The Attorney General is considering whether to refer the sentences of two men who were convicted of murdering a footballer on a nightclub dancefloor to the Court of Appeal for reconsideration.
Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, were jailed for life with a minimum of 26 and 25 years respectively for stabbing 23-year-old former Birmingham City academy player Cody Fisher to death on Boxing Day 2022.
On Saturday, the Attorney General’s Office said it has received a referral arguing their sentences were too lenient.
The statutory time limit for the review to be completed is May 3, her spokesperson said.
Mr Fisher was attacked with a weapon smuggled through security into the Crane nightclub in Digbeth, Birmingham, in a pre-planned “act of retribution” for a minor incident two days earlier.
Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court were told Gordon, of Cofton Park Drive, Birmingham, orchestrated the “awful revenge” after Mr Fisher made brief “unavoidable” contact with his back while leaving a club in Solihull on Christmas Eve.
The court heard Gordon sent messages on Snapchat to friends around 45 minutes after the initial incident, appealing for help to identify a photograph of Mr Fisher and threatening to “shank him up”.
Mobile phone footage of the victim lying on the floor after he was stabbed in the chest and leg by Carpenter, of Owens Croft, Kings Norton, was shown to the court.
Mr Fisher, who also played football for Stratford Town and Bromsgrove Sporting, died at the scene.
