The face of the Dudley mother convicted of helping her killer son flee after he murdered Cody Fisher has been unveiled

The face of the mother of one of Cody Fisher’s killers has been unveiled by police after she was found guilty of helping her son flee the West Midlands and prepare to fly to Jamaica in the aftermath of the murder .

Jahzeen Carpenter, 40, from Dudley 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 the Lewisham area of South East London at around 8.30am on 28 December, 2022.

When her white Mercedes convertible was later searched, more than £5,000 in cash was seized.

Examination of her mobile phone revealed that Carpenter had researched a flight from Gatwick Airport to Kingston, Jamaica, that her son booked a seat on and 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 is due to be sentenced on 15 October.

Det Insp Phil Poole, from West Midlands Police 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.

“Today’s conviction just shows how many lives and families knife crime can destroy.”

Last year, Kami Carpenter, now 24, 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, was ordered to serve at least 26 years after being convicted of the same offence.

Cody, aged 23, 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.

Knife crime is falling in the West Midlands, but there is still much work to be done.

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