Laughing machete man gets seven years

A gang member who grinned as slashed a rival with a huge machete in the street has been jailed for seven years. Elijah Brown, 20, chased Zakeria Hashi along Ealing Broadway before hacking his head and arms with his two-foot blade on 9 November last year. Brown and an accomplice, who cannot be named, had chased another man, Donnel Willis, into a nearby shop before turning their attention to Mr Hashi. One passer-by described Mr Hashi running in a ‘zig…