A GUNMAN who shot dead Gummy Twin John Jones in his own home has been jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 34 years.
Ravi Talware led a gang of masked men into the family home of John Jones before opening fire with a shotgun over a debt of just £180.
John's brother tried to escape, but was stabbed multiple times at the home on Caslon Crescent, Stourbridge.
Talware shouted: “If anyone comes down the stairs, they are getting shot. If anyone rings the police, they are dead.”
The gang then fled in a getaway car, which was later found burned out less than two miles away in Gibbet Lane.
A murder investigation launched after the killing, at around 7.30pm on 25 February last year, revealed Mr Jones owed around £180 to Talware, of Cavalier Circus, Wolverhampton.
A member of the public found a bag containing the weapons dumped in a bin in Wolverhampton the following morning.
At Wolverhampton Crown Court in March, Talware, aged 33, was found guilty of murder, possession of a shotgun, possession of bladed articles and perverting the course of justice.
Yesterday, he was handed the life sentence for murder, and will serve concurrent sentences of eight years for possession of the shotgun, three years for perverting the course of justice and four years for possession of bladed articles.
Kevin Waldron, who waited in the getaway car and then drove the gang away after, was convicted of the same charges, as was Scott Garrington.
Waldron, aged 41, of Leonard Road, Wollaston, was yesterday jailed for life and will serve at least 24 years.
He was handed concurrent sentences of seven years for possession of the shotgun, 18 months for perverting the course of justice, and three years for possession of the bladed articles.
Scott Garrington, aged 52, of Bridgnorth Road, was jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 22 years.
He will serve the same sentences as Waldron for the other offences.
Three youths, all now 17, were convicted of manslaughter, wounding, and possession of an imitation firearm as well as possession of bladed articles.
Two were jailed for eight years and six months, and the third was jailed for eight years.
They were handed concurrent sentences for the other charges.
Det Insp Laura Harrison said: “This was an appallingly violent attack which left one man dead and another seriously injured, all over a relatively trivial sum of money.
“A lot of planning went into this attack and it was thanks to great detective work by officers who recovered CCTV and were able to piece together the killers’ movements that we’ve been able to get justice for Mr Jones’ family today.”
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