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Daily Mirror
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Alahna Kindred

Teen victim who 'died on street for 30 minutes' tells attackers 'I did not deserve this'

A teenage knife crime victim who "died on the street for an hour told his attackers "I did not deserve this" as they were jailed for life.

James Bascoe-Smith, then aged 16, was left in a wheelchair after he was knocked off a bicycle and repeatedly knifed by masked men in Brixton, South London, last February.

James was an innocent victim of a gang stabbing sparked by a provocative online drill video or as “tit-for-tat” revenge for a previous attack, the court heard.

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