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Teenager's killer to be sentenced Youth detained for boy's murder
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The killer of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed in the chest at a football pitch near his south London home will be sentenced later. The killer of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed in the chest at a football pitch near his south London home has been detained for at least 12 years.
David Idowu was stabbed in the heart in June 2008 and died three weeks later. Elijah Dayoni, 16, of Catford, south-east London, was sentenced by the Old Bailey after being convicted of murdering David Idowu.
He was flown by air ambulance from Southwark to the Royal London Hospital but never came out of a coma. David was stabbed in the heart in June 2008 and died three weeks later.
His 16-year-old killer, who cannot be named, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after his conviction last month for murder. Dayoni, who denied murder, was convicted when DNA evidence linked him to David, who was left in a coma.
David's parents, Tim and Grace Idowu, released a picture of their son as he lay dying in hospital in the hope of discouraging young people from using knives. The knife which pierced David's heart will keep the wounds open in our hearts forever Grace Idowu
Mr Idowu said: "All he had done was go across the park to play football with his brother." David, one of London's youngest victims of knife crime, did not come out of the coma at the Royal London Hospital.
In court the schoolboy was described as a model teenager who was hard-working and popular. His parents, Grace and Tim, were present at the sentencing.
The court heard a victim impact statement from Mrs Idowu which said: "He left for school saying 'See you mummy'.
"Nothing told me that would be the end of seeing my son alive. Our dream child lost his struggle to live.
"The knife which pierced David's heart will keep the wounds open in our hearts forever," she said.
David, who aspired to be an aeronautics engineer was playing on Tabard Street, near his home in Borough, when he was approached by Dayoni who stabbed him without warning.
David Idowu died three weeks after the attack
CCTV footage showed the killer laughing and smiling as he chased the wounded boy before David collapsed on Beckett Street.
Passers-by gave David first aid but his heart stopped twice at the scene.
During the trial the jury heard David was attacked following a row between boys from his school and Walworth Academy.
When Dayoni was arrested two days later he was wearing the shirt which forensic analysis identified had blood spots from David.
Dayoni, who was born in Congo and was in Angola until 2000, had been given a supervision order for burglary the day before the killing.
He had been taken into care several times. Last year, he was expelled from school for having a replica gun.
Mr Justice Calvert-Smith accepted that Dayoni had not intended to kill David.
Det Insp Mick Norman said: "Despite the fact there were a large number of eye witnesses to the stabbing, many of whom knew the defendant, very few were prepared to name the person responsible or assist the investigation."