Judge hopes knife wielding teen has learnt his lesson

THORNTON HEATH

  A teenage killer who stabbed a young rapper to death walked free from court after a judge said if he had not learned his lesson he never will. Ashley Newman, 18, was acquitted of murdering 17-year-old Mujaahid Wilson in Thornton Heath High Street, south London, after insisting he was ‘fighting for his life’. Newman was also cleared of manslaughter but he admitted possessing a knife and was sentenced to detention for 12 months in a Young Offenders’ Institution. He…

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