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Two teenagers sentenced to at least 15 years for machete murder of boy, 14, on London bus
WOOLWICH, LONDON, ENGLAND, JUL 25 – The two teenagers, both with prior knife convictions, were sentenced to life with minimum terms exceeding 15 years for stabbing Kelyan Bokassa 27 times on a Woolwich bus.
- On January 7, 2025, two teenagers stabbed Kelyan Bokassa 27 times with machetes on a Woolwich bus, causing his death.
- Both defendants had previous convictions for carrying knives in public, with one subject to a referral order, prosecutor Tom Little KC said `It is clear this is not a form of spontaneous incident`.
- Police later recovered a machete discarded in the River Thames, and Scotland Yard issued CCTV images naming two boys in a public appeal.
- On Friday at the Old Bailey at 2pm, Judge Mark Lucraft KC detained the two teenagers at His Majesty's pleasure for life, setting a minimum term of 15 years and 10 months before parole eligibility.
- As the first teenager killed by knife crime in London in 2025, Kelyan’s death underscores a growing crisis, his mother Mary said she begged authorities for support, and he had been heading to see social workers as part of turning his life around.
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London teens get life for brutal gang-linked killing of 14-year-old on bus
LONDON, July 26 — A British judge yesterday sentenced two teenagers to life in prison, with a minimum term of 15 years, for stabbing to death a 14-year-old boy on a London bus earlier this year.The attack in January reignited debates around gang violence and the ongoing problem of knife crime that has plagued the British capital and other UK cities for years.On January 7, Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed 27 times with machetes on the bus in Woolwich i…
The two defendants pleaded guilty to murder - "My son rests in peace and these two boys will have a very difficult time," his mother said.
A British court on Friday sentenced two boys, aged 15 and 16, to at least 15 years and ten months in prison for the murder of another 14-year-old boy who was killed with a machete on a London bus in January, AFP reported.
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