Teenager denies supplying gun used in Harlesden Train Station shooting

Court hears claims 19-year-old received a phonecall requesting the weapon

The teenage son of a social worker accused of supplying the sawn-off shotgun for a train station shooting was only dealing cannabis, a court heard.

Jurors at Blackfriars Crown Court were told Joseph Mene-Otubu, 19, from Stonebridge, was said to have answered a call from a 16-year-old telling him to ‘bring the ting’, meaning the gun.

The 27-year-old victim from south London was allegedly targeted for straying onto the Stonebridge Estate.

The court heard he was chased into Harlesden Train Station by at least four youths, including a 17-year-old girl.

The victim was making his way back home after playing in a crime prevention football match in Stonebridge when a group of youngsters including a 16-year-old aggressor warned him off his patch, it is said.

The same boy is said to have telephoned the 19-year-old to come with the gun, telling him: “Bring it now, bring the ting.”

Judith Benson, defending Mene-Otubu, told the jury they could not be sure the person on the other end was her client because just a minute later the boy was on the phone to another associate.

She said there were a string of calls between Mene-Otubu and the 16-year-old throughout that day, and it was ‘about cannabis’.

Ms Benson described Mene-Otubu as a churchgoer who has a ‘good relationship with his mother, a social worker’.

Mene-Otubu denies intentionally encouraging or assisting the commission of an indictable only offence, namely the provision of a firearm.

A 16-year-old boy, two 17-year-old boys and a 17-year-old girl, none of who can be named for legal reasons, deny attempted murder and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

The girl also denies perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.