has been found guilty of murder.

Jason Greene, 29, was in a car with his sons in Wembley, north-west London, in July 2006, when he was shot in the heart, the Old Bailey heard.

Parents and children saw a masked man get out of another car and shoot Mr Greene through the car window.

Christopher Toussaint-Collins, 19, of Hendon, north London, who denied murder, will be sentenced next month.

Jurors heard Mr Greene's two sons were aged five and four at the time of the killing.

Masked gunman

In a victim impact statement read out after the verdict, Mr Greene's mother Gemma Brown told how her youngest grandson's clothes were soaked in blood and that he remained traumatised and unable to sleep on his own.

She said: "His killers chose a time when he was at his most helpless - his young children were with him.

"The fact that the children were in the car to witness their father's murder makes this event all the more horrendous.

"I cannot help but think that the people who did this need to possess a particular level of evilness. Did it occur to them, or did it matter that the children could have been hit by bullets?"

Jason Greene was taking his two sons to school when he was shot

During the trial jurors heard how a masked gunman emerged from a waiting car in Bowater Road before shooting the victim twice, one bullet piercing his heart.

Within minutes of the shooting the gunman's car was found alight nearby.

Prosecutors claimed Mr Greene was shot in a revenge attack over the murder of another man, Shaun Stanislas, who was shot dead in Brent in February 2005.

John Shorrock QC, prosecuting, said: "The defendant was one of a number of men who wanted revenge for the murder of Shaun Stanislas."

A note found at his home read: "It's almost a year since Stunts died and no one has taken any action."

Judge Peter Beaumont, the Recorder of London, remanded Toussaint-Collins in custody and warned him he faced a life sentence.