THE MUM of one of Cody Fisher’s killers has avoided jail after helping her son flee the West Midlands and fly to Jamaica after the murder.
Jahzeen Carpenter, 40, drove to London a day after her son Kami Carpenter had stabbed Cody to death at the Crane nightclub in Digbeth, Birmingham, late in the evening on Boxing Day, 2022.
Carpenter arrived in the capital on the evening of December 27 in her Mercedes convertible, while her son was found with two suitcases of clothes.
Officers moved in and arrested them both outside flats in Lewisham, South East London, around 8.30am on December 28, 2022.
When her white Mercedes convertible was later searched, more than £5,000 in cash was seized.
Examination of her mobile phone revealed she had researched a flight from Gatwick Airport to Kingston, Jamaica. Her son had booked a seat on the flight which was due to depart at 1.20pm on the day they were arrested.
After a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Jahzeen Carpenter, of Peak Drive, Lower Gornal, was found guilty of assisting an offender.
She was given a prison sentence of two years, which was suspended for two years.
Det Insp Phil Poole, from our Homicide team, said: “Cody’s murder left his family and friends devastated and struggling to come to terms with what had happened.
“But while his loved ones were grieving, Carpenter’s mother was trying to help her son avoid capture and flee to Jamaica, which would have severely hampered our investigation and delayed justice.
“We worked really closely with colleagues from the Metropolitan Police, who were able to move in and arrest both of them before Kami Carpenter could leave the country.
“It meant we were able to achieve justice for Cody’s family, and our thoughts remain with them to this day.
“The conviction just shows how many lives and families knife crime can destroy.”
The killers’ sentences
Remy Gordon and Kami Carpenter.Last year, Kami Carpenter, now 24, and from Kings Norton, Birmingham, was jailed for life for Cody’s murder and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years before he can be considered for release.
Another man, Remy Gordon, from Rednal, was ordered to serve at least 26 years after being convicted of the same offence.
Cody Fisher.Cody was 23, lived in Studley and was a sports coach at Woodrow First School in Redditch.
The former Bromsgrove Sporting and Stratford Town footballer had accidentally bumped into Gordon at Popworld in Solihull and the pair exchanged a few words.
But Gordon refused to forget the encounter, and set about trying to identify Cody from social media images he found of him on other nights out.
He learned Cody’s name, and that he was likely to be at the Crane on Boxing Day.
Inside the Crane, just before midnight on Boxing Day, Cody was surrounded before being headbutted, punched and kicked. He was stabbed once in the chest and died from the wound at the scene.
West Midlands Police said, whilst knife crime in the region was falling, there was still much work to be done.
