He murdered twice before he was 18

A drill rapper who murdered two teenagers before he was 18 is facing his second life sentence. Nyron Jean Baptiste was 16 when he and five others ambushed and knifed Michael Jonas, 17, to death in Betts Park, Penge, southeast London, on 2 November 2017. Baptiste was still at large on 1 November 2018 when he plunged a machete into 15-year-old Jay Hughes’ chest outside Morley’s chicken shop in Bellingham and yelled: ‘I got one’. He had never met Jay…

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