Model hid 'spray and pray' murder gun in baby's dress
A model has been jailed for five years for hiding a Mac 10 sub-machinegun used in an unsolved murder in a baby's nightdress.
The Mac 10 "spray and pray" weapon was used to shoot dead 24-year-old Larry Malone, as he sat on the sofa at his aunt's home in West Norwood.
Mr Malone was hit seven times in September 2009. Shevonne Legister, 21, her boyfriend Lemuel Robinson and fellow gang member Andrew Cross were cleared of murdering Mr Malone. But they admitted and were convicted of lesser charges after a trial at the Old Bailey.
The gun was wrapped in a baby's nightdress, hidden in a rucksack and passed to Legister after the killing.
Detectives investigating the shooting had followed her as she took a taxi from her Norwood home to rendezvous with a white van in Anerley Park, jurors heard. Police watched as the rucksack, by now hidden in a JD Sports carrier bag, was handed over to gang member Dino Rouillon, before officers arrested them.
Legister admitted possessing the illegal firearm but denies that she knew it had been used in the earlier killing. Forensic examiners were unable to find any fingerprints or DNA on the weapon.
Jailing her for five years, Judge Gerald Gordon QC said: "At some stage you knew what the items were. I'm not satisfied you were aware the weapon was used in a murder. I accept you were used, however I do not accept duress."
Robinson, of Sutton, was jailed for 10 years having already pleaded guilty to possessing the loaded weapon, along with Shubiah Linton, 28, and Rouillon, 34.
Cross, of Colchester, was convicted of identical charges and imprisoned for 11 and a half years. Legister also pleaded guilty to the same counts and was convicted of assisting an offender following a separate trial. Linton, of no fixed address, was jailed for nine years, and Rouillon, of Croydon, for five years and nine months.
During the trial, Legister's mother June Chandoo said her daughter had always been against guns after her 15 year-old stepbrother was shot dead in Jamaica. "Shevonne doesn't do guns," she told jurors.
Detective Inspector Tony Boughton, from the Met's Operation Trident, said: "I am pleased with the lengthy prison sentences this group has received."
