Members of Hackney gang jailed for drug and firearms crimes following painstaking investigation

A painstaking four-year investigation by Met officers has led to the conviction of four highly dangerous Hackney gang members.

The men were jailed for a total of 76 years at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, 17 April for a wide range of drug and firearms offences, including shootings in Hackney in March and May 2020.

Three brothers Ryan Gordon, 31 (29.11.92) of Lynmouth Road, N16; Jameal Gordon, 32 (12.08.91) of no fixed abode, and Ramela Gordon, 28 (19.06.95) of Lynmouth Road, N16, were sentenced for 21 years, 25 years and 21 years respectively. A fourth accomplice, Edwin Osei, 26 (23.09.97) of Clapton Common, E5 was jailed for nine years.

Specialist officers from Hackney built a case against the four men who were involved in criminality which brought extreme violence and drugs to the streets of east London, impacting communities.

The Gordon brothers held positions of authority in a Hackney based gang and Osei helped the brothers to plan to harm rival gang members. Met officers pieced together the lives and inner workings of these gangs to understand the range of the individuals’ offending and a timeline of activity.

Officers were able to show that the Gordon brothers and Osei were involved in a number of firearm offences. In one instance on the 14 March 2020 the Gordon brothers discharged a number of rounds from the Uzi sub machine gun into a block of flats targeting an opposing gang. One of the bullets injured a member of the public passing by on their way home from work.

A vast range evidence including CCTV footage was gathered by officers, further showing how the Gordons were involved in another firearms case where a self-loading pistol was fired in a heavily pedestrianised area of Homerton on 21 May 2020.

Warrants executed at a block of flats in Lynmouth Road, N16 on 29 May 2020 led to the seizure of crack cocaine and heroin hidden away in lift shafts, with a combined street value of £20,000. They also found the pistol that had been used in the Homerton shooting hidden in a shaft of the lift up to the apartment.

All four men were arrested and taken into custody.

Detective Chief Inspector Matthew Webb from the Met’s Specialist Crime who led this investigation said: “These highly dangerous individuals had been heavily involved in gang violence for many years. Thanks to the hard work of my dedicated officers, they are now paying the consequences for their crimes.

“My officers worked long, strenuous hours to deliver robust evidence at court, showing our commitment to making London safe for its residents.

“The violence gang culture breeds eats into our communities’ lives – making daily life feel unsafe and frightening. The individuals that have been jailed showed no care for how their violent actions in public spaces would affect communities and were only concerned about maintaining their drug dealing enterprise and their reputation.

“We are committed to taking violent individuals off the streets, while driving down gang violence across London and restoring trust and confidence of the public in local poling. I hope this serves as a stark warning to those engaging in violence and criminality that our communities and police service will not tolerate this.”