A gang member serving a life sentence for murdering two youths after mistaking them for rivals has had his sentence extended for beating a taxi driver in a separate attack.
Jason Furtado, 29, helped plan the ambush that saw Leonardo Reid, 15, and Klevi Shekaj, 23, was stabbed to death on a music video shoot in ArchwayNORTH Londonon the night of June 29, 2023.
He was jailed for at least 34 years at the end of a lengthy trial at the Old Bailey.
But the killer was back in court on Thursday after pleading guilty to GBH with intent in relation to an attack on a Uber driver three months before the murder.
District Judge Emma Deacon KC gave Furtado a three-year consecutive sentence for the assault at Wood Green Crown Court.
She told Furtado: “This was an explosive piece of violence from you against Mr Edwards, with no relation to reality – which was that you were challenged by a taxi driver to crash into the windscreen.”
Furtado, who had been among a group of people inhaling nitrous oxide, was attacked with Mr. Edwards after he dropped a passenger off outside a club in Islington, north London, in March 2023 at around 3.30am.
The judge said Furtado ‘threw a gas canister at him and you hit him in the head with it.’
Mr Edwards fell to the ground but Furtado punched him several times, including in the head, and ‘hit him in the head at least twice’.
He then rolled off the sidewalk into the street.
Edwards was then hit by a car driven by Furtado’s girlfriend, Charlotte Sibley, according to the court.
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Furtado had pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent while Sibley, 28, Hackneyin east London, had pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving.
Prosecutor Martyn Bowyer said: ‘Mr. Edwards remembers nothing until he woke up in hospital.’
Sibley was fined £750 and disqualified from driving for six months by the judge, who said it was nothing short of “miraculous that he did not suffer injuries as a result of your driving”.
Sibley, who was three months pregnant at the time, later told police that a fight between several men had broken out and she was in a ‘frightened and confused state’ when she ran away and ran over Edwards’ leg.
The judge described Sibley’s driving as ‘completely irresponsible’, including an ‘unsafe manoeuvre’ and that the fight had stopped by the time she decided to leave.
The judge told Sibley: ‘You ran him over. You must have felt something. You drove over someone’s body.
“Leaving, you were thinking of yourself.”
Sibley was also ordered to pay a statutory surcharge.
The prosecution said no evidence was being brought on a charge of attempted murder against Furtado, while not guilty verdicts were entered on allegations of assisting an offender and dangerous driving against Sibley.
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