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22/06/2010
Facebook Insults End In Killing
Insults on Facebook have resulted in the killing of an 18-year-old teenager -with a youth, now aged 16 - detained for killing his former best friend.
Salum Kombo, 18, was stabbed in the chest in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, in December after calling his killer, then 15, names including "pussy".
This week's trial heard the boy, who was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey in May, could not take the "loss of face".
The teenager, who cannot be named, has been ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years.
Sentencing the boy at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said: "This was quite simply an act of cowardice, as so many stabbings are."
David Jeremy, prosecuting, said a previous friendship between Mr Kombo and the defendant had turned to "hostility" and the pair had a fight last summer after a football match.
The court heard that on the night of the murder, the killer had been with friends outside a fish bar.
The trial heard how they tried to calm him down when he became angry and started talking about stabbing Mr Kombo.
(BMcC/GK)
Salum Kombo, 18, was stabbed in the chest in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, in December after calling his killer, then 15, names including "pussy".
This week's trial heard the boy, who was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey in May, could not take the "loss of face".
The teenager, who cannot be named, has been ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years.
Sentencing the boy at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said: "This was quite simply an act of cowardice, as so many stabbings are."
David Jeremy, prosecuting, said a previous friendship between Mr Kombo and the defendant had turned to "hostility" and the pair had a fight last summer after a football match.
The court heard that on the night of the murder, the killer had been with friends outside a fish bar.
The trial heard how they tried to calm him down when he became angry and started talking about stabbing Mr Kombo.
(BMcC/GK)
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