DAMI CASE WITNESS JAILED FOR MURDER.Byline: By DON MACKAY Donald Mackay, (born March 19 1940 in Perth), is a Scottish former football player and manager. As player He was a goalkeeper and played for Forfar Athletic, Dundee United, and Southend United during his playing career. A WITNESS in the original Damilola Taylor Damilola Taylor (December 7, 1989 – November 27, 2000) was a Nigerian schoolboy who died in the UK. Early life Born in Lagos, Nigeria, he travelled to the United Kingdom in August 2000 with his family to allow his sister to seek treatment for epilepsy. trial laughed as he was given life yesterday for a gangland murder. Pepe Brown, 21, was part of a masked mob that gunned down Jadie Brissett, 18, as the teenager played with friends on a street. Brissett was hit twice and died despite emergency surgery outside a block of flats. But the exact reasons for the 2003 shooting in Hackney, East London East London, city (1991 pop. 240,474), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. The city grew around a British military post founded in 1847. Its harbor was developed from 1886, and today it is a leading South African port. are unclear. Judge Peter Beaumont said: "Why he was shot among a group of young people remains a mystery." Brown, 21, of Islington, North London, Robbie Thomas, 22, of Hackney, and Aaron Salmon, 18, of nearby Plaistow, were given life at the Old Bailey and must serve at least 15 years. Mark Lawrence, 23, of Borehamwood, Herts, was also convicted of murder and is sentenced next week. In 2002 Brown told the first Damilola trial that while at a young offenders' institute he heard two of the four accused admit killing the boy. All four were cleared. Dami, 10, was murdered in Peckham, South London, in 2000. Three youths await a new trial in January next year. CAPTION(S): MURDERED: Damilola |
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