Youths ‘knifed footballer to death for no good reason whatsoever’

  Two teenagers stabbed a promising young footballer to death in a busy shopping centre ‘for no good reason or sense whatsoever’, a court heard. Shadrac Howell and Lemuel Lee, both 18, allegedly murdered 17-year-old Aren Mali as he acted as a peacemaker in a row involving his 15-year-old friend. He was fatally stabbed in the neck in Croydon’s main shopping street, North End, and ran for 100 metres pursued by his attackers before he collapsed and died. Aren, who…