Two men have been jailed for life for "executing" a 16-year-old boy with a 'Rambo knife' after ambushing him at a flat. Terrell Marshall-Williams was stabbed eight times with the sinister blade during a frenzied attack at a property in Merry Hill, West Midlands, on September 18 last year. Despite the best efforts of paramedics he tragically died at the scene after suffering multiple wounds to his back, one of which nearly severed his spinal cord.
His killers Omari Lauder, 24, and drug dealer Mpho Obi, 23, have now been jailed for life to serve a minimum of 50 years. The pair denied murder and possessing an offensive weapon but were found guilty in May following a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court. Sentencing Judge Michael Chambers KC said they had jointly carried out a 'sickening' five-minute attack after arriving at the property in taxis.
He said: "It was a brazen attack akin to an execution and the operation from the arrival of the taxis to the time spent at the flat, which was approximately five minutes during which the victim was killed, suggests it needed a significant amount of planning. "To say anything else flies in the face of the evidence heard in the trial. The only thing that went wrong was that Mr Marshall-Williams fought back and one of the two defendants then required treatment so instead of making their escape to Birmingham as planned, they had to go to hospital.
" Terrell's mum Leigha Marshall had earlier broken down in court in front of her son's killers as .
