Driver uses car as ‘deadly weapon’ and ploughs into revellers outside bar after he got into fight
In the shock footage, Shaquille Wokoh is seen driving directly at partygoers on the footpath, knocking one man down and then reversing back out onto the road
THIS is the shocking moment a driver used his car as a "deadly weapon" to plough into revellers outside a bar after he got into a fight has been caught on CCTV.
Shaquille Wokoh, 24, from Croydon, deliberately mounted the pavement and drove at pedestrians in an attempt to do serious injury.
Wokoh was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court today to eight years in prison following the car attack after previously being convicted at the same court on February 27 after a five day trial.
The jury had unanimously found him guilty of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, dangerous driving and assault by beating.
The assault followed Wokoh getting into an altercation inside the Mekan Bar & Restaurant on Bromley Road, SE6, on September 16 2017, and he was ejected from the bar, he immediately went to his car which was parked nearby.
At about 3am Wokoh deliberately drove at partygoers who were leaving the venue, appearing to be totally reckless about who he hit, but is believed that the man he had been fighting with earlier was in the crowd.
Officers attended but were faced with a crowd who told them nothing had occurred and no victim was identified.
But as police had CCTV of the incident, an immediate investigation was started to find the person responsible.
On October 5 2017, the suspect Golf drove past Catford police station and the car was stopped by police, with Wokoh driving it.
He was arrested for attempted murder and money laundering, as he had approximately £1,800 on him in the car, and a subsequent search of his home recovered £114,555 in cash which Wokoh had accrued through his "criminal lifestyle." He was then charged the following day and remanded in custody.
Today, he was sentenced to six years for GBH; 18 months for dangerous driving; and three months for assault by beating - all to run concurrently.
Wokoh had also pleaded guilty at the same court, on Monday March 12, to money laundering after more than £100, 000 in cash was found at his home, and was sentenced to two years in prison, to run consecutively.
PC Gary Sanders Gary, from Lewisham Borough, said: "This was a deliberate use of a car as a deadly weapon. It was only by luck that no one was killed or suffered serious injuries.
"Wokoh was clearly enraged that night and in the heat of the moment launched an attack against those responsible.
"As a result of the investigation, Wokoh was found to have accrued thousands of pounds by criminal activity; forensic tests of the money we recovered showed abnormally high traces of heroin. This money has now been seized and can be used to help, and not harm, communities."
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