Four guilty of New Year party murders

Four men were today found guilty of murdering two teenage girls who were gunned down outside a New Year party two years ago.

Charlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, died in a hail of bullets in a drive-by shooting outside the Uniseven hairdressing salon in Aston, Birmingham, in the early hours of January 2 2003.

Today their killers were found guilty by a jury at Leicester Crown Court.

Marcus Ellis, 24, from Devonshire Avenue, Winson Green, Birmingham, Michael Gregory, 23, from Ryland Street, Ladywood, Birmingham, Nathan Martin, 26, from South Road, Smethwick, West Midlands and Rodrigo Simms, 20, from Whitehouse Drive, Smethwick, West Midlands, were all found guilty of murder.