Family of murdered Kennie Carter, 16, stare down 'laughing' killers in court as they learn their fate
manchestereveningnews.co.ukKennie Carter’s killers have been locked up after the 16-year-old was stabbed to death as he walked home. Kennie was fatally injured in Stretford, in a murder fuelled by revenge.
Boy A, the 16-year-old killer who knifed Kennie on January 22, 2022, was handed the youth equivalent of a life sentence and will serve at least 17 years.
Three others, Latif Ferguson, 18, Boy G and Boy H, both 16, were found guilty of manslaughter and handed jail sentences. Kennie’s mum Joan said no punishment ‘would ever be enough’.
She said she’d seen the ‘person responsible’ for Kennie's death 'laugh and smirk throughout' a court hearing. Joan and other family members turned their chairs to look at the defendants during the court hearing. READ MORE: Rewards, desperate appeals and despair - how Kennie Carter's family fought for justice after going through 'hell' "This shows me he had absolutely no remorse and broke my heart even more," she said in a statement read on her behalf. "No penalty or what the court can award will ever be enough in my eyes. "They have taken away our Kennie from his loving family and our lives are destroyed forever." Members of Kennie’s family wore T-shirts in court featuring a picture of him, with the words ‘RIP Kennie’.
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