TWO TEENAGE ”BULLIES” WHO KILLED TO FINANCE THEI

TWO TEENAGE ”BULLIES” WHO KILLED TO FINANCE THEIR VIDEO

GAME PLAYING WERE SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS DETENTION AT THE OLD BAILEY

ON TUESDAY.

AND A JUDGE ISSUED A TOUGH WARNING TO OTHER YOUTHS WHO

ENGAGED IN ”SICKENING” BEHAVIOUR ON THE STREETS OF SOUTH LONDON.

PREMSUKH DEB,50, DIED ON THE PAVEMENT OF NEW KENT ROAD AFTER

A STREET MUGGING WENT HORRIBLY WRONG.

HIS SKULL WAS SMASHED WHEN HE

WAS FELLED BY A ”KARATE STYLE” KICK.

SENTENCING GARY POWELL,16, AND ROBERT RICHMOND,15, JUDGE

FRANCIS PETRE SAID: ” THIS IS AN AGE WHERE MANY OTHERS ARE ENGAGED

IN SIMILAR ACTIVITIES IN THAT PARTICULAR PART OF LONDON AND I MUST

PASS A SENTENCE WHICH MAKES IT CLEAR TO YOU AND OTHERS THAT THIS SORT

OF CONDUCT SICKENS SOCIETY.

” AND I HOPE THE NEWS GETS AROUND TO YOUR SCHOOLS AND

CLUBS AND THE VIDEO CENTRES AND THE STREETS WHERE YOU HANG AROUND.

” THIS WAS BULLYING AND A MOST APPALLING KIND OF BULLYING

SO AS TO GET MONEY TO PUT INTO VIDEOS.

”

A JURY CONVICTED THE TWO TEENAGERS OF MANSLAUGHTER, ROBBERY

AND POSSESSING AN IMITATION FIREARM.

EARLIER THEY HAD HEARD MR DEB AND THREE FRIENDS WERE

AMBUSHED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY FOUR YOUTHS LYING IN WAIT FOR PASSERS

BY ON JULY 27 LAST YEAR.

DEB, WHO LIVED ON THE ROCKINGHAM ESTATE IN SOUTHWARK,SPENT

TWO DAYS IN A COMA AND DIED WITHOUT REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS.

THE

COURT HEARD A MEDICAL EXAMNIATION REVEALED HE HAD AN ABNORMALLY THIN

SKULL.

JUDGE PETRE SAID IT WAS ONLY THE YOUTHS AGE WHICH HAD

REDUCED THE SENTENCE HE COULD HAVE PASSED.

HE ADDED: ” I AM SATISFIED THAT THE DEATH OF MR DEB

WAS NOT INTENTIONAL OR FORESEEN.

BUT BOYS LIKE YOU CANNOT EXPECT TO

COME TO THIS COURT AND BE GIVEN A WELFARE RESULT OUT OF THIS SORT OF

CONDUCT.

THIS TYPE OF OFFENCE IS TOO PREVALENT AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY

SICKENING.

” YOU SET OUT TO ROB PEACEFUL CITIZENS GOING ABOUT THEIR

ORDINARY BUSINESS.

THIS IS ALWAYS LIABLE TO CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY TO A

CITIZEN PARTICULARLY IF HE TAKES THE VIEW THAT YOUNGSTERS LIKE YOU

SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO RIFLE THEIR POCKETS WITH IMPUNITY.

”

POWELL, OF NO FIXED ADDRESS, AND RICHMOND OF LYNDHURST WAY,

CAMBERWELL BOTH DENIED THE CHARGES.

MIDWAY THROUGH THE TRIAL JUDGE PETRE DIRECTED THE JURY TO

RETURN NOT GUILTY VERDICTS AGAINST TWO OTHER YOUTHS, CHARLES

MCDERMOTT,17, OF STEPHENSON HOUSE, ROCKINGHAM ESTATE, SOUTHWARK AND

ROY OGHENEKARA,16, OF SOUTHWELL ROAD, CAMBERWELL.

THE JUDGE SAID THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AGAINST THE

YOUTHS FOR THE JURY TO BE ABLE TO RETURN A VERDICT.

ENDS.