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| Two guilty of killing teenage boy | |
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| Two people have been found guilty of the killing of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed at a city centre bus stop. | Two people have been found guilty of the killing of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed at a city centre bus stop. |
| Odwayne Barnes was stabbed near Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham, on 5 March because he was a member of a rival gang, Birmingham Crown Court heard. | Odwayne Barnes was stabbed near Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham, on 5 March because he was a member of a rival gang, Birmingham Crown Court heard. |
| Nathaniel Darby, 20, of Wyrley Way, Erdington, and Michel Hayles, 17, were cleared of murder but were found guilty of manslaughter after a trial. | |
| Damien Belle, 18, of Heathway, Shard End, had already admitted murder. | Damien Belle, 18, of Heathway, Shard End, had already admitted murder. |
| Rival street gangs | |
| The court heard Odwayne was killed because he fell out with Hayles, a member of a rival street gang. | |
| During police interviews Hayles said he was a member of the Slash Crew, or Slash for Money Crew, and said he had fallen out with Odwayne, a member of the rival Bang Bang Crew. | |
| Hayles told police he heard Odwayne had called him names and had tried to telephone him to remonstrate with him. | |
| Prosecuting, Robert Juckes QC told the court that Odwayne and a friend, Leon Black, bumped into the defendants in New Street in the city centre, and a chase began. | |
| Odwayne reached a bus stop in Jennens Road, outside the college, but his attackers pulled up in Darby's Volkswagen Polo. | |
| They dragged him into the busy main road where he was stabbed twice, Mr Juckes said. | |
| The teenager suffered "catastrophic" injuries to his heart but managed to flee the scene before collapsing some distance away. | |
| As the guilty verdicts were read out the defendants sobbed while a family member called out that the defendants had actually been trying to help Odwayne. |