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Muder suspect cleared
THE first trial using a 'black on black' supergrass ended in failure yesterday after a wannabe gangsta rapper was cleared of shooting two men dead at a Dizzee Rascal concert in Southall seven years ago.
Shakah Anderson, 28, had been accused of the murders of Mohamed Korneh and Selorn Gbesemete, both 21, at an anti-gun party in west London in 2002.
The original police investigation ran into a wall of silence after all of the 200 witnesses at the Tudor Rose nightclub in Southall refused to give evidence.
It was only reopened five years later in 2007 when the supergrass, who cannot be named, approached officers from the Met's Operation Trident team after being convicted of conspiracy to murder.
He not only offered to reveal crimes he had committed but also give information to detectives about the shooting in the Tudor Rose.
The supergrass named the gunmen as Anderson, a gangsta rapper known as 'Cash', and Wayne Freckleton, who was shot dead in a barbershop in April last year.
But this week, an Old Bailey jury acquitted Shakah Anderson of both murder charges.
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