Man jailed for covering up murder

Shokat Chenia had served a prison sentence for drug offences

A man has been jailed for helping to conceal a murder in Nottingham.

Shokat Chenia, 45, from Leicester, was found stabbed to death in his burning Mercedes in Wollaton on 4 October 2007. He had been stabbed 16 times.

Carl Fowler, 36, from Leicester, was jailed for life in September for murdering Mr Chenia.

Matthew Barker, 35, of no fixed address, was jailed at Nottingham Crown Court for three years and nine months after admitting assisting an offender.

At an earlier hearing Barker admitted driving from Leicester to Nottingham to pick up Fowler and buying the petrol used to set the car on fire after the murder.

Drug history

Mr Chenia, who had eight children and lived in Leicester, was involved in the distribution and supply of class A drugs and in 2005 was jailed for drugs offences. He was then released in the summer of 2007.

The jury heard Fowler was Mr Chenia's right-hand man but had become unhappy at the money he was making.

The court had been told Fowler sold drugs while Mr Chenia was in prison, but in September 2007 some of his drugs - valued at up to £28,000 - were lost by Fowler and he received a beating as a punishment.

Shortly afterwards Mr Chenia was killed.