On the early hours of Tuesday 30 August 2022, a 25-year-old man called Brandon Malutshi was shot twice in the legs on the dance floor of a packed East London nightclub. The man who pulled the trigger was Chris Kaba — a core member of the Brixton Hill gang the 6-7. Six days later, Kaba was dead, shot through the windscreen of his car by a Metropolitan Police firearms officer in Streatham. He would never stand trial.

But five other men did. And this episode is about one of them.

Marcus Pottinger was a former security guard at the Oval Space with no gang ties, no record of serious violence, and no apparent connection to the dispute between the 6-7 and the rival 1-7. So why was he the one who walked a loaded handgun past the door staff that night? Why did he use a personal relationship with a female security guard to bypass the search? And why, on his own account, did he "check out" of the conversation at the bar in the seconds before Kaba walked across the dance floor and opened fire?

In this episode we walk through the CCTV, the bag, the side door that wouldn't open, and the three legal theories the Court of Appeal used in March 2026 to uphold Pottinger's nine-year sentence for wounding with intent.

A case the country wasn't allowed to hear about for over two years. Until now.