Huddersfield gangs fought gun and knife street battle before...

The 21-year-old Jacob Doughty was convicted of killing Javell Morgan during the gang violence in Huddersfield that broke out during

Carnival.

Before a man was hunted down and killed with a Samurai sword at a crowded funfair event, two deadly Huddersfield gangs engaged in

a gun and knife fight.

Following an altercation between two rival Huddersfield gangs at Manchester’s Caribbean Carnival in Moss Side last summer, Jacob

Doughty, 21, brutally killed Javell Morgan, 20. A trial heard how the rival groups confronted each other and a gun was fired before

Javell was stabbed in the back by Doughty.

According to the Manchester Evening News, a witness told Manchester Crown Court that Doughty, who was convicted of murder after

the trial, was “laughing” when he killed Javell and was later seen shaking hands and hugging the victim. Javell’s murder devastated the

neighbourhood and his girlfriend, and it prompted calls for more action on knife crime.

Deontay Crosfield, 22, had also been involved in a fracas with Javell before he was killed and he too was convicted of murder. Byron

Goodhall, 23, Simeon Baptiste, 24, and Darius Blackburn, 21, were found not guilty of murder and manslaughter.

Three other men were also arrested during the incident and put on trial accused of attempting to murder Mr Baptiste in the same

incident. Mikyle Bucknor, 19 and Karmarni Batler, 20, who were both armed with guns, were convicted of attempted murder. Harlan

Richards, 19, was found not guilty of attempted murder.

It is the first time the full details of the horrendous gang fight can be told after reporting restrictions were lifted at the conclusion of

the second of two crown court trials. Jurors wept as the unanimous verdicts were announced in court.

At the murder trial, prosecutor John Elvidge KC told how the killing unfolded at a street party in Moss Side, Manchester, after the

carnival had finished on August 15 last year.

Bucknor, of Farrar Drive, Huddersfield; Batler, of Belle Vue Crescent, Huddersfield; and Richards, of Trafalgar Close, Huddersfield,

were found guilty of three counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, and both were found guilty of attempted

murder, after the second trial, which started on April 20 and ended today (May 16). Richards’ attempted murder charge was dropped.

Trial judge Patrick Field KC requested that the probation service prepare presentence reports, and as a result, they will be sentenced

on July 31. They were each remanded into custody until a mention hearing next week.

Huddersfield gangs fought gun and knife street battle before Javell Morgan was murdered with Samurai sword