Two guilty of murdering footballer Cody Fisher in Crane nightclub stabbing

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a footballer, stabbed to death on the dance floor of a nightclub.

Cody Fisher, 23, was attacked by a masked group at the Crane club in Birmingham on Boxing Day 2022, in front of more than 2,000 people. 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".