Five more sentenced for involvement in Talbot Green murder

Following the shooting Huntley and Mills-Smith fled from Cardiff, but were later arrested.

Mills-Smith’s mother Donna James, 51, from Llanishen, and his girlfriend Laura John, 23, from Rhiwbina, had assisted him following the shooting, helping him to travel to London.

Molly Cooper, 34, from Leicester, helped Gordon in his drug dealing activities, driving him around, collecting cash for him, and being paid in both drugs and money.

Her DNA was also detected on the ammunition used in Penney’s shooting, which was later found buried in a park in Cardiff.

The court heard that Callum Kelleher, 37, from Liverpool, had been “cuckooed” by the Rico crime group, allowing them to use his property in Cardiff for drug dealing purposes.

Sai Manne, 26, was placed by Gordon at Kelleher’s address in order to sell drugs, but was also on one occasion assaulted by Kelleher in a “punishment beating” after consuming the drugs he was supposed to sell.

Sentencing, the judge said Manne, Kelleher and Cooper all played a “subordinate role” in the Rico crime group, doing Gordon’s bidding but also at times punished or exploited by the drug boss.

Sai Manne, an “established runner who was selling crack cocaine”, was given a 27-month prison sentence, but because of time already spent in custody, is now eligible to be released on license.

Molly Cooper was sentenced on two counts, of participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group after pleading guilty, and acquiring ammunition for a firearm without a certificate.