Mother’s Jail Escape Plot for Son Who Murdered Cody Fisher
The mother of one of Cody Fisher’s killers dodged prison despite plotting to help her son flee to Jamaica after the Boxing Day 2022 murder.
Plot to Flee: Midnight Drive and £5,000 Cash Haul
Jahzeen Carpenter, 40, raced her son Kami Carpenter to London just a day after he fatally stabbed Cody Fisher at Birmingham’s Crane nightclub. Jahzeen arrived in her white Mercedes convertible on the evening of 27 December. Kami was caught with two suitcases packed for an escape plan.
Police swooped at 8:30am the next morning outside Lewisham flats, arresting both mother and son. Officers seized over £5,000 in cash from Jahzeen’s car.
Flight to Jamaica Foiled at the Last Second
Investigators uncovered Jahzeen had researched a Gatwick-to-Kingston flight her son had booked — set for the day of their arrest. Had the pair succeeded, Kami Carpenter would have slipped through the net of justice.
Suspended Sentence for Mum Who Helped Fugitive Son
At Wolverhampton Crown Court, Jahzeen pleaded guilty to assisting an offender. She was handed a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years.
“While Cody’s family were grieving, Carpenter’s mother was trying to help her son avoid capture and flee to Jamaica,” said Detective Inspector Phil Poole of West Midlands Police. “Thanks to close work with Metropolitan Police, they were arrested before Kami could leave the country. This conviction shows just how many lives knife crime destroys.”
Life Behind Bars for Murderers
- Kami Carpenter, 24, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.
- Remy Gordon, co-conspirator in the killing, received a minimum of 26 years.
The savage attack erupted after a chance encounter between Cody and Gordon in Solihull. Gordon stalked Cody online and ambushed him at the Crane nightclub. Surrounded and brutally stabbed just before midnight on Boxing Day, Cody died instantly from a chest wound.
Knife crime is falling in the West Midlands — but cases like this prove the battle is far from over.
