28 years for boxer killer; SENTENCE.THE gunman who shot dead ex-British heavyweight boxer James Oyebola James Oyebola (10 June 1961 - 27 July 2007) was a British heavyweight boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in the super heavyweight division. Oyebola was the British heavyweight champion from 1994 to 1996 [1]. in a row over smoking will serve at least 28 years, a judge ruled yesterday. Kanyanya Mulenga, 23, was given life for the "senseless" murder of the father of three. Mr Oyebola, 46, was shot after he asked a group of men to put out their cigarettes at the Chateau 6 bar in Fulham Broadway, West London, three weeks after the lightingup ban began in July last year. Judge Peter Rook rook, term used for a common Eurasian bird (genus Corvus) of the family Corvidae (Crow family), smaller than the American crow. The jackdaw is a European species of the genus. Rooks nest in large colonies, whence the term rookery. told Mulenga at the Old Bailey: "This was nothing short of a brutal killing carried out for the most trivial of reasons." |
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