04/02/2015
Teen To Serve At Least 18 Years In Jail For Murdering Man In Alleyway
A teenager has been sentenced to at least 18 years in prison after he was found guilty of stabbing a man to death in an argument over a cigarette.
Kai Steele, 18, from Charlton, received the indefinite sentence, after a jury at the Old Bailey found him guilty of murdering Alex Scott, 26, in an alleyway in south east London last year.
Steele stabbed Mr Scott twice in the chest on 10 August 2014.
His co-defendant Dillon Beckford, 18, was acquitted of the same offence.
(CD/IT)
Kai Steele, 18, from Charlton, received the indefinite sentence, after a jury at the Old Bailey found him guilty of murdering Alex Scott, 26, in an alleyway in south east London last year.
Steele stabbed Mr Scott twice in the chest on 10 August 2014.
His co-defendant Dillon Beckford, 18, was acquitted of the same offence.
(CD/IT)
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