Conlan Dunnion Three men were found guilty after a trial of the brutal slaying of a drug dealer who died a week after being savagely robbed in his flat. Euan Peters was convicted of murdering 22-year-old Shafiul Islam in Newport while Perrie Dunwell and Conlan Dunnion were found guilty of manslaughter. Peters, 42, of Dros-y-Morfa, Rumney, Cardiff, was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum tariff of 33 years. Dunwell, 33, of Cold Mill Road, Newport, was jailed for 13 years and nine months. Dunnion, 23, of Maesglas Avenue, Maesglas, Newport, was locked up for nine years and six months.
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It emerged during his trial at Newport Crown Court that Peters was an aspiring musician who went by the name of Sax Coke. Some of his songs posted to YouTube glorify the criminal life and drug dealing.
The jury heard Peters, who used his rap name Sax Coke, has a young daughter. Picture: Wales News Service In one video, he stood outside Cardiff Prison boasting of spending 10 years behind bars and saying f HMP . He rapped: I ve been sat in jail putting pen to paper, 10 years was long but my mind stayed strong. I was stuck on them wings with those killers and lifers but I made it through fam. I m a born survivor.
A rapper has been jailed for at least 33 years for murdering a young man in a botched robbery and hiding his body in a cupboard.
Euan Peters, 42, who rapped under the name Sax Coke battered victim Shafiul Islam, 22, with an empty cider bottle.
A court heard that enforcer Peters had been employed as muscle to retrieve a debt when the attack took place.
Peters had previously appeared in YouTube rap videos bragging about his criminal past in prison and ability to sell drugs.
Two men who helped Peters in the killing and subsequent robbery were convicted of manslaughter.
Prosecutor Mark Wyeth QC said the group had eaten a curry together at a restaurant before travelling to Mr Islam s flat where the murder happened.
Murderer who killed man with Kopparberg bottle brags about criminal past in rap videos
Euan Peters, 42, sipped Malibu in the music video shot outside HMP Cardiff as he rapped about serving jail time alongside killers and lifers
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Euan Peters, 42, rapped about being in prison before being convicted of the murder of Shafiul Islam (Image: YouTube/studio45)
A murderer found guilty of killing a man with a Kopparberg bottle appeared in rap videos bragging about being in prison with killers and lifers .
He died six days later at the Royal Gwent Hospital as a result of a devastating brain injury caused by at least three heavy blows delivered by Peters – who rapped under the name of Sax Coke.