Gangland killer serving life has three years added to sentence for separate attack in Islington

A gangland killer, who received a life sentence for murder with a minimum term of 34 years, has had another three years added to the time he must serve for brutally assaulting a taxi driver in a separate attack.

Jason Furtado, 29, is currently in jail after being convicted after an Old Bailey trial for two gang-related murders and an attempted murder in Archway in June 2023.

District judge Emma Deacon KC, sentencing at Wood Green Crown Court, said just three months earlier Furtado had committed a “prolonged and persistent assault including stamping on the (taxi driver) victim’s head as he lay on the ground”.

His the attack left Uber driver Graham Edwards with a serious bleed on the brain and multiple complex breaks to his face, including to his cheekbones and eye socket.

The judge told Furtado: “This was an explosive piece of violence from you against Mr Edwards without any proportion to the reality – which was that you were challenged by a taxi driver for banging on his windscreen.”

The judge told him: “The sentence I am going to impose will only come into effect after the sentence of 34 years already imposed on you for the grave offences of violence committed three months after this one.”