Not AW Related But Very Disturbing
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Girl faces life over 'honey trap' murder
Yesterday, 05:54 pm
Samantha Joseph, 16, was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey for leading Shakilus Townsend to the quiet cul-de-sac where he was killed by a masked and hooded gang.
The lovestruck teenager bled to death after being beaten with baseball bats and stabbed six times in a "relentless and merciless attack".
He was besotted with Joseph and told his mother he wanted to marry her, but she told others she was using him and treated him like "s*".
While Joseph, who was 15 at the time, was happy for Shakilus to shower her with gifts, she was still obsessed with another teenager, gang member Danny McLean, 18, of Thornton Heath.
McLean had dumped her when he found out about her relationship with Shakilus, who was no stranger to gangland culture and knife crime himself, earning his first criminal conviction at the age of 13, but Joseph was prepared to do anything to get him back.
CCTV pictures from the day of the attack in July last year show her wearing a see-through floral dress as she met Shakilus and took a bus with him.
He thought they were on their way to meet her cousin but in fact she was playing a "dangerous double game" luring him to the ambush in Thornton Heath, south London, while secretly keeping in touch with McLean by mobile phone.
She laughed as his attackers caught him and began raining down blows with fists, feet and baseball bats before she turned and walked away.
McLean - who had himself been injured by a bat during the furious melee - plunged a knife into his chest, raking it across his liver before twisting the blade.
As he lay bleeding to death Shakilus called out for his mother and cried: "I don't want to die."
McLean, who was wearing a bright orange bandana, the colour identifying him as a member of the Shine My Nine gang to which he and the other attackers belonged, then walked off with Joseph who was seen carrying his hoodie and a cream-coloured handbag stained with his blood.
Joseph later set about trying to "rub out" any trace of her relationship with Shakilus, deleting his online Bebo account and telling friends to erase his number from their phones.
In court she admitted agreeing to lead him into the ambush so that he could get beaten up but said she did not realise he would be seriously hurt. But jurors rejected her explanation and she was found guilty of murder along with McLean.
Brothers Tyrell Ellis, 19, and Don-Carlos Ellis, 18, from Thornton Heath, were also convicted of murder, together with Andrew Johnson-Haynes, a 18-year-old former public schoolboy from Croydon who played rugby for London Irish.
Two other youths, aged 17, were also found guilty.