‘Being autistic did not make Hassan Sentamu a killer’

The teenager who stabbed public schoolgirl Elianne Andam to death was ‘exacting vengeance’ and the attack had nothing to do with his autism, a court heard. Elianne, 15, was knifed to death when she showed ‘solidarity’ to her friend who had turned up to collect a cuddly toy from her ex-boyfriend 18-year-old Hassan Sentamu. She grabbed Sentamu’s belongings which her friend had given him because he failed to bring the bear to the meeting near the Whitgift Centre in Croydon…