00:00four men have been jailed between twenty-one months and twenty-seven months thirty-one-year-old tyrone richards twenty
00:07-five-year-old anton clark butcher thirty-one-year-old omeneke white and twenty-nine-year-old denzel eduardo previously
00:14pleaded guilty to a fray at eiselworth crown court
00:18three of the defendants wearing face coverings and dark clothing sprayed a substance believed to be cs spray also known
00:25as tear gas into a lift at an airport car park at 8am on the 7th of december the lift
00:32contained two women who had arrived on a british airways flight from joannesburg that morning and two men who had
00:39met the woman at the airport the court heard the evidence is not clear as to who deployed the gas
00:46but that each man accepted their involvement in the joint enterprise the defendants were prevented from entering the lift by
00:53the group as innocent parties ran away from the lift in some distress gas was emitted once the lift arrived
01:02at the ground floor causing difficulties for people
01:05with some being taken to hospital a barista at cafe nero who started to cough and vomit blood told the
01:12court she was scared as she felt fine one minute and then almost instantly unwell the woman who had arrived
01:20from joannesburg then went to an airport taxi forecourt where the defendants followed them and took their suitcases which were
01:27never recovered
01:28and took our seat
