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Evening Standard
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Emily Pennink

Mother of machete attack victim says ‘streets are bleeding’ after killers jailed

The mother of a 14-year-old boy killed in a machete attack on a bus declared “our streets are bleeding” as his smiling killers were locked up for life.

Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa said “I want my mum” after he was mortally wounded in front of horrified passengers aboard the 472 bus in Woolwich, south-east London, on January 7.

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