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| Ealing killer gunman Daniel Anthony jailed for 42 years | |
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| A gunman has been jailed for more than four decades for murdering a man over a drug deal and trying to kill his double amputee partner as she lay in bed. | A gunman has been jailed for more than four decades for murdering a man over a drug deal and trying to kill his double amputee partner as she lay in bed. |
| Daniel Bidace Anthony, 30, killed Dothan Gordon at the couple's Ealing home. | Daniel Bidace Anthony, 30, killed Dothan Gordon at the couple's Ealing home. |
| He then fired two shots at Amy Ashitey. One bullet pierced her lung and remains in her body while the other missed. | He then fired two shots at Amy Ashitey. One bullet pierced her lung and remains in her body while the other missed. |
| A judge at the Old Bailey sentenced Bidace Anthony, of Earls Court, to life with a minimum term of 42 years. | |
| He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder, on Tuesday. | |
| The court heard Miss Ashitey had been a wheelchair user after falling from a building in a failed suicide attempt. | |
| She had hoped to be able to walk again for her marriage to Mr Gordon, in a ceremony planned for August last year. | |
| However, the jury was told that after Mr Gordon tried to act as middle man in a £100,000 drugs deal, he was shot in the back of the head. | |
| Miss Ashitey was then shot because she recognised Mr Gordon's attacker, jurors were told. |