Mirror
January 20, 2015
Two teenagers who murdered a DJ at a birthday party which they saw online and then gatecrashed have been jailed for life today.
Young father Connor Barrett was just 20 when Jesse Quaye, 18, and Ayomindy Bile, 15, stabbed him as he tried to protect a friend at the celebration in Hemsby, Norfolk.
Today a judge named 15-year-old Bile to deter other teenage gangsters – as it emerged he was already on bail for a knife crime at the time of the murder.
Bile, whose first conviction for street robbery came at the age of 13, had been arrested for possession of a kitchen knife in a public place a few weeks before the stabbing on May 10 last year.
But he was released on bail by magistrates two weeks before attacking Mr Barrett, a court heard.
The pair were part of a large group which turned up to the family 21st party after seeing it on social media.
An argument got out of control and Mr Barrett, who was the party’s unofficial DJ, tried to intervene to stop it from escalating.
The 20-year-old was stabbed in the chest and back before his own brother “had to watch his life slipping away”, the court heard.
Police found him in the front garden with four stab wounds. He died from a single wound which pierced his lung.
Both teenagers were found guilty after a trial at Norwich Crown Court, where Judge Stephen Holt jailed them for life with a minimum of 15 years.
As the judge sentenced them he voiced a stark warning about the dangers of knife crime.
“Hemsby is a quiet seaside town and the party was to be a family and friends affair for both young and old,” he told them.