Gunman finally admits dealing drugs in the middle of Leeds court case
A gunman-for-hire who passed a bag of cocaine to his co-accused in the dock during a court hearing has admitted dealing drugs.
Seedy Egunu was jailed in July last year for firing a shotgun at a house in Wakefield.
The 23-year-old had been recruited by Javed Hussain to carry out the violence as a revenge plot on Hussain’s neighbours.
But as the pair were being sentenced side-by-side in the dock at Leeds Crown Court last year, a dock officer witnessed Egunu pass Hussain an item - a small, tied black bag - from his sock.
The sentencing hearing was briefly halted after the item was confiscated. It was later found to contain cocaine.
Egunu, of Westminster Terrace, Bradford, later denied possession with intent to supply Class A drugs, and was due to stand trial at York Crown Court.
But on the day his trial, he changed his plea to guilty.
He was given 21 months’ jail, suspended for 18 months.
However, it will make little difference to the sentence he is serving for the shooting at the front door of a property on Coronation Street, Wrenthorpe.
Hussain, 28, had endured problems with a family living on the street and so hired Egunu to shoot at their home to scare them, which he carried out in the early hours of July 20, 2022.
Hussain, of Grosvenor Street, Wakefield, later admitted possession of a firearm with the intent to cause fear of violence as well as five further charges of dealing Class A drugs.
He was jailed for five-and-a-half years in total.
Egunu was found guilty after a trial of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He was given 34 months’ jail.