Daniel Fakoya, 18, of Priory Court, E17 was sentenced to 15 years in jail and a further three years on the licence, following a hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, 11 October.

He was jailed for firearms offences after shots were discharged in Leyton.

He must serve a minimum of 10 years of his sentence.

Fakoya was previously found guilty of the following offences on 10 September at the conclusion of a trial at the same court: conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life [17 December 2018]; conspiracy to possess ammunition without a firearm certificate [17 Dec]; conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with indent [17 Dec]; conspiracy to have an offensive weapon namely two bottles of ammonia [17 Dec]; conspiracy to have an article with a blade of point [17 Dec]; conspiracy to supply controlled drugs of class A [5 Oct – 14 Feb 2018]; possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life; [5 Oct]; and possessing ammunition with intent to endanger life [5 Oct].

He also pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking.

The court heard how on 17 December 2018 at around 11 pm, Fakoya was one of three males who arrived in Leyton High Road in a Volvo car. They saw a group of males on the street and shots were fired from the car.

The group scattered but Fakoya and his associates chased two males into an off licence. However, once inside they could not find them and left.

They jumped back into the car and sped away from the scene. However, within five minutes the car had crashed into a shop front in St James’ Street, E17. Fakoya and the other occupants fled the vehicle.

Officers arrived at the scene and searched the abandoned car – within it they found a handgun, ammunition and two bottles of ammonia. The handgun was located in the driver’s footwell.

A forensic examination of the car revealed Fakoya’s blood on the driver’s airbag and also just outside the car, indisputably linking him to the car and the items inside.

Further investigation established the car had been stolen ten days earlier during a burglary in Essex on 7 December.

Work began to track down Fakoya and he was subsequently arrested on 14 February – he was charged the following day for his role in the incident.

It transpired that Fakoya was already under investigation for a separate incident where another handgun and a quantity of class A drugs had been found at an address linked to him following a raid by officers from the North East Command Unit in October 2018.

Fakoya was also charged with these offences.

Detective Sergeant John Macleod from Trident, part of the Specialist Crime Command, led the investigation and said: “Fakoya’s reckless actions on the night of 17 December in discharging a firearm in a public place could potentially have had fatal consequences and it is only by sheer luck that no one was seriously hurt.

“The motive for the events of that night appeared to have been gang-related – Fakoya and his associates looking to settle scores with their perceived rivals.

“Our work continues to trace the others who were in the car with Fakoya that night. His conviction should serve as a clear message to them that we will continue to track down dangerous individuals and put them behind bars where they belong.”

http://saharareporters.com/2019/10/12/daniel-fakoya-18-spend-15-years-uk-prison-firearms-offences

Your village people really finished work on top your destiny.

See them dashing us bad rep smh.The guy is used to committing crime, he needs the jailing so he can reflect on his life.

Useless children. When crime is in your DNA

Thank God it's a correction center unlike Nigeria.

Better than spending it in kirikiri.....you have committed crime with your brain... some foolish people will commit crime in the market where people are seriously angry and they end up been set ablaze

This one don enter am

Flex bro

Such a prodigy. It's rare to see any of his mates achieved such at his age. He's waited all his life to reach a legal age, he could have done this a year ago or be caught as a juvenile but he waited for the right age.

And the first thing he chose to test-run his legal age with was a forbidden zone strictly meant for the elders. His courage is legendary! Such a great kid.

Kids no longer waste time nowadays before achieving what many adults never achieved. They reach 18 years, they take the batton and launch straight into breaking records.

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What's up with this generation of kids looking so old at a young age? Even girls.

Omo Naija go there dey form gangsta. He could be deported as soon as his term is over.

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children of these days sef, them no beat them commot yeye and so I blame the parents I dey pity my unborn children I will never spear them

It's starts today guys.

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Ancestral affinity for crime

We don't disappoint in everything, we always break record legally and illegally, if its legally, Oyinbo will claims its their people by birth or citizenship but if it's illegally, Na Nigeria even if he was born there with mix oyinbo and naija parent

Don't drop the soap, Daniel...don't drop it...

Instead of you to reason to be risen.
You ended up in prison.
You'd be out in the next 15 season.

He was born and bred in uk. He may not have a nigerian passport . So we reject him. He is a brit

Fakoya with your own hands your groped your neck and squeezed..

Olukologia24592:
Thank God it's a correction center unlike Nigeria.

forget d name bro a prisoner will always be a prisoner.

A nation with a working judiciary... If he had done this here, with bank alerts in certain accounts, he won't even spend a night in jail.

I'm sure he has probably never been to Nigeria and can't name three Nigeria state, when they so something wrong they are Nigerian when they do something right they are black Americans

Just send the idiot to live like and with Al-manjiris for a yr, he would realize how prevailed he was

These boys will never learn. Smh

15+18=