Turkington was on the wrong side of the road at the junction and was blocking the cabbie. However soon after the drive-by shooting, Turkington became involved in an incident with a taxi driver at the bottom of Barrack Road, near St James’ Park. “The door staff said they thought he had come back to shoot them.”Ī police van was nearby and an officer took a note of Turkington’s car registration number, which would eventually lead to his arrest. You can hear loud gunshots on the CCTV footage. “He fired five or six shots into the air.

“The defendant was driving the vehicle and he put his hand out of the car window and appeared to have a small black revolver.

Prosecutor Emma Dowling said: “Around 15 to 20 minutes later a car drove through Stowell Street the wrong way down the one-way street.

He left in a taxi but was soon back after picking up the weapon from his home in Walker, Newcastle. Turkington told two security staff he planned to return, threatening: “My name is Ronnie and I will have you finished tonight. He was asked to leave but was reluctant to do so and a row blew up. Newcastle Crown Court heard Turkington had been at Asper’s one night in March and his drunken behaviour attracted the attention of staff around 4am. Now the 41-year-old dad-of-three has been jailed for three years after admitting he carried out the attack this year. He later aimed the weapon at a taxi driver’s head near St James’ Park in a road rage incident shortly afterwards. Terrified staff in the venue ran for cover as five or six loud shots rang out when Turkington opened fire while driving the wrong way down Stowell Street in the city’s China Town.ĬCTV captured the moment he points the gun out of his driver’s window and the terrifying sound of gun fire rings out, reports the Newcastle Chronicle. Turkington was so enraged at being ejected from Asper’s, he returned in his car armed with a revolver. This is the moment crazed Ronald Turkington carried out a terrifying drive-by shooting on a Newcastle casino he’d been chucked out of for being too drunk.

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