Chatsworth Road shooting: Moses Fadairo killer jailed for 18 years

Sentenced to 18 years: Christopher Erunse

A man who shot dead his childhood friend in broad daylight was this week sentenced to 18 years in jail.

Christopher Erunse, 28, of Chalcombe Road in Greenwich, was sentenced on Wednesday after he shot 25-year-old young father Moses Fadairo outside a Chatsworth Road butcher’s shop on 26 September last year.

His accomplice, Bradley Wynter, 28, of the Pembury Estate in Clapton, was jailed for five years for possession of a gun.

Moses confronted Erunse at around 1pm on 26 September, and stabbed him in the leg.

Terrified members of the public fled for cover as Erunse pulled out a gun and opened fire, with one of the bullets striking Moses in the chest.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

At the Old Bailey trial that concluded on Thursday 9 June, Erunse was found guilty of manslaughter and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.

Erunse was found not guilty of murder, and not guilty of attempted murder.

Moses Fadairo, the 25 year-old who was fatally shot in September. Photograph: Bootstrap

His accomplice Wynter had admitted taking the gun from the scene of the shooting.

Wynter was captured on CCTV helping Erunse to flee the scene whilst attempting to hide the gun in his jacket. The firearm has never been recovered.

His five-year sentence will be served consecutively to a drugs supply offence for which he is currently serving three-and-a-half years.

Erunse was arrested three days after the shooting as he sat on a plane that was about to take off from Birmingham Airport.

According to the Evening Standard, Judge Wendy Joseph QC called the shooting part of a cycle of “tit for tat revenge”.

“The impact is huge and the damage irreparable”, the judge said.

“His mother has been left inconsolable and unable to come to terms with what’s happened, and his siblings are bereft.”