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
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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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(...think "Yasser Arafat" before you complain.)
Cheers!
So if he was 14, was it still "rape-rape" Whoopi?
Or was he charged with contributing to his own delinquency?
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Nothing unusual about it.
Death penalty should have never been rescinded for such as these.
No, I mean, if he killed another drug dealer, at least all the news wasn’t bad.
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