Two found guilty of murdering footballer in nightclub stabbing

Two men have been found guilty of murdering Cody Fisher, who was stabbed to death on the dancefloor of a Birmingham nightclub on Boxing Day in 2022 in "awful revenge" for a minor incident in another club two days earlier.

- Jessica Murray

Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, had blamed each other for stabbing the 23-year-old former Birmingham City academy player, who died at the scene from a chest wound.

During a two-month trial, the jury heard Fisher had been attacked with a weapon smuggled through security into the Crane nightclub in Digbeth as part of a planned "act of retribution" for a minor incident two days earlier.

Jurors at Birmingham crown court were told Gordon had orchestrated the "awful revenge" after Fisher accidentally bumped into him while leaving Popworld in Solihull on Christmas Eve, during which the pair exchanged a few words.

Gordon then set about trying to identify Fisher from social media images he found of him on other nights out and, after learning his name, found that he was likely to be at the Crane nightclub on Boxing Day.