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| Junior Nkwelle stabbing: Girl and boyfriend detained | |
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| A 14-year-old girl who "set up" a boy to be stabbed by her boyfriend after she felt she had been disrespected has been sentenced for his manslaughter. | |
| Junior Nkwelle, 15, was stabbed in the chest on a housing estate in Brixton, south London, last September. | Junior Nkwelle, 15, was stabbed in the chest on a housing estate in Brixton, south London, last September. |
| At the Old Bailey, Cherelle McKenzie-Jackson, 14, of Brixton, was sentenced to eight years, and Marc Tulloch, 17, from Herne Hill, was given 10 years. | |
| The pair were cleared of murder at their trial last month. | |
| During the trial, the court heard Junior had been playing football with his friends when an argument broke out with McKenzie-Jackson and she took offence. | |
| She phoned her boyfriend and told him Junior had disrespected her when she interrupted the game of football on the Loughborough housing estate. | |
| Tulloch then travelled to the site by bus and started fighting with Junior before stabbing him. | |
| Jonathan Turner QC, prosecuting, said: "She was very angry and determined that he should be punished - indeed stabbed - to put things right. | |
| "She called up her boyfriend and was heard to tell Junior that she had arranged for somebody to come and stab him." | |
| Jurors found the teenagers guilty of manslaughter but cleared them murder, as they accepted the pair had not intended to cause Junior serious harm. | |
| Following their conviction last month Junior's mother Stella said: "I didn't even know what was going on and I had no chance to help, or see him and say goodbye and tell him how much I love him. | |
| "By the time I got to him my poor child had bled to death." | |
| Judge Richard Hone said he had decided to lift an order banning identification of the killers in the hope naming them would act as a deterrent. | |
| Both will serve half their sentences at a young offenders institute. | Both will serve half their sentences at a young offenders institute. |
| The remainder of their sentences will be served on licence, and the 187 days they have already spent in custody will also be taken into consideration. |