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The son-in-law of Hong Kong's last governor Chris Patten faces a jail term for acting as a getaway driver in a shooting at an Indian restaurant in west London.

Elton Charles, 51 — married to the Patten's daughter Laura — was convicted of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence on Wednesday after a five-week trial at Kingston Crown Court.

Charles took part in a plot, hatched by his 48-year-old half-brother Nathaniel St Aimie, to terrorize bosses of a curry house in Greenford on the evening of September 6 last year.

St Aimie earlier admitted conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

CCTV shows a hooded gunman getting out of a white van before firing a single cartridge into the window. Charles was the getaway driver in the shooting.

It was "good fortune" that none of the diners were hurt as a shotgun blast shattered a window at the restaurant, the court heard.

Charles, St Aimie, along with Nicholas Grant, 46, and Lee Morgan, 42, who allegedly supplied the weapon, will be sentenced on September 15.

(Daily Mail and The Sun)

Elton Charles (L) Chris Patten (R)

Chris Patten's son-in-law faces years in jail for acting as getaway driver in shooting at London