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| A girl must serve at least 10 years in prison for the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was lured to his death in south London in a "honey trap plot". | A girl must serve at least 10 years in prison for the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was lured to his death in south London in a "honey trap plot". |
| Samantha Joseph, 17, lured Shakilus Townsend in July 2008 to the gang which was made up of her ex-boyfriend Danny McLean and five others. | |
| Shakilus, from Deptford, south-east London, was stabbed in Thornton Heath in July 2008, the Old Bailey heard. | Shakilus, from Deptford, south-east London, was stabbed in Thornton Heath in July 2008, the Old Bailey heard. |
| Six other teenagers, including McLean, were found guilty of the murder. | Six other teenagers, including McLean, were found guilty of the murder. |
| Those teenagers are yet to be sentenced. | Those teenagers are yet to be sentenced. |
| Brothers Tyrell Ellis, 19, and Don-Carlos Ellis, 18, from Thornton Heath, were convicted of murder, together with Andrew Johnson-Haynes, 18, from Croydon, south London. | |
| I have been robbed of a very rare and precious gem Nicola Dyer, Shakilus Townsend's mother Honey-trap 'lies' | |
| Andre Thompson and Michael Akinfenwa, both aged 17 and both of Norwood, south London, were also convicted. | |
| Shakilus, who was "smitten" by Joseph and saw her as his "future wife", was taken to the cul-de-sac where he was attacked with a baseball bat and stabbed several times, including in the chest and liver. | |
| Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, said Joseph, then aged 16, "set up the hapless Shakilus Townsend in a honey trap with a lethal and tragic twist". | |
| 'Consumed in anger' | |
| In a victim impact statement, Shakilus's mother Nicola Dyer, 34, said: "My feelings about Shaki's death are a mixture of ever-changing emotions that neither words nor tears can explain. | |
| "I have been robbed of a very rare and precious gem. He was loved, cherished and needed." | |
| She added: "I am unable to understand why these youngsters felt that they needed to use the brutality they did, which, in turn, resulted in my son's life coming to a tragic and abrupt end." | |
| Ms Dyer said she was "consumed in anger" by seeing the defendants "laughing among themselves". | |
| She added: "The reality that these young people with no souls had such a disregard for life that they deliberately conspired to use manipulation to cause nothing short of destruction is absolutely soul-destroying for me. | |
| "I may forgive them one day, but not today." |