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| Teen convicted of murder after boy, 13, found dead in Oldbury | Teen convicted of murder after boy, 13, found dead in Oldbury |
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| Jahziah Coke, 13, died after he was stabbed at a house in Oldbury | |
| A teenager has been found guilty of murder, after a 13-year-old was stabbed and found dead in a house. | A teenager has been found guilty of murder, after a 13-year-old was stabbed and found dead in a house. |
| The body of Jahziah Coke, who was stabbed in the stomach and chest, was discovered in Oldbury, near Birmingham, by paramedics responding to a 999 call on 29 August. | The body of Jahziah Coke, who was stabbed in the stomach and chest, was discovered in Oldbury, near Birmingham, by paramedics responding to a 999 call on 29 August. |
| The trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court was told the defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, fled the scene and caught a bus to a female friend's house. | The trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court was told the defendant, who cannot be named because of his age, fled the scene and caught a bus to a female friend's house. |
| The teenager had denied murder, claiming the wounds were not deliberate, but a jury returned a guilty verdict, by a majority of 10 to two, on Friday. | |
| The jury, made up of eight women and four men, deliberated the verdict for two days until they were given a majority direction by the judge. | |
| A man in his 40s, who had been accused of assisting an offender, was found not guilty. | |
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