Posted on 10/09/2009 11:44:37 PM PDT by Steelfish
Boy, 16, Arrested For Two Murders And Rape Faces Life In Jail
A boy who was arrested for two murders and a rape before reaching his 16th birthday is facing life in jail.
09 Oct 2009
Nathan Harris Photo:
Nathan Harris was convicted of ordering the execution of young father Craig Brown as he unloaded Christmas shopping. The officer leading the investigation said Harris had a “violent tendency” and it was “exceptional” for such a young person to be involved in such a serious crime.
Video footage posted on YouTube and handwritten rap lyrics found in his bedroom showed the teenager’s obsession with guns and violence. Text messages on his mobile phone appeared to show other youths asking him to procure firearms for them.
Harris had first come to the attention of police when he was just 13 years old following the murder of 16-year-old Kodjo Yenga in March 2007. He was one of a number of teenagers rounded up by detectives for questioning, although he was never charged with the crime.
In December 2007 when he was 14, Harris was alleged to have taken part, with another youth, in the rape of a teenage girl, but was formally cleared following a trial at Inner London Crown Court. Mr Brown, 20, was shot five times outside the home of his girlfriend Denica Date in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, on Christmas Eve last year, following a series of mobile phone calls started by the youth.
Miss Date would later identify him as being at the scene of the shooting after seeing his picture on social networking site Facebook, the Old Bailey heard. Harris had set in place the “lethal train of events” that led to the murder after seeing Mr Brown - who he believed to have “dissed” a...
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That's racist.
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Murder...Rape...Life sentence in the UK?
Whats that worth?...about 7 yrs with time off for “social re-evaluation”?
Am I correct in reading the story that the murdered victim was also a drug dealer?
That’s how I read it. Also, he was arrested for 1 murder, but never charged with a crime. He was arrested for rape, but was formally cleared at trial.
I’m not sure what they’re trying to get at here. This boy appears to be running with the wrong crowd of people, but false arrests do not make a criminal history.
He needs to be recycled and put through the food chain
Same criminal profile as in Chicago or Detroit.
Yeah, sure, the wrong crowd. Same B.S. from the English media. I suppose he was an Honors student.
Did the British use “A Clockwork Orange” as a freakin’ blue print?
well the young man is at heart a fine lad....who just ran around with the wrong crowd...or...HE IS the wrong crowd..
The article makes the police sound incredibly naive and, well, clueless about some of the youth of today and the world of 2009 in which they are living. The police had knowledge of the alleged perpetrator since he was twelve and yet they found it “surprising” that he should be involved in such a crime.
evil does exist.
Oh come on...did we find out why he did it and understand the stresses in his life that led to this...what about his childhood. Did he get a papercut that could have caused this? We really need to find out what caused this before throwing him into a jail cell...../sarc. Could not resist...sorry.
Nathan Harris Photo:
Yep, nice photo!
Regards,
Another poor Number 1 male.(even England has them)
Do you mean like “soylent black?”
On the plus side, any upswing in dental care in England is a good thing.
Try public execution.
Right now he should be recycled into worm food. Worms gotta eat too. Is such a deranged mind ever not going to be a burden on society? He’s what used to be called a bad seed. So recycle him now
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