Two men have been found guilty of murdering Cody Fisher, who was stabbed to death on the dancefloor of a Birmingham nightclub on Boxing Day in 2022 in “awful revenge” for a minor incident in another club two days earlier. Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, had blamed each other for stabbing the 23-year-old former Birmingham City academy player, who died at the scene from a chest wound. During a two-month trial, the jury heard that Fisher was attacked with a weapon smuggled through security into the Crane nightclub in Digbeth as part of a planned “act of retribution” for a minor incident two days earlier. Jurors at Birmingham crown court were told Gordon orchestrated the “awful revenge” after Fisher accidentally bumped into him while leaving Popworld in Solihull on Christmas Eve, during which the pair exchanged a few words. Gordon then set about trying to identify Fisher from social media images he found of him on other nights out and, after learning his name, found that he was likely to be at the Crane nightclub on Boxing Day. Inside the club, shortly before midnight on Boxing Day, Cody was surrounded before being head-butted, punched and kicked. He was stabbed once in the chest and died from the wound at the scene. Det Insp Michelle Thurgood, who led the investigation, said: “The absolute tragedy of this case is just how trivial the motive was. “It’s the kind of thing that most right-minded people would have just ignored and moved on, but Remy Gordon, for reasons only he can explain, took real exception to this. “It was a chance brushing together of two men who did not know each other and had no reason to fall out. Cody’s life has been cut tragically short, and it’s had a catastrophic impact on his family and friends.” Gordon was also found guilty of affray, while Carpenter, who was found guilty of murder by a majority of 10 to one, was found not guilty of the same charge, relating to an attack on a friend of Fisher’s at the Crane. Fellow defendant Reegan Anderson, 19, was found not guilty of murder and not guilty of an alternative charge of manslaughter but guilty of affray and was bailed until a sentencing hearing after Easter. Some family members in the public gallery cried and stormed out of the courtroom upon hearing the verdicts, which were delivered on Monday afternoon after jurors deliberated for more than 28 hours. Fisher’s mother, Tracey, described her son as her “youngest boy, best friend and her angel”, and said she and her family started “life sentences” on Boxing Day 2022, “the saddest, most heart-breaking day of our lives”. She said: “Cody truly never had a bad bone in his body. He loved teaching young children. “He loved, cared for and respected his family. He had more living to do and so much more love and kindness to give to the world. Cody taught us all so much about ourselves and we miss him every single minute of every day. “Cody Fisher was brave, fearless and the most genuine soul I knew, I had the pleasure and honour to call him my son, may you rest in peace my beautiful boy.” The Crane had its licence permanently revoked a month after the murder, with police saying there was an “inadequate search regime” at the club and “blatant and widespread” use of drugs.