Two Nigerian teenagers jailed for 20 years for murder in the UK

This is the horrifying moment gangsters chased and killed an innocent 17-year-old student after mistaking him for a rival gang member. CCTV footage shows victim Kwame Ofosu-Asare who was 'in the wrong place at the wrong time' running away from Nelson Idiabeta, then 17, and Nathaniel Okusanya, then 18.

Moments after the teenagers were captured running after him and a friend, Kwame was stabbed 14 times in the back in a 'cowardly and merciless' murder.

The 17-year-old (pictured right) was mistaken for a rival in a 'poisonous and senseless' gang war, a court heard today as Idiabeta and Okusanya were jailed for life.

The pair were members of the TN1 gang - Trust No One - out to avenge one of their numbers who was stabbed by a rival gang member from the GAS gang - Guns and Shanks - just hours earlier.

His killers had toured housing estates in Brixton to find rival gang members and came upon the 17-year-old son of a sports broadcast journalist and his friend, who had nothing to do with any gangs.

Nathaniel Okusanya, left, Nelson Idiabeta, right

Kwame, a business student, promising footballer, a budding actor and rapper, was walking back with a friend from a session at a recording studio when they were confronted by Okusanya and Idiabeta in the Moorlands Estate in Brixton.

Kwame and his friend with a 'sixth sense' ran away into a cul de sac where his friend’s aunt lived in a desperate attempt to get to safety - but she was not at home.
His friend managed to jump over a wall but Kwame was trapped and then killed on March 2 of this year.

He shouted out he was from Catford and pleaded 'I’m not from round here, I’m not from round here' but he was murdered by the pair who had persuaded a shopper to buy them at least one substantial kitchen knife just hours before the attack.

After an Old Bailey jury found the pair guilty Nelson Idiabeta, now 18 was jailed for a minimum of 19 years while Nathaniel Okusanya, 19, was jailed for 20 years.
Sentencing Judge Richard Marks QC said: 'I am entirely satisfied having heard the evidence the background to this terrible offence is to be found in revenge between two gangs.

'Around 1.15pm Garfield Stewart a member of TN1 gang was stabbed 28 times while sitting in a bus while it was stationary at West Norwood.

'It’s clear from the evidence a very short time from that stabbing you found out about it and decided this stabbing needed to be avenged.
'Your purpose was to carry out an attack on a GAS gang member and anyone you believed to be so.
'You encountered two boys Kwame and his friend by reason of they only being on the Moreland Estate.
'You believed them to be GAS gang members, they were not and have no connection whatsoever with this gang.'
He said Kwame’s friend managed to escape but Kwame 'was not so fortunate'.
'He was heard to shout "I’m from Catford" saying to you he was in effect not from around there and had no reason to be chased. It was to no avail.
'He was violently attacked suffering 14 stab wounds, three of which penetrated his lungs and one his liver.
'It would have been abundantly obvious to you he was gravely injured but you ran off thinking only of your escape.'
He added: 'It was Kwame's misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.'
But Judge Marks added Idiabeta, who was on bail at the time for robbery, and Okusanya 'have shown no an iota of remorse.'

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