'Young people should take note from the countless lives lost': Judge's warning after teen murdered
A judge has described a ferocious knife attack by two men that killed a Wolverhampton 16-year-old as “akin to an execution”.
Judge Michael Chambers spoke out as he jailed two men for killing teenager Terrell Marshall-Williams.
He was stabbed eight times with a “Rambo style” knife at a flat in Warnford Walk, Merry Hill, Wolverhampton on September 18 last year.
His killers Omari Lauder, aged 24, of Wolverhampton Street, in Darlaston, and Mpho Obi, aged 23, of Strathfield Walk, Merry Hill, in Wolverhampton were both found guilty of his murder in May.
Judge Chambers sentenced them to life at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Monday and said they should serve a combined minimum term of 50 years. He said he said he hoped the sentences and the circumstances behind the case would make people sit up and take note.
He added: “This is yet another case where people have gone out on the streets carrying vicious knives and in this case I am more than satisfied this was a planned attack which was akin to an execution.
