Two youngsters who fatally stabbed a 16-year-old Afghan refugee within the mistaken perception he was a member of a rival gang have been jailed for all times. Vanushan Balakrishnan and Ilyas Suleiman, each 18, stabbed Rishmeet Singh 15 occasions after chasing him by means of a park in Southall, west London, on the night of November 24 2021. Two years earlier than, school scholar and aspiring police officer Rishmeet sought asylum within the UK along with his mom and grandmother after his father was killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Balakrishnan and Suleiman, from Hillingdon, west London, have been discovered responsible of homicide following an Outdated Bailey trial in March. In a televised sentencing by on the Outdated Bailey on Wednesday, Decide Sarah Munro KC ordered the defendants be locked up for all times. Suleiman was handed a minimal time period of 21 years and Balakrishnan at the least 24 years.
