{"id":1493,"date":"2010-03-28T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2010-03-28T22:42:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T21:42:24","slug":"many-defendants-to-be-charged-with-murder-of-sofyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Many defendants to be charged with murder of Sofyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1494\" style=\"width:124px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Knife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Knife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Knife<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Sofyen Belamouadden was stabbed repeatedly during what is believed to have been a pre-planned fight between rival school gangs armed with knives on Thursday afternoon at Victoria station.<\/p>\n<p>Police are to bring charges against up to a dozen boys in relation to Sofyen\u2019s death. If they go to trial it will be the most defendants ever to be tried jointly over a single murder.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty boys have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Group members who encourage others to kill can be convicted of murder even if they do no more than encourage.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 five teenagers were convicted of the murder of 16-year-old Kodjo Yenga \u2013 who went to the same west London school as Sofyen.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph claims that recent statistics showed that of 48 murders due to be tried at the Old Bailey, eight involved at least four defendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knife Sofyen Belamouadden was stabbed repeatedly during what is believed to have been a pre-planned fight between rival school gangs armed with knives on Thursday afternoon at Victoria station. Police are to bring charges against up to a dozen boys in relation to Sofyen\u2019s death. If they go to trial it will be the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}