22/11/2012
23-Year-Old Not Guilty Of Boxing Day Oxford St Murder
A 23-year0old man has been found not guilty of the murder of a teenager in the middle of Britain's busiest shopping street during the Boxing Day sales.
Seydou Diarrassouba, 18, was stabbed through the heart with such force the knife snapped at the hilt, the Old Bailey heard.
He then staggered out of the Foot Locker store and collapsed on the pavement in front of shoppers in Oxford Street, central London, and died.
Jermaine Joseph, of Tottenham, north London, said he had inflicted the fatal injuries in self-defence after he was chased into the sports shop
A jury found him not guilty of murder and manslaughter.
Diarrassouba, a student known as Nutz, and Joseph had been involved in a gang feud. Joseph told the trial Diarrassouba came at him with a knife. "He chased me. I stabbed him to stop him stabbing me. It's like a dog chasing the cat – the cat still shows his claws," he said.
Thulani Khumalo, 20, from Finsbury Park, was discharged on the directions of the judge.
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Seydou Diarrassouba, 18, was stabbed through the heart with such force the knife snapped at the hilt, the Old Bailey heard.
He then staggered out of the Foot Locker store and collapsed on the pavement in front of shoppers in Oxford Street, central London, and died.
Jermaine Joseph, of Tottenham, north London, said he had inflicted the fatal injuries in self-defence after he was chased into the sports shop
A jury found him not guilty of murder and manslaughter.
Diarrassouba, a student known as Nutz, and Joseph had been involved in a gang feud. Joseph told the trial Diarrassouba came at him with a knife. "He chased me. I stabbed him to stop him stabbing me. It's like a dog chasing the cat – the cat still shows his claws," he said.
Thulani Khumalo, 20, from Finsbury Park, was discharged on the directions of the judge.
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