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Two teenagers who killed a man during a row over litter have each been sentenced to four years detention. | |
Evren Anil died of severe head injuries after he confronted the youths who threw litter in his sister's car window in Crystal Palace, south-east London. | |
The 23-year-old was attacked last August, the Old Bailey heard. | |
Dejon Thompson, 16, from Thornton Heath, south-east London and Patrick Rowe, 17, from Tottenham, north London, admitted manslaughter. | |
Judge Ann Goddard lifted restrictions banning the pair being identified and condemned their "yobbish and stupid behaviour". | |
She added: "The tragedy is that it need not have happened, if you hadn't started it or had had the courage to walk away." | |
'Shattered family' | |
Mr Anil, a first class honours IT graduate, had just started his dream job as a programme developer at the time of the attack. | |
He and his sister were waiting at traffic lights in her Peugeot 307 when Rowe threw a half-chewed Lion bar through the car's open window. | |
Mr Anil got out of the vehicle and threw it back at them, only for one of the boys to produce a 4in knife from his trousers. | |
The knife was held to his throat and he was then punched in the face so hard that his skull was fractured, and he suffered a haemorrhage that moved his brain 16mm across his head. | |
He was born in Turkey and moved to London at the age of three with his family, settling in Upper Norwood, south east London. | |
Miss Anil said her brother's death had "shattered" her family. |