01/08/2014

Reward Offered In Children's TV Actors Murder Case

A £10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest and prosecution of the murderer of children's TV actor, Carl Beatson Asiedu.

Mr Asiedu, who had appeared in CBBC's MI High, was stabbed in the heart near Club Life nightclub in Vauxhall, south London, in 2009, when he was 19-years-old.

The Met say they are trying to trace Jeffrey Okafor in connection with the stabbing. It is understood that Okafor fled to Nigeria in the days after the murder. Police say they believe Mr Okafor "delivered the fatal stab wound".

(MH/CD)

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