TWO teens have pleaded guilty to murdering a 14-year-old boy who was knifed 27 times on a bus as he made his way home from school.
Kelyan Bokassa suffered a fatal blow to his leg after he was attacked with a machete during the horror in Woolwich, South East London.
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Two boys aged 15 and 16 appeared at the Old Bailey today where they admitted murder.
The court previously heard how Kelyan was attacked on on the Route 472 bus with large knives, which were “used to stab him approximately 27 times”.
One of the blows inflicted in the January 7 tragedy severed his femoral artery.
Sadly, Arsenal mad Kelyan couldn’t be saved and died shortly after medics arrived.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC said: “It is clear this is not a form of spontaneous incident. The two defendants must have known the deceased was on the bus.
“They approach him and almost instantaneously, the two of them pull out machetes and attacked the deceased.
“He is stabbed or attempted to be stabbed on a total of 27 occasions before the defendants made their way off the bus.”
One of the machetes was discarded in the River Thames but was later recovered.
Kelyan’s mum previously claimed the teen was groomed by gangs from the age of six.
Mary, 50, told how she would find him on park benches at night and beg him to come home after he was taken into care four years ago.
On her unsuccessful legal battle to get him back, she told The Sun on Sunday: “I tried to prevent it. I screamed. I said, ‘My son is going to be killed’.”
A woman, 44, arrested for assisting an offender has been released under investigation.
The teens will be sentenced on July 25.
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