Jeffrey Okafor , 24,(story
here) has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 17 years for
stabbing a CBBC star, Carl Beatson-Asiedu, to death outside a nightclub in an
'entirely unprovoked and unnecessary attack'.
Carl Beatson-Asiedu, who
appeared in the BBC children's series M.I. High, was set upon and stabbed in
the heart as he left a club with friends in 2009.
Jeffrey Okafor,his killer
confessed to the murder to his girlfriend, but fled to Nigeria on his brother's
passport - sparking a five year manhunt and subsequently arrested in Nigeria
and extradited to UK.
He was eventually
extradited and was yesterday found guilty of murder after a trial at London's
Woolwich Crown Court.
Judge Christopher Kinch QC said: 'I have
concluded that this was an entirely unprovoked and unnecessary attack in a
public place.'
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