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    Life sentences for five guilty of Great Yarmouth murder

    Five people have today been jailed for life for the brutal murder of a man outside a Great Yarmouth pub.

    A jury yesterday found defendants Todd Esherwood, Tony Smith, Stuart Layden, Roy Smith and Kelly Taylor guilty of murdering Ian Church in May last year.


    Ian Church who died in Great Yarmouth after an attack May 5, 2012

    Judge Peter Jacobs passed life sentences on all five, and set minimum jail terms before each can be considered for release.

    Yarmouth pair Esherwood, 25, of Saxon Road, and Tony Smith, 29, of Sidney Close, must serve a minimum of 15 years.

    Stuart Layden, 30, of South Quay, must serve 13 years, and Kent pair Taylor, 33, and Roy Smith, 31, will serve at least 12 years.

    Judge Jacobs warned the defendants about the tragic consequences of their violent actions.

    He said: "When people who are involved in this type of behaviour late at night, sooner or later someone ends up dying."

    Mr Church, 40, suffered bleeding on the brain and never regained consciousness after trouble flared outside the Bricklayers Arms, in Nelson Road Central, in the early hours of May 5 last year.

    Mr Church and friend Peter Blake had been out for the evening socialising with friends in the Yarmouth seafront area on the evening of May 4.

    At around 1am, Mr Blake had left the group on Britannia Pier and headed towards the Bricklayers. In the pub, he argued with Todd Esherwood and returned to his home where he met up again with Mr Church.

    Unhappy at how Mr Blake had been treated, the pair returned to the pub. During a confrontation, windows were broken and the door was damaged. A broken extendable cosh and a machete were later recovered by officers from the scene.

    Mr Blake was assaulted by a group of customers before fleeing the scene, and they then turned their attentions to Mr Church, who witnesses had described as being unthreatening and not behaving in an overtly violent manner.

    Mr Church was punched, kicked and stamped on, and a bar stool was used to strike him, before the group dispersed when police arrived.

    Mr Church was taken to the James Paget University Hospital where, after several days in a critical condition on life support, he died.

    http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/life_sen...rder_1_2016847



    Drug addict who murdered narcotics dealer in Aberdeen jailed for life

    A drug addict who murdered a narcotics dealer after failing in a bid to rob him of his merchandise has been jailed for life.

    John Georgeson, 42, repeatedly plunged a kitchen knife into Peter Newell in Glenbervie Road, Aberdeen, in October 2012.

    The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Georgeson had tried to force Mr Newell into giving him bags of heroin and rocks of crack cocaine.

    But Mr Newell, who had moved to Aberdeen from Wolverhampton, refused and the addict then stabbed him three times on the body.

    The court heard that as Georgeson was assaulting Newell, the English-born drug dealer shouted: "Stop! Help."

    But Georgeson refused to listen to Mr Newell's pleas for help and continued to ram the Marks and Spencer kitchen blade into his torso.

    Newell, who formerly lived at Oakland Road, Penfield, Wolverhampton, had told friends that he was looking forward to becoming a father. His partner was due to give birth but he died after suffering heavy internal bleeding.

    Police eventually caught Georgeson after finding his DNA on the dead drug dealer's jacket and taking statements from members of the public who witnessed the attack.

    And the court heard that when Georgeson was arrested, he told police that he did not believe that Newell was dead.

    He said: "He can't be dead. The knife hardly went in."

    On Friday, Georgeson - who has two previous High Court convictions for assault and robbery - was jailed for life.

    Temporary judge Sean Murphy QC told him that he would have to serve at least 18 years before he would become eligible for parole.

    Passing sentence, Judge Murphy said: "You have been convicted of a gravely serious offence. Your craving for class A drugs led you to commit a terrible murder on a young man who - despite being involved in the drugs trade - had something to live for in the sense that he was awaiting the imminent birth of his child.

    "I can only impose one sentence and that is life imprisonment. I will set the punishment part for 18 years."

    http://news.stv.tv/north/221201-john...iled-for-life/
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    Teens to be sentenced for homeless man murder


    Kevin Bennett

    Three boys who beat a rough sleeper to death following a dare will be sentenced for his murder today.

    The teenagers - two aged 14 and a 17-year-old who cannot be named because of their ages - attacked Kevin Bennett, 53, as he slept rough outside a supermarket in Liverpool.

    They were found guilty of murder on 26 February following a four-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

    The court was told the 17-year-old had goaded one of the 14-year-olds by saying: "I bet you haven't got it in you to do him in."

    The younger boy later told his friend: "I started kicking him, I booted him and now he's dead," the jury heard.

    The second 14-year-old stood look-out as the attack took place, the prosecution said.

    Also to be sentenced today is Linda Doran, 42, of Teulon Close, Liverpool, who was found guilty of perverting the course of public justice by providing false alibis for two defendants.

    Mr Bennett died in hospital six days after the beating in the early hours of August 17 last year.

    The victim suffered a fractured eye socket, a collapsed lung and a broken ribcage which detached from his chest.

    The trial heard that Mr Bennett, described as "vulnerable" and a "heavy drinker", had been in a pub from 11am on August 16, and had consumed between 10 and 12 cans of lager.

    He left just after midnight with a white carrier bag laden with more cans of beer and settled down for the night behind an Iceland store on nearby County Road, Walton.

    It was there he was discovered beaten by Iceland staff arriving for work at 7am the next day.

    Mr Bennett's family said he was "a loving person who would do anything for anyone."

    http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2013...meless-murder/



    Reece Menzies murder trial starts this week


    Reece Menzies

    Five people accused of shooting Reece James Menzies in Boscombe will stand trial this week.

    They are accused of murdering the 21-year-old in Roumelia Lane on July 25 last year.

    Wayne Stephenson, 33, Keifer Hutchinson, 22, Jarome Parkinson, 24, all from London, and Kieron Wellington, 29, and Miss Terri Campbell, 22, both from Bournemouth, deny the charge.

    Stephenson, Hutchinson and Parkinson were arrested at addresses in London and the Folkstone area of Kent on August 21 last year.

    Wellington and Campbell were arrested at an address in Westbourne the following month.

    The trial will take place at Winchester Crown Court today, although the prosecution opening is not expected to be heard until later in the week.

    Timothy Mousley QC, and Simon Jones, will prosecute the case, which will last around seven weeks.

    Mr Menzies, from London, was discovered dead in a flat at the junction of Roumelia Lane and Sea Road in the early hours of July 25.

    He had been shot in the head.

    A Contempt of Court Order is currently in place banning publication of the defendants’ addresses following legal submissions from their solicitors, who argued it could have significant impact on the investigation or administration of justice.

    Mr Menzies lived with his uncle and worked for his plastering business. His baby daughter Takayla was born 10 weeks before he died.

    http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/new...rts_this_week/



    The three boys guilty of Kevin Bennett's murder are scheduled to be sentenced this morning at Liverpool Crown Court by Judge Clement Goldstone QC, the Recorder of Liverpool. The mandatory life sentence applies to each of them, but the 12-year starting point will be used as they are children. Clearly the 17-year-old is the most culpable: he is the oldest and it seems he instigated the attack. The 14-year-old who acted as "look-out" must be the least culpable, and thus the 14-year-old who participated in assaulting Mr Bennett lies somewhere between the two.

    The five defendants accused of shooting dead Reece Menzies will be tried at Winchester Crown Court before Mrs Justice Davies and a jury.
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    Teens sentenced for homeless man dare murder in Liverpool


    Connor Doran, 17, Brandon Doran, 14, and Simon Evans, 14, were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court

    Three teenagers who kicked and punched a homeless man to death in Liverpool for a dare have been sentenced.

    Liverpool Crown Court heard Kevin Bennett, 53, was attacked as he slept rough outside a supermarket in August.

    He was taken to hospital with serious injuries and died six days later.

    Brothers Connor and Brandon Doran, aged 17 and 14, and Simon Evans, 14, were told they would remain in custody until the Home Secretary approved their release.

    Passing sentence, Judge Clement Goldstone QC, the Recorder of Liverpool, said: "I think it is a desperately sad reflection on this society that each of you was party to serious violence purely for the sake of it."

    Connor Doran, labelled the "leader of the pack" by the judge, was sentenced to a minimum of 12 years.

    Evans was ordered to serve at least eight years and Brandon Doran received a minimum of six years for acting as look-out during the attack.

    The Doran brothers' mother, Linda Doran, 42, was jailed for 30 months after being convicted by the jury of perverting the course of justice by providing false alibis for her sons.

    Her eldest son, Ryan, 23, was convicted of murder and jailed for life in October after he attacked a stranger with a bottle in a takeaway.

    The judge told the mother: "You have another son who is serving life for murder. There are not many parents who have that sort of personal agony to bear.

    "But then again, not that many mothers would have shown themselves to be either so unwilling or unable to shoulder the responsibility of motherhood as you have."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...yside-22155807



    What a terribly sad case.

    Linda Doran also needs to give herself a slap and assess where everything went so tragically wrong. Three of her sons are convicted murderers. The other member of her delightful family was convicted of this crime:


    Life sentence for Liverpool thug Ryan Doran who killed total stranger with bottle over head

    27 October 2012



    A thug who murdered an innocent man by smashing a bottle over his head was today beginning a life sentence, and must serve a minimum of 15 years.

    Drunken Ryan Doran, 23, launched an unprovoked attack on dad-of-one Wayne Mitchell as he walked home from the pub in Townsend Lane, Anfield, in March.

    Groundsman Mr Mitchell, 42, suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain when his head hit the pavement.

    Although passers-by called him an ambulance, he waved them away and tried to walk home.

    However, he collapsed in an alley a few hundred yards away and died days later in hospital.

    Minutes after delivering the fatal blow Doran walked into the nearby International Chip Shop demanding tissues for a cut on his hand caused by the breaking bottle, then attacked customers and staff members before he was arrested.

    Doran, of Teulon Close, Walton, denied murder but jurors unanimously found him guilty at trial after deliberating for less than an hour.

    Sentencing Doran, who has previous convictions for violent disorder, being drunk and disorderly, and breaching ASBOs, Judge John Roberts said: "You had drunk at least 10 bottles of Budweiser, smoked two to three spliffs of cannabis and by your own admission taken two lines of cocaine.

    "You left the Cannon public house in the early hours and walked along Townsend Lane in the opposite direction to that taken by Mr Mitchell.

    "You met him coming the other way at an area outside premises known as Everton Glass.

    "It was there for no apparent reason you smashed him over the head with a Budweiser bottle.

    "He immediately went to the ground and banged his head on the pavement.

    "Having left Mr Mitchell in a heap on the pavement you made your way to the International Chip Shop.

    "There you behaved in a most appalling manner. You used the most offensive language such as 'you little P**i', 'P**i bastard', and 'n*****'.

    "You threatened to have the shop burned down. You threatened to stab a staff member.

    "You took a bottle out of your pocket and waved it about. You spat towards one man but it landed in the face of another.

    "You were generally threatening and abusive to those in the shop. Then you turned your attention towards the three customers whom you subjected to the offence of battery.

    "That summary goes to show how dreadful your behaviour was on that night."

    He gave him 16 months for three counts of battery, racially aggravated assault and racially aggravated threats, which Doran admitted.

    Regarding the murder charge he said: "There can only be one sentence for such a crime. No sentence I pass can ever bring back the life of Mr Mitchell or remove the pain and grievous sense of loss felt by his family and friends."

    Doran was jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 15 years before he can be considered for parole, less 214 days spent on remand.

    Judge Roberts said: "Whether you can ever be released, or if so when, are matters for the Parole Board in due course. But if ever you are released it will not be before you have served 14 years and 151 days."

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    Watford family feud: Two men jailed over gun attack


    Fesar Khiaq and James Campbell were jailed for conspiracy to murder

    Two men involved in a gun attack that left the victim paralysed have been sent to prison for conspiracy to murder.

    Fesar Khiaq, 27, of Yarmouth Road in Watford was jailed for 35 years and James Campbell, 23, of Wellington Street, Luton, for 29 years.

    Campbell broke into the victim's home in Watford with an unknown gunman, St Albans Crown Court heard.

    Mohammed Yasin Khan was shot over a feud involving his son.

    Khiaq put together the plan to exact revenge, the court heard.

    Mr Khan's son, Ausman, was earlier acquitted of a charge of attempting to murder Khiaq's older brother, Abid Hussain.

    Judge Steven Gullick was told of the life-changing injuries Mr Khan, now 66, had suffered in the attack on 27 October 2011.

    The gun blast left a wound the size of a 50 pence piece to his neck but pellets entered his brain and he suffered a stroke.

    He has been left paralysed down his left side, his speech has been affected and he is unable to walk.

    Three other men, Anthony Francis, 30, who at the time was living in Charter Place, Watford, Matthew Seddon, 28, also of Charter Place, Watford, and Alex Myers, 21, of Dumfries Street in Luton, were all found not guilty of conspiracy to murder.

    Khiaq was also acquitted of two charges of making threats to kill.

    Campbell and the gunman man broke into the house while Ausman Khan was out but his father, Mohammed, was in bed and his sister, Rabia, was in her bedroom.

    The prosecution said the shooting of Mr Khan was the culmination of a bitter feud between two families.

    Judge Gullick told Khiaq: "You decided a considerable act of revenge was needed.

    "You organised this conspiracy to murder and it was carried out on your behalf and at your instigation."

    The judge said Mr Khan had spent 12 months in hospital and he and his family had been forced to move to a secret address for fear of another attack.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-22157264



    Two Belvedere men guilty of murder of Bexleyheath father

    Two men have been convicted of the murder of Bexleyheath father-of-three Prabjot Singh Rayat.

    Robert Burrows, 34, of Dylan Road, Belvedere, and 40-year-old Henry Clifford Collins of Erith Road, Belvedere, were found guilty by a jury at Wood Green Crown Court yesterday.

    Surinda Chana, 44, of Lower Park Road, Belvedere, was convicted of robbery.

    She had known Mr Rayat for 15 years and had borrowed money from him in the past.

    He was killed in his Thamesmead business, Rayat Autos, in Nathan Way in the early hours of June 8 last year.

    Mr Rayat sometimes slept there as he was on the night he was murdered. Chana gained entry to the garage at around 3am with the two other defendants and they grabbed him around the neck before cutting his throat.

    They failed to access the safe but made off with around £200 in cash.

    The two men pleaded guilty to robbery during the course of the trial, which lasted almost two months.

    Burrows and Collins will be sentenced later this morning and Chana will be sentenced on Friday, May 24.

    http://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/news/tw...ther_1_2019709



    Burrows, Collins and Chana were prosecuted on the basis that they murdered Mr Rayat in order to rob him (though Surinda Chana was found not guilty of murder). The Crown claimed that they were cocaine addicts whose motive was to acquire funds to buy more drugs. A knife was taken to the scene which was used to slit the victim's throat. Burrows and Collins will be sentenced to life imprisonment later this morning by Judge Nicholas Browne QC at Wood Green Crown Court in London. Minimum terms of not less than 27 years - and possibly more - are to be expected in these circumstances.
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    Belvedere duo jailed for life for murder of Bexleyheath man Prabjot Singh Rayat

    Two men from Belvedere have today been jailed for life for murdering a Bexleyheath father-of-three at his Thamesmead garage.

    Robert Burrows, 34, and 40-year-old Henry Collins were sentenced this morning after yesterday (April 15) being convicted of stabbing 54-year-old Prabjot Singh Rayat to death.

    The pair will serve a minimum of 23 years each behind bars. They were also each given eight-year sentences for robbery, to be served concurrently.

    Over the seven-and-a-half-week trial a jury at Wood Green Crown Court heard how the victim was attacked at around 3am on June 8 last year at Rayat Autos - a car repair service run by Mr Rayat on an industrial estate at Nathan Way, Thamesmead.

    Mr Rayat was asleep at the garage when Burrows, Collins and Surinder Chana, 44, carried out the robbery.

    Chana, who was found guilty of robbery yesterday (April 15), had known Mr Rayat for around 15 years and had been known to borrow money from him.

    Burrows, of Dylan Road, and Collins, of Erith Road, grabbed the victim around the neck and stabbed him.

    The trio failed to access the safe, but are believed to have robbed the victim of around £200 in cash.

    Mr Rayat, of Pickford Lane, Bexleyheath, was found with his throat slit.

    A post-mortem examination gave cause of death as a stab wound.

    Burrows and Collins pleaded guilty to robbery.

    Chana, of Lower Park Road, Belvedere, will be sentenced on May 24.

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    Hmm... unless there are powerful extenuating facts of which I am unaware (and which the media have abjectly failed to report), a 23-year minimum term seems rather lenient to me. The starting point must have been 30 years. There was some degree of premeditation. A knife was taken to the scene. The offenders intended to use their ill-gotten gains for further unlawful purposes. I cannot fathom how the totality principle might be engaged. I am not convinced a deviation of a full seven years is justified.
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    Cheating Polish factory worker 'killed his British girlfriend to cash in on life insurance'



    A cheating Polish factory worker killed his British girlfriend so they could cash in on life insurance and property as part of a plot he hatched with his jealous lover, a court heard.

    Rafal Nowak killed business analyst Catherine Wells-Burr as she slept in their new home in Chard, Somerset, the jury were told.

    It was claimed he had hatched the murder plot with his former partner Anna Lagwinowicz, who he had got back together with, and her uncle Tadevsz Dmytryszyn, 38.

    After the killing, Nowak allegedly put Catherine's body in her red Ford Focus and drove it to a field a few miles away where his lover and her uncle were waiting, Bristol Crown Court was told.

    They are said to have set fire to her body by the road at around 6am - giving Nowak enough time to arrive at his factory job nearby and have an alibi.

    They then allegedly created a fake trail of text messages with a "mystery man" which implied that 23-year-old Miss Wells-Burr was having an affair and he was responsible for her death.

    Texts between specially purchased phones and SIM cards were exchanged to create a "false trail" to implicate Catherine's "secret lover" in her death.

    But police quickly identified clues pointing to Nowak, 31, the "bitter" and "jealous" Lagwinowicz and her doting uncle.

    Richard Smith QC, prosecuting, told the jury Catherine was killed for her life insurance and the newly-built, "attractively smart" home she shared in Chard, Somerset, with Nowak.

    He said Lagwinowicz was consumed with a "fatal attraction" to Nowak and "absolutely despised" Catherine for her relationship with him.

    Mr Smith said: 'After a course of heartless and careful planning by these three defendants, Catherine was murdered in the early hours of the morning in her own home.

    "In so far as her supposedly caring partner Rafal Novak - had he ever really cared for her - by that September time last year his attentions had turned very firmly.

    "He was by then back in a relationship with his co-defendant, Anna Lagwinowicz.

    "Nowak and Lagwinowicz planned the murder together with the input and help up Lagwinowicz's uncle, the third defendant Dmytryszyn.

    "By killing Catherine on that Wednesday they knew that they would secure a life insurance policy as a result, the home alone for Nowak, and Catherine would be removed from their future plans."

    The recent Bath Spa University graduate had met Nowak at Chard-based company Numatic International, known for the Henry vacuum cleaners.

    They formed a relationship and Nowak - who arrived in England in 2008, leaving his wife and child behind in Poland - split with Lagwinowicz.

    Mr Smith told the jury the trio had embarked on a course of "heartless, careful planning", murdering Miss Wells-Burr in the early hours of Wednesday, September 12.

    By this time Nowak was back in a relationship with Lagwinowicz.

    She had been "simmering with dissatisfaction and discontent" after a court order in January that year preventing the pair from seeing each other after he had assaulted her.

    However, the pair continued to keep in contact, the prosecutor said.

    "They were back together, behind Catherine's back," Mr Smith said.

    "They planned the murder together with the input and help of Lagwinowicz's uncle. By killing Catherine in those early hours, they knew they would secure a life insurance policy as a result, the home for Nowak - Catherine would be removed from their lives."

    He described how Lagwinowicz was "bitterly spiteful" when she and Nowak split.

    "She never got over it," Mr Smith said. "She never got over the loss of her Polish boyfriend to his English girlfriend. She wanted him back.


    Accused: Rafal Nowak (left), his former partner Anna Lagwinowicz and her uncle Tadevsz Dmytryszyn stand in the dock at Bristol Crown Court today in this court sketch.

    "It seems she embarked on a path of jealousy, vindictiveness. She tried to unsettle the relationship with the new English girlfriend.

    "Texts were sent, things were said - all designed, it seemed, to drive a wedge between Nowak and Catherine.

    "It is that simmering discontent, a fatal attraction, that never disappeared. It is a theme of this case."

    Mr Smith said that after killing Miss Wells-Burr as she slept he drove her body to a field where she was set on fire.

    Mr Smith added: "These three knew Nowak had time to leave his home, get himself to the local factory where he worked and check in as the flames engulfed the car some miles away.

    "In the hope of avoiding detection, the defendants tried to create a false trail intended to raise suspicion that Catherine was seeing, meeting with, perhaps having an affair with some unknown mystery man.

    "To that devious end the defendants set up a false trail of text messages purported to go between Catherine and this mystery man.

    "They bought SIM cards and bought telephones to create the false exchanges."

    Polish nationals Nowak, from Chard, Lagwinowicz, from Taunton, and Dmytryszyn, also from Taunton, each deny murder.

    The trial continues.

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    Man found guilty of murdering Sheffield lingerie boss

    Victim: Anthony Power

    A man as been found guilty of murdering a Sheffield lingerie boss who was stamped and punched to death in a city park.

    Imran Khan, aged 30, will be sentenced this afternoon at Sheffield Crown Court after a jury found him guilty of murdering Anthony Power, aged 78.

    The court heard the owner of city underwear firm Panache was attacked after he went to High Hazels Park in Darnall last autumn, to find his brother Noel who has dementia and had gone missing from home.

    Prosecutor Simon Waley told the court Mr Power had suffered facial injuries caused by punches, kicks, stamps or a combination of all three.

    Khan had denied killing Mr Power and yesterday told the jury “I’m not a violent man.”

    But they rejected his lies and returned a unanimous verdict.

    Khan, of Handsworth Road, Darnall, will also be sentenced for assaulting prostitute Zoe Gilliaband in Neepsend and smashing windows at the home of his ex, Portia Campbell.

    Mr Power, a dad of four, set up his successful lingerie business in 1982.

    He was rushed to hospital but died on October 26.





    What is bizarre here is that this trial only began on Tuesday: it is extremely rare for a murder trial in England to last less than a week. Presumably the prosecution case was highly compelling.

    As the article states, Khan will be given the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment later today at Sheffield Crown Court by Judge Alan Goldsack QC, the Recorder of Sheffield. The starting point for this murder will be 30 years, and I would expect the minimum term to be slightly lower.
    There is plenty of wrong things going around world just look at today Boston bomb blast. It is horrible
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    Teenager guilty of murdering Shane Watson in Sedgley



    A teenager was this afternoon found guilty of murdering Shane Watson in a Sedgley alleyway.

    Shylon Wishart, aged 19, showed no emotion as jurors delivered their guilty verdict for the killing on July 28 last year.

    A seven-day trial heard that Wishart and 18-year-old James Cartwright, who had earlier admitted murder, punched, kicked and stamped on Mr Watson in the alleyway off Springfield Grove after he had become separated from his girlfriend Kelly Handley.

    The couple had earlier been out in Monty's Bar in the High Street before the brutal attack took place.

    The court was told that Wishart and Cartwright then attended a house party in a "hyper" mood where revellers were told about the attack and shown photographs of Mr Watson being urinated on.

    Cartwright, 18, of Sandyfields Road, and Wishart, of North Springfield, will be sentenced at a date to be fixed.

    Wishart was warned by Judge John Warner that only a sentence of life in prison could be imposed for murder. The judge told him: "The only thing to determine is the minimum term you serve before you can be considered for release."

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    So many murders so badly or little reported.
    The jails will be filling up with psychotic men with nothing to lose.
    The good thing about the death penalty was they could never commit another crime and if you had a working MK1 brain you avoided committing such crimes. Or didn't get caught.

    For those who prate on about capital punishment not being a deterrent I point out the scum who commit these crimes, their lack of intelligence, their lack of self control, their lack of a future.

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    Two teenagers jailed for life for 'execution' killing

    Two teenagers have been jailed for life for shooting a 25-year-old in the head in a "deliberate execution."

    Umar Tufail is thought to have been the victim of mistaken identity when he was attacked in South Norwood, south-east London, last July.

    Kyrone Daley and Sanchez Thomas, both 19 and from West Norwood, south London, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey.

    Thomas will serve a minimum term of 25 years and Daley, 22 years.


    Sanchez Thomas (left) and Kyrone Daley

    The court heard Thomas had been stabbed in the leg by a brother of the murder victim.

    The 19-year-old then mistakenly shot Mr Tufail as he sat in a car.

    Judge Stephen Kramer told the pair: "It seems that the motive for this shocking murder lies in the gang culture in south London in which guns are readily available.

    "For a perceived slight for you, Sanchez Thomas, having been stabbed in the leg by the younger brother of the deceased, I am satisfied your motive was revenge.

    "Both brothers looked similar. Whether by accident or design, you took your revenge on the brother who had not stabbed you."

    The gunmen pulled up next to Mr Tufail's car and fired at almost point-blank range through an open window.

    The 25-year-old died in hospital the following day.

    William Boyce QC, prosecuting, told the trial: "This was a deliberate execution."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22183590



    These minimum terms would have been quite a bit higher had the offenders been older. For two offenders of the relatively youthful age of 19, I'd say they're legally appropriate.
    "I have adopted the Italian way of life... I may stab you!"
    — Heidi

    "You make the British Lion seem like a declawed, toothless, neutered fat tabby with the mange."
    — Weidmann1939

    "Maybe you think your being clever."
    — Weidmann1939

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