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| Ealing killer gunman Daniel Anthony jailed for 42 years | Ealing killer gunman Daniel Anthony jailed for 42 years |
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| A gunman has been jailed for four decades for the "merciless execution" of a man and attempt to kill his double amputee partner as she lay in bed. | |
| Daniel Bidace Anthony, 30, killed Dothan Gordon with a bullet to the back of the head at his Ealing home. | |
| He then fired two shots at Amy Ashitey. One round 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. | A judge at the Old Bailey sentenced Bidace Anthony, of Earls Court, to life with a minimum term of 42 years. |
| Excluding whole-life tariffs, it is believed to be the longest minimum term imposed by a court in England and Wales - the tariff is two years longer than the one handed down to Soham child killer Ian Huntley. | |
| 'Horrifying brutality' | |
| Bidace Anthony 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. | 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. | 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 middleman in a £100,000 drugs deal, he was shot in the back of the head in an execution-style killing. | |
| Bidace Antony had spent two hours with Mr Gordon before carrying out the killing. | |
| Miss Ashitey was then shot because she recognised Mr Gordon's attacker, jurors were told. | Miss Ashitey was then shot because she recognised Mr Gordon's attacker, jurors were told. |
| A baby was in the flat at the time. | |
| Judge Timothy Pontius said it was difficult to imagine a case involving a murder committed with such "cold-blooded and totally merciless deliberation". | Judge Timothy Pontius said it was difficult to imagine a case involving a murder committed with such "cold-blooded and totally merciless deliberation". |
| He said: "You took Dothan Gordon from the room where he and Amy Ashitey had quietly been watching television, into the living room where you made him kneel on the floor, forehead against a stool, and then executed him with a single shot to the back of the head. | He said: "You took Dothan Gordon from the room where he and Amy Ashitey had quietly been watching television, into the living room where you made him kneel on the floor, forehead against a stool, and then executed him with a single shot to the back of the head. |
| "In light of the horrifying brutality of these crimes I am wholly unable to regard you other than as someone to whom deliberate violence comes readily." | |
| In a statement read to the court after the verdict, Miss Ashitey said the bullet in her body was a "constant reminder" of what happened. | In a statement read to the court after the verdict, Miss Ashitey said the bullet in her body was a "constant reminder" of what happened. |
| She said of Mr Gordon: "He was such a huge part of my life." | She said of Mr Gordon: "He was such a huge part of my life." |