Killer who shot teenager in 2016 faces life sentence

A gunman is facing a life sentence for shooting a teenager who was left in a vegetative state for six years before he died. Denzican Karadag, 29, gunned down 18-year-old Joel Bempah-Cumberbatch in Denmark Road, Haringey, on 30 August 2016 and before fleeing on a bicycle. One of the bullets passed through his brain and Joel was left in a ‘minimally conscious state’ until his death in September 2022. Karadag admitted murder. Jayson Diur-Kota, 30, denied the charge and was…

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