He is expected to be released today.His assistant, Ross Newman, was treated for a bullet wound to the leg.The shooting sent shockwaves through the UK hip hop scene, which has largely avoided the gun-related incidents that are so prevalent in the lyrical content of the music.In the United States, where rap is a multi-million-dollar industry, the willingness to settle disputes at the point of a gun has led to the premature deaths of some of the genre’s greatest exponents, including Notorious B.I.G. They were taken to St Thomas’ hospital, south London, where Mr Westwood underwent surgery for a bullet wound to his arm. Two men on a red motorcycle pulled up alongside Mr Westwood’s vehicle and fired at close range through the tinted windows.
The 30-year-old DJ, from Fulham, south-west London, and five passengers in the car, members of his Justice Productions crew, were hurt, four of them cut by flying glass. The attack, which echoed murderous shootings of famous American rappers, occurred in daylight, at 8.40pm on Sunday, as the DJ sat behind the wheel of his four-wheel-drive at a busy junction on Kennington Park Road.

THE BBC Radio 1 rap DJ Tim Westwood was under guard in hospital yesterday after beinginjured in a drive-by shooting in south London. Because he was jailed before 1992 he is not affected by the Criminal Justice Act, which requires statutory supervision of certain ex-offenders.Soon after his release, Oliver began to be hounded from town to town as he sought sanctuary and anonymity. He spent four months living in a Sussex police cell before being housed in a medium-security psychiatric unit in Milton Keynes, where his stay costs about pounds 320 a day.. He also reportedly begged for police protection once he was freed.The child sex killer Robert Oliver, 46, is expected to be the second resident at the new unit.

He was jailed for 15 years for his part in the death of a 14-year-old rent boy, Jason Swift, in 1985. Jason was drugged and raped by up to 12 men before being killed and his body dumped in the Essex countryside.Oliver served ten years of the sentence before being released. They said they were determined to keep a close eye on developments to see if anything would go wrong.Each resident in the unit, which comprises three bedsits consisting of a bedroom, kitchen area and private bathroom, will be made to sign an agreement to abide by a set of rules.Smith, who has been living in hostel accommodation in London since leaving jail, was allegedly so nervous about his release that he suffered a breakdown in May while in Wakefield Prison. But Nottinghamshire police said that the paedophile would not be allowed to go outside the prison walls without a police escort.Protesters living close to the prison in the residential Sherwood district of Nottingham said they were disappointed and saddened that Smith had been placed in the new accommodation unit. The event passed off without major incident despite the angry protests staged last month by local residents opposed to the setting up of the unit.
Prison officers at the jail warned yesterday that Smith, 44, who is HIV- positive, is a free man who could leave the prison whenever he pleases. Smith, who recently finished a 10-year jail sentence for a series of sex attacks on a six-year-old boy, was smuggled into Nottingham prison at 5.30am.

LENNIE SMITH, a notorious child molester, became the first resident yesterday of a new purpose-built accommodation block for released paedophiles that has been set up in the grounds of a prison. That row revolved around the favoured status, granted by Europe under an international treaty, to banana imports from Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific areas, most of which are former European colonies.. “I believe compensation is a more constructive approach,”he said.The dispute over beef hormones is the latest in a series of transatlantic trade storms, which blew up over complaints about the EU’s banana import regime. The EU argues that its case for maintaining the ban, which has strong support among member states, was boosted by a preliminary scientific report in May. That claimed one of the six growth-promoting hormones widely used in the US cattle industry could cause cancer.American officials have dismissed the report’s findings as inconclusive, saying scientific research for decades has failed to find any health risk associated with growth hormones.However, the EU has already accepted in principle that it should offer compensation because it has failed to abide by WTO procedures.Yesterday’s decision by the US to outline its list of sanctions appears to dash hopes that it will accept compensation by way of increased access to the EU market for other produce.Sir Leon Brittan, the acting European Union trade commissioner, said that compensation would “be better for all parties”, including US consumers and producers in the EU and the US. It includes pork products, Roquefort cheese, truffles, prepared goose liver and mustard.The beef dispute revolves around the EU’s ban on meat from cattle treated with hormones to stimulate growth, a widespread practice in the US and Canada.