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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

Dea-John Reid: Teenager who stabbed boy, 14, to death after he was ‘hunted by lynch mob’ is detained

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A 15-year-old boy who stabbed another teenager to death in a “revenge” attack has been sentenced to a six-and-a-half-year term of detention for manslaughter.

Dea-John Reid, 14, died from a single stab wound after being racially abused in the Kingstanding area of Birmingham in May last year.

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