A Jamaican gangster twice deported from Britain has been jailed for 40 years for slipping back into the country to execute three members of the same family.

Rohan "Chunky" Chung, 30, tricked officers with a false name and an excuse that he had missed his connecting flight to the Caribbean.

A year later he came to face the law again - this time because he shot dead a stepfather and two sisters in their flat on the Stonebridge Estate in Harlesden, north-west London.

The motive? Revenge after their brother allegedly double-crossed him in a drug deal.

Connie Morrison, 27, her sister Lorna, 34, and their mother's partner Noel Patterson, a cleaner aged 62, had eight gun shots to the head between them.

Lorna's eight-month-old baby son Christanio was found crawling among their bodies on the bedroom floor 16 hours later.

"No one takes me for a pussy," Chung told a female court witness as he vowed to kill the family.

The Yardie ran a network importing drugs from Jamaica and was furious after Morgan Morrison, one of his "mules", disappeared with 4kg of cocaine, the court heard.

Three life sentences

Yesterday Chung was given three life sentences at the Old Bailey, of which he has to serve at least 40 years.

His "foot soldier", Michael Letts, 36, also got three life sentences with a minimum term of 20 years.

After their conviction, the court was told that Chung had twice been deported from Britain - the last time after spending four years in jail for gun offences.

Chung first came to the UK in 1993 with six months leave to remain, but overstayed and was deported the next year.

In 1995 he was back, this time as Tony Green. Within months he was arrested under the name of Rohan Gordon and charged over a murder and attempted murders in London and Birmingham.

A woman who was shot at had a "miraculous" escape when the bullet hit a penny coin in her cardigan pocket, the trial heard.

Nevertheless Chung was cleared of all charges except possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life. Half way through his eight-year sentence, he was deported again.

But four years later, in 2004, he re-entered Britain from Paris as Wayne Hunter. When Chung told officers he had missed his connecting flight to Jamaica, they gave him 24 hours grace to stay on. It was enough time for him to disappear.

Ballistic evidence

Chung was convicted of the triple murder after marks on a bullet found in his flat matched those left on a casing at the crime scene.

Mobile phone tracing also placed both Chung and Letts near the Stonebridge Estate at the time of the murders last August.

Both men denied murder, with Chung claiming he had been framed by gangsters covering up the real murder.

Judge Gerald Gordon recommended that Chung is to be deported at the end of his 40-year jail term.

"The message must go out that this sort of wanton use of guns to kill will result in sentences so long that there will be little if any liberty at the end," the judge said.

Evelyn Williams, mother to the Morrison sisters and partner to Mr Patterson, said she was "extremely pleased" with the verdict.

"Noel, Lorna and Connie were wonderful and completely innocent people, murdered in cold blood. Lorna's eight-month-old baby was abandoned at the scene and will never know his mother.

"Nothing can bring them back now, but it is a comfort to know these evil men will not be able to hurt any other innocent people."