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| A teenage girl has been convicted of murdering a boy of 16 who was lured to his death in a "honey trap" plot. | |
| Shakilus Townsend was stabbed to death by members of a gang in Thornton Heath, south London, last July after being lured to flats by Samantha Joseph, 16. | |
| Joseph admitted persuading Shakilus to go to the flats but said she only thought he would be beaten up. | |
| The girl's boyfriend Danny McLean, 18, was also convicted of murder by the Old Bailey jury. | The girl's boyfriend Danny McLean, 18, was also convicted of murder by the Old Bailey jury. |
| Brothers Tyrell Ellis, 19, and Don-Carlos Ellis, 18, from Thornton Heath, were also convicted of murder, together with Andrew Johnson-Haynes, 19, from Croydon. | |
| Two other youths, aged 17, were also convicted. | |
| 'Honey trap' | |
| As Shakilus, from Deptford, south-east London, lay dying, he called out for his mother saying: "I don't want to die", the Old Bailey was told during the trial. | |
| Brian Altman, QC, prosecuting, said Shakilus had been seeing the girl for six weeks. | |
| He told the jury: "Shakilus had described her to his mother as 'beautiful' and he said to her that he was in love with her, he was even saying to his mother that he wanted to marry her, that she was his future wife." | |
| But Joseph was still in love with Mr McLean, who had dumped her, and "would have done anything to get him back," said Mr Altman. | |
| "He [Danny McLean] had come to learn of her deception and by way of recompense she agreed to set up the hapless Shakilus Townsend in a honey trap with a lethal and tragic twist," he added. | |
| The defendants will be sentenced at a later date. |