Teens get life for boy’s murder on bus

Two teenagers have received life sentences at the Old Bailey — the chief criminal court for England and Wales — for murdering a 14-year-old boy on a bus in Greater London.

The pair stabbed aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa 27 times as he sat on the back seat of a route 472 bus in Woolwich on Tuesday 7th January.

The defendants, now 16, pleaded guilty to Kelyan’s murder and possessing a knife; the court sentenced both to a minimum term of 15 years 10 months.

In a victim impact statement, read to the Old Bailey, Kelyan’s mother, Marie Bokassa, said: ‘I stand here, not just as a mother, but as a broken soul, whose life changed for ever the day my child’s life was taken from me by another child.’