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4 charged for schoolboy murder
17/03/2007 11:13 - (SA)
London - Four teenagers were charged Friday night with the murder of a 16-year-old schoolboy who was stabbed to death following a chase in the British capital London, police said.
The four - two aged 13, one aged 15 and a fourth aged 16 - were to appear at West London magistrates' court on Saturday on charges of murdering Kodjo Yenga, a black student at St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College.
A post mortem examination found that he died from a single stab wound to the heart following the attack late on Wednesday in Hammersmith Grove, west London.
An area resident Minaxi Patel, who works in a convenience store on the street, said she saw a boy chased by a group of boys and several girls who were shouting "kill him, kill him."
Police said on Thursday they detained a total of seven young males for questioning, all black and aged between 13 and 21.
Last month a wave of gang-linked gun crime left four people dead - three of them teenagers - in London.
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