Teenager facing life sentence for park murder

A teenager who stabbed a shop assistant to death in a park during a botched drug deal is facing a life sentence. David Darko, 21 was found clutching a child’s rounders bat, emblazoned with the words ‘Baseball Star’, after he was knifed in the stomach by 19-year-old Darnell Martin. Mr Darko was left for dead and found by a member of the public in South Norwood Recreation Ground on January 23. Despite desperate attempts from the emergency services to save…