He killed to get money for ‘cab fares and takeaways’

A serial mugger who knifed a 16-year-old boy to death when he tried to stop him stealing his mobile phone has been jailed for a minimum of 19 years. Kyi-Riece Sylvester, 18, needed money for ‘cabs and takeaways’ when he stabbed Stelios Averkiou three times in the thigh in the Lordship Recreation Ground in Tottenham, north London, on 1 August 2021. Stelios was rushed to Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel by air ambulance but one of the wounds was 18cm…

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