Nigerian-Born Teenager Jailed For Life For Stabbing Ghanaian Schoolboy To Death, After Mistaking Him For A Member Of A Rival Gang In The UK

 

 

Kwame Ofosu-Asare

 

 

Two teenagers were today [Dec. 18] jailed for life for killing a 17-year-old Ghanaian-Born schoolboy.Kwame Ofosu-Asare was mistaken for a rival in a "poisonous and senseless" gang war and knifed to death in broad daylight while walking with a friend through Brixton, south London, in March.

Nelson Idiabeta, 18, of no fixed address, and Nathaniel Okusanya, 19, of Vibart Gardens, Lambeth, south London, were found guilty of murder.

Sentencing them at the Old Bailey, Judge Richard Marks ordered that Idiabeta serve a minimum term of 19 years and Okusanya, 20 years

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He told them: "It was Kwame's misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Neither of you has shown one iota of remorse for what you did”.

Prosecutor told jurors: "Kwame's death was but a part of a poisonous and senseless feud between two rival gangs of youths in south London”. Kwame was not a member of either gang, he added.

The teenager had been to a recording studio in the area with his friend - the pair tried to get away by going into a side road where the friend's aunt lived, but the aunt was not home and the boys were trapped in a cul de sac.

The court heard that the attack had its roots in a feud between the TN1 (Trust No-One) gang from the Tulse Hill area of south London and Brixton-based Gas (Guns and Shanks).

Nathaniel Okusanya and Nelson Idiabeta

Idiabeta and Okusanya were members of the TN1 group out to avenge one of their members who had been stabbed in a bus garage attack carried out by the GAS gang earlier in the day.

 

Kwame's father Kwaku, a sports journalist, told the court in a statement that his son was full of potential.

 

Mr Ofosu-Asare said:

Kwame was a very vibrant, energetic and enthusiastic boy. His brother and sister are struggling to cope with his death. All our lives have been ruined