Lengthy Jail Terms for Park Royal Night Club Shooting
Two brothers given over 30 years imprisonment each
Jahni and Jahmarley Thomas. Picture: Met Police
November 11, 2024
Two brothers who had been convicted of a stabbing and double shooting outside a night club in Park Royal has now been both given jail terms of over 30 years.
30-year-old Jahni Thomas was sentenced to 35 years’ imprisonment, with a further three to be served on licence at a hearing last Friday (8 November).
His brother, 26-year-old Jahmarley Thomas, had been given a 34-year sentence last December for the same offences.
The two men, who are both from Brent, had been found guilty at Isleworth Crown Court in December 2022 of two counts of attempted murder; one count of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and one count of possession of points and blades.
A third man on trial, 28-year-old Alexander Quartey, was found not guilty by the jury.
Shortly before 5:30am on 6 November 2021, a man was found seriously injured outside the club on Standard Road having suffered a gunshot wound to the left shoulder and being stabbed in the back.
Another man who was attempting to take cover in a vehicle, aged 31, also sustained a gunshot wound to his hand and was taken to hospital.
The police identified the vehicle used by the attackers, which had cloned plates, and tracked it on CCTV for over three hours and 27 miles as it drove around north west London. This showed that the Thomas brothers had entered the club two hours before the attack to check their target was present. They had laid in wait for him to leave when they ambushed him. After the attack on the first victim, the gunman opened the car door and at point blank range, fired the gun a second time. The second victim raised his left hand to protect himself. The bullet went through his hand and a jacket that was wrapped around it, and hit him in the chest, causing bruising.
After the shooting, the brothers drove back to their home address and later moved the vehicle to Springfield Gardens in Edgware where it was burned out.
Detective Constable Tom Harris of the Met’s Specialist Crime Command said, “This so easily could have been a murder investigation. The fact that nobody was killed was pure luck.
“The Thomas’ actions were premeditated and planned, with no consideration for the safety of bystanders who may have unwittingly been caught up in the shootings.
“The sentences handed down to the brothers demonstrates the danger they pose and I hope that the victims find a measure of closure in knowing that they have been taken off our streets for a considerable time.”
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