Gang gets life for schoolboy's park murder
Shaquille Smith
Six members of a bicycle gang who murdered British schoolboy Shaquille Smith in a park were jailed for life today.
They were given minimum terms of between 15 and 18 years at the Old Bailey after the judge labelled them “arrogant cowards”.
The gang, members of the London Fields Boys, from Hackney, east London, stabbed the 14-year-old to death as he talked on a park bench about going on holiday to Jamaica.
The gang members, who included two brothers, were sentenced one by one to avoid violence in the dock.
George Amponsah (aged 19), Godiowe Dufeal (aged 20), Amisi Khama (aged 18), Freddie Amponsah (aged 17), Kadean Dias (aged 18) and Leon Atwell (aged 17), all from Hackney, were found guilty of murder last month.
