News on some the killings from 2007(The year London Bled)


The video news after verdict: BBC NEWS | UK | Mother reacts to sentences




Two teenagers found guilty of murdering 16-year-old schoolboy Kodjo Yenga have been given life sentences.

Kodjo was stabbed in the heart in March 2007 after being ambushed by a gang, including two girls, armed with knives and bats in Hammersmith, west London.

Tirrell Davis, 17, from Shepherd's Bush, west London, and Brandon Richmond, 14, from Hammersmith, were ordered to serve a minimum of 15 years.

Three other youths were given 10-year custodial sentences for manslaughter.

Michael Williams, 14, from West Kensington, west London, Jamel Bridgeman, 15, from Shepherd's Bush, and Kurtis Yemoh, 17, also from Shepherd's Bush, were all convicted of manslaughter.

It emerged that the Yemoh was in court just hours before Kodjo's death.

FULL STORY: BBC NEWS | England | London | Life sentences for boy's killers

AND MORE NEWS
Life for sword death gang members



Three teenage gang members have been given life sentences for killing a 14-year-old boy stabbed in the heart with a sword.

Paul Erhahon was murdered in an unprovoked attack by a 17-strong gang in Leytonstone, east London, last April, the Old Bailey heard.

Two of the teenagers were given minimum custodial terms of 13 years and one was given a minimum term of 11 years.

Two other teenagers convicted.


FULL STORY: BBC NEWS | England | London | Life for sword death gang members

It doesn't end there

Teenager guilty of revenge murder


A teenager has been found guilty of shooting dead a youth worker, who he blamed for the theft of a gold chain.

Junior Glasgow, 17, from Brixton, south London, shot Nathan Foster, 18, from Brixton, six times last August.



FULL STORY: BBC NEWS | England | London | Teenager guilty of revenge murder