April 12, 2001 14:24: A DRUG dealer who repeatedly stabbed an enemy who was already riddled with bullets was jailed for four years, last Tuesday (April 10)

Leon Campbell, aged 21, of Freelands Road, Bromley, who also used an address in Montague Road, Catford, was sentenced at the Inner London Crown Court.

Campbell had knifed Junior Paul, 29, four times in the thigh, narrowly missing arteries, after he had been shot in the face, neck and stomach.

The jury heard Campbell and his father Bernard Campbell gunned down Mr Paul, outside his home in Anerley Grove, Norwood, in revenge for the alleged armed burglary of their home.

But they were both cleared of the shooting and a judge had to sentence them on the basis that the gunman has never been caught.

Mr Paul collapsed in a doorway in Waldegrave Road, Norwood, and was found by an off duty nurse who tended to his wounds and called an ambulance.

On the following day police found a lock knife stained with Mr Paul's blood and half a kilogram of cannabis in Campbell's car parked outside an address in Montague Road.

A search inside found a sawn-off shotgun and handgun, bullets for both, and a kilogram of pure crack cocaine. Sentencing him for four years Judge Jonathan van der Werff explained the gunman has never been brought to justice and accepted that Campbell did not know he was armed.

He said: "This was a serious matter. It was carried out in a seemingly professional way, taking the man back, and taking the car away and burning it."

Campbell was convicted by the jury of wounding with intent to cause GBH, last November, and was further convicted of possessing crack cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply and possessing fire arms and ammunition.