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| Boy, 15, detained for nine years for shooting girlfriend | Boy, 15, detained for nine years for shooting girlfriend |
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| A 15-year-old boy who shot dead his girlfriend as she tried to give him a birthday present has been sentenced to nine years for her manslaughter. | A 15-year-old boy who shot dead his girlfriend as she tried to give him a birthday present has been sentenced to nine years for her manslaughter. |
| Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh died after a single bullet from a counterfeit 1930s Italian Beretta pistol struck her in Hackney, east London, in March. | Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh died after a single bullet from a counterfeit 1930s Italian Beretta pistol struck her in Hackney, east London, in March. |
| The boy was cleared of her murder but found guilty of manslaughter. | The boy was cleared of her murder but found guilty of manslaughter. |
| He was also found guilty at the Old Bailey of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. | He was also found guilty at the Old Bailey of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. |
| Judge Charles Wide said it was plain from the evidence that he had been pointing the gun at Shereka in order to "frighten" her. | |
| And the circumstances that he had the gun and ammunition in the first place were in the context of "violent gang confrontation". |