Killers face life in prison for shooting outside baby's birthday party in Walthamstow
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Four men are facing life in prison for murder over a gang shooting outside a child’s first birthday party. Kammar Henry-Richards, 26, Ka’mani Brightly-Donaldson, 25, Jeffrey Gyimah, 23, and Joao Pateco-Te, 28, were behind the gun attack on Kacey Boothe outside the Peterhouse Community Centre in Walthamstow.
It later emerged the same gun had been used two years earlier in an attack on Mr Boothe’s older brother Kyle, which he survived. After the shooting, Henry-Richards, a drill rapper known as Kay-O, wrote lyrics boasting about both attacks. “Big Boothe and Little got hit, same sig, that’s a sour family”, he said, in a rap video called ‘Kay-O Laughing Stock’.
“Both got slapped at functions, neck and head, handguns come handy.”. In another version, the lyrics read: “Big Boothe shoulda lurked, got his neck back ripped. Lil’ got burst, shoulda bin with his.”. Prosecutor Anthony Orchard KC told the court: “The video goaded London Fields Gang, one of the E9/Holly Street Gang enemies, and glorified the murder of Kacey Boothe.”.
“The track contained specific information about the circumstances in which Kacey Boothe had been killed that were not in the public domain.”. Mr Boothe’s killers had plotted to attack Khalid Samanter, the father of the child whose birthday party was being thrown on August 13 2022.
Eleven days prior to the fatal shooting, Mr Samanter’s entirely innocent neighbour was shot as he sat in his car, in a case of mistaken identity. Mr Boothe, a close friend of Mr Samanter, was shot dead as he left the community centre at around 9.20pm, in what was described as a "well-planned and carefully orchestrated attack".
