18 year olds Corey Donaldson and Alex Scott, were part of a mob who ambushed 21 year-old Dean Pascal Modeste as he walked to a recording session.
He was chased through the Chinbrook estate in Grove Park, south-east London, before being fatally stabbed 14 times.
Dean Pascal-Modeste, 21 was killed as he walked to a music recording session
Police believe that Mr Pascal-Modeste ‘was not the intended target’ of the two killers. Instead, they believe that his death was a case of mistaken identity.
The trial at the Old Bailey heard that the victim’s death was a result of an ongoing gang feud between the Lewisham based B-side gand and rival from the Splash Gang.
Though Mr Pascal-Modeste was not a gang member himself, he was linked to the splash gang through friends and became a target on February 24.
Scott and Donaldson, both from Deptford, denied murder at the trial but were convicted by a jury earlier this month.
During sentencing, Judge Phillip Katz QC condemned the youths for showing not a “flicker of remorse” and “fooling around in the dock”.
He said: “Here is yet another loving family struggling to come to terms with a pointless loss of life which came about because thugs like you walk the streets with vicious weapons all too ready to use them.”
The judge praised Mr Pascal-Modeste’s family for sitting “with dignity” throughout the trial, but told the killers: “I wish you had shown some dignity in court – when the jury was not in court you fooled around in the dock as if it were a joke.”
The victim’s mother Lezley paid tribute to her “loving, kind, funny, compassionate, charming, and charismatic with a full and exciting life ahead of him”.
“There is a void in my whole being, an aching pain that never ever leaves me”, she said.
“Any possible joy I could ever feel will now always be tainted by the deep sadness I can never heal.”
She said she feels “as if a hand has ripped through my chest and torn out my heart.”
Donaldson also denied the charge but was convicted of possession of an offensive weapon, while Scott pleaded guilty to the same charge.
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18 year olds Corey Donaldson and Alex Scott, were part of a mob who ambushed 21 year-old Dean Pascal Modeste as he walked to a recording session.
He was chased through the Chinbrook estate in Grove Park, south-east London, before being fatally stabbed 14 times.
Dean Pascal-Modeste, 21 was killed as he walked to a music recording session
Police believe that Mr Pascal-Modeste ‘was not the intended target’ of the two killers. Instead, they believe that his death was a case of mistaken identity.
The trial at the Old Bailey heard that the victim’s death was a result of an ongoing gang feud between the Lewisham based B-side gand and rival from the Splash Gang.
Though Mr Pascal-Modeste was not a gang member himself, he was linked to the splash gang through friends and became a target on February 24.
Scott and Donaldson, both from Deptford, denied murder at the trial but were convicted by a jury earlier this month.
During sentencing, Judge Phillip Katz QC condemned the youths for showing not a “flicker of remorse” and “fooling around in the dock”.
He said: “Here is yet another loving family struggling to come to terms with a pointless loss of life which came about because thugs like you walk the streets with vicious weapons all too ready to use them.”
The judge praised Mr Pascal-Modeste’s family for sitting “with dignity” throughout the trial, but told the killers: “I wish you had shown some dignity in court – when the jury was not in court you fooled around in the dock as if it were a joke.”
The victim’s mother Lezley paid tribute to her “loving, kind, funny, compassionate, charming, and charismatic with a full and exciting life ahead of him”.
“There is a void in my whole being, an aching pain that never ever leaves me”, she said.
“Any possible joy I could ever feel will now always be tainted by the deep sadness I can never heal.”
She said she feels “as if a hand has ripped through my chest and torn out my heart.”
Donaldson also denied the charge but was convicted of possession of an offensive weapon, while Scott pleaded guilty to the same charge.
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