Man, 38, fired on drug rival’s Range Rover with shotgun ‘in broad daylight’ on Rotherham street
A man from Kimberworth, Rotherham, opened fire with a shotgun at a vehicle on a residential street in August 2025, striking twice as the driver reversed away to safety. The attack occurred in daylight hours on an ordinary street where residents were going about their daily business, and was motivated by revenge over a brick thrown through his mother's window.
The suspect pleaded guilty to illegal firearm possession with intent to endanger life and received an 11-year custodial sentence plus four years' extended licence. The sentencing judge acknowledged the offender's difficult background and remorse, particularly regarding his family's relocation due to retaliation fears, but emphasised that his deliberate use of a firearm in a public setting demonstrated he posed a significant danger to the community.
- A 38-year-old man was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for firing a shotgun twice at a Range Rover in a residential Rotherham street in broad daylight, an act carried out in retaliation for someone throwing a brick through his mother's window
- The victims, believed to be members of a criminal gang, never came forward; the judge ruled the shooting was reckless and disproportionate, noting innocent lives could easily have been lost