Two men sentenced to life for nightclub murder of footballer

Two men were jailed for life yesterday for the murder of the footballer Cody Fisher in a nightclub attack in Birmingham on Boxing Day 2022.

- Jamie Grierson

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 orchestrated the "awful revenge" after Fisher accidentally bumped into him while leaving Popworld - a nightclub in Solihull-on Christmas Eve, during which encounter 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 he was likely to be at the Crane nightclub on Boxing Day.

Inside the club, shortly before midnight on Boxing Day, Fisher was surrounded before being butted, punched and kicked. He was stabbed once in the chest and died from the wound at the scene.