The man who shot ‘Tino’ Makwanya in the head outside a Croydon police station last year has been jailed for murder.

Mahad Ibrahim, 27, of Columbine Avenue in South Croydon carried out the fatal shooting whilst he was a pillion passenger on a motorbike on June 9.

At a hearing yesterday (July 26), Blackfriars Crown Court heard that Tinodiwanashe was a passenger in a Volkswagen Golf when a motorbike, with a pillion passenger, pulled up alongside the car and shots were fired on the Croydon flyover at the junction with Park Lane.

While a motive for the attack remains unclear, detectives strongly believe that Tino was not the intended target.

The same day that a jury found Ibrahim guilty, he was sentenced to 32 years in prison.

Detective Inspector Steve Keogh, from the Met’s Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: “Ibrahim and the deceased Stephen Weatherley carried out this disgusting murder like something they had seen from a Hollywood film; riding on a motorbike and executing Tino at a busy road junction, just yards from Croydon Police Station.

“Of the two shots he fired, one missed the car he was shooting at and could quite easily have hit an innocent member of the public."

Weatherley 39, of Thornton Heath, was arrested and charged with the murder in 2017, but earlier this year he was found dead in HMP Thameside prison.

"The judge, HHJ Goose, indicated that he believed Weatherley would also have been convicted," Detective Inspector Keogh said.