A SLOUGH man has been jailed for perverting the course of justice after a witness in a murder trial was intimidated.

Frank Tamale, 24, of Waverley Road, Slough was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and jailed for two years at Blackfriars Crown Court on Friday, March 10.

Akram Chemlal, 18, and Rowland Morrison, 19 both of Enfield were also found guilty of perverting the course of justice during the same trial and were sentenced to nine and 12 months respectively in a young offenders institution.

The investigation into perverting the course of justice was launched following the murder of Khiry Ford, 23, who died from a single stab wound to the chest after trying to intervene in a robbery in Enfield on November 30, 2014.

In December 2015, twin brothers Charles and Deo Tamale were sentenced to life imprisonment to serve a minimum 22 years, for murder, conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

While Charles was on remand in January 2015 he established contact with his elder brother Frank and Morrison, and references were made to threaten one individual who they regarded as a 'snitch'.

On 5 April 2015, officers were informed that a witness statement had been posted to an individual's social media account twice which lead to Chemlal's arrest the next day.

Whilst on remand Deo also made contact with Morrison and Frank about targeting another witness whose statement had been posted on Twitter Frank Tamale was arrested and charged on August 10, 2015.

Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lawson, of the Metropolitan Police, said: "Not only was this witness targeted but these men set about unearthing the identities of anyone else that had provided any information to the police in the hope that they too would be silenced and those responsible for Khiry's murder would not be prosecuted."