A young girl who structured the killing of a 15-year-old schoolboy at Victoria Station on the Social Networking Site “Facebook” and kicked him as he lay bleeding to death was jailed for 12 years yesterday in the UK.
Victoria Osoteku had just turned 18 when she joined a 20-strong mob armed with an array of weapons as they hunted down Sofyen Belamouadden.
The attack was the result of ‘simmering tensions’
between students at a sixth form college in Ladbroke Grove, west London, and
Sofyen’s fellow pupils at Henry Compton School, in Fulham.
The Nigerian teenager born to Nigerian parents, Osoteku helped to set up the attack on the social networking site Facebook and then bought a £3.99 knife set from Argos, which was used to stab Sofyen at least nine times. Osoteku was then seen kicking the victim as he lay helpless on the ground with stab wounds to his heart and right lung.
Osoteku, now aged 20, was convicted of manslaughter after giving evidence for 21 days - the longest testimony at the Old Bailey in recent years - in a four month trial. Victim: 15-year-old Sofyen Belamouadden from Acton, west London, was repeatedly beaten and stabbed to death by a gang of youths
The Nigerian teenager born to Nigerian parents, Osoteku helped to set up the attack on the social networking site Facebook and then bought a £3.99 knife set from Argos, which was used to stab Sofyen at least nine times. Osoteku was then seen kicking the victim as he lay helpless on the ground with stab wounds to his heart and right lung.
Osoteku, now aged 20, was convicted of manslaughter after giving evidence for 21 days - the longest testimony at the Old Bailey in recent years - in a four month trial. Victim: 15-year-old Sofyen Belamouadden from Acton, west London, was repeatedly beaten and stabbed to death by a gang of youths
She was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge of murder. Sentencing her to 12 years in a young offenders’ institution, Judge Christopher Moss QC told her: 'You played a pivotal role in the events of and leading up to that day and must take a substantial share of the responsibility for that.'
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