Birmingham gunman who shot dead man near Birmingham City's St Andrew's Stadium is jailed

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a man he had arranged to meet on a Birmingham car park for unknown purposes but likely to involve serious criminality.

Damaine Sculley, aged 30, from Great Barr, will serve a minimum of 30 years for the murder of Tyrone Dorset after he was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court today (Thursday, December 21). He had been found guilty of murder following trial at Birmingham Crown Court which concluded last month.

Tyrone, aged 20, was shot dead in a small residential car park on South Holme in Bordesley Green, shortly after midnight on 15 April 2018.

The reason for the 'point blank' shooting remains unknown but the meeting was likely arranged to conduct serious criminality, having been facilitated by a group of serving prisoners via a network of phone calls made from their cells. to the Bordesley area of Birmingham, to a small car park just behind some flats next to the Birmingham City Football Club.

There they met Sculley and two other men, one who has never been identified. Within minutes of arriving at the car park Tyrone was shot dead by Sculley as he sat in the driver’s seat of his car.  He was shot twice from behind at point blank range with a self-loading pistol.   Sculley stopped using mobile phones shortly after the shooting, but West Midlands Police recovered a glove from the scene and DNA from inside was linked to him.  He was also forensically linked to the Golf, but accepted during the trial that he had sat in the vehicle while maintaining he was not responsible for shooting Tyrone.    Sculley was arrested in September last year and taken into custody. Officers also trawled through hours of CCTV footage which tracked Sculley and the two other men round the area to the scene at South Holme, arriving there at the same time as Dorsett and his friends.     Shortly after midnight three men were seen running from the direction of South Holme towards Lower Dartmouth Street, the group split as they ran away returning together in the area of Witton Street.

What has West Midlands Police said about the case?

Detective Chief Inspector Adam Jobson, senior investigating officer who led the investigation, said: “The investigation into the murder of Tyrone Dorsett has been long, complex and challenging. The underlying motivation of all those who have worked on this case over the past five years has always been to identify those responsible for Tyrone’s death and secure justice for him and his family.     “Tyrone had travelled to Birmingham from his home in Telford. He travelled with friends to the location and for reasons unknown he was shot at point blank range whilst sitting in his car.  Whilst the conviction of Damaine Sculley brings an end to the police investigation and some closure for the family of Tyrone, it is acknowledged that the pain they feel at the loss of Tyrone will last a lifetime and our thoughts remain with them.”