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| Boy's killers given 30-year term | |
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| Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for murdering a 15-year-old boy as he slept at his south-east London home. | |
| Mohammed Sannoh, 19, from Peckham, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, from Camberwell, burst into Michael Dosunmu's room in Peckham and shot him in February 2007. | Mohammed Sannoh, 19, from Peckham, and Abdi Omar Noor, 22, from Camberwell, burst into Michael Dosunmu's room in Peckham and shot him in February 2007. |
| Michael, who was mistaken for his older brother Hakeem, was shot four times with a MAC-10 machine pistol. | Michael, who was mistaken for his older brother Hakeem, was shot four times with a MAC-10 machine pistol. |
| Sannoh and Noor were each sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison. | Sannoh and Noor were each sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison. |
| Shock and sympathy' | |
| Judge Stephen Kramer told them: "This was a planned and premeditated killing. It was an execution. | |
| "You both, quite probably acting with another person or others, carried out this killing in an act of revenge. | |
| "It was a death that could only invoke in all right-minded people feelings of outrage, shock and sympathy for Michael's family." | |
| The trial had heard the men had wanted to kill Hakeem in revenge for a murder. | The trial had heard the men had wanted to kill Hakeem in revenge for a murder. |
| It was his links to a robbery gang and the murder of one of their members that led the gunmen to the family home. | It was his links to a robbery gang and the murder of one of their members that led the gunmen to the family home. |
| Sannoh and Noor had denied murder. | Sannoh and Noor had denied murder. |