A pair of men have been found guilty of murder over the death of a young footballer Cody Fisher who was stabbed on a nightclub dancefloor.
Cody Fisher, 23, died on Boxing Day 2022 during a night out with friends at the Crane venue in Digbeth, Birmingham.
Remy Gordon and Kami Carpenter have now been convicted of his murder at Birmingham Crown Court.
Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, were convicted of murder at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday.
A third defendant Reegan Anderson, 19, was found not guilty of murder.
The trial heard Mr Fisher made “unavoidable” contact with Gordon in a trivial incident at Popworld, a busy bar in Solihull on Christmas Eve, which led to him trying to track him down.
Prosecutor Michael Duck KC told jurors there was “no doubt” Gordon was looking for trouble and wanted Mr Fisher to apologise and “seek his forgiveness”.
But he was not going to apologise because he had done nothing wrong, he said.
Less than an hour after the encounter that night in Popworld, Gordon sent messages in a Snapchat group he was in with several friends appealing for help to identify Mr Fisher and threatened to “shank him up”.
“Who knows this likkle pip squeeze [sic]?” he posted with a photograph and arrow pointing to Mr Fisher, along with comments of “man think he’s bad” and “posh yout”.
Mr Duck said Gordon, of Cofton Park Drive, Birmingham, was “set on retribution” and that “ultimately was to lead to the loss of Cody Fisher’s young life in the Crane nightclub”.
Jurors were told of other messages in the defendants’ Snapchat group in the days before the Boxing Day event in which Gordon and Carpenter talked about whether masks could be worn and if weapons could be taken inside the club.