Teenage ‘Zombie Killer’ gets machete slaying sentence reduced

Islington

  A 17-year-old jailed for life after hacking another teenager to death with a ‘Zombie Killer’ machete in a gang war has had his sentence reduced. Blaise Lewinson stabbed Stefan Appleton, also 17, in the chest and leg using a 25in serrated blade in a north London park last year. He was initially jailed for life with a minimum term of nine years after being convicted of manslaughter but today (WED) the Court of Appeal reduced his sentence by a…

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