CCTV footage shows killer Bardia Shojaeifard dressed in school uniform going after teenager Alfie Lewis before stabbing him to death in broad daylight. The murderer, who was 14 at the time, is thought to have kept the six-inch blade hidden on him as he went about his outday, preparing to seek out his victim at home time.
And now will never see the light of day and be free to walk the streets for the rest of his natural...?
Shojaeifard, who is now 15, was today handed a life sentence, with a minimum term of 13 years before being considered for release.
*sighs*
The murderer, who is of Iranian heritage and was described in court as 'outwardly normal', can be identified for the first time today after judge Mr Justice Cotter at Leeds Crown Court lifted reporting restrictions. He said naming him would help in the 'vitally important debate about the scourge of knife crime, among young people in particular'.
It'll also help in showing the handful of people in the UK who still believe the UK justice system is worth a bucket of cold spit how wrong they are.
The teen denied murder, claiming he feared for his life when he pulled out the weapon, which police said had a black-painted handle. He was found guilty by a jury after a trial in April.
If I 'feared for my life', I'm pretty sure I'd avoid the threat, not stalk it. The jury clearly agreed.
Lifting the restrictions which previously banned Shojaeifard from being identified because of his age, he said: 'The question has to be asked, how it can be that it has come to this? 'If a seemingly normal 14-year-old boy takes a knife and uses it against a boy of the same school year, how bad must things have become?'
Good question, judge, and an even better question would have been 'And how has the lax sentencing from me and my fellow members of the judiciary contributed to that?'...
'Without your interest in knives Alfie would be here today.'
Without mass immigration from every Third World shithole, Alfie would be here today too.
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We should have agreements with these third world shit holes that such people do their prison time back in a third world shit hole jail
And this is the climate - ‘the scourge of knife crime among young people in particular’ - in which Labour think they are going to recruit another 6,500 well-qualified teachers to work in poorly-performing schools!
A few years in youth custody, discovering that he is not as tough as he thought he was, though his ethnic identity will afford him some protection. Loads of sessions with therapists and youth leaders who will tell him it's society's fault, and not his.
Then, transferred to an adult prison, where the cons rule and, if he's still a good looking lad, will no doubt find a 'protector', before discovering that nothing comes for free in prison.
He may be only 28 when he can apply for parole, but, by then, he will be so damaged and institutionalised that, possibly, the best thing that can be done is not to let him out or, deport him to Iran. Just a thought.
Penseivat
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