COURT: Man jailed for perverting course of justice in connection with 2006 shooting

A man has been jailed after he admitted perverting the course of justice in connection with the 2006 shooting of a 20-year-old man in Sheffield.

Over 20 years after Ibrahim Ilyas was fatally shot as he sat in a car on Abbeyfield Road in Pitsmoor, Faiser Hussain has been brought to justice for the role he played in attempting to cover-up the killing.

Hussain was arrested earlier this year at Manchester Airport after re-entering the UK and was subsequently charged with murder.

Over the last two weeks, the 44-year-old had been on trial for the murder of Ibrahim and on Tuesday (20 October), he entered a guilty plea to committing an act / series of act with intent to pervert the course of public justice.

The charge relates to the disposal of the vehicle used in the drive-by shooting, which was found aband