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A teenager has been convicted of murdering a talented schoolboy footballer, stabbed in north London. A teenager has been convicted of murdering a schoolboy footballer by stabbing him in the heart.
The Old Bailey jury heard the 17-year-old denied murder but admitting killing Kiyan Prince, claiming it was an accident. Kiyan Prince, 15, was killed when he intervened in a mock fight outside the London Academy school in Edgware, north London, in May 2006.
Kiyan was stabbed when he tried to intervene in a fight outside the London Academy school in Edgware May 2006. The 17-year-old, who is too young to be named, admitted manslaughter but denied murder, claiming it was an accident.
Kiyan was described as a popular pupil. He was a keen footballer and played for Queens Park Rangers' youth team. It was the third trial in the case - jurors could not reach a verdict in the first and the retrial collapsed.
Jurors heard how Kiyan had stepped in when a friend became involved in a play fight with the convicted boy, who was then 16.
'Trying to scratch'
The teenager turned on Kiyan, putting him in a headlock before stabbing him with a penknife.
The youth later told police he had been trying to scratch Kiyan in the arm, "but it went deep in... cos I never used a knife before".
The prosecution did not accept his plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter and he was tried for murder.
It has emerged that the first retrial was abandoned two days after the jury retired, because Kiyan's distraught father approached a woman juror on her way home.
As the third trial ended in conviction there were cries from the public gallery.