12 month wait for bike boy trial

Three teenagers have been charged with attempted murder after a 16-year-old boy was knocked off his bike and repeatedly stabbed after facing trial. Police were called to Henry Road, Brixton, at 6.16pm on 23 February and found James Bascoe-Smith suffering multiple stab wounds. James video-called his mother as he lay bleeding in the street, fearing he was about to die and begging her to help him. The boy’s mother, Lisa Bascoe-Smith stayed on the phone with her son until the…