Knifemen face life sentences for stabbing this teenager

Two knife attackers who left a teenage boy ‘dead for 50 minutes’ before medics brought him back to life are facing jail. James Bascoe-Smith, 18, Facetimed his mother and told her ‘I’ve been stabbed’ after he was attacked in Brixton, southwest London, on 23 February last year. His heart stopped and he ‘died’ for 50 minutes but surgeons at King’s College Hospital performed life-saving surgery, the Old Bailey heard. Mr Bascoe-Smith had been testing out a bike to make sure…

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