A MAN who boasted on YouTube about using guns and living a gang lifestyle has been jailed for attempted murder.

Kayode Oshin, of Magdala Road, Isleworth, was today sentenced to 22 years behind bars after being found guilty of using a machine gun to shoot another man in the neck in a Hounslow alleyway.

The 21-year-old had been convicted last Thursday (November 22) at the Old Bailey of attempted murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and GBH with intent.

A second man, 19-year-old Junior Tahir-Akinyele, of Eastcote Lane, Northolt, was also found guilty of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and GBH with intent. He was sentenced to a total of 14 years imprisonment.

Junior Tahir-Akinyele, of Eastcote Lane, Northolt, was jailed for 14 years after being found guilty of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and GBH with intent.
Junior Tahir-Akinyele

Police said both men had used YouTube to post homemade rap videos making reference to the shooting.

The court heard how the victim had been walking along an alleyway between Kingsley Road and North Drive, Hounslow, with friends on October 6, 2011.

They were approached by three men, one of whom said something to the group before pointing a Mac 10 machine gun towards their heads and opening fire.

The machine gun used by Kayode Oshin to shoot a man in the neck in a Hounslow alleyway
The machine gun used in the shooting

The victim, whose brother called emergency services to the alleyway shortly after 1am, was remarkably not seriously injured.

He is not believed to have been the intended target, as there was another man in the group who was in dispute with the two defendants, who were arrested on November 6, 2011 and charged a year later.

Detective Constable Iain Bailey, of the Trident Gang Crime Command, said: "These violent offenders, who were involved in a gang and drug dispute, resorted to firearms to settle their arguments. They were then brazen enough to brag about their offending on the internet.

"Thanks to the work of the Trident Gang Crime Command, with the assistance of Hounslow officers, we were able to gather the necessary evidence to bring about this conviction and prevent further offences."