Elliott Omozusi - not very smart

[Koke]

He's been sent down for 2 and a half years for intimidating a witness in a murder trial.

A former Premier League footballer's career lay in tatters today after he was jailed for trying to take revenge on the star witness in a murder trial.

Leyton Orient's Elliot Omozusi, 22, was given two and a half years after being exposed as a member of a notorious street gang. The League One defender had played for Premier League sides Fulham and Norwich City.

Jurors were shown a picture of him at a party making gang signs with convicted killer Leon Dunkley, a fellow London Fields Boys member.

Dunkley and Mohammed Smoured, both also 22, were jailed for life for the murder of Agnes Sina-Inakoju, 16, outside a Hoxton fast food shop.

A witness aged 18, who cannot be named, helped police trace the killers after his house was raided in the shooting's aftermath.

His family were moved from their east London home under a witness protection programme and given new identities, Snaresbrook crown court was told. But a chance encounter with Omozusi and two other gangsters on a night out in Liverpool a month after the murder trial left him in fear for his life.

He was chased down the street until he ran into a uniformed police officer, yelling: "They're going to kill me."

Omozusi, Shane Drew, 22, and Jamal Francis, 21, were convicted of attempted revenge. Andre Osbourne, 21, Nash Walsh-Drew, 23, and ex-England youth international Bradley Woods-Garness, 25, were cleared of the charge. Omozusi's lawyer asked judge Inigo Bing to pass a suspended sentence so his client could still play football. But the judge refused, saying: "It's a disaster for him. He was player of the year at Leyton Orient in 2010. A year later he's in the dock." He told Omozusi: "I see no reason to distinguish you from your co-defendants."

Francis received the same prison term as Omozusi, while Drew was jailed for three years because he was on bail for drugs offences at the time.

The judge said: "The administration of justice depends upon people who witness crime assisting police investigations. Without such assistance our system of criminal justice would collapse and lawlessness would reign.

"Mercifully the full offence of causing harm to this witness was prevented, but only because he ran into the arms of the police. Otherwise I am satisfied that he would have been caused some actual bodily harm at the very least.

"It must be clearly understood that those who take revenge or seek to do so on witnesses will be punished."

[marko]

What a prat.

Has a career 99% of lads his age would kill for and blows it over being in a silly little gang. Pathetic.

[I am Rod Hull]

I`d like to read Darcus Howe`s thoughts on this...