Defendant suspected of passing drugs in Leeds Crown Court dock charged
A defendant jailed for firing a shotgun at a house has been charged again - after it was suspected he passed drugs to his co-defendant in the dock.
Seedy Egunu and Javed Hussain were both jailed at Leeds Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday, July 8) for the shooting in Wakefield in 2022.
But mid-way through their sentencing, as they were both sat together in the dock, the dock officer claimed he saw an item being passed between them.
He confiscated the item in a small black bag and Judge Richard Mansell KC allowed the case to continue.
The sentencing hearing involved the shooting at the front door of a property on Coronation Street, Wrenthorpe in the early hours of July 20, 2022.
Hussain, 27, had endured problems with a family living on that street and so hired 22-year-old Egunu to shoot at their home to scare them.
Hussain, of Grosvenor Street, Wakefield, was jailed for five-and-a-half years.
Egunu, of Westminster Terrace, Bradford, was jailed for 34 months.
However, Egunu was re-arrested shortly after the hearing and charged with suspected of supplying Class A drugs - cocaine.
He appeared at Leeds Magistrates’ Court this morning, and will now appear at Leeds Crown Court on August 6, the day he turns 23.