Witness to Telford gym shooting: 'I have blurred it from my memory'
A key witness in the trial of four men accused of shooting a Telford rapper outside a gym four years ago, has told a court that he no longer has any memory of the incident.
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Tamba Momodu, 20, known as Teerose, was shot six times at point-blank range with a “powerful” 9mm handgun on October 13, 2020 as he was about to go the gym in Telford, Shropshire, with two friends.
Four men are currently on trial at Stafford Crown Court charged with his murder.
Stafford Crown Court had previously heard Mr Momodu had moved from north London to Telford with his family in 2018 to start a new life after he was acquitted at the Old Bailey of murdering 19-year-old Abdullahi Tarabi, a rapper known as Teewiz who died after being stabbed in an alleyway in Northolt in April 2017.
Prosecutors allege Mr Momodu was “stalked” and tracked down by Tarabi’s older brother and cousin who were intent on revenge.
Mahamud Tarabi, 32, and Ahmed Karshe, 30, who are both on trial for Mr Momodu’s murder, alongside Deria Hassan, 32, and Merje Ngoy, 24.
On Monday, prosecutor Mr James Curtis KC read through two statements given in the days after the shooting by the driver of the car in which Mr Momodu was shot.
The statement described how Mr Momodu was sitting in the front passenger seat of Diandre Henry’s Renault Megane when they arrived at the gym at around 11.40am, and had parked next to A Skoda
In the back was passenger Mr Callum Waite.
