Killers Of Nigerian Teenager Jailed

Two members of a gang that ended the life of a Nigerian teenager based in London have been sentenced to life in prison after they were found guilty of murder.

Agnes Sina-Inakoju happened to be in the Hoxton Chicken and Pizza shop when a gunman Leon Dunkley and his lookout Mohammed Smoured, both 22, members of the London Fields Boys gang were on a reprisal attack against rival gang the Hoxton Boys.

The killers, dressed in hoodies, rode to the shop on bikes and, without checking who was inside, opened fire through the window. CCTV film of the shooting played to the jury was described as ‘shocking, graphic and hideously violentâ€.

According to Dailymail, the 16-year-old was happily talking to friends in the fried chicken shop when bullets from the Croatian-made Agram 9mm submachine pistol smashed through the window.

While one of her friends ducked when she saw the killers coming, Agnes only had time to look up and was shot in the neck when the gangsters fired a submachine gun through the window of the takeway in the mistaken thought their rivals were inside.

Agnes, who the court heard had a realistic chance of achieving her ambition of a university education, was seen clutching her face in agony — an unwitting victim of gang rivalry which has reached a new and terrifying level of sophisticated weaponry and callousness.

The murder weapon was found when a police officer saw a youth running away with a rucksack which was thrown over a wall into a garden.

It had been held by a 16-year-old who was found cowering in a cupboard when police raided his home.

On his mobile there were pictures of diamond-encrusted weapons and the letters L and F made out of money.

Agnes, a popular and successful student who had just finished her GCSEs, died in hospital two days later with her mother Safurat at her side.

Her sisters had had a plan to make her a model by sending her photos to agencies on her 18th birthday.

They wanted to wait until then so their mother did not accuse them of spoiling Agnesâ€s education.

She had a talent for public speaking and had come second in a Hackney ‘Speak Out Challenge†in 2009 with a speech on racism.

Her friends said she never got into gangs or fights. She was just “nice and bubbly” .

Barry Herson, head teacher at Haggerston school, said: “Agnes was a lively, vibrant and young woman with a bright future.

“We are very proud of her achievements and the wonderful way she represented the school.”

Sister Atinuke, 24, said: “She was the bestest sister in the world. I could never ask for a friend like her.”

Her Nigerian-born mother said: ‘The sun has gone out — what can I do?â€