Pa Salieu, the British rapper and Brit Awards nominee, has been sentenced to 33 months in jail. As the BBC stories, 25-year-old Salieu — born Pa Salieu Gaye — was convicted of violent dysfunction for his position in 2018 “mob” violence in Coventry following the deadly stabbing of his finest pal Fidel Glasgow, the grandson of Specials singer Neville Staple. Closed circuit TV captured footage of Salieu utilizing a tree department to beat a 23-year-old man who then spent 10 days within the hospital. He was convicted of utilizing a smashed bottle as an offensive weapon.
During sentencing, Judge Peter Cooke informed Salieu, “Anyone harboring the view that you are a young man being hard done by should pause to reflect that despite having a conviction for carrying a knife three years earlier – which resulted in a suspended sentence – in the course of these events you used two bottles and a stick. It was your intention to turn a bottle into a jagged weapon.” The choose added, “The case illustrates the dangers for any young man of acting with a pack mentality and getting involved in mass disorder. If you do that somebody is likely to end up seriously injured or dead. What happened to Fidel could have happened to anyone in that melee.”