Kodjo killers jailed for life

Two youths have been jailed for life for the murder of schoolboy Kodjo Yenga.

Judge Christopher Moss ordered that Tirrell Davis, 17, and Brandon Richmond, 14, should be detained during Her Majesty's Pleasure and told the Old Bailey they should each serve a minimum term of 15 years.

Three other youths, Kurtis Yemoh, 17, Jamel Bridgeman and Michel Williams, both 15, were given ten years' detention with five years on extended licence after their release.

The five were part of a gang which chased 16-year-old Kodjo shouting "kill him, kill him".

Kodjo was left dying in his girlfriend's arms after being stabbed in the heart in Hammersmith, west London, in March, last year.

He had been ambushed by about a dozen youngsters, including two girls, who armed themselves with knives, bats and even a bull terrier.

As horrified passers-by tried to help, the gang, some of them in their school uniforms, ran away laughing.

The five, who had denied killing Kodjo, were all from Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush, west London.

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