Teenage killer of father trying to protect his home gets 15 years
A 15-year-old boy has been jailed for at least 15 years for stabbing a father-of-three to death after provoking him ‘beyond endurance’. The teenage killer was ‘out of control’ when he murdered stonemason Jamie Markham, 45, and had spent days shouting and swearing outside the victim’s home in Chingford. He had been caught in school with a knife when he was 12 and Mr Markham believed the boy, then 14, and his friends had broken into the shed at the…