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| Sofyen Belamouadden: Youths guilty of Victoria killing | Sofyen Belamouadden: Youths guilty of Victoria killing |
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| Five teenagers have been convicted of killing a 15-year-old boy at Victoria station in central London. | |
| Sofyen Belamouadden, from Acton, west London, was chased and stabbed in the ticket hall of the Tube station on 25 March 2010. | |
| Two teenagers have been found guilty of his murder. Three others have been convicted of manslaughter. | Two teenagers have been found guilty of his murder. Three others have been convicted of manslaughter. |
| The trial heard that the rush-hour attack was planned on the social network site Facebook. | The trial heard that the rush-hour attack was planned on the social network site Facebook. |
| 'Merciless' attack | |
| The trial at the Old Bailey heard he was killed after tensions between pupils from two west London schools, some of whom saw the station as "home territory". | |
| Mark Heywood QC, prosecuting, said the "merciless" knife attack on the schoolboy took place in "broad daylight" in front of hundreds of commuters. | |
| Sofyen was confronted by a group with a sword at Victoria station before being chased into the Tube station where he was stabbed nine times, including to the lung and chest. | |
| Mr Heywood said: "He was given no chance of life. | |
| Captured on CCTV | |
| "So brazen and confident were his killers that they openly carried the various weapons that they used with them as they ran towards him and together hunted him down." | |
| One member of the gang, Samuel Roberts, told the court that he joined in the violence - captured on CCTV - simply because "everyone else was doing it". | |
| Obi Nwokeh, 18, of Bermondsey, south-east London, and a 17-year-old were convicted of murder by unanimous jury verdicts. | |
| Roberts, of Camberwell, south-east London, Adonis Akra, of Stockwell, of south London, both 18, and another 17-year-old were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter. | |
| Enoch Amoah, 18, of Camberwell, was cleared of both charges but convicted of violent disorder. | |
| All six defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. | |
| A number of other youths are due to face separate trials over the killing. |