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Chronicles of Crime: December 2007
True Crime News:
8/12/2007
Joseph Ekaette
JOSEPH EKAETTE, an 18-year-old illegal immigrant from Nigeria, has received a life sentence for killing family man Stevens Nyembo-Ya-Muteba who told him to be quiet. The jury at the Old Bailey were told that Ekaette knifed his victim through the heart as they struggled in the foyer of his flats in Hackney, east London, in October 2006.
The trial heard that Mr. Nyembo-Ya-Muteba’s family lived in a first-floor housing association flat in Evergreen Square, where residents had complained about a noisy gang known as the Holly Street Boys. Mr. Nyembo-Ya-Muteba, 41, was last seen near the door leading into the foyer of the flats asking up to 15 youths to leave on a Sunday night, telling them he had to get up next morning for work. The jury heard that as the victim collapsed with blood pouring out of his chest, Ekaette and other members of the gang ran off laughing.
After he was found guilty of murder, it emerged that Ekaette had taken part in the rape of a 14-year-old girl that was filmed on a mobile phone. Detectives investigating the murder of Mr. Nyembo-Ya-Muteba, who had been offered a place at Cambridge University, were alerted to the sex attack when they examined the mobile phone. The victim had suffered amnesia and could not remember the attack.
Two weeks ago Ekaette and 20-year-old Sebastian King were each given indefinite sentences for the rape at Blackfriars Crown Court, with minimum terms of five and six years.
At the Old Bailey Judge Richard Hawkins sentenced Ekaette to youth detention for life with a minimum of 14 years. The judge also recommended deportation for Ekaette, an illegal “overstayer” who came to Britain with his mother in 2003. Crime news stories from True Crime Library.
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