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Two men who traveled from Bristol to Cardiff were sentenced to jail for shooting a 15-year-old boy through a letterbox with a double-barrelled shotgun in what was described as a revenge attack linked to a drugs dispute. The incident occurred on June 7, at around 7:30 pm, in the Pontprennau area of Cardiff. The teenager sustained injuries to his legs but survived the attack.
Efekan Karahan, an 18-year-old from Bristol, was the individual who fired the shotgun twice while approaching the victim’s home. He received a sentence of eight years and four months. His accomplice, 21-year-old Ashley Fernando Corbin, also from Bristol, was waiting nearby during the shooting and was given a six-year sentence. The court revealed that the attack was part of an ongoing feud involving drugs, connected to a member of the victim’s family.
According to prosecution lawyer Clare Wilkins, the teenager was home alone looking after his younger brother when he heard a loud noise at the front door before gunshots. She explained, “He went into the hallway and saw a figure through the glass in the front door, he immediately heard a gunshot and described the letterbox coming off. A second shot was fired which injured him. He moved around the corner, so he was no longer in sight.” After hearing the shots, the teenager checked on his brother and noticed he was bleeding from his leg. He then saw Corbin filming Karahan on his mobile phone; both men were wearing balaclavas.
Court evidence included mobile phone footage and CCTV showing Karahan slipping on the tiled entrance and hitting the door while attempting the attack. It also captured him tripping over a railing while fleeing. The shotgun was temporarily lost but subsequently retrieved by Karahan as he ran toward a stolen vehicle with cloned number plates. The teenager’s older brother arrived soon after and attempted to follow the suspects before calling for an ambulance. Medical examination found around 30 pellets lodged in the victim’s leg as a result of the gunshot.
In mitigation, defense lawyer Ieuan Callaghan described Karahan as “a victim of exploitation of criminal gangs in Bristol” and stressed he was “not a dangerous or sophisticated criminal.” Ruth Smith, defending Corbin, said he had been “ripe for exploitation by drug gangs since being excluded from school at the age of 13.” However, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke stressed the seriousness of the crime during sentencing, stating to Karahan: “You pulled the trigger, not once but twice that is not a lesser role,” and labeling Corbin as having “a pro-criminal attitude” and as “dangerous.”
Crown Prosecution Service representative Leighton Mawer emphasized the premeditated nature of the offenses, including the use of a firearm, which resulted in serious injury. He added, “When firearms are discharged, the consequences can often be fatal, but fortunately that was not the outcome in this instance.
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