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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sam Russell

Boy who stabbed teenager to death given four years’ detention for manslaughter

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A 17-year-old boy who stabbed an aspiring electrical engineer to death in a “knife fight between drug dealers” has been sentenced to four years in youth detention for his manslaughter.

Nic Lobbenberg KC, prosecuting, said the defendant, who cannot be named, and 17-year-old Jesse Nwokejiobi who died were concerned with rival drug dealing mobile phone lines when violence flared in Cambridge.

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