Four teenagers were today starting ten year jail sentences for killing award-winning DJ Tushar Makwana.
 Tushar's killers (clockwise from top left): Michael McGuire, Brett Frewin, Matthew Jeffrey, Ashley Cooksey Michael McGuire and Ashley Cooksey, both 18, and Brett Frewin and Matthew Jeffrey, both 17, were convicted of manslaughter by majority verdicts of ten to two. Sentencing them Judge MrJustice Hunt backed the rights of residents to protect their homes and families and told them: Householders will naturally fight, as is their right, to defend all they hold most dear. Friends and relatives of the tragic Heart FM presenter cried out yes as the jury of six men and six women returned guilty verdicts on each of the defendants after deliberating for more than five hours. The teenagers were led from the dock, arms raised and jeering as they were taken down to the cells. Mr Makwana, a 37-year-old father of three, suffered fatal head injuries as he tried to stop the quartet escaping in a stolen car after he disturbed three of them breaking into his home. Leicester Crown Court heard the vehicle, a Citroen C5, was used like a weapon to brush Mr Makwana off after the burglary at his house in Wasperton Close, Castle Bromwich, at 4.30am on February 9. Jailing the teenagers, all from Castle Vale, Judge Mr Justice Hunt told them: But for you a good and brave man would be alive today. Castle Vale will be safer by your absence. Its plain you had the same joint enterprise to commit serious offences and to escape having committed them. The judge said the gang kicked Mr Makwanas front door down with maximum noise. He told the teenagers: The trauma of such a burglary on a family home inevitably has a terrifying effect. But saving your skins from being nicked was more important than any consideration for Mr Makwanas safety.
 During the eight-day trial, the court heard the gang considered themselves above the lawful actions of householders. Kevin Hegarty, prosecuting, said their attitude to Mr Makwana (pictured) was: How dare he try to stop us. We are untouchable. The court heard three of the four defendants broke into the Sony Award-winning DJs home with the aim of stealing keys to his BMW parked outside. But, barefoot and wearing only a dressing gown, Mr Makwana chased the trio to their getaway car, where the driver was waiting. He tried to get inside the Citroen but the vehicle sped off and Mr Makwana fell, suffering a fractured skull and brain swelling. He died in hospital three days later. The jury never discovered which of defendants was driving the C5 when the DJ was fatally injured, although the judge said he believed Cooksey had been at the wheel. Addressing each of the teenagers, the judge accepted Jeffrey had shown remorse but said McGuire showed no regret and had smiled and joked in the dock. He said Frewin had a long history of offences and accused Cooksey of stepping out of his league after it had been claimed he was an apprentice to the others. The judge jailed each of them for ten years for manslaughter and seven years to run concurrently for the burglary and robbery charges. More on the Tushar verdict:
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