Three people have been sentenced in connection with the murder of Reece Heffernan.

The 22-year-old was stabbed in Romany Lane, Tilehurst, on October 31 last year.

Earlier this year, three men from Reading, Earley and Wokingham were jailed for life having been found guilty of his murder.

Today (November 28), another two men and a woman received a combined seven years jail time in connection with the incident.

Madison Henderson, aged 20, of Kings Road, Reading, was sentenced to two years and six months in jail for conspiring to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to supply a class B controlled drug.

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She was convicted by unanimous jury verdict following a trial lasting five weeks, which concluded at Reading Crown Court on 24 August.

Damian Wozniak, aged 19, of Kings Road, Reading, was also handed two years and six months in prison, having pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to conspiring to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to supply a class B controlled drug.

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Hamzah Ahmed, aged 19, of Jubilee Road, Reading, was found not guilty of one count of murder and not guilty of one count of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by unanimous jury verdict.

Earlier in the trial Ahmed pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to supply a class B controlled drug. He was sentenced to two years in jail.­