Get you up to speed: Gangland machete murderer receives extended sentence for assaulting Uber driver
Jason Furtado, already serving a life sentence for murder, received an additional three years for causing grievous bodily harm to an Uber driver at Wood Green Crown Court.
Jason Furtado received a consecutive three-year sentence from District Judge Emma Deacon KC at Wood Green Crown Court for grievous bodily harm against taxi driver Mr Edwards.
Jason Furtado has received a consecutive three-year sentence from District Judge Emma Deacon KC for causing grievous bodily harm to taxi driver Mr Edwards.
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A member of a gang serving a life sentence for the murder of two young men has had his sentence increased following a violent attack on a taxi driver. Jason Furtado, previously jailed for at least 34 years for the 2025 murders of 15-year-old Leonardo Reid and 23-year-old Klevi Shekaj, was sentenced to an additional three years for grievous bodily harm with intent.
Furtado pleaded guilty to the charge related to an incident involving an Uber driver, Mr Edwards, which occurred three months prior to the murders. District Judge Emma Deacon KC described the attack as “an explosive piece of violence” after Furtado confronted the driver following a minor altercation.
In a brutal outburst, Furtado struck Mr Edwards multiple times, including with a gas canister, before the driver was subsequently run over by Furtado’s girlfriend, Charlotte Sibley. Sibley, who was fined and disqualified from driving for six months, claimed she acted out of fear during the incident. The prosecution did not pursue an attempted murder charge against Furtado in connection with this case.
The court’s decisions highlight the severe consequences of gang-related violence and the judicial system’s response to such crimes. No further evidence is being brought regarding other charges against the individuals involved.
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A gang member serving a life sentence for murdering two young men after mistaking them for rivals has had his sentence increased for battering a taxi driver in a separate attack.
He was jailed for at least 34 years at the end of a long-running trial at the Old Bailey.
But the killer was back in court on Thursday after pleading guilty to GBH with intent in relation to an attack on an Uber driver three months before the murders.
District judge Emma Deacon KC gave Furtado a consecutive three-year sentence for the attack at Wood Green Crown Court.
She told Furtado: ‘This was an explosive piece of violence from you against Mr Edwards without any proportion to the reality – which was that you were challenged by a taxi driver for banging on his windscreen.’
Furtado, who had been among a group of people inhaling nitrous oxide, had lashed out at Mr Edwards after he dropped off a passenger outside a club in Islington, north London, in March 2023 at around 3.30am.
The judge said Furtado ‘threw a gas canister at him and you hit him over the head with it’.
Mr Edwards fell to the ground but Furtado hit him multiple times, including to the head, and ‘stamped on his head at least twice’.
He then rolled from the pavement to the road.
Mr Edwards was then run over by a car driven by Furtado’s girlfriend Charlotte Sibley, the court heard.
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Furtado had pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent while Sibley, 28, of Hackney, east London, had pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving.
Prosecutor Martyn Bowyer said: ‘Mr Edwards remembers nothing until he woke up in hospital.’
Sibley was fined £750 and disqualified from driving for six months by the judge who said it was nothing short of “miraculous that he did not sustain injuries as a result of your driving”.
Sibley, who was three months pregnant at the time, later told police that a fight between some men had broken out and she was in a ‘frightened and confused state’ when she fled and drove over Mr Edwards’s leg.
The judge described Sibley’s driving as ‘utterly irresponsible’, involving an ‘unsafe manoeuvre’ and that the fight had stopped by the time she decided to drive away.
The judge told Sibley: ‘You had run over him. You must have felt something. You had driven over someone’s body.
‘In driving away, you were thinking of yourself.’
Sibley was also ordered to pay a statutory surcharge.
The prosecution said no evidence was being brought regarding an attempted murder charge against Furtado while not guilty verdicts were recorded in relation to allegations of assisting an offender and dangerous driving against Sibley.
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