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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Emily Pennink

Parents make knife crime vow as teenager convicted of Elianne Andam murder

Hassan Sentamu (Metropolitan Police/PA) - (PA Media)

Elianne Andam’s parents have vowed knife crime will “not go unanswered” as a teenager was found guilty of murdering their 15-year-old daughter in a row over a teddy bear.

Hassan Sentamu, 18, had a history of attacking girls and carrying knives before he stabbed the popular schoolgirl in the neck outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south-east London.

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