'Honey trap' girl gets 10 years.A TEENAGE girl who acted as a "honey trap" to lure a smitten 16-year-old to his death at the hands of a love rival was locked up for a minimum of 10 years yesterday. Samantha Joseph led lovestruck Shakilus Townsend into an ambush in a quiet cul-de-sac where he was beaten with baseball bats and stabbed six times. The teenager bled to death after the "relentless and merciless attack" by a masked and hooded gang in Thornton Heath Coordinates: Thornton Heath is a district in the London Borough of Croydon. It is 7.2 miles (11.6 km) south of Charing Cross. Thornton Heath High Street is the centre of a large area of north Croydon known as Thornton Heath between West Croydon and , south London South London (known colloquially as South of the River) is the area of London south of the River Thames. Some neighbourhoods north of the Thames have South London postal codes (SW), but these neighbourhoods are classified as West or Central London. , in July last year. Joseph, who was 15 at the time, laughed as they caught up with him, walking away as they began their brutal assault. Samantha Joseph Her older boyfriend, Danny McLean, plunged a knife into Shakilus's chest, raking it across his liver before twisting the blade. Joseph, 17, from Brockley, south London, was ordered to be detained for a minimum of 10 years. As he lay bleeding to death, Shakilus, from Deptford, south east London South East London is a name commonly given to the south eastern part of London, England on the south side of the River Thames. Definition of the area South east London is made up of the following London boroughs which are Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark , called out for his mother and cried: "I don't want to die.'' Judge Richard Hawkins told the gang: "You left him to die a lonely death, crying for his mother." Joseph, and McLean, 18, from Thornton Heath, were found guilty of murder alongside five other youths in July. McLean was ordered to serve a minimum 15 years' detention. |
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