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Teen killers have been named for the first time after a 17-year-old boy was murdered in the street. Tafari Smith, then 16, stabbed Kyle Hackland before other teenagers joined in with the brutal attack.
Kyle’s murder was fuelled by revenge, after his killers sought retribution for an incident the day before. One of them blamed a pal of Kyle's after he was 'set up' during a drug deal gone wrong, Manchester Crown Court heard.
But Kyle had nothing to do with the incident, and was walking alongside his friend on Southlea Road in Withington, at around 11.30am on November 22 last year, when the attackers saw him and pounced. Smith, now 17, can be named for the first time after the M.E.N. successfully applied to a judge for the anonymity afforded to juvenile offenders to be lifted.
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He was previously found guilty of murder. Yousef Sesay and Lewis Ludford, both 18, were also convicted of murder.
Alfie Benson, 17, can also be named for the first time. He was not involved in the attack, but was the driver of a stolen VW Golf which ferried the killers to and from the scene.
He was found guilty of manslaughter. The four teens were sentenced this morning.
Smith, Sesay and Ludford were all detained at His Majesty’s pleasure, the equivalent of a life sentence for juveniles. Smith will serve a minimum of 19 years. Sesay and Ludford will serve minimum terms of 22 and 21 years respectively. Benson was sentenced to 12 years.
Sentencing, Judge Alan Conrad KC said Kyle's life was 'so cruelly and unnecessarily cut short'. He said of Kyle: "He had done nothing at all to deserve what happened to
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